The Official Green Lantern Thread

[Assassin]

he's a high priced ****e

 

[SouLeSS]

^Damn, either you buy few comics or you get paid very well...

40-60buck an hour doing AutoCAD / 3D pipework ********. So cash. Only downside is I'm buried in work most of the time so I sit at my computer for 15+ hours a day, mostly working. But hey, I figure grind out cash for 3 or 4 years while I'm taking a few classes and I'll have an easy hundred grand in the bank by the time I get my masters.

After paying myself through school.

Gotta love it.

 

[Hush]

AutoCAD is good work man, its high in demand too.

 

[SouLeSS]

Indeed it is.

 

[Ion Kenshin]

Red Lantern 101

 

[Franklin Richards]

Isn't there an Orange Lantern that looks like Bleez?


Or were those just projections of Larfleeze?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

There's at least one other Orange Lantern besides Larfleeze. The Orange Lantern story in Tales of the Corps focuses on someone named Blume.

 

[Franklin Richards]

That guy eating people was Blume? And not the guy who killed the Controllers?


I thought we had only seen the one guy.



:gl: :gl: :gl:

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I don't know who killed the Controllers because I don't read Green Lantern. I just know that solicitations say Blume is the Orange Lantern in Tales of the Corps.

 

[Franklin Richards]

Good God, man!


Why aren't you reading Green Lantern? You've already bought into the War of Light. You might as well get the whole story.


:gl: :gl: :gl:

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I'm still not interested in Hal. Simple as that. And I'm clearly getting enough of the story, since I know the basics of all the corps except the Indigos, who haven't been introduced yet, so I'm good to go for Blackest Night. I may pick up the GL issue where the Martian Manhunter comes back for Blackest Night, but I doubt I'll ever read it regularly. GLC's enough for me.

 

[Franklin Richards]

Well you're missing some great art and you know the storylines will meet up eventually in Blackest Night. Might miss some nuances that you'd regret later.

Anywho. Just seems like you're being more stubborn than practical. Which I can understand. But if I'd stopped reading Kyle issues instead of stopping buying Kyle issues, I woulda been dissapointed. Hell I even picked up the trade again towards the end of his reign. Even before we knew Hal was coming back.


I'm just saying maybe it's time to let go of your hate.





:gl: :gl: :gl:

 

[TheCorpulent1]

It's not hate, really, just a lack of interest. Nothing Hal's ever done has interested me in the slightest. I tried to read the Hard-Travelin' Heroes trades, which is supposed to be some of his best material, and the first one was decent but I never even made it all the way through the second. I've read plenty of Hal comics from the past and I appreciated Kyle's respect for him when Kyle had to deal with Parallax and when he met Hal in Emerald Knights (I think that was the title), but Hal on his own doesn't really do anything for me. I have the same feeling about Daredevil.

 

[BlackLantern]

if Corp hates anyone in the GL mythos it's Buttsecks Yat....the new Ion....considering what he dealt with on Daxam, he shouldn't be as much of a Dbag as he is

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I'm actually warming to Sodam a bit after the last GLC issue. It was nice to see him put his duties as a GL above his personal distaste for his own people and start inspiring them to fight back.

 

[BlackLantern]

his people ****ed him over royal....making him think the alien he befriended was a savage murderer...I don't blame him for hating Daxam as much as he does

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I don't either, I just didn't care to see him keep whining about it. I also didn't like seeing the Guardians treat this random nobody as some kind of savior just because Alan Moore mentioned him in a story like 20 years ago.

 

[Keyser Soze]

I gotta say that Peter Tomasi is doing some really good stuff with Sodam Yat. He's just about won me over.

 

[Franklin Richards]

Sodam Yat had me at "Daxamite with a Power Ring".


:gl: :gl: :gl:

 

[batnkevlar]

He kills too easily...

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I think that's just an expression of his anger at and former impotence under his oppressive people. He couldn't save his alien friend, so now he's determined to wipe out those who would murder others. He's become what he hates, effectively, by adopting an extremely severe worldview after his parents' severe worldview robbed him of his dreams.

At the very least, Tomasi seems to be heading toward addressing it. Arisia noted it in the last issue, and I doubt Tomasi's just gonna drop it like it doesn't matter after that.

 

[Blue Lantern]

I also didn't like seeing the Guardians treat this random nobody as some kind of savior just because Alan Moore mentioned him in a story like 20 years ago.

That is precisely why I've enjoyed the Green Lantern stories since the Sinestro Corps War. So often a writer such as Alan Moore will depict a vision of the future or a prophecy and nothing will be done with it. The introduction of Sodam Yat represents writers not only considering what came before but actually using it to strengthen stories now. History is what makes comics so interesting as a medium.

I just wish they'd had him around a little longer before he ascended to his "The One"-ly status.

 

[batnkevlar]

Why did his heat vision look weird?

 

[SouLeSS]

Indeed, he was only around for a few issues then was BOOM ION TIME BABY, then OH **** I NEED TO USE ALL MY ION POWERS TO SURVIVE BECAUSE I GOT STABBED WITH LEAD.

Now he's back to full baddassery though.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

That is precisely why I've enjoyed the Green Lantern stories since the Sinestro Corps War. So often a writer such as Alan Moore will depict a vision of the future or a prophecy and nothing will be done with it. The introduction of Sodam Yat represents writers not only considering what came before but actually using it to strengthen stories now. History is what makes comics so interesting as a medium.

I just wish they'd had him around a little longer before he ascended to his "The One"-ly status.

That was my problem with it. I don't mind going back to Moore's Empire of Tears prophecies, but at least give them a little more build-up. Like Souless just said, Sodam just showed up and 2 minutes later he gets treated like a living god or something.