The fear-driven Sinestro Corps are the sworn enemies of DC’s Green Lantern Corps, and one Yellow Lantern in particular embodies the art like no other.
Fans of the Green Lantern mythos are most likely familiar with the yellow Sinestro Corps. While the Green Lantern members are defined by their willpower and their ability to overcome great fear, the sinister Sinestro Corps members are defined by their ability to create that fear in their victims. Many horrifying creatures have worn a yellow ring, and although there have been many memorably haunting yellow lanterns, few have been as terrifying as Kryb.
Part of what makes Kryb so terrifying is the mystery of her origin. Little is known about her other than the fact that she originates from Sector 3599, and abducts the children of Green Lanterns before killing their parents. Visually, Kryb is a prime example of body horror, with long disproportioned limbs and jagged teeth beneath obscured eyes, using a cage-like sack of bones on her back to store the abducted children. Using a mind-controlling liquid excreted from her body, Kryb forces her victims into obedience, feeding them the grotesque substance from the pouch in her back like breast milk. In her own sector on a planet called Vora, she keeps these children in pod-like structures with the intent of nurturing them into adolescence.
Further evidence of her psychosis, is her belief that she is saving these children from the “oppressive green monsters,” intending to raise these children to destroy the Green Lantern Corps. She feeds off of the fear the parent Lanterns feel, finding a warped sense of pleasure in their despair, as seen in Green Lantern Corps #31-32 (by Peter Tomasi, Patrick Gleason, Rebecca Buchman, Randy Mayor and Steve Wands). Here, she hunts for the unborn child of Matoo and Amnee Pree, a pair of romantically involved Green Lanterns from Sector 0035.
Using her fluids, she takes control of the Lanterns opposing her, forcing them to hold a pregnant Amnee down while she attempts to carve the child from her belly. What makes this scene all the more unsettling is the narration from Kryb, as she reiterates that her purpose is to deliver children from the evil of the Green, demonstrating the pleasure she derives from her actions. Kyle breaks away from Kryb’s hold at just the right moment, preventing her from taking Amee’s child and freeing the other Lanterns. Despite facing five capable Lanterns, Kryb demonstrates her power by holding her own in this fight, even managing to kill one of the Lanterns by opening her back like a hand and crushing her in its grip. Only with the intervention of a Star Sapphire can the group defeat Kryb, taking her to the Star Sapphire home world for rehabilitation.
Her twisted motives coupled with her horrific appearance make Kryb a truly terrifying presence, despite her relative obscurity within the Sinestro Corps when compared to prominent members like Lyssa Drak and Arkillo. Since the story in Green Lantern Corps back in 2009, she has appeared sporadically, most notably in a spotlight issue during Blackest Night.
Despite her stomach-churning actions and motivations, there is a twisted kind of love Kryb harbors for these children, enough that she would attempt to save them in the aforementioned Blackest Night story. This complexity creates a strangely fascinating character who terrifies in a way few other Lanterns every could.
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