It's a Green Lantern-centered issue, as John Stewart is on Oa for an induction ceremony for new Lanterns, that is interrupted by "an energy flare from the poozin' antimatter universe just happens to punch through the G.L. Corps private gateway and takes out the Guardians...?" Man, I would read a ton more DC Comics if Kilowog did the recaps. The GL's receive a burst-message from G'newmann, G'Nort's uncle, who has traced Sinestro to the Weaponeers of Qward, but may have been captured. G'nort is willing to go rescue his uncle, if someone would maybe point him in the right direction. Tomar-Re says only the most experienced Lanterns have been to the anti-matter universe, but John thinks this is an all-hands-on-deck situation. (Or, maybe sink or swim.) After a quick charge, Kilowog points out how skull-meltingly dangerous this is:
G'nort may be green (boo!) but he acquits himself admirably, even as Uncle G'newmann is revealed as a traitor working with Sinestro. The rings don't work on yellow in that dimension (I don't think it was consistently a weakness in the cartoon) and Sinestro binds up the lot of them, since the central power battery would soon be destroyed and he wanted them to feel their anti-matter deaths. Angrily, G'nort bites Sinestro--but that's just to get the yellow ring! And luckily, John had sent a message for back-up (including Guy and Kyle!) since a slip in G'newmann's message had given him away. (Sinestro doesn't "work with" anyone, he enslaves them. It's iffy.)
The denizens of Sector 68 may not realize it, but they may be safer today: G'nort is given his uncle's old sector to patrol, which he takes with joy. I would've maybe preferred a more League-focused story for the last one, but it's still a good issue.
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So they pretty much, more or less, give him the same origin as his regular DCU counterpart then. I know he's usually played for laughs, with a face like that, how could you not, but I'm curious if anyone's ever considered writing more seriously, and not in a heel turn/overly grim way?
Solid point about JLU ending with a gL-centric issue. Was it a tryout of sorts of a GLC spinoff series?
Otherwise they probably should've at least pushed on through to #50 and end it there, probably with a two-parter form 48-50, to close it out, or make it 47-49, with 50 being a stand-alone epilogue issue that wrapped up any loose threads.
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