The Official Flash thread

[Tron Bonne]

Oh, well that sounds pretty dumb.

 

[The Eagle Host]

Probably the best possible single-sentence description of Johns' Green Lantern run.

 

[Hush]

Its not so much the fear insect that Johns made, that I hate, just the idea of making Hal out to be a victim and not a man who actually made choices.

 

[The Eagle Host]

I hate all of it.

 

[Anubis]

Which actually might have made him more interesting........nah.


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[The Eagle Host]

I like to think that foundation is occupied by most of fandom.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Alas, it's not.

Parallax I don't get. I mean, look at any appearance Parallax made before Rebirth, and compare that to any appearance Parallax made after Rebirth (most of which happen to be written by Johns). They couldn't act more differently.

Also, the yellow avatar uses green energy. ...Uh huh.

I just meant his appearance, not his behavior. Fear demon = scary cockroach. I get that. Willpower being = passive whale? Not so much.

 

[The Eagle Host]

Neither avatar holds up under close scrutiny. I mean, how is Parallax, or any yellow lantern for that matter, powered by fear? I mean, Green Lanterns are limited by their willpower, but yellow lanterns are limited by... their ability to inspire fear? Because they've never been shown being more powerful when their prey is scared or less powerful when their opponents are brave. I mean, if that's all it takes, why would any Green Lantern be scared ever? "Hey, it's those guys who are completely powerless if I'm not afraid. Very scary." And if that IS the case, why is Parallax's ability to possess based on his victim's ability to FEEL fear, rather than inspire it? Why would the avatar of fear choose a host that is especially weak to the emotion upon which its corps feeds?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Good point. That doesn't really make much sense.

 

[WompuM]

Where you been Eagleaguer?

And you're right. That doesn't make too much sense. But the whole avatar idea doesn't make much sense either.

 

[Hush]

Wow Eagleaguer, you should tell Johns that. Everything he wrote kinda falls flat now.

 

[Kitsune]

Yup. Giant green space whale.

Though a giant green billionaire going to drop millions at a casino would have been interesting as well.

Didn't he take lightning lads arm off?

 

[Anubis]

I don't know. My bronze age legion knowledge is pretty weak.

 

[The Eagle Host]

Where you been Eagleaguer?

Life has been busy, but I intend to be fully back now. When something as awesome as Escape comes out, I need some place to gush about it.

 

[WompuM]

Hmm.... I don't recall that having a thread.

 

[The Eagle Host]

I know. It's a shame.

 

[Anubis]

What the hell is Escape?

 

[The Eagle Host]

Final Crisis Aftermath: Escape. Don't be so exasperated.

 

[WompuM]

You know, I couldn't tell if you were being sarcastic or not, so I looked at IGN's reviews, and Escape was getting 5.5's or so, but surprisingly, they were giving Dance scores in the high 8's. But I learned years ago to skip Aftermath books, so I'll stick with that policy.

 

[Anubis]

Okay, so what's it about?

 

[The Eagle Host]

Dance isn't great, unfortunately. Super Young Team plus Casey should have ruled, but it didn't.

Escape is like the movie Cube plus secret agents.

 

[Tron Bonne]

What's the movie Cube about? Escaping?

 

[The Eagle Host]

The Cube is like the comic book Escape minus secret agents.

 

[Tron Bonne]

Right, but what's it about, though? Like, the story/plot?

 

[The Eagle Host]

Essentially, Tom Tresser wakes up and a bunch of trippy s*** happens, and he realizes he and a bunch of guys from his DEA/Checkmate are stuck inside some sort of multidimensional prison that Waller helped engineer.