Well, Guy does have nothing to lose and nothing to prove, so...

One of the funner things about having done this here blog for about a hunnerd years, is occasionally stumbling upon something we only mentioned before. Like today's issue! From 2011, Green Lantern: Emerald Warriors #8, "War of the Green Lanterns, Part Three" Written by Peter J. Tomasi, pencils by Fernando Pasarin, inks by Cam Smith. Billy Idol-riffic cover by Felipe Massafera, and I like it!

...and as usual, we are coming in mid-crossover. I can't be sure if that's because I just blog these haphazardly, or if because the Green Lantern titles were in perpetual crossover mode from when Geoff Johns brought Hal back to when Grant Morrison took over. Guy, Kilowog, and Arisia are halfway back to Oa, to warn of recent events with Sodam Yat and Zardor. (I know Sodam was the Daxamite GL; he was also a dirty joke/throwaway line from Alan Moore that of course DC would try and make something out of.) Guy wants to talk to the Guardians first, and Arisia snaps that's because of the "secret deal" he and Ganthet made with a Red Lantern. (I can't recall if it was always Ganthet, but I feel like there was always at least one Guardian that thought Guy was cool.) Guy being Guy, he goes off a bit: he's the guy, as it were, that has to make the tough choices. Could Hal do that? Hell, no. Their argument is interrupted by a sudden flash of yellow, and the rings announcing "impurity restored." Both Guy and Kilowog saw a sudden flash of the Parallax entity (that retroactively had controlled Hal in his dark turn) but Arisia is seemingly hypnotized, and tears off towards Oa. Well, they were on their way there, anyway. Along with seemingly the entire GLC, likewise compelled! The controlled Lanterns capture Kilowog and Guy, but Kilowog breaks Guy out and sends him to get help. (As the Corps' trainer, Kilowog was also unwilling to leave his charges, wanting to keep an eye on them even if it meant being captured.) Guy calls for help, but the only one who answers is his last call, Hal.

At their reserve meeting point, the "Green House" (actually just a frozen wasteland) Hal meets with Guy, and they piece together what's happened: the only GL's maybe not controlled besides them would be John and Kyle, since they had all been "tagged by the Parallax bug" when Hal returned. And Krona may have been weakening the rings, to make them more susceptible to Parallax. Wait, Krona? Hal gets mad that this is the first he's hearing of that, or the aforementioned "secret deal" with Atrocitus. Hal doesn't think the Red Lanterns' leader can be trusted, but Guy feels the same way about Hal: he wants Hal to take off the ring. This of course comes to blows, with Guy grabbing Hal and Hal popping him one. Guy takes it to him, and not only are his ring constructs a little more inventive today, Guy rails on him, letting out a lot of anger over Hal being picked first by Abin Sur, which by no means made him "best." 

Perhaps because he's getting his ass kicked, Hal realizes this is Krona's influence, and convinces Guy to use their willpower to remove their rings, which frees them from that "rivalry." Icing his face, Guy still argues, "I always looked at it purely as a difference of opinion." They were free, but how could they save the Corps, especially if they couldn't use their rings? 

This was of course continued in another title, with the next chapter in Green Lantern #65, which featured a banner for the then-current movie. I've never used DC's digital comics reader; will it read from crossover issue to the next? Or would you immediately be taken to the next issue of the current title? (EDIT: In fact, I had read the last chapter of this crossover before, and blogged it for "the end,", it was the last issue of Green Lantern before the New 52.