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I would say that if you have read the Blackest Night trade and are happy with how the story is,(ie. you want to start reading from that point, there is a lot of story before that, but the wiki is your friend if you dont want to break the bank) then it is easy enough to get into the new 52.


Assuming for a minute you want the green lantern corps stories as well. You are looking at:

• Green Lantern Blackest Night ~ $15
  
• Green Lantern Corps Blackest Night - ~$15
  
• Green Lantern Brighest Day - $14.48
  
• Green Lantern Corps Revolt of the Alpha Lanterns - $13.50
  
• Green Lantern Corps The Weaponer - ~$13
  
• Green Lantern Emerald Warrior - $12
  
• War of the Green Lanterns - $13
  
  That leads you all the way up to the new 52 ( and tbh you could get away with just blackest night, brightest day and war) where you have to first volume of the 4 new series all out so far:
  
  
• Green Lantern - $12
  
• Green Lantern Corps - $14
  
• New Guardians-$13
  
• Red Lantern Corps -$25 at this link, dunno why
  
  
  So overall, starting at blackest night, you are looking at about $150 or so, and thats not including 2nd hand, sales if you can find em, etc.
  
  I would say you would be paying about the same, or a little more towards 200 dollars to collect the stories from the start of Johns' run (rebirth) up to blackest night. If youre not looking to spend a lot of money, what I would recommend is just read blackest night and then dive straight into the new 52. It will take some googling, but sometimes you just need to jump into a story and get your hands dirty so that you can enjoy it going forward. Sometimes its just too much effort, time and moveywise, to amass the entire story run.
  Hope that helps!
  
  

Make sure if you DO buy the trades, you find a decent reading list online. If you read them book after book you're going to be confused.
This might help: http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?322514-Blackest-Night-TPB-Reading-Order (DC compiled Blackest Night pretty poorly in TPB form).
Also, be on the lookout for Absolute Blackest Night, coming out fairly soon! http://www.amazon.com/Absolute-Blackest-Night-Geoff-Johns/dp/1401240739

Oh, and here's a bonus from IGN: http://www.ign.com/articles/2009/07/11/the-absolute-blackest-night-guide

it doesn't say unless I'm blind, but I'm willing to guess that's a hardcover edition. I prefer paperbacks for comics and I have this ordinary edition which is about half price GL: Rebirth. also note that both your and my site are american, surely you or your shop can find something if not from germany at least european.

other than that it's a fine place to start and welcome to the corps

There's a graphic novel called "Tales of the Corps" that gives some background on all of the corps. You can also check out Comic Vine for tons of info. Hope it helps!

Oh thanks for the reply, i'll look into getting rebirth and then Sinestro Corps, is this vol 1 + 2 combined into one book?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Green-Lantern-Sinestro-Corps-Edition/dp/0857688049/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1345564928&sr=8-1

There's no Blackest Night omnibus yet. I'd suggest picking up Absolute Blackest Night if you want to check out the main events of the story arc. There're also torrents of the entire run which include some of the more obscure issues.

Blackest Night is the arc that got me into comic books. I highly recommend it.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blackest-Night-Power-Ring-Spectrum/dp/B00333V302/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1345313341&sr=8-8

Hal Jordan

Emerald Dawn

Emerald Dawn II

Emerald Twilight

As Parallax

Zero Hour

The Final Night

As The Spectre

Green Lantern: Power of Ion

Green Lantern: Brother's Keeper

Rebirth

Green Lantern: Rebirth

Green Lantern: No Fear

Revenge of the Green Lanterns

Wanted: Hal Jordan

Green Lantern: The Sinestro Corps War

Green Lantern: Rage of the Red Lanterns

Green Lantern: Agent Orange

Blackest Night

Green Lantern: Blackest Night

Brightest Day

Green Lantern: Brightest Day

War of the Green Lanterns

War of the Green Lanterns: Aftermath

This is what I've got for Hal Jordan so far.. up until the new 52.