Yeah, but don't forget Johns didnt come up the reason why Abin flew a ship. He just extrapolated on it.
The writer who originally thought up the idea (as well as the Five Inversions, The Blackest Night and Sodam Yat) was none other than Alan Moore.
I knew Sodam Yat was, but I was unaware that the Blackest Night was his idea
Actually, "In Blackest Night" was an unrelated story that was written by Alan More for "Tales of the Green Lantern Corps" #3. It was a tale about how Rot Lop Fan, a silicon-based lifeform from the Obsidian Deeps, became a Green Lantern and had nothing to do with the current Blackest Night prophecy in the comics.
Abin met alien demons who predicted his death by the malfunction of the ring. Abin started to use a spaceship and, because of it, he didn't detected an yellow force field in planet Turquesa, who rendered his ship and ring useless, as he crash landed on Earth.
This is an except from that story (reference
Green Lantern Corps Annual #2). In that tale, Abin Sur went to the Planet Ysmault to rescue the survivors of a crashed Ungaran space ship. Ysmault is the former throne-world and prison planet of the Empire of Tears, a teritory that was once ruled by evil magical demons, and overthrown by the Guardians of the Universe eons ago. Quill of the Five Inversions, one of the demons imprisoned on the planet revealed three prophecies (or answers to questions) to Abin Sur. The first was the location of the crashed Ungaran spacecraft, the second was the fate of Abin Sur, and the third was the ulitmate fate of the Green Lantern Corps. The final prophecy was what eventually became the Sinestro Corps war, and the revelation of his successor (Hal Jordan). As for the fate of Abin Sur, he was told that in his demise, his ring would betray him when he really needed it by losing its energy. Quill did disclose that it was possible that his answers could be truthful or erroneous (as it turned out the fate of the Corps was skewed a bit).
Can´t find SO, why was Abin-Sur using a ship ? Can someone enlight me please ?
Polux
In fear of his demise, Abin Sur chose to use a spacecraft whenever he went on long missions to conserve the power of his ring.
Oh well, planet Turquesa must be pretty close to our solar system then...
Polux
It wasn't the planet Turquesa, it was a "turquoise" planet. That turquoise (or blue) planet was Earth, of which Abin Sur and his spacecraft were powerless in its
yellow radiation belt. He crash landed on Earth where he would eventually find his successor (Hal Jordan), who later on became known as one of the greatest Green Lanterns amongst his contemporaries, fulfilling part of the second prophesy.
