The Official Green Lantern Thread

[BrianWilly]

Again, almost all of that is -- particularly the JSA bit -- is due to portrayal and has nothing to do with his powers.

Just as a point of interest, exactly how many people were all that attached to Alan when he was operating with no drawbacks at all, thirty years-old, and calling himself Sentinel? It was sort of just Alan-for-the-90s. I had the impression that more people considered that silly than any manner of wood weakness could conjure, but I could be wrong.

 

[LouFerignoDemon]

Given that the three people talking about it, and two of them liked it, and we decided to use that as a sample: The majority liked it. :P

 

[TheCorpulent1]

His costume was silly but I liked him. I do like him more as the cocky old bastard he (re-)became in the JSA series. I agree, it's the portrayal of him that sucks, although I did always like seeing him do cool stuff with his powers as well. Now we get a crappy portrayal and downgraded powers. Lose/lose.

 

[LouFerignoDemon]

Big time lose. =/

He's been pretty much relegated to background art.

 

[CLARKY]

I loved the last issue, I thought it was really neat. But at the same time, there are a lot of things I disliked, especially the fact that Sinestro is in the center of the book. I do not want to play the complaining-about-everything fanboy, there is nothing new in this, but this time it disturbed me.
I felt a improvement in the writing, especially at the beginning, I thought it was more natural in general, and less people saying things because they have to, like it was the case, IMO, in the discussion between Sinestro and Star Sapphire, and in general in the G.Johns books.
But I feel the hero of the book was Sinestro. I was thinking : why not make sinestro the "white Lantern" he is better/more clever/ and almost as experienced than Hal with the different colors of the spectrum.
I felt the victory of Sinestro was really quick and a bit easy too. " I control the rings" duh ..... fine, he won. Too bad, I would have enjoyed more of Mongul with the rings.
Aaaaaand, I do not buy the Arin Sur thing.
The book was good and well written I think and I enjoyed it, but I dislike most of the ideas. I think I do not like the direction where the characters are going.
The art was better than the last time, I think he nailed Mongul quite well.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

So how does everybody see Atrocitus(who's now badass and heartless) vs Larfleeze(who's now running for his life) goin down?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I bet they fight for a bit but mostly just run around dodging Black Lanterns.

 

[WompuM]

Then there's that awkward moment in the fight where they are pinned down against each other and look into each other's eyes and start making out. Then they become Star Sapphires.

 

[BlackLantern]

Womp is currently writing an Atrocitus and Larfleeze fanfic in which they fight evil and do it alot

 

[WompuM]

It's called Love Glutons.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

I bet they fight for a bit but mostly just run around dodging Black Lanterns.

I'm curious as to how Larfleeze is going to fight at all. He lost all his contructs to the BLs

 

[WompuM]

I think re just reabsorbed them. I don't think he can permanently lose his constructs.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

His lantern absorbs their souls, right? The BLs just got their bodies.

 

[WompuM]

I don't know about their souls. I thought it was sort of a T-1000 thing, that it can copy anything it (touches) kills.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I thought he was greedy and wanted to keep those dudes' essences or whatever for himself. But I didn't actually read the Larfleeze arc, so I'm probably wrong.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Larfleeze was a lot cooler and more confident during his arc. His true colors are showing, I guess

 

[TheCorpulent1]

That's what happens when a bully meets someone tougher.

 

[SouLeSS]

Larfleeze didn't lose ****. All the constructs are still fighting on Odym. He's just retreating because cowards live to fight another day.

 

[WompuM]

All those constructs disappeared.

 

[SouLeSS]

Well it certainly isn't because the Black Lanterns are there. I mean, not in the "they're Black Lanterns so they can't be his constructs!" way, but in the "Larfleeze has to concentrate on not dying" way.

But, I have a feeling that he'sg oing to bite the bullet before the end of Blackest Night. Which kinda sucks.

 

[yenaled]

Going back a bit sorry.

Alan has always been a much better character for what he stands for and says than what powers he has on a top trumps card.

The way he was used in The Golden Age, early JSA, Starman and Kyle's Green Lantern. Then in Superman and Batman showing that he inspired young Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent is great. I love how it's canon that Bruce took inspiration from Alan to make himself a hero after his parents died. That character relationship is always much more important to me as a reader.

That's what I'm missing in JSA and actually the DCU in general.

 

[BlackLantern]

^^^ sounds like dirty hippie talk to me...

j/k

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Well it certainly isn't because the Black Lanterns are there. I mean, not in the "they're Black Lanterns so they can't be his constructs!" way, but in the "Larfleeze has to concentrate on not dying" way.

But, I have a feeling that he'sg oing to bite the bullet before the end of Blackest Night. Which kinda sucks.

I don't want him to die, but if he's going to be the sneaky weasel coward character they're turning him into, then he might as well. I miss when he fought Guardians with ease and looked confident doing it. He was screaming for help last issue

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Larfleeze seems like he'd work best as a comedy character anyway. His greed is pretty cartoonish as it is.

 

[WompuM]

Well, he is facing an unusual enemy. He pretty much was powerless against them alone.