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Comic book blogs from @GL875 as diverse as the Green Lantern Corps themselves.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03266957148333194240noreply@blogger.comBlogger147125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186612204383672806.post-71755211792668255862015-08-17T04:32:00.000-07:002015-08-17T04:32:57.196-07:00Construct of the Week #35<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03266957148333194240noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186612204383672806.post-46229579342172772892015-08-03T09:36:00.000-07:002015-08-03T12:50:39.621-07:00Good Times in the Silver-Age - 75 YEARS OF GREEN LANTERN<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">July is over and the </span><a href="http://www.blogofoa.com/2015/05/a-green-lantern-75th-anniversary.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Green Lantern 75th anniversary celebrations</span></a><span style="color: lime;"> with your favourite GL blogs and podcasts have officially come to a close.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: lime;">Bur DC Comics aren't celebrating the event until September with their </span><a href="http://uk.ign.com/articles/2015/06/12/25-green-lantern-covers-light-up-dcs-75th-anniversary-celebration" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">variant covers</span></a><span style="color: lime;"> and their </span><a href="http://www.dccomics.com/graphic-novels/green-lantern-a-celebration-of-75-years" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;"><em>75 Years</em> hardcover collection</span></a><span style="color: lime;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">And that's all the excuse I need to throw one more party favour at you before we wrap up warm for the long walk home! </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">And speaking of party spirit, read what you will into this one...</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Hal Jordan taking on the bad guys in his first ever outing as Green Lantern in <em>Showcase #22</em>, published 1959.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">This new clean cut action-adventure hero was brought courtesy of the creative team of writer John Broome and artist Gil Kane.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Then the sixties happened. That's right. Those sixties...</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Now, I'm not saying that Broome or Kane ever indulged in the many psychedelic delights that were reputed to be widely popular in 1960s America. I have no way of knowing that. All I'm saying is the sixties happened. And in 1970 Broome and Kane were still writing and drawing Green Lantern comics.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">All jokes aside, it is fair to say that Green Lantern has always moved with the times. Nodell and Finger gave their audience a hero who shone his light over evil during a very dark period in history. Next, when the world wanted a champion for the space-age generation, Broome and Kane's GL was there to give it to them. When they called for gritty liberalism Hal Jordan popped up with his old friend Green Arrow to take on the Man under the pen of O'Neil and Adams. And years later still, when the world craved zombie after zombie after zombie, Geoff Johns filled the whole universe with the living dead in the epic crossover event, <em>Blackest Night</em>.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03266957148333194240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186612204383672806.post-39310787797612201342015-07-17T19:30:00.000-07:002015-07-19T00:59:09.428-07:00Celebrating Green Lantern's 75th Birthday With Cake<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As the Green Lantern <a href="http://www.blogofoa.com/2015/05/a-green-lantern-75th-anniversary.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">75th anniversary celebrations</span></a> continue I felt it was high time to pay our respects to the rank
and file of the Green Lantern Corps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>These are the men and woman (and sentient beings of all descriptions)
who you spot in the background of panels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They put their lives on the line in the defence of universal peace day
after day and year after year without aplomb or accolade.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was never a more true example of this than
the second Green Lantern of Earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A man
who struggled to find his way in a universe that seemed very different to the
world he grew up in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A man who did his
duty and served his Corps faithfully at all times.</span></span></div>
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</span>You’re thinking, “That doesn’t sound much like the Guy Gardner I
know!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And you’d be right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The hero I’m writing about, the second Green
Lantern of Earth, was a man called Charlie Vicker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Charlie first appeared in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Green Lantern, vol. 2 #55 (1967)</i> and
faced down evil for almost 30 years until his death at the hands of Darksied’s
son in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Green Lantern, vol. 3 #75 (1996)</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I were to liken him to a character in Star
Trek, Charlie would be a ‘red shirt’ who served under Kirk in the 60’s TV series
and in all of the 80s movies, and then continued to man the Enterprise
throughout Captain Picard’s tenure in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Charlie’s story is touched with tragedy throughout.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we first came across him he was an actor
who had landed a role playing Green Lantern in a TV programme.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was a bit of a playboy who preferred the party
life to old fashioned hard work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Although he looked every inch the hero physically, he was the last
person you’d expect to step up and be counted in a crunch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, on an occasion that he couldn’t even
be bothered to turn up to record the GL TV show, he sent his brother to take
his place for the day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No-one could ever
have guessed that would be the fateful day when enemies of the Green Lantern
Corps would mistake Charlie’s brother for the true Green Lantern, Hal Jordan,
and strike him down with a deadly energy beam fired from a spaceship floating hundreds
of miles above the Earth.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He joined Hal on a mission to avenge
his brother and when the real Green Lantern gave him a copy of his own power
ring to protect him in the fight, it didn’t take Charlie long to realise he had
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not that it was an easy ride being a member of the GLC.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fans have often wondered why there can be 3,
4 or even 5 Green Lanterns all born on Earth and simultaneously serving the
