Story: "Back in the Saddle" (22 Pages)

Credits: Judd Winick (plot, script); Dale Eaglesham (pencils); Rodney Ramos (inks); Kurt Hathaway (letters); Moose Baumann (colors, color seperations); Bob Schreck (edits)

Feature Character: Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner)

Supporting Characters: Terry Berg, Rena Stone, Jade

Villains: Arthur Weiss, Michael Johansen, Jason Su, Emmanuel Taylor (bank robbers, first appearance); Unseen villain (behind the scenes, see next issue for his identity)

Other Characters: Jessica Martin (bank employee; first appearance); Melvin Chen, Dexter Bourdre, Angela Martinez (bank customers; first appearance); Anthony (police officer; first appearance); Jasmine (Rena Stone's secretary), Mike Dennis (an employee of Feast's design department)

Synopsis:

Normally sensible New Yorkers (if there is such a thing...) begin to act very oddly - robbing banks in broad daylight, swearing incredibly and stripping off because they feel ridiculously hot. Kyle Rayner encounters this problem first as Green Lantern and then in his normal life at the Feast Magazine offices. By this point, there is a riot on the streets of New York. Once he has helped contain this, GL runs into a big green monster, which keeps splitting into smaller monsters while others also appear. He follows them to their source and discovers a very scared Jade.