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Saint Walker as depicted in a promotional piece for Justice League of America (vol. 2) #56. Art by David Mack. |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | Green Lantern (vol. 4) #25 (December 2007) |
| Created by | Geoff Johns Ethan Van Sciver |
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| Alter ego | Bro'Dee Walker |
| Team affiliations | Blue Lantern Corps Green Lantern Corps Justice League |
Saint Walker is a fictional comic book character published by DC Comics. Created by writer Geoff Johns and artist Ethan Van Sciver for the Green Lantern series, Saint Walker is an alien member of the intergalactic Blue Lantern Corps, an organization dedicated to spreading peace and harmony throughout the universe.
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Walker was a saint on his home planet of Pacredo (apparently with a wife and child), which was doomed from the death of their sun. Saint Walker manages to calm his people and give them great hope, which causes a Blue Lantern ring to choose him as a member of the Blue Lantern Corps, stating that he "has the ability to instill great hope". With his ring, he sets his sun's age back thousands of years, thereby saving his home planet.[1]
Saint Walker and his fellow Blue Lanterns are first introduced in the midst of the Final Crisis event as part of the build-up to the Blackest Night storyline. During the Final Crisis, Hal Jordan and John Stewart of the Green Lantern Corps have just been ambushed by the Red Lantern Corps, who take the rogue former Green Lantern Sinestro from their custody. After Jordan is injured during the conflict, his wounds are healed when he first comes into contact with Saint Walker.[2]
In the Blackest Night storyline, having joined Hal Jordan and Indigo-1's efforts to rally one member of each Corps to attempt to destroy the Black Lantern power battery, Saint Walker agrees to use his power ring to ease Larfleeze's hunger while they work together. When deputising an Earth hero to assist in the current crisis until the rest of the Blue Lantern Corps can arrive, Walker's ring selects Barry Allen as a temporary Blue Lantern. After Nekron has been defeated, Walker works with Carol Ferris to heal Mera of the influence of her red power ring.
In Justice League of America #55 (2011), the character joins the titular team in battling Eclipso and attempts to assist the resurrected Hank Henshaw against Doomsday on Batman's orders.[3]
In the War of the Green Lanterns storyline, Saint Walker and the rest of the New Guardians make their way to planet Ryut. Krona and the Emotional Entities are nowhere to be found but the group does come upon the Book of the Black.[4] When former Sinestro Corps member Lyssa Drak appears, she quickly subdues the New Guardians, trapping all but Hal in the Book of the Black.[5] Hal escapes with the rings of the New Guardians, later passing Walker's ring on to Kyle Rayner when Krona infects the Central Power Battery with Parallax to bring the Green Lantern Corps under his influence.[6] In the final battle Saint Walker is freed from the book by Kyle, his blue ring returns to him and Guardians of the Universe then teleport him back Odym.[7] Afterwords, Saint Walker returns to Oa to restore Ganthet's missing hand.[8]
In the new series Green Lantern: New Guardians, Saint Walker assisted Kyle Rayner when he became a 'magnet' for other power rings, helping Kyle escape the attacks of the other four Corps members who had tracked the rings and travel to Oa to try and seek the aid of the Guardians[9]. Unfortunately, this plan backfires when it is revealed that Ganthet has been stripped of his emotions by the other Guardians, to the extent that he attacks Walker when Walker tries to help Kyle directly after he is briefly overwhelmed by the rings, Ganthet proclaiming that the Blue Lantern Corps were a mistake that he will now rectify[10].
Saint Walker possesses a blue power ring, fueled by the emotion hope. While hope is the most powerful of the seven emotions, he must be near an active Green Lantern's power ring to tap into his own ring's full power. Otherwise, the rings are only capable of the default abilities of flight and a protective aura. This is a result of the fact that the power of hope is nothing without the willpower to act on it. Blue rings must be fueled by true hope in order to operate at their users' command.
While under the influence of a nearby green power ring, Saint Walker can heal wounds. The ring's power can be supplemented with the hope of other living beings; for instance, Saint Walker and Warth were able to reduce a dying sun's age by 8.6 billion years because of the hope emanating from the inhabitants of a nearby planet. A blue ring can negatively impact the performance of rings on the opposite side of the emotional spectrum. During his initial meeting with the JLA, Saint Walker discovered that his abilities can also be augmented by proximity to Starman (Mikaal Tomas).
It has been confirmed that Saint Walker will appear in Green Lantern: The Animated Series.[11]