With February’s Green Lantern #39, readers will be introduced to the greed-centered Orange Lanterns created by artist Philip Tan.

As we get closer to their debut, Tan is sharing some of his sketches with Newsarama readers, detailing the backgrounds of the creatures who make up the Orange Lanterns of the Vega System.

Best known by DC readers for his just-finished work on Final Crisis: Revelations, Tan had previously honed his dark, moody style at Image Comics. Tan now becomes the latest DC artist to help design the creatures who populate the Green Lantern universe as writer Geoff Johns takes the title toward the War of Light and this year’s Blackest Night event.

In a concept first revealed by Johns during the 2007 event Sinestro Corps War, the energy the Green Lanterns wield is powered by willpower, expanding upon the idea that emotions have power. Other colored energy harnessed by lanterns of light represents a spectrum of emotions. So far, the Green Lantern universe has seen the yellow fear-based energy of the Sinestro Corps, the violet love-based energy of the Zamorans, the hate-focused power of the Red Lanterns, and most recently, the hope-centered energy of the Blue Lanterns.

Next, it’s time to spotlight the Orange Lanterns of greed, in a storyline named after their leader, “Agent Orange.” And last time we spoke to the artist, Tan told us these creatures will have a “grotesque look of having been possessed by greed.”

“There are things in the story that I don’t want to give away. But one thing you might think about is how these creatures look like predators,” Tan said. “A lot of these creatures are very hunting based. There are elements in their design that are based on a very believable back story about how they track down and go after prey.”

As we share three more of Tan’s designs, we talked to the artist again to give Green Lantern fans a taste of what’s to come.