The Official Green Lantern Thread

[SouLeSS]

"I doubt you're the first to make a corps of constructs"
What a dick.

I don't think the arts that bad. It's supposed to be all dirty and shakey cause of the story arc, but other than that I don't see anything wrong with it.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

The anatomy seems funky to me. Like, fan art funky. As if Tan hasn't spent enough time studying anatomy and proportions and how bodies and limbs bend.

 

[SouLeSS]

Eh probably, I don't stare at the art long enough to find all the little nitpicking details that are wrong with it, I just move on to the next panel/page

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I notice when people aren't shaped right. Maybe 'cause I draw and I had to work for a long, long time before I finally figured out how to make human bodies look convincing.

 

[Keyser Soze]

The main story of Green Lantern #42was entertaining enough, but proved to be a very quick read. By far the highlight for me, though, was the epliogue at the end. That whole sequence was dripping with a foreboding atmosphere, building up a tangible sense of dread. If The Blackest Night can maintain and build on this mood, I think we'll in for something really special.

I've liked Rage of the Red Lanterns and Agent Orange fine, but at times it has felt a bit like they're coasting. Still, Geoff Johns' Green Lantern in third gear is still better than most comics. I have a feeling that we'll see things hit full throttle again from #43 onwards, into Blackest Night.

 

[CLARKY]

The main story of Green Lantern #42was entertaining enough, but proved to be a very quick read. By far the highlight for me, though, was the epliogue at the end. That whole sequence was dripping with a foreboding atmosphere, building up a tangible sense of dread. If The Blackest Night can maintain and build on this mood, I think we'll in for something really special.

I've liked Rage of the Red Lanterns and Agent Orange fine, but at times it has felt a bit like they're coasting. Still, Geoff Johns' Green Lantern in third gear is still better than most comics. I have a feeling that we'll see things hit full throttle again from #43 onwards, into Blackest Night.

I agree with you that was fast read, and I have this impression with Rage of the Red Lantern too. I have the impression that G.Johns just write stories without taking the time to explore what he is writing. The epilogue was really neat.
Agent Orange was better than Rage otRL IMO but I would have expected more from this story. Larfleeze is cool and has been better developped than Atrocitus IMO. Too bad because I enjoy Atrocitus a lot.

 

[yenaled]

So #42 is just filler then? The kind of **** they normally put into annuals?

 

[Keyser Soze]

I wouldn't say it was filler. If anything, it's trouble lay in the opposite extreme. IE, "We've got to cram in all these disparate plot threads we need to have covered before Blackest Night, and there's only 22 pages to do it AAAAAAAAAAH!"

 

[TheCorpulent1]

GLC's cover this week is awesome. That is all.

 

[WompuM]

GLC insides this week were almost awesome. That is not all. The Alpha Lanterns continue to serve as perfect characters you love to hate. My only gripe with the issue is Kyle getting all emo about how Oa's shell broke is floating slowly away. Only, if only, he had some magical ring that let him go out there and make a giant hand and bottle of crazy glue and put it back together. And the more the guardians act like tools, the less I expect them to survive BN. It just seems odd how very much they are setting up th Blue Lanterns as protagonists and not the GL's. We'll see. Perhaps when this is over, Kyle will be the equivalent of a Blue Ion. Ganthet always did have a man-crush on Kyle and his 90's haircut.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Well, he picked Kyle at random and Kyle turned out to be one of the greatest GLs ever. That's enough to endear a guy to anyone.

 

[WompuM]

You believe he picked Kyle at random? I always felt there's more to it than that. Those rings won't work for just anyone. But then again, didn't he say something along the lines of "You'll have to do."?

 

[Wesley Dodds]

Yep. And he went to Gardner first but he turned him down. Rayner was the next guy he saw. Something like that...

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Whatever; point is, it worked out better than anyone could've expected. I'd like a guy if I had to settle on him (seemingly) at random and he turned out to blow past my wildest expectations.

 

[Gilpesh]

GLC's cover this week is awesome. That is all.

It is ****ing EPIC. At least I didn't nerd out and yell awesome in the store... that would have been horrible.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I had to stop myself from cackling with glee.

Anyway, about Kyle's emo-ness: I was okay with it. He wasn't even emo, really, he was just noting the symbolism of the shell's destruction. Logically, Guy is right--anything made can be unmade--but to the universe, it looks like the Corps can't even protect itself, let alone the rest of the universe.

 

[BrianWilly]

Green Lantern Corps #38
I think Soranik's boobs are getting bigger. Is it just me? Kyle does fast work! How fast is a Korugaran pregnancy? I'm only kidding. I hope I'm only kidding. Hey, did a character seriously just find out that their birth parent was a villain and actually not give a **** about it and inexplicably turn evil? Holy crud! Are you sure you cleared that with Geoff Johns, Tomasi? I don't think that kinda stuff happens in His universe.

I think it's kind of lolarious that the whole Daxam subplot, which seemed like such a big deal and still left a lot to be resolved, basically was resolved in this issue within the span of a single two-page spread. I guess it covered everything it felt like covering, with more to cover later. Mongul still leads the Sinestro Corps, Ion is taken out of the equation...for now. I'd thought that the Daxamites would lose their new powers once this was all over, but...maybe not? I guess with Krypton back, one more planet full of Supermen in the universe isn't as big a status quo bulldozer is it may have been before.

It is kind of interesting, once you think about it, that Arisia and Soranik -- two of the only Lanterns other than Guy and Kyle who oppose the lethal force law -- were conveniently absent from Oa at this time. Very well-planned. In any case, the standoff between Guyle and the Alpha Lanterns was ****ing awesome and one of the only times in recent memory I not wait to turn the page to see what happens next. And all they were mostly doing was talking. I was a little sad at Alex Nero getting shot through the noggin, 'cause of what a ****ing awesome villain he was. Kyle's rogues keep dying, even though they still got so much potential! But then, I thought of Alex Nero as a Black Lantern, and was no longer sad.

"Emerald Eclipse" -- one of the best arcs on this already-incredible book, with dozens of ongoing plot intrigues -- ends, and Blackest Night begins. Maybe it's just because this week was so good in terms of output, but I'm starting to get a familiar, positive feeling about DC again. Interesting plots are dispersed all around, books and stories seem to be lining up, and it's all cohesively leading up to something big and epic. Oh, there's still a bunch of kinks they should work out and I don't want to jinx it all, but it almost feels like the days of Infinite Crisis.

(9.4 out of 10)
(9 out of 10 for the entire arc)

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Heh, "Guyle." That standoff was insanely awesome, though. I was pissed about Nero getting killed because he was basically Kyle's Sinestro, but I hadn't thought of the Black Lantern thing. That's a pretty good point.

 

[sethcohen]

you swear scar wasnt intentionally having them executed so that they could be utilized later as black lanterns...

 

[TheCorpulent1]

She probably was. But that doesn't excuse the other Guardians' being big enough *****es to go along with it.

 

[sethcohen]

its become more than apparent now that theyre sheep... the only ones with balls enough to stand up to scar and the others were ganthet and sayd and they left.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I wouldn't say they're sheep. Just dumb.

 

[sethcohen]

sheep usually are

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, but they're not being led by Scar so much as they're just doing what they think is right because of their stupid idea that emotions are evil. Good intentions and stupid people are usually a terrible mix.

 

[sethcohen]

it seems to me that since scar's encounter with the antimonitor, shes been less democratic and more vocal in nudging the guardians in the direction she needs them to go