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I'm curious to know what you think of Geoff Johns.
Speaking for myself I preferred his exemplary work on Justice Society.
I can't help but feel that he over-explained how Green Lantern rings work
and the so-called "emotion spectrum" just seems kinda dumb to me if
you think about it. There are now fear lanterns and anger lanterns. I'm
wonder where the emo lanterns are that have rings powered entirely by
clinical depression. Where's the apathy lanterns worn by people who just
don't-give-a-fuck and the less of a fuck they give the more powerful the
ring is? And since when is "willpower" an emotion? *sigh*
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Actually, I think the Lantern corps are an excellent metaphor for ideological conflict and the futility of war in the post-nuclear age.
Good stories are driven by powerful emotions, and not only are the various corps visually distinctive, their motives and ideologies are clearly influenced by their respective emotions.
Willpower IS an emotion, though you might feel more comfortable calling it warrior’s spirit. Think of Goku, Erin Jaeger, and to a lesser extent, Kirito. That’s willpower.
As for why there’s no depression Lantern, I think the Power Ring’s own internal logic answers that question. To weaponize an emotion you have to feel it. How do you weaponize depression by feeling it yourself? “I want to charge my ring, but I just can’t get out of bed today!” That corps is never getting off the ground. All of the known Lantern corps are powered by active emotions.
Even the black lanterns represent the mutually assured destruction of nuclear war, as they can only be beaten when warring ideologies cooperate.
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The strength of the JSA is the way they establish the DCU superhero community as an extended family using the very first superhero team as a foundation. It’s a celebration of the entire genre, in that way. This got lost in the New52, but Doomsday Clock and Rebirth have been bringing it back.
Green Lantern is frequently called DC’s Star Wars, and while it may not have the nuance and gritty charm of Star Wars, it is a sweeping space opera that deals with big emotions and big ideas. Under the right creative team it’s dynamite stuff, and Geoff Johns did everything he could to expand that mythology and give future writers a richer palette to work with.
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Fair points. I remember reading Green Lantern as a kid in the 70's
and more than once fantasizing about how cool it would be to have
a power ring...to in essence become The Silver Surfer whenever
you felt like it. When Hal attacked the Guardians and became the
villain Parallax I thought it was a wonderful tragic outcome for an
established character. The retcon sucked.
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It’s hard for me to comment, I grew up on Kyle Rayner, he was my Green Lantern for years. He’s a great character and very relatable, but it always felt like he was performing on a stage too small for his role. I was very happy to see the corps return. The problem with being an older fan, I think, is we forget how hard it is for new readers to jump in. Back in the 90’s I considered all Marvel comics to be completely impenetrable, because I had no way of catching up on over thirty years of ongoing stories back then.
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I felt the same way about DC in the early 80's until Marv Wolfman
wrote CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS (1985), the first revamp of the
DC universe which was genuinely exciting. Can you imagine in '86
buying Superman No 1, Wonder Woman No 1 and Batman: Year One
by Frank Miller? All of that and WATCHMEN.
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I have this memorized
What about Alan Scott's oath? I think it's something like 'I'll shine my light over the darkness, for the dark things cannot stand the light of the Green Lantern' or something like that.
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I think it is something like that. I read it once while browsing through a Superman/GL one-shot, and it went down a lot like that, but I like Hal's oath better. And I also know it by heart, it's just so... catchy!
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everyone must respect the green lantern chant.
is it a a chant? or is it called something else?
still, RESPECT the CORPS
cool man, totally cool
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Oath. It's an oath. Chant sounds too... chatty.
Respect!
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Sadly, your link doesn't work.
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WOAH!!!
I wasn't even trying to link anything! that was purely accidental!
no, I was trying to pull a comic book guy in "simpsons"
when he does "best_EVER!"
this time making it "Best Oath EVER!!"
that's still just too funny that I accidentally made that link!
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Ah, I gotcha. Yeah, that guy was funny.
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