Last week, DC Comics released a teaser for the new Green Lantern villain, Relic. Today, DC announced the Relic’s origin story will be told in the form of a series of black and white variant covers across all of the Green Lantern titles from June through August. The covers will be drawn by Rags Morales and you can see one example below.

The covers all provide clues to how Relic came to be, and will be collected – fully lettered in color and with more pages in September.

Green Lantern writer Robert Venditti said:

When you very first encounter him, he will be a fully formed menace, but you will get the backstory of how he got to be that way. He’s a completely new character not based on any pre-existing character.

As for the impact Relic will have on the Green Lantern universe?

Venditti added:

(he will) tie together every Lantern of every color that has ever appeared in any comic book ever.

You’ll find the first Morales’ variant cover with Green Lantern #21 which you can see below.