Corps, and seemingly assigned to protect their local sector 2814.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No such luck for our Charlie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In their infinite wisdom (in the days when
there was only one Green Lantern assigned to each space sector) the Guardians
of the Universe decided to assign Charlie to sector 3319.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For much of the time he served there he never
came into contact with a single humanoid, much less an actual human being.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He found life tough and in his numerous dark
moments he wanted to jack it all in and hand back his power ring. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he never did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The duty came first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eventually Vicker learnt to look beyond the
surface and realised that some of the giant bugs and odd looking furballs he
worked so hard to protect shared the same moral values he did, even if they
didn’t have recognisable facial features to show it.</span></span></div>
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touchstones in the Corps’ modern history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When the Central Power Battery on Oa was destroyed after the trial of
Sinestro, Charlie lost his powers along with the rest of Corps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unlike the majority of his brethren, however,
he never even knew what had occurred.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
had been entrenched in a battle protecting the inhabitants of 3319 and was unable
to heed a summons to Oa for the trial. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To
all intents and purposes he was abandoned in space without explanation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even then, Charlie Vicker rose above his
predicament and drew on his previous skills as an actor to inspire the local
population to victory against their oppressors with tales from the works of Shakespere
and other noble plays.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Much of Charlie’s life happened off panel, of
course.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.comicvine.com/charlie-vicker/4005-50919/" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Comic Vine</span></a> puts him as appearing
in eleven original comics (and several reprinted collections) throughout his
entire tenure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of those eleven issues he
is the featured character in only five.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Truth be told, I have read the issues and I’m not even certain I can
find him in them all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s the superhero
equivalent of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Where’s</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Wally</i>? (or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Where’s Waldo</i> to my transatlantic pals!).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But continuity tells you Charlie Vicker was right
there, representing all the Green clad warriors whose time served didn’t
involve tossing in their ring every five minutes or socking a Guardian in the
jaw before breakfast.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Jordan who internalised their power source and took the supervillain name of Parallax,
Charlie refused to throw in the towel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Together
with a handful of former Lanterns led by John Stewart, he joined the Darkstars,
a sort of cousin of the GL Corps whose abilities came from an advanced exoskeleton
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was
to prove to be his final undoing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Darkstars
themselves suffered one setback after another until their numbers were whittled
down to just eighteen recruits. They were to unable to mount a credible defence
when they were attacked by Darksied’s son, Grayven, and his murderous
horde.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ironically even the death of
Charlie Vicker, violently and bloody though it was, merely played as background
art to the dialogue captions of two more prominent characters from the story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Regardless, he died a hero’s death doing the
job he signed up to do – saving a world that was not his own from certain
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So charge your tankard with sector 3319’s famous Hwagaagaaian
scrumble and join me in a toast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To a
man who came from simpler times. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A man
who turned his back on fame and fortune to do what he knew was right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A man who journeyed far from home, upholding
this self-same mission on planets far away from his native Earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Protecting people that were inconceivably different
in appearance and culture to the friends and family he left behind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A man who found new family in the Corpsmen of
every species who shared his righteous mission. And a man who ultimately gave
his life for that mission.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This man was Charlie
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">In 1940, while much of the
world was headed on a devastating course towards World War, a new hero burst
into life in the pages of All-Americans Comics to “shed light upon dark evil.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And 75 years later the legacy of this
self-same hero continues to do just that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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baring the moniker of Green Lantern but I thought it would be a fitting 75<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All-American Comics #16 has a
cover date of July 1940 but according to that wonderful reference source </span><a href="http://www.dcindexes.com/features/comic.php?comicid=1944" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mike’s Amazing World of Comics</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;"> the issue actually hit newspaper stands on May 21, 1940.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The book was a collection of humour and
adventure romps that included original stories alongside reprints of older strip
comics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The cover art of most previous
issues promised readers a rollicking good adventure but nothing compared to the
thrilling noir of a masked, cloaked Alan Scott leaping perilously across an
exposed girder straight into the muzzle of a loaded tommy gun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The character’s origin tale is a whistle-stop
tour of everything that ever went into a ‘boys’ own adventure’.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Green Lantern</i> opens with an explosive train crash orchestrated
by a crooked businessman seeking revenge after losing out on a new construction
contract.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only survivor of the crash
