ATTENTION: Green Lantern Comics To Read Before Blackest Night - Updated 7/28/09

[TheCorpulent1]

The question comes up a lot so I've been asked to make a sticky. So, if you want to know what to read before Blackest Night, direct thy glazzies downward hence:

• If you have a wealthy budget, pick up GL Rebirth, all of Johns' run on GL, all of GLC (including Recharge), and Sin Corps War. Basically everything Green Lantern since Rebirth.
• If your budget is a little more conservative, just pick up Rebirth and everything Johns has done on Green Lantern (and Sin Corps War.)
• If your budget is pretty tight, pick up Rebirth and Sin Corps War.

Keyser Soze has kindly provided a comprehensive list of the trade paperbacks that those post-Rebirth comics are available in as of 2/12/09:

GREEN LANTERN
Rebirth
No Fear
Revenge of the Green Lanterns
Wanted: Hal Jordan
Sinestro Corps War Volume 1
Sinestro Corps War Volume 2
Secret Origins
Rage of the Red Lanterns (coming soon)

Hey Corp,

Thought you might want to add these to the Blackest Night list.

Green Lantern: Rage of the Red Lanterns
Green Lantern: Agent Orange
Green Lantern Corps: Sins of the Star Sapphires
Green Lantern Corps: Emerald Eclipse

GREEN LANTERN CORPS
Recharge
To Be A Lantern
The Dark Side of Green
Sinestro Corps War v1 and 2 (collects GL and GLC)
RingQuest
Sins of the Star Sapphire (coming soon?)

If you want to go even further back than Rebirth, WompuM has some suggestions:

Trade Paperbacks:

Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn
The origin of Hal Jordan and the GLC.

Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn II
The origin of Sinestro as the main villain in the Green Lantern Corps mythos.

The Death and Life of Superman
The Destruction of Coast City

Green Lantern: Emerald Twilight, New Dawn
The origin of Paralax, Kyle Rayner, the lost Lanterns.

The Final Night
The death of Hal Jordan.

Hope that helps the curious masses.