DC Comics' Thanagar Confusion

   DC Comics has a Thanagar problem. Or to put it more accurately, Thanagar has a DC Comics problem. The apparent lack of vision and planning for Thanagar is truly baffling. In this article, I'll try to explain what is going on with the current Thanagar. But it isn't easy because DC Comics either has no real plan, or they just aren't explaining it enough for the comics fans, and more importantly, for the Hawkfans to know what in the seven hells is going on. But I'll give it a shot. 

   The current situation started in Green Lantern Civil Corps. Hal Jordan and the other Green Lanterns ran into Thaross on Thangar and Thaross was fatally wounded in the fight. Before he died, he used his powers to turn the plant Green Lantern called Mogo into a Red Lantern. In a rage, Mogo rammed into Thanagar and destroyed the planet. Out of billions of Thanagarians, only a thousand or so were saved.

  

Green Lantern Civil Corps #1 December 2024

Green Lantern #16 December 2024

   Thanagar was destroyed and the remaining Thanagarians were taken to OA. They apparently set up a settlement for them there while they decide what to do next. Then Hawkwoman/Shayera Hol II appeared.
   Hawkwoman (Shayera Hol) was off planet when it happened, but returned when she heard of the disaster. She is currently the leader of the Thanagarians, so as their representative, she went to the Green Lanterns and John Stewart for help. They went to the devastated planet and discovered that the core of the planet was some sort of Nth metal sphere. As they watched, the sphere opened up, and a gigantic hawk-like creature made of Nth metal emerged. It was Horus, the God of the Thanagarians (according to Hawkwoman).
   It tells Hawkwoman that it will search for a new home for the Thanagarians. When it finds the new home, it will reach out to Hawkwoman in a dream, and she should bring the remaining Thanagarians there. With that, it flies off into space.

Green Lantern Corps #1 April 2025

Green Lantern Corps #2 May 2025

Green Lantern Corps #3 June 2025

Green Lantern Corps #2 May 2025

Green Lantern Corps #2 May 2025

Green Lantern Corps #3 June 2025

   We next see Horus appear out of the blue in front of Hawkman/Carter Hall III during the DC K.O. event. It tells Hawkman that it would find a new world for those who believed. It gives Hawkman its power to lead the way with his wife Shayera. But no word of a new planet is mentioned then.

Aquaman #12 February 2026

   

   Finally, in the Green Lantern Corps series, the remaining Thanagarians had settled on OA in a refugee camp near a city called Malaqyte. Meanwhile, there is a planet in a faraway galaxy called the Procyon System. It was a planet made of water, but something happened and turned it into a desert. A water creature named Enquar blames the Green Lantern Corps for what happened to his planet so he uses his powers to make it a sentient water planet, which he can control.  With the help of the villain Fatality, he brings the planet to OA for revenge. 

Green Lantern Corps No. 13 (April 2026)

   The Indigo Lanterns help Fatality to see the error of her ways, and she becomes an Indigo Lantern as well. She battles the water creature Enquar, and instead of killing him, she seals him in her necklace to help him at a future time. When this happens, the water planet becomes a regular planet again. The Thanagarians helped the Lanterns overcome this crisis, so they offered the planet to the Thanagarians as a new home. It's unclear where the planet is now. One panel looks like Mogo is maybe pushing the planet back to where it was before. It is hard to tell. I wondered how far the Procyon system was from Earth, so I searched a bit, and it appears that it is relatively close to Earth (between 11 and 50 light-years away). 

Green Lantern Corps No. 13 (April 2026)

   But hold on. What about Horus and Shayera looking for a new planet? If they have not shown up there, I would guess that this planet would be temporary. Jeremy Adams and Morgan Hampton were the writers who came up with Horus searching for a new home. He also wrote the sequence of Horus appearing to Hawkman in that DC KO event. But he left the series back after the December 2025 issue and Hampton took over the writing duties. Since then, Hawkwoman or Horus has not been mentioned once. Are Adams and Hampton not on the same page as far as Thanagar goes? 

Green Lantern Corps #13 April 2026

   Thanagar is one of the major planets in the DC Universe, so it's a shame how DC has continued to blow it up, throw the Thanagarians all over the place, and appear to have no real plan or any kind of solid vision. Could the head editors over at DC please set up a plan for Thanagar going forward instead of just throwing ideas at the wall? Even if some of them are pretty awesome, like Scott Snyder's Thanagar Prime, DC forgets about them and just keeps throwing stuff at the wall. Hawkman and Hawkwoman, Nth Metal, and Thanagar have amazing potential. Get the writers together and get Thanagar back on track.