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It flashes forward through his life, highlighting racist and Islamophobic harassment he experiences over the course of a decade, to the issue’s present, when he steals a van that just happens to have a bomb in it.
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Simon’s origin story, which begins in Green Lantern (2011-2016) #0, opens on 9/11. Batman convinces him to give it up in Green Lanterns #17, so he surrendered it to Jim Gordon, but he did carry one before that. He’s the Green Lantern who carries a gun, right? What’s his origin story? His whole thing, at least at first, was being Arab and Muslim in America after 9/11. Who is Simon Baz, one of the newest Green Lanterns? What’s he all about?Īdrienne Resha: Co-created by writer Geoff Johns, “ whose spokesperson requested that he be identified as Lebanese American ,” and artist Doug Mahnke, Simon Baz is a Lebanese and Muslim American Green Lantern introduced during the New 52 in 2012. Turns out… there are a lot of them? And that’s just the ones from Earth! I thought these rings were meant to be rare! But today we’re rounding out the Earth Lanterns, as Adrienne Resha joins us to tell us about one of the newest additions to the Corps: Simon Baz! Adrienne, what can you tell us? Things are getting cosmic now, and we’ve been going through each Green Lantern in turn. We’ve had to get some experts in though – there’s so much going on that needs to be explained! Shelfdust are proud to provide a complete overview of the story, and everything that happens in it. You’re reading The Complete Infinite Crisis, a Comprehensive and Encyclopedic look through the universe-changing superhero event published by DC from 2005 to 2006.