The Scott Snyder and Jorge Jimenez led Justice League is ushering in a new color to the Lantern Corps’ interstellar color spectrum. Hitting shelves on July 4, 2018, Justice League #3 will see Green Lantern Corps’ John Stewart revolutionized into an Ultraviolet Lantern.
“John Stewart: Ultraviolet Lantern? Believe it! Under the influence of the Ultraviolet Spectrum, John Stewart engages in some ultraviolence against his teammates Flash, Wonder Woman and Aquaman. Meanwhile, the rest of the League investigates the scene of the fallen Source Wall fragment, and encounters not only a horde of giant monsters, but a pair of longtime archenemies using stolen Atom technology to literally get under their skin. Best to stock up on Cortizone for that sort of itch! All this and…the Turtle? Yep,” reads the official solicitation text for the issue.
In speaking with CBR, Snyder teased that the new Ultraviolet Lantern may be connected to the Source Wall breached in the Dark Nights: Metal finale. “[Breaking the Source Wall] means new sectors for the Green Lanterns, new rules of physics for magic, new cosmic wonder for characters like Starfire who are exploratory in space. It’s a shattering of limitations,” he said.
“John Stewart starts to realize that the Guardians have hidden things from him because of his skill set, what he’s supposed to do, he might have been a soldier for them in ways he didn’t realize,” Snyder further teased.
Justice League #3, written by Snyder with illustrations by Jimenez, features a variant cover by Jim Lee and Scott Williams. This much anticipated issue will light up shelves on July 4.