At Eye on Comics, Don MacPherson discovers the true cause of the Sinestro Corps War that’s ripping through the pages of DC’s Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps: Drugs. The evidence is right there, in the pages of Green Lantern #124 (January 1980).

Written by Denny O’Neil with art by Joe Staton and Frank McLaughlin, the story finds Green Lantern Hal Jordan on the outs with his pal Green Arrow, as GL has opted to strike out on his own again as a hero, tackling cosmic threats to which his archer ally was not suited. One of those threats is Sinestro, who shows up on Earth to cause problems for his arch-nemesis. After causing some chaos, Sinestro streaks back off into deep space. Jordan decides to not only search for his enemy but investigate the cause of his apparent madness and all-consuming hatred. The search leads GL to Sinestro’s home planet of Korugar, where that sector’s current Green Lantern, Katma Tui directs Hal toward a possible lead: Sinestro’s father. But here’s the shocker: the power ring-wielding villain’s dad is a purveyor of Korugarian version of opium: convenient yellow “null rays” that offer a hallucinatory high.

That’s right… Sinestro’s father was a drug dealer.

It all makes sense now, doesn’t it? The crimes, the violence, the hatred… Sinestro is the product of an unfortunate upbringing. He’s lashing out about and against his past. Whereas his father used yellow energy to allow his brethren to chase the dragon, Sinestro uses yellow energy to create dragons that, well, eat people, I guess.

I’ve always said the Guardians of Oa’s so-called “War on Drugs” was short-sighted and served as little more than propaganda for intergalactic paramilitary operations. Now the universe has to come to grips with the blowback.

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