Galius Zed
46 years ago - Galius Zed is born on Noc’sag
28 years ago - 18-year-old Galius Zed becomes a soldier on his homeworld, serving with distinction.
24 years ago - 22-year-old Galius Zed is selected for the Green Lantern Corps. He's one of Kilowog's first trainees.
10 years ago - 36-year-old Galius Zed is outspoken against John Stewart when he is blamed for the destruction of Xanshi, but is the first to accept him when the truth is revealed. They became firm friends.
5 years ago - 41-year-old Galius Zed is on Noc'sag during Hal Jordan's attack on Oa. He rejoins his planet's military when his ring depowers.
1 year ago - 45-year-old Galius Zed answers the summon for Green Lanterns when Kyle Rayner relights the Oan Power Battery, and uses a Zeta Beam to gather surviving Lanterns from across the Galaxy to join the fight against Thaal Sinestro.
now - 46-year-old Galius Zed, whose sector includes Rann, joins the Omega Men with Adam Strange to combat the Legions of Lady Styx.
The extended membership of the Green Lantern Corp comes from a few different sources, but interestingly, those same sources all seem to happen in cycles. There are characters introduced more or less as background characters who have a line here and there but who gain popularity because of some quirk of their design, there are characters introduced in their own standalone stories whose role may or may not expand over time but who remain popular because that original story was so clever, and there are characters that are actually introduced with the intention of playing a role in the main continuity Green Lantern story. These different character sources repeat through the various eras of Green Lantern Corp mythology, resulting in a pretty deep roster of potential characters for us to go over.
Galius Zed is part of a middle generation of Green Lantern characters that were clearly originally intended as just one more bizarre alien who got a few lines, but his design was just weird enough that he got to show up again and again, eventually becoming one of the most recognizable Lanterns in their history.
Galius Zed is part of a middle generation of Green Lantern characters that were clearly originally intended as just one more bizarre alien who got a few lines, but his design was just weird enough that he got to show up again and again, eventually becoming one of the most recognizable Lanterns in their history.
Galius Zed's Comic HistoryGalius Zed's first appearance was in Tales of the Green Lantern Corp in 1981, one of the lantern's first huge crossover series to feature massive groups of hundreds or even thousands of Green Lanterns all amassing on Oa. Galius was a weird background alien who got to step up and say a line like a member of a greek chorus. His weird round body and stumpy limbed design made him a regularly recurring character in several eras of the Green Lanterns. He was a featured member of the Darkstars in the Kyle Rayner years before being killed. Later on we'd meet Zilius Zox, a member of the Red Lanterns, making Galius one of only a few Lanterns whose design proved so popular that they were replaced with similar characters even after their death.
Perhaps the most lasting part of Galius Zed's legacy is his very prolific appearance in lots of extended media, both in the Justice League animated series and some of the animated movies; his cool alien design making him a fun character to include. |
Our Galius Zed StoryWe've done a few things with Galius that aren't necessarily from the comics, but we really like them. First, we took the idea from the Justice League cartoon that Galius was outspokenly against John Steward during his trial, but was quick to apologize once his innocence was proven, making them close friends, the same way Hal was close to Tomar Re.
From there, the real innovation we introduced was to suggest that he's actually the Lantern in the sector that includes Raan. This lets us use him in some cool places, like having him use a Zeta Beam to help bring Lanterns into the fight once Kyle restarts the League, but perhaps even cooler, he gets to be the Green Lantern that joins Adam Strange's Omega Men team. Even if he wasn't such a wierd, fun alien design, he's still a tough, no-nonsense soldier character that would fit right into that group. |