In response, eight creators announced the founding of Image Comics: illustrators Todd McFarlane ( known for his work on Spider-Man ), Jim Lee ( X-Men ), Rob Liefeld ( X-Force ), Marc Silvestri ( Wolverine ), Erik Larsen ( The Amazing Spider-Man ), Jim Valentino ( Guardians of the Galaxy ), and Whilce Portacio ( Uncanny X-Men ); and long-time Uncanny X-Men writer Chris Claremont.

He will appear in the 2012 film Rise of the Guardians as one of the main characters being voiced by Chris Pine.

Twelve Guardians are explained to guard the Twelve Portals.

Female Guardians appear in flashbacks to Hal Jordan's rookie days as a Green Lantern ; whether this is an oversight or a result of the events of Infinite Crisis has not been explained.

It has been said that " Guardians do not take names ", yet when Krona invaded Oa in the War of the Green Lanterns story-arc, he revealed that all Oans have names but have since forgotten them, nonetheless a few of their lot have been named in the stories.

It is uncertain what happened to Yolande's child ; most likely she had a miscarriage, although other accounts say that her child was still-born at Clackmannan on St. Catherine's Day ( 25 November 1286 ) with the Guardians in attendance to witness the event, just possibly she had a false pregnancy, and there was even one dubious English claim that she was faking pregnancy.

* In the online web comic Gaming Guardians, an entire page is used as an homage to the death of Supergirl, right down to the infamous line, " But ... We had a casualty.

It was later discovered that the Manhunters had not suffered a flaw in their logic, as had previously been assumed, but that the renegade Guardian Krona had reprogrammed them in an attempt to show the other Guardians the necessity in embracing emotions.

Chastened by the failure of the Manhunters, the Guardians decided that their newest force of soldiers for good would consist of living beings, ones who had free will and strong moral character.

As a result he had the Butcher, Ophidian, Ion, Adara, Proselyte, and the Predator inhabit the six Guardians as hosts and places Parallax back within the Green Central Power Battery to subjugate the Green Lantern Corps under his control.

The Guardians currently began searching for the Book of the Black by tracking Starstorm, who was one of the last persons to had contact with the Book, however when he proves useless to them, the Guardians kill Starstorm, without mercy.

In the alternate reality of JLA: The Nail ( where Superman was discovered by a different family after the Kents had a nail in their car tire on the day they would have recovered him ), the Guardians recalled the entire Green Lantern Corps minus Hal Jordan ( who was trapped on Earth by a Kryptonian force field ) to intervene when the cold war between Apokolips and New Genesis escalated.

In the reality of Superman & Batman: Generations, the Guardians revealed that Alan Scott's power ring was actually a Green Lantern ring despite its apparent weakness to wood after Hal Jordan successfully harnessed it against Sinestro, realising that the ring actually had no weaknesses except what the user believed it possessed ; the Green Lantern Corps were vulnerable to yellow only because they believed the Guardians when they were told about this weakness, and Alan's ring's weakness to wood was caused when he was taken by surprise and struck on the back of the head with a wooden block during his first time using the ring.

In 1986, Gatchaman was re-worked in the US as G-Force: Guardians of Space by Turner, with a good deal of the original content that had been edited out of Battle of the Planets put back in to the show.

David Bruce, aged five, became king on 7 June 1329 on the death of his father Robert I. Walter the Steward had died earlier on 9 April 1327 and the orphaned eleven-year-old Robert was placed under the guardianship of his uncle, Sir James Stewart of Durrisdeer who along with Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray, and William Lindsey, Archdeacon of St Andrews were appointed as joint Guardians of the kingdom.

Darkseid had been portrayed as a villain in Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show and The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians in the 1980s, but in this series, he was closer to the enormously powerful, evil cosmic emperor originally envisioned by Kirby.

Rosa created Guardians of the Lost Library at the request of Scandinavia-based, European Disney publisher Egmont in reference to the fact that Norway had officially declared 1993 to be " The Year of The Book " in order to promote reading ( as the story was published in Norway and Denmark in 1993, one year prior to its first edition in the original English ).

In the middle of the room stands a metal case, with the emblem of the Guardians of the Lost Library our heroes first saw in Egypt, an Ibis symbolizing Thoth, the Egyptian deity of wisdom and writing, and an inscription on a metal plate by the last survivor of Drakeborough, saying that he had the library condensed into one single volume with every information no other surviving book in the world included.