is his rival who is protected by the supernatural light emanating from a
mysterious green railway lantern. The lantern speaks to the survivor, Alan
Scott, in “an ageless, toneless voice”, recounting the details of its own
magical history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It first came to earth
as a flaming meteor with prophetic abilities and was duly carved into a lantern
shape by Chinese lamp maker with a reputation for sorcery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fearing the lamp was cursed, the lamp maker’s
associates killed him and burned his possessions own to meet their only
dreadful end to the mystic green flame.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The lamp next turns up many years later to grant sanity to a patient in
a mental asylum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The patient remoulds
the lamp into a modern railway lantern which finally passes into the hands of Scott
during that fateful train journey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
lantern imbues him with extraordinary powers and recruits him to fight
evil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All this this in 3 pages of a
comic book!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They don’t write ‘em like
that anymore…</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Despite the many developments and new directions introduced with Green Lantern over the course of the last 75 years it is pleasing to note some of today’s core character traits were established in this very first story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Lantern explains the nature of its gift to Alan, “Power shall be yours if you have faith in yourself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lose that faith and you shall lose the energetic power of the Green Lantern, for will power is the flame of Green Lantern”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Without these words, penned by legendary writer Bill Finger, Geoff Johns might never have created the emotional spectrum and the landscape of the modern day Green Lantern universe might look very different indeed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How could artist Martin Nodell have know, when he devised this character at the age of 25 under the pseudonym Mart Dellon, that it would go on to become his most famous creation. Nodell didn’t want his works in comics to stigmatise his chances of an advertising career.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And while we are discussing credits, much respect should be paid to Sheldon Moldoff for bringing us the gripping noir cover mentioned earlier. </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Under the green flame’s
instruction Alan Scott fashions a ring from its metal that manifests his powers
for 24 hours before being recharged at the green flame’s lantern source.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His first act as a newly appointed superhero
is to swear vengeance on the saboteur responsible for the tragic deaths of his
fellow train passengers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ring
immediately flies him through the air to the villain’s hideaway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It spirits him straight through the wall
where he confronts the crook and his startled henchmen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The flames protective green aura renders Alan
impervious to bullets and a steel blade but he unwittingly discovers the green
energy’s ‘Achilles heel’ when he is struck over the head by a simple wooden
billy club.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This flaw in Green Lantern’s
power set was published a full 3 years before Kryptonite was officially
introduced to the Superman mythos and would be the forerunner to the Silver and
Bronze Age Green Lantern Corps’ weakness to exert the powers over anything
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down for long and Scott immediately bounced back with a flying kick that Bruce
Lee would be proud of and a round of good old fashioned fisticuffs that soundly
took care of his would be attackers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Powered
by his ring, he whisked the criminal’s leader high into the sky and threatened
do drop him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not surprisingly the bad
guy spilled everything and signed a confession before promptly dying of
shock.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poetic justice is served and Alan
feels destiny pulling him towards a life fighting evil wherever he finds
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The saga ends with our protagonist declaring
he will become a dreaded figure sporting a costume so bizarre that he will
never be forgotten.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With that he dons
the famous Dracula cloak and the red and green swashbuckling garb that has been
the original Green Lantern’s signature style ever since.</span></span><br />
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victory with a tasty right hook.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It seems
another world from the cosmic level dramas of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Zero Hour</i> or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Blackest Night</i>,
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But for my money, the saddest moment of them all comes in <i>Green Lantern #224 </i>when a brave little gas bubble sacrificed himself to protect his fellow Corpsmen and to save the universe from certain destruction (for the second time!). In this, the final issue of <i>GL volume 2</i>, the Corps inadvertantly cause the destruction of the central power battery on Oa. Mere minutes before they had taken the impactful decision to execute the renegade Lantern Sinestro for crimes of genocide. What they did not realise is that the Guardians of the Universe had built a failsafe into the battery that prevented wielders of the green light from harming anyone from the Sinestro's home world of Korugar. The reasons were noble in their intention but the disgraced former GL had somehow corrupted the Guardian's programme in the final moments before his death causing the power source to become a ticking time bomb of universal destruction.</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All things considered GL was essentially a one man Justice League. Super strength - check. Travelling at light speed - check. A little too intimate with a certain young trout at the local aquarium - chec... hey, wait a minute! One thing is for sure. If you needed a giant superhero or one who could shrink down to the size of a sub-atomic particle you need look no further than the one size fits all Green Lantern Corps.</span></div>
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<br /><br /> </b><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03266957148333194240noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186612204383672806.post-11424472168324639982015-03-26T00:43:00.000-07:002015-03-26T19:26:20.825-07:00Are You a Guy's Guy?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: yellow;">The year was 1993.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The continuity was somewhere between <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Death of Superman</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Zero Hour</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Guy Gardner had been drummed out of the Green
