Larvox
56 years ago - Larvox hatches on Sputa.
44 years ago - 12-year-old Larvox becomes a member of his people's priesthood, challenging the foundations of their religion.
40 years ago - 16-year-old Larvox is chosen for the Green Lantern Corps.
18 years ago - 38-year-old Larvox befriends new recruit Hal Jordan despite not being able to speak.
10 years ago - 46-year-old Larvox dies in the Manhunter's attack on Oa.
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.
Larvox is one of the oldest alien Green Lanterns, and definitely owes his longevity to his strange design. He did in fact develop a personality of sorts after a while, but make no mistake, this is a character that's maintained entirely as a visal background element.
Larvox is one of the oldest alien Green Lanterns, and definitely owes his longevity to his strange design. He did in fact develop a personality of sorts after a while, but make no mistake, this is a character that's maintained entirely as a visal background element.
Larvox's Comic HistoryLarvox's first appearance is in Green Lantern #9 in 1961. This issue predates the stories that gave more structure to the whole idea of the Green Lantern Corp; it featured an early meeting of the Lanterns, and was one of the first times Gil Kane & John Broome got to invent a room full of weird aliens. The blurb for Larvox deliberately described him by saying that he came from a planet where "life has culminated in a shape altogether different from mankind."
For a long time, the alien Green Lanterns functioned mostly as a chorus of background characters, so with a few exceptions, they really didn't have their own personalities. In Larvox's case, We first got a sense of him as an individual with his own personality when he was one of the three first recruits Hal Jordan found while rebuilding the Corp in the new 90's series. He was soft spoken and dedicated, committed to preserving the Corp... not really the most exciting characterization, but something the Corp needed as Hal rebuilt it. We're making a little change in Larvox so that he serves a particular purpose in our story; making him so he can't speak, but is still able to befriend Hal when he first joins the Corp. The intention is to highlight how alien, and yet how familiar, the members of the corp can be. |