Absolute Green Lantern: A few more terms worth keeping straight

Absolute Green Lantern: A few more terms worth keeping straight Before I leave the terminology breakdown, there are a few things I wanted to keep in one place. This is through issue twelve, so I'm sticking to what has actually been explained by that point. OA is Omega-Alpha. Mu is Maker-Unmaker. The Controller of Mu argues that his version puts the order the right way around, with darkness at the end. That's his argument, not a reason to treat everything he says as the final truth about this universe. “Green Lantern” also needs a little care. In this book it can refer to the enormous object itself, rather than simply being a name for whoever has green powers. At the end of issue twelve, Tomar Re says “Lantern” is a poor translation and that a better word in our language is “gun.” That is a pretty significant difference when you're trying to understand what this thing is supposed to be. I'm keeping it attached to his explanation rather than pretending we've already been handed every detail of how it works. Then there's Sin-es-tro. Kari's vision connects it to the left hand and says it isn't a name, it's a sentence. A sentence of death. That's the clue we have here. I wouldn't turn that into a complete translation or a settled identity based on these issues alone. And one distinction that helps with the gold imagery: somebody wearing gold isn't automatically an Aur initiate or adept. Goldface's appearance and equipment do not establish an Oan rank for him. The color can matter physically without telling us that the person wearing it has reached enlightenment. There's enough terminology here to start mixing together names, titles, powers, and somebody's interpretation of the rules. Keeping those separate makes this a lot easier to follow.