Warning: contains Spoilers for Dark Crisis #2!

Though he's been shown time and time again to be one of the most powerful Green Lanterns of all time, one popular myth still permeates Kyle Rayner's time in the Green Lantern Corps. With Rayner's recent inclusion in the Dark Crisis event, DC shows just how untrue this notion truly is.

Kyle Rayner was once a struggling comic book artist before being gifted the last Green Lantern ring by Ganthet, the last Guardian to survive Hal Jordan's attack on Oa during his ascendancy as Parallax. After holding down the fort as the final Green Lantern, Rayner later went on to host Ion, the living embodiment of willpower. Rayner also notably served as the supremely powerful White Lantern, displaying a unique mastery of all 7 elements of the emotional spectrum. Despite all of these notable feats of strength and power, Kyle still often gets labeled as an odd man out among the Green Lantern Corps. Portrayed as more empathetic and less disciplined than many of his allies, Kyle's role as an artist highlights that he hails from a much different background than his fellow Green Lanterns, who have often served in the armed forces prior to their cosmic roles.

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Dark Crisis #2 by Joshua Williamson and Daniel Sampere allows Kyle Rayner the chance to shed this misconception once and for all. Near the issue's end, Rayner busts out of a prison in space before Hal Jordan and Jo Mullein bring him to join a group of Lanterns ready to face DC's latest crisis. Though a brief scene in an already action-packed comic, Rayner's daring escape proves that he's every bit the action hero as his Green Lantern Corps allies, as he carries out an explosive jailbreak while quipping that he's willing to spare a downed guard because he's "the sensitive artist type."

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The sequence allows Kyle Rayner to have a swashbuckling space adventure of his own, showing he actually fits in with his fellow hardboiled Corps members. It's a fun scene that shows the kind of carnage Kyle can create even without an ultra-powerful ring adorning his finger. While Kyle is often seen as the 'accidental' Green Lantern - someone who joined the Corps in dire times and didn't go through the same vetting as other candidates - he shows here that while he may be a more empathetic person than daredevil pilot Hal Jordan, that's strictly in the context of still belonging to the galaxy's premier peace-keeping force, making him a kickass, spacefaring cowboy by any other metric.

It's in line with Kyle Rayner's less impressive reputation that he's contained on a prison ship when a gaggle of Green Lanterns arrive to help him, but in having him break out under his own steam, DC puts that perception to rest. Kyle handily proves that he needs no assistance from the Green Lantern Corps in breaking out, and that he's as much a worthy Green Lantern as any of his allies.

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Dark Crisis #2 is available from DC Comics now.