The Emotional Spectrum is only one visible piece of something vastly larger.
Specs begins with colors he recognizes and people who seem to know what those colors mean. Then the connections start getting complicated. Green Lantern light, Alan Scott, Jade, and The Green don't give him the same answers. With Rot Lop Fan, Will finds another expression through Sound.
Across the Saga, emotion, life, death, nature, magic, and sound touch one another. A familiar color can lead somewhere unfamiliar. A person can belong to more than one grouping. Finding a connection opens another question.
The pages here follow those connections—from the forces and the people who work with them to the larger relationship between the Many and the One.
The Engine · The Weave
A favor, a message, a moment of waiting. To the person involved, it may be a small thing. Pull back, and that same action can be part of something they cannot yet see. Fate, Sam, Swamp Thing, and Grundy each encounter parts of a larger story.
Lanterns, Tappers & Casters
What is the force? Who embodies it? Who speaks for it, and who draws upon it? Your relationship to a power matters. They're not all called Lanterns—and a ring is not the only way to make a connection.
Several ways into the same growing world. Follow a grouping, then follow the connections beyond it.
The lights behind the Lantern Corps provide a familiar starting point. Spectrum follows them beyond the familiar, into Infrared, Ultraviolet, Grey, Gold, and the other connections his encounters reveal.
Tom Ifrit, Aya, and Orchid each bring another part of that picture into view.
Ever. Is. Was. Will Be.
Life, the now, the Grey of Despair, and Death. The story follows these names through people whose lives—and deaths—bring them into contact. Their connections reach across more than one part of the cosmology.
With Rot Lop Fan, Will can be heard. A bell becomes a way to work with a power Specs first knew through Green light.
Static, Vertigo, and the Chord of Dissonance draw the story farther into Sound: what happens when it scatters, meets, and comes together again?
Rot Lop Fan · Static · Vertigo · Dissonance
Whimsy. Ifrit. Raven. Coyote. Anansi.
The grouping brings together different expressions of Trickster. Whimsy's substitutions make room for a giggle. Tom's allure gets someone moving. Tom is also Infrared: the same person can open a door into more than one Spectrum.
The Green, The White, The Grey and The Rot: elemental connections encountered through Swamp Thing, Sam Zhao, and Solomon Grundy.
Plants, air, and decay take part in the story through practical acts as well as extraordinary powers. The names can sound familiar before their distinctions become clear.
The people in these stories don't all know the same things. A connection can be real before anyone understands it, and some questions remain open. The Cosmos grows through those encounters.