#vladimir sorov

[the-antiapocalyptic-man]

The Red Lanterns of Earth:

Vladimir Sorov, Jack Moore, Kim Jeong-Ho, and Dex-Starr

Vladimir and Jack had several team-ups in the Silver Age--mirroring Alan and Hal’s relationship--while Dex-Starr is mostly in Vladimir’s care whenever Atros is unavailable, or simply when Dex has stopped by Earth for a cat nap. Jeong-Ho mostly operates with the New Guardians, but has worked with Vladimir and Jack against their mutual, earthborn enemy: Sebastian Sanger and his Church of Blood.

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[the-antiapocalyptic-man]

Vladimir Sorov and Dex-Starr, the Red Wizard and the Great Beast of the Crimson Starheart

One of the Soviet Union’s state-sponsored People’s Heroes during WWII and some years after, Sorov was initially an enemy to Alan Scott before Diana’s mediation and the mutual threat of Germany’s Yellow Lantern brought them to a truce, and eventually to friendship. His friendship with Diana led him to spend sometime with the Justice Society Dark before that team’s tragic dissolution.

Sorov’s relationship with his government soured after the kidnapping of his infant daughter, a last-ditch attempt to create a Soviet Lantern Brigade after replicating the Crimson Starheart or creating an artificial equivalent proved fruitless*.

Barred from Russian airspace, Sorov would spend most of his time in other parts of the world or the cosmos. His first encounter with other red lanterns--the army of Atros--would come in an unusual form. Encountering a strange cat on his travels that possessed abilities similar to his own, Dex-Starr and Sorov became something of an inseparable pair, Sorov growing out his hair and bead and adopting something of mystic’s air in contrast to the errant knight of his old wartime rival.

It was the baptism of Jack Moore into the Red Light that brought Sorov back to Earth full time. A bookish young British man and the only surviving member of a family of activists who worked against Britain’s fascist Raven Union and Norsefire parties, Jack’s role as Rancor forced Sorov into a confrontation he had been avoiding since learning Dex-Starr’s origins: a confrontation with Atrocitus of Ysmault.

*The Church of Blood would set up shop in post-Soviet Russia under [Redacted] for some time, but Brother Blood’s...proclivities...failed to produce anything other than a mountain of dead bodies.

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