" Writing in The Guardians sister paper, The Observer Maurice Richardson pondered if there had been " a deliberate moral reformation " of Bond.

However, the bad blood between the two men went far back, and they had found it impossible to work together as Guardians of the Realm.

The Guardians story alleged that Al-Fayed had approached the paper and accused Ian Greer of paying Neil Hamilton and Tim Smith to table parliamentary questions on his behalf at £ 2000 per question.

In early July 1997 Sir Gordon Downey published his 900 page report, clearing Ian Greer, Neil Hamilton, and Tim Smith of The Guardians original allegations that Ian Greer had paid the two MPs to table questions.

Though the term " cash for questions affair " is used to refer to the events that followed the publication of The Guardians story, it was not the first time that a British newspaper had accused MPs of taking bribes to table questions.

While officially ranking as the last ( 30th ) candidate of Tehran in the Iranian Parliament election, 2000 after some recounts by the Council of Guardians which had led to annulment of 700, 000 Tehrani votes and removal of Alireza Rajaei and Ali Akbar Rahmani from the top 30, Haddad-Adel collected the most votes from Tehran four years later, in Iranian Parliament election, 2004, when many reformist candidates where not allowed to run.

In Lebanon, the right-wing Guardians of the Cedars, a fiercely nationalistic ( mainly Christian ) political party which opposes the country's ties to the Arab world, is agitating for " Lebanese " to be recognized as a distinct language from Arabic and not merely a dialect, and has even advocated replacing the Arabic alphabet with a revival of the ancient Phoenician alphabet, which lacks a number of characters to write typical Arabic phonemes present in Lebanese, and lost by Phoenician ( and Hebrew ) in the second millennium BC.

The scandal began as an operation to free seven American hostages being held by a group with Iranian ties connected to the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution.

The Council of Guardians, considered part of the executive branch of government, is responsible for determining if legislation is in line with Islamic law and customs ( the Sharia ), and can bar candidates from elections, and greenlight or ban investigations into the election process.

The Bruce family captured strongholds in Galloway, and fighting in the name of the Maid of Norway ( Margaret ), suppressed the rebellion with many important families like the Stewards supporting them. In 1289 the Guardians maintained the peace in Scotland between the competing claims of Margaret, Robert Bruce and John Balliol.

Negotiations from this time onwards were between Edward, who returned to England later in the year, and Eric, and excluded the Scots until Edward met with Robert Bruce and some of the Guardians at Salisbury in October 1289.

The Manchester Guardians critic disagreed with part of Johnson's summary, saying that " to regard novel as necessarily being a sign of moral decay would be to oversimplify the relationship between literature and its audience.

The Guardians of the Universe departed for an unknown dimension, and the Green Lantern Corps was reorganized, with Hal Jordan leading a team of Green Lanterns based on Earth.

The Guardians administer the Green Lantern Corps, a group of powerful universal police officers equipped by the Guardians with green-colored power rings along with green lanterns with which to charge the rings.

# Showing respect for and cooperating with other members of the Corps and the Guardians.

They rebelled against the Guardians and fought a millennia-long war that culminated with an attack on the planet Oa.

Eventually, the surviving Manhunters formed their own robotic society and pursued their own interpretation of their original mission ( which often included interfering with and foiling the plans of the Guardians ).

To arm this new legion of celestial knights, the Guardians created the Power Rings, rings of inconceivably-advanced technology that allowed their wearers to project green beams of energy with which the bearer could conjure objects of any size or shape, limited only by their imagination and willpower.

Shortly thereafter, Kyle Rayner, having imbued with the vast power of Ion after his battle with Oblivion and Alexander Nero funneled the remaining energy left in the sun that was once the immortal Guardians back into the Central Power Battery.

Upon Parallax's return to the Central Power Battery, the Guardians continued the re-construction and expansion of the Green Lantern Corps, strengthened with its power rings now able to directly affect yellow provided that a Lantern can face and conquer his or her fear.

Responsibility for imprisoning Superboy-Prime was undertaken by the Guardians who charged the Corps with its undertaking, incarcerating him inside a small red Sun-Eater with fifty Green Lanterns on constant guard duty.

Hal and Guy end up captured by the Guardians, while Kyle and John travel to Mogo with the intention of freeing it from Krona's control.

The Guardians currently consider the Green Lantern Corps a failure and are planning to replace it with a mysterious " Third Army ", which will be led by the equally unknown " First Lantern ".