Starting with next month’s Green Lantern #39, readers will get a look at the greed-focused Orange Lanterns and their leader, the “Agent Orange” character named Larfleeze, through the artwork of Philip Tan .

The artist, who impressed DC fans with his work on Final Crisis: Revelations, has been sharing his designs for the Orange Lanterns here on Newsarama over the last few months. Now, as we celebrate the green of St. Patrick’s Day, we talk to Tan again about his upcoming work on Green Lantern with writer Geoff Johns.

Exploring the idea that emotions hold energy that can be harnessed with power rings — with the Green Lanterns controlling the central green-colored energy of willpower — the Green Lantern title has been revealing the various colors of the emotional spectrum and their ring-wearing corps. It’s all leading toward Blackest Night, an epic summer event by Johns and artist Ivan Reis that promises to see deceased DC characters rise from the earth wearing black rings as the universe is embroiled in a War of Light between all the ring-wearing factions.

The previously unseen Orange Lanterns utilize the power of avarice, and as Tan has pointed out before, their focus on greed has made them “grotesque.” They “look like predators,” he said, and are “very hunting based,” although he didn’t want to explain too much about their looks, as it ties into the story of the Orange Lanterns.

The storyline will also focus on Agent Orange, the group’s leader, who has been revealed to have a relationship to the Guardians of Oa. Described in solicitations as “the most disgusting, filthiest, vilest being in the universe,” Agent Orange has been hidden away in the Vega System until now.

As Tan opens his sketchbook to reveal a few more of his many designs for these Orange Lanterns, we talked to the artist about these creatures of greed who wield the power of orange as the title heads toward Blackest Night.