Green Lantern #41
Green Lantern Vol. 3 #41 is a pivotal chapter in Gerard Jones's long-running reconfiguration of the Hal Jordan mythos, arriving just months before 'Emerald Twilight' would permanently upend the series. It advances the crucial late-Jones arc that recontextualized the Predator — originally introduced as a split-off masculine personality of Carol Ferris — as an independent, ancient Maltusian parasitic entity, a retcon that would carry consequences for Carol Ferris's characterization all the way into the Geoff Johns era. The issue also marks the first meaningful collision between Deathstroke the Terminator and the Green Lantern corner of the DC Universe within this volume, injecting a street-level mercenary tension into what had been a cosmically focused title. Taken together with its immediate sequel (#42), it forms the bridge arc that would resolve the Predator's origin and set up the 'DCU: Trinity' crossover.
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Gerard Jones wrote Green Lantern Vol. 3 continuously from its 1990 launch, systematically rebuilding the extended Green Lantern family of characters — Hal Jordan, John Stewart, Guy Gardner, and the supporting cast — before DC's editorial directive ultimately forced the 'Emerald Twilight' upheaval beginning around issue #48. Issue #41 falls squarely in Jones's late run, a period when he was threading together prior continuity threads (the Predator's original 1984 Steve Englehart/Joe Staton conception, the Eclipso crossover fallout) with new mythological content about Maltusian demons and the Triarch. The artistic credit to M.D. Bright places the issue within Bright's extended partnership with Jones on the title, a collaboration that defined the visual language of the early-1990s GL series.
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- Cover date: June 1993; part of Green Lantern Volume 3 (1990–2004), published by DC Comics.
- Written by Gerard Jones; penciled by M.D. Bright — the primary creative team of the era.
- Story title: 'Predators and Prey.' The Predator erupts physically from Carol Ferris's body, claiming to be her repressed masculine side, and is prevented by Hal Jordan from re-possessing her.
- The issue explicitly references the Eclipso: The Darkness Within 1992 crossover as the narrative trigger: Eclipso's earlier attempt to possess Carol destabilized the Predator's hold over her, causing him to emerge corporally and seek a new host.
- Arisia — depicted here as mentally regressed to her 13-year-old psychological state despite an adult body — is rejected by Hal and runs away, leaving her vulnerable; the Predator possesses her by the issue's end.
- Deathstroke the Terminator appears at the cliffhanger conclusion, interrupting the Hal Jordan vs. Predator battle, setting up his role as a hired operative in the following issue (#42).
- Tom Kalmaku (here called Terga/Tom) appears as part of Hal's civilian support network, maintaining Hal's Air-Taxi business while Hal deals with the Carol/Predator crisis.
- This issue is part of the arc (continuing through #42) that provides the Predator's revised Maltusian mythological origin — retconning him from Carol's personality fragment into a demon-entity with ties to the Guardians, Zamarons, and Controllers — a retcon later superseded again by Geoff Johns's Emotional Spectrum redesign in Green Lantern Vol. 4.
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