Lantern Corps and was dealing out his own brand of justice with a yellow ring
he had stolen from the lifeless hand of Sinestro. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>DC Comics were trying every trick in the book
to grab the attention of their readers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They even released a story with two titles!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The arc running through the eponymous <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Guy Gardner #11 - #14 </i>was subtitled ‘Guy
Gardner: Year One’ …and ‘Yesterday’s Sins’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Our hero (anti-hero? deluded fool?) faces his worst nightmare as he
is forced to relive his childhood.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: yellow;">As part of their marketing campa</span></span><span style="color: yellow; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ign for the book DC printed a
short quiz based on Guy Gardner’s own history in the letters columns of related
titles.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: yellow; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The catch was that none of the
answers had been published yet and you had to rea</span><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">d <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">GG: Year One</i> to</span><span style="color: yellow; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> learn the answers.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But that was then and this is now, so I thought it would be
fun to test the knowledge of visitors here at </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://flodospage.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Flodo’s Page</span></a></i><span style="color: yellow; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and dare to ask the question, “Are you a Guy’s Guy?”</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: yellow; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Remember, this was waaayy before the New 52
and all that namby-pampy ‘cop with a heart of gold who had to make the tough
calls in life and sacrifice his own future for that of his fellow man’ Guy
Gardner.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: yellow; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was ‘self-righteous jerk
with a heart of jerk’ Guy Gardner).</span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Guy has a relative we’ve never met before [as of
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">GG #11</i>].<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is his…</span></span><br />
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</span></span></span><span style="color: yellow; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">cousin, Roy Harper.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->None of the above.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Guy ain’t got no relative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was raised by wolves.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->When Guy was a kid he…</span></span><br />
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->fed Alka-Seltzer<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">TM </span></sup>to his pigeons,
and watched them blow up.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->The terrible secret of Guy’s past is that…</span></span><br />
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Rex the Wonder Dog<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">In a city
known as Gotham, on a world some call Earth Two<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">A hero leaps
into the air to get a better view<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">Of a cascading
meteor on a fiery assault.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">He shoots a
beam of energy to bring it to a halt.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">Mysteriously
the shooting star disappeared before his eyes <span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">And left our
hero open mouthed at a marvellous surprise.<span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">The hero was
Green Lantern, wood the Achilles of his ring. <span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">Until that fiery
meteor gave him power over everything.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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he hatched a plan, hesitation he had none<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">As he cleaved
vibratory barriers to the world some call Earth One.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">He vowed to
find his counterpart, the Green Lantern of this place<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">And tell him of
the meteor that fell to Earth from space.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">His friend
deserved to hear the news, he was an amazing fellow<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">But he had a
weakness too you see, it was the colour yellow.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">His ring had
lost control of wood, his journey was for naught.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">An answer was
required, decided Earth Two’s Alan Scott,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">And so his
magic power ring revealed an evil plot.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">An immortal
was the cause of all, Krona was his name.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">He had
schemed to use Alan’s powers to further his own game.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">Krona had
been imprisoned for the evil he had done<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">And could not
escape the meteor unless he travelled to Earth One.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">He knew that
Alan would go at once to try and help his friend<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">If he could
fix his power ring and bring its weakness to an end.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">Krona’s plan
had worked, of course. He was once again the master,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">He set about
to plague the world with disaster after disaster.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">Hal Jordan, Lantern
of Earth One, leapt to action straight away<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">To stop the
winds and floods and quakes as he tried to save the day.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">His Earth Two
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">For our two
heroes were mighty brave, with Will at their command.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">But this not
the end of things, even as the dust began to settle<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">Krona had one
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">He unleashed
stupendous mental strength and took over Alan’s body<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">(Perhaps he
