After a glimpse of the character last week, MTV Geek talks with the upcoming Green Lantern writer Robert Venditti about his new villain named Relic. Below you’ll find another look at the character, this time provided by artist Rags Morales. You may find it a bit similar to the first time we showed off Rags on GL. Relic’s origin will be told across three months of black-and-white pencil variant covers by artist Rags Morales, which will span all Green Lantern family books.

 

“When you very first encounter him, he will be a fully formed menace, but you will get the backstory of how he got to be that way,” said Venditti. “He’s a completely new character not based on any pre-existing character.”

Each of the Morales’ variant covers that will span issues 21, 22 and 23 of all the Green Lantern books will offer up “new clues” to who Relic is and why he opposes the Lanterns. Moreover, Relic is not a Lantern Jordan-specific villain; instead, Venditti promises he will “tie together every Lantern of every color that has ever appeared in any comic book ever.”

Venditti adds the character’s storyline, which more or less spreads across five months, picks up the story thread where Johns left off and takes it to its “next logical step.” That thread also picks up right away in the opening pages of #21, with a “huge action set piece” in “Green Lantern” 21 and 22 that involves “various antagonists.”

Relic’s story will “have a bow tied on him” by the end of the storyline, but Venditti says that doesn’t mean the character won’t be usable in the future.

“What we have in mind for Relic will be a self-contained thing, but we already know what we’re doing after that, so we’ll be moving on to that next story.”