Green Lantern #41

Serving as a "Prelude to Blackest Night," Green Lantern #41 arrives in July 2009 with a cover by Philip Tan and Jonathan Glapion that crackles with orange-fire energy — a monstrous, skeletal alien figure writhes at the center of swirling flames while a white-cloaked Guardian looms on the right, green light pulsing between them, as more blue-skinned Guardians look on with grim intensity in the background. The bold cover tease — "The Guardians' Secret Pact Revealed!" — promises that the Agent Orange saga in Part Three of Geoff Johns' run is building toward something significant. It's a visually charged installment that makes clear the spectrum of power in this corner of the DC Universe is about to shift dramatically.