liked the hero’s garb, so colourful and gaudy!).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">I’m sure this
is the fight that fans would like to see,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">Green Lantern
and Green Lantern locked in adversity.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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was much less impressed, he had no wish to duel<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">His friend from
another world; how could Krona be so cruel?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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joined the fray, a duty to fulfil, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">He’d beat the
villain, free his chum and show the power of Will.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">He used his
stolen Lantern powers to scupper Hal’s endeavour.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">All the while
Alan Scott had hid in Jordan’s ring,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">He appeared
now in the nick of time to take care of everything.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">The two Green
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">Convinced
that joined together, they’d see the scoundrel’s scheme undone.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">In the end
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">With Krona
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">In a city
known as Gotham, on a world some call Earth Two<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">A hero leaps
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">Of a burning meteor
on a path of mass destruction.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">But it’s no
match for his Lantern power, an energy ring construction.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03266957148333194240noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186612204383672806.post-20116916599071023302014-12-25T14:48:00.002-08:002014-12-25T15:54:55.310-08:00A Traditional Season's Greeting<span style="color: lime;"><b>Christmas and the holiday season is a very traditional time of year when we remember times past and family spread far and wide.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;"><b>With this in mind I was struck by the appropriateness of the cover for Green Lantern #18 (vol. 1), 1945. You couldn't be any more traditional in the Green Lantern universe than Alan Scott and Doiby Dickens, the original Golden-Age GL and his trusty cab driving sidekick. And while they may not be from Oa, these two are definitely part of the wider Green Lantern family and the inspiration for some of the finest superhero comics ever written.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;"><b>So from myself and all our contributors here at Flodo's Page, have a Merry Christmas, a wonderful holiday and may 2015 bring the Brightest Day to you, your family and all of your loved ones.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;"><b><br /></b></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03266957148333194240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186612204383672806.post-22815406253492319302014-12-19T18:01:00.001-08:002014-12-20T01:50:43.349-08:00Inebriated Ramblings From Sector 875 (Unedited)<br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">First up, don’t give intoxicating liquids to a gaseous life
form… it screws our pharmacology right up!</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So here it is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>News
flash.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While your world continues to
turn, any Green Lantern obsessive will tell you the biggest change in comics
since DC’s Flashpoint has just occurred.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><a href="http://www.dccomics.com/blog/2014/12/15/the-new-52-group-solicits-part-1-march-2015"><span style="color: orange;">March 2015 solicitations</span></a> are out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I don’t normally read the solicits but Twitter hooked me up and this is
one that I couldn’t ignore….</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I buy most of my books in digital these days but print still
holds a special, respectful place in my life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Amongst the few titles that I still collect from my LCS are of course
the Lantern books.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The GLU.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of which there are currently 5.</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">But come March <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Green
Lantern Corps, Red Lanterns</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Green
Lantern: New Guardian</i>s are all being hailed as final issues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gutted to say the least!</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I love <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Green Lantern</i>
and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sinestro</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Robert Venditti and Cullen Bunn are both
veritable geniuses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I ain’t about to
enjoy my favourite comic book franchise being compressed by 60%.</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In the last year Justin Jordan and Charles Soule have both been
legends on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">GL:NG</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">RLs</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>9 issues out of 10 they have taken the outer extremities of the Lantern
universe to new heights and uncharted territories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Told stories that have never been told before
without spitting on the mythos that spawned them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: lime;">But for me the biggest loss is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Green Lantern Corps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Van
Jensen has been irrepressible on this book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He is obviously very close to Venditti, the writer on the main <i>Green
Lantern</i> title, and the books tie in heavily together and are best read as a
cohesive unit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But they are not the same
book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Van Jensen has done his
research.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He knows his main character,
John Stewart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He knows his own created
characters, the new Green Lantern recruits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And he knows the history of the GLC and pulls out character after
character that we haven’t seen or heard of in a very long time. He writes action, politic, romance and intrigue with equal clarity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">At the heart of his writing, whether consciously or not, he
swears Corps up and down.</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In short folks, DC Comics are going to have to think of
something very clever to do to replace this book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will not accept that this is just going to
