About Me
When the dying Abin Sur crash-landed on Earth and ordered his power ring to seek out a suitable successor as Green Lantern of space sector 2814, I met the requirements of being both honest and without fear. I was one of the first of a new age of costumed adventurers, defending my home town of Coast City as well as the world from villains and menaces both earthbound and alien. I united with the Flash, Aquaman, Martian Manhunter, and Black Canary to form the Justice League of America. As a ring wielder, I was a member of the 3,600-strong Green Lantern Corps and was trained in part by Sinestro, who would become a renegade and one of my greatest foes. The Corps were the universe's most revered peacekeepers, and it was not long before his bravery earned me the respect of both my peers and the Guardians of the Universe, who created the Corps. I championed the Guardians' goal to preserve order throughout the galaxies, even when their orders ran contrary to my own sense of morality. Yet, I was not above confronting the Guardians or quitting the Corps in order to pursue my own ideals, but I always returned to the fold.
I was perhaps the Oans' and the Corps' champion.
Ironically, I would also be their undoing. When Coast City was decimated by Mongul and the Cyborg Superman, I was denied the power to resurrect the city and its inhabitants by the Guardians. I set out for Oa to gain the power to set things right. The Guardians set the Corps against me, including the reconstituted Sinestro, whom I killed. I entered the Central Power Battery and absorbed its emerald energies, and then renamed myself Parallax. I then attempted to amend the great wrong by changing the time-space continuum, but was thwarted by Earth's heroes, including new Green Lantern Kyle Rayner, who would clash with Parallax several times. In the end, however, I proved he had not strayed from the path of the hero. During Earth's final night, I used all my energies to reignite Earth's sun, redeeming myself in death.
The Spectre is the Wrath of God incarnate. The Spectre force is immensely powerful and acts, allegedly, as the hand of God. A short time ago, the Spectre was bonded to my soul. As the Spectre, I helped to preserve the universe and to dispense vengeance and redemption.
However, the job of the Spectre has begun to wear me out and I questioned whether or not I should even be the Spectre, or if anything in my life should have turned out the way it did.
It was discovered that Sinestro manipulated me, I was infected by the Parallax, and caused me to go mad and destroy the Green lantern Corps. I was recently revived and resurrected, free of the Parallax entity.
I have moved back into Coast City and am dedicated to protecting my home planet, Earth, from all dangers.
