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Green Lantern: DCnU-style
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The Sinestro one I guess I can get since the costume is different. Whatever. The Carol / Tom interaction was definitely movie-esque, especially since Tom is supposed to be a partner in Ferris Air now.
It makes perfect sense for Guy and will be just as outdated as his current one is soon enough
It's not really that bitchin' to be honest
Word. Noticed that on Young Justice during a marathon the other day, suits him down to the ground.
How dare you.
I will not stand for the Anti-Jacket propaganda that DC is propagating!!
And I like that Young Justice look, especially for what looks to be a younger Guy. If he had Gardner on the back like a football jersey that would make it better.
He should have the look he has in YJ, but like Tex says with his name on it so that the bad guys know who kicked their ass
Incidentally are the scans of Guy Gardner getting eaten by a space snake while shouting about how when he get's out of here he is going to be so pissed and beat the shit out of everyone on here. Because I loved it when that happened. I loved it so much.
It could do with some tweaks to modernize it, but that casual sensibility always struck me as very appropriate for the character. As did the stolen yellow power ring, actually.
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True. His biker jacket was dated when he became a green lantern, as was the bowl cut going a few years into the 90's, and it clearly said from a design standpoint "don't take me seriously" when compared to the other heroes. The flaw in this was that Hal Jordan was just so boring that it never made Guy come across as a bad hero, and then when you had a character who stood up to Batman and commented on Ice's thigh cheese you go "dude's a jerk, but I like him."
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Oh yeah definitely
But if you said anything he'd kick your ass
Geraldo Borges does a very good job mimicking Pasarin's art, to the point you don't even notice. Keep these two on the book and you've got a nice tandem going.
I am getting a bit tired of his plots now
Can't we have someone else instead
Yeah i agree with this. Excellent world/universe building, but this current story arc is leaving me cold. Sure there's the fun wrinkle of Sinestro being a "good guy" for the time being, but they're still fighting the damn Sinestro Corps, which they've been doing since, what, 2007? I'm tired of it.
And even when they fought guys who didn't have rings (Mongul II, the Qwardian Weaponeer), those guys eventually obtained rings.
I understand that there's been a real push to turn Green Lantern into a big, cosmic space opera, but seriously, doesn't anyone in space use a laser gun? Aren't there any malcontents that didn't join up with the Color Corps?
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And in GLC we have willpower ninjas!
I mean, it was cool seeing him help the GLC during the big prison break, and I think he's a neat character. But, he's probably never going to be an A-list antagonist.
In my opinion, the Green Lantern franchise has just become too same-y, and I'm not sure why. If you read some of the old Tales of the Green Lantern Corps, or Green Lantern Corps Quarterly, an effort was made to do new and exciting stuff with the premise of the Corps. Whether that meant Mogo, Rot Lop Fan, or even Jack Chance, who had the gimmick of a ring that only worked on the planet Hellhole.
But, the recent creators responsible for Green Lantern Corps, have gone about stamping out all of that stuff, with most of the more diverse and interesting Lanterns killed off.
I mean, I think it's kind of telling that Johns' two non-ringed contribution to the Green Lantern Rogues Gallery, have been two different Supermen.
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I mean for the last few years the GLC has not even been fucking fighting crime, they've been fighting other randoms in space. It must be the greatest time ever to be a Space Criminal (tm), because rather than the GLs coming on down to Ropticon XVII where you are smuggling hydro-crack to the Xaltheen slave-caste population and busting heads, they are scrapping with some crazy winged bint in a nebula light-years away who keeps vomiting napalm on them.
I noticed the Guardians having rings, which was weird - at first I thought I was just seeing Ganthet, whom I guess has reason to still wear a ring, but then it seemed like they all had one. I figured the Kyle looking old thing was just him being drained from wearing the different rings.
Despero is a powerful alien right? Get Despero to fight Guy or something.
At the same time, I do wish the side books would find more of a sweet spot between the same old Johnsian world building (Tomasi's GLC run, New Guardians) and the overly pointless, disconnected one-off threats and adventures that feel like they're not adding anything at all to the narrative (the current GLC arc so far, the last couple Emerald Warrior issues, parts of Bedard's GLC run, and possibly Red Lanterns).
I want one of the spin-off books to be allowed to establish its own lasting mythology and characters and threats and overarching storylines, instead of either feeding into the Johns world or setting up new threats and then forgetting them or writing them off at the end of the story.
Compare that to Marvel who have Gillen, Aaron, Remender, Bendis, Fraction, Brubaker, Hickman, Parker, Van Lente, Pak, Gage, Slott, Waid and more, all writing great books. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that currently, the average writer at Marvel is as good as DC's best, excepting Morrison, and that they don't really put out a bad book. If you said to me now, "give me a book from Marvel that is as bad as Hawkman, Firestorm or Green Arrow (just to give examples)," then I really wouldn't know what to get you.
And that's why, thinking about it, DC need to keep Johns on Green Lantern. Because they have no-one else to write it.
Yeah, this is what I would like to see as well. Those are the stories that first got me excited about GL to begin with, when I would hear about them or see screencaps of them online years ago, or buy some of the newer reprints of them.
There's another dangling plot thread begging to be addressed. Last time we saw Hammond he was the host to the Ophidian. Then Ophidian shows up, sans-host, a few issues later.
There's a preview of GLC #4. What happened to Tomasi, and to this book? Why does it have to be so awful now?
What's that Lanterns name? I don't think he's the usual redshirt, I swear I've seen him and his vest around a bunch.