Green Lantern Versus Aliens

Green Lantern Versus Aliens
Cover to Green Lantern Versus Aliens #1, by Dwayne Turner
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics / Dark Horse Comics
Schedule	Monthly
Format	Limited series
Publication date	September 2000 - December 2000
Number of issues	4
Creative team
Writer(s)	Ron Marz
Penciller(s)	Rick Leonardi
Inker(s)	Mike Perkins
Collected editions
Green Lantern Versus Aliens	ISBN

Green Lantern Versus Aliens is a four-issue comic book intercompany crossover mini-series published jointly by DC Comics and Dark Horse Comics monthly from September 2000 to December 2000. It is written by Ron Marz and illustrated by penciller Rick Leonardi and inker Mike Perkins, with covers by Dwayne Turner.

The series stars several Green Lanterns, primarily Kyle Rayner, and the titular xenomorphs from the Alien movie series. Whether the series' takes place in the continuity of the DC Comics Universe is unclear, as Brik and Salaak are alive in current Green Lantern continuity, and no mention of Mogo's Xenomorph inhabitants is ever made, however the series is set sometime after the destruction of the original Green Lantern Corps.

In 2001, the series was collected into a single volume with a new cover by artist Eric Kohler.

The story opens in flashback, ten years before the (at the time) current continuity of the Green Lantern comic books, showing an extraterrestrial Barin Char, the Green Lantern of Sector 1522, dying when a Chestburster bursts from his chest. Hal Jordan (who at the time of the series’ publication, had long been dead) is then summoned by the Guardians of the Universe to rendezvous with fellow Green Lanterns Kilowog, Katma Tui, Tomar-Re, The Green Man and Salaak on the planet Tirama in Sector 1522. The six Green Lanterns are informed of the disappearance of Barin Char, and proceed to the border world where he is believed to have disappeared. Tracing the signal from Char’s displaced power ring, they enter a cavern inside a mountainous butte, where they discover Char’s corpse, before being attacked by a swarm of xenomorphs. Jordan decides that rather than exterminate an alien species – particularly since the xenomorphs appear to be only the interstellar equivalent of sharks; the perfect killing machine without actually being evil – they would transport the xenomorphs to the sentient Green Lantern planet Mogo, where they can not harm anyone.