Green Lantern - New Guardians V01 - The Ring Be... -

Realizing they are all being played, Kyle convinces this motley crew of rivals to form an uneasy alliance. They escape Earth and head into deep space to find the "Ring Thief." Their journey leads them to and the discovery of a massive, ancient construct known as the Orrery , controlled by a powerful being named Invictus .

The volume ends with the "New Guardians" officially formed—not out of friendship, but out of the grim necessity to stop the Guardians of the Universe from "restarting" the cosmos by extinguishing emotion itself. Green Lantern - New Guardians v01 - The Ring Be...

Invictus reveals a grudge against the Guardians and views the Lanterns as their puppets. To survive, Kyle must do the impossible: he begins to learn how to harness the energies of the other rings. This is the first step in his evolution toward becoming the . Realizing they are all being played, Kyle convinces

The story begins with a cosmic anomaly: Power Rings from every corps—Red, Orange, Yellow, Blue, Indigo, and Violet—suddenly abandon their wielders and head toward Earth. They aren't looking for a fight; they are looking for . The Chosen One Invictus reveals a grudge against the Guardians and

The tension breaks when the appear, but they aren't there to help. It becomes clear that the Guardians have grown cold and detached, viewing the various emotional corps as mistakes that need to be erased. Kyle realizes the rings didn't just malfunction—someone (or something) is trying to frame him to spark a war that would wipe out all Lanterns. The New Guardians