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The Yellow Lantern Corps (DC)

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The Yellow Lantern Corps, or alternatively the Sinestro Corps, is a organization similar to the Green Lantern Corps, whose members derive their powers from fear rather than willpower. Created by writer Geoff Johns and artist Ethan Van Sciver, the Corps are typically led by Sinestro, a former member of the Green Lantern Corps (he was actually considered the corps' greatest member). Johns' notoriously excellent work in the pages of Green Lantern and beyond, especially the Sinestro Corps War, established the Corps as one of the most fearsome teams to be reckoned with in the DC Universe - Sinestro, Parallax, Arkillo, & of course the Anti-Monitor, key members which established the Corps' penchant for fear tactics, extreme measures, and incredible destruction.

Johns definitely made the most of the Corps' alignment with the frightening and dreadful. The Anti-Monitor alone, with his omnipresent and omnipotent status making it clear that the Corps were a sufficient threat. Memorable moments such as Kyle's possession by Parallax, or the whole host of rings searching for new wearers gave the new Corps a palpable sense of terror, and the gloriously appropriate colorful costumes and designs of the Sinestro Corps were both jaw-dropping to take in while expanding the Green Lantern mythos in such an intriguing way. To me, Johns & his creative team managed to turn the Green Lantern saga into a bonafide horror story, and it worked. Like the best works of horror literature, restraint and what I describe as the comic book equivalent of jump scares were the key elements behind the success of these Sinestro Corps comics. Fun elements would creep in, like an attempt to recruit Batman or the temporary deputation of Scarecrow, but the focus was always the dread-based nature of the Corps and their brutal and uncompromising methods that made them a spine-tingling joy to experience on the pages of DC Comics.