be a gap in my life.</span></div>
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</span>Another apocalyptical event from publishers that will “change comics forever”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I am not being cynical when add the inverted
commas because, to be fair, it might.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I have been touting on the interwebs that they might replace
the book with something from the past, like an original Golden-Age Alan Scott
book. They might also bring out the long anticipated anthology book that deals
with stories from all of the coloured Corps in the style of the much loved
Green Lantern Corps Quarterly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In my
heart of hearts I think it is all a publicity stunt and at the very least <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Green Lantern Corps</i> will return in some
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>What will happen when the most powerful weapon in the universe goes up against the strongest one there is?! I'm not too sure myself but I do know it won't pretty and I know we are in for one heck of a show! As the frog said, "It ain't easy being green". Find out how it all goes down when the Green Goliath meets the Green Gladiator in the Super-Team Family crossover to end all crossovers... Green Lantern vs. The Hulk!!!</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unfortunately this little beauty has never seen the printed page and probably never will because the striking cover above is the brainchild of the very talented artist and comic fan, Ross Pearsall. Ross publishes a blog called <em>Super-Team Family ...The Lost Issues</em> where he takes that well-known collision of Photoshop and geek culture to a whole new level. To put it bluntly, the man has "mad skills".</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You're damn right I want to see Hal Jordan go up against The Hulk! And I've never wanted anything more than I want to know what happened when Guy 'my way or the highway' Gardner met Cliff 'I make this rocket look good' Secord. The cosmic battle between the Kree's Captain Mar-vell and the Green Lantern Corps is a story that could make a whole event in itself.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've picked out some of my favourite Green Lantern covers from the <em>Super-Team Family</em> collection for this feature but you really owe it to yourself to take a look at the blog in it's entirety. Ross has been creating these mash-up covers since 2011 and has been publishing a new image every single day for the last two years! There are literally thousands of covers to peruse and there is something to catch the eye of fans of all types. Comic books, sci-fi and fantasy, cartoons, even TV and box-office films all get the magic <em>Lost Issues</em> treatment.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While the <em>Super-Team Family</em> covers are often hilarious (anyone up for Ch'p and Squirrel Girl?) and undoubtedly cool beyond measure (you know you want to see Silver Surfer vs. Darth Vader!), they are also something of an education in the history of comic book art. Wherever possible Ross has listed the names of the artists he has taken images from or worked in the style of. The blog's labelling function groups posts both by character and also, less obviously, by artist. So if your thing is Frank Miller and you always wanted to know what Robin looks like on a Daredevil cover your dreams are only a click away. Personally, I can thoroughly recommend an examination of the many wonderful homages to Neal Adams if you have 20 minutes or so to spare! </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mark Twain famously said, “There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations."</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Impossible or not, I think I am on fairly safe ground to conjecture that the majority of ideas are routinely revisited in the world of comics. Whether it is the retelling of an origin story, the resurrection of a formerly dead character, or the passing of said character's legacy on to the next generation, we all love to see elements from our favourite stories invoked in new material. As I understand it both DC Comics and Marvel intend to take this approach to the extreme in 2015, overtly referencing a whole of host previously published storyarcs as the basis of each of their latest company-wide events.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the other end of the scale to this are the little tricks and eye-catching gimmicks that innocently resurface every so often as comic book writers attempt to tap into the timeless essence of their chosen muse. I stumbled across one such oddity not long ago while I was researching the earliest appearances of the Justice League of America.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Have a look at the delightful panel below from <em>Justice League of America #3, vol.1 (1961)</em> showing Hal Jordan think quickly to save the city from certain disaster. He creates giant humanoid constructs with his power ring to prevent damaged sky-scrapers from falling and crushing the population below.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's the same concept in both panels! Yes, the 2011 version has been considerably fleshed out and updated to entertain a more demanding 21st century audience (</span><span style="color: lime; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3 years on and I am still struck by the beauty and energy of the artwork)</span><span style="color: lime; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> but when you boil right down to it, it is the same idea appearing in both comic books. </span><br />
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world changing event in my life outside of my wedding day and the births of my
children. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For it was on this day that DC
Comics released <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Green Lantern: Rebirth #1</i>,
the first issue in a six issue story recounting Hal Jordan’s return to the role
of Green Lantern. My life and the long-suffering patience of my family can be
divided into two parts – ‘Before <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rebirth</i>’
and ‘After <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rebirth</i>’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rebirth</i>
I was a young twenty something with a wide range of hobbies and interests, one
of which happened to be reading comics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In fact, I enjoying reading standard text novels far more and I got a
lot of my superhero fix from reading novelizations of comic book stories such
as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Death of Superman</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If anyone asked, my favourite heroes where
Batman and Punisher “because those guys were dark and they didn’t need
superpowers to get the job done”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then
Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver came along and nonchalantly tossed a phenomenon
right there in my lap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From that moment
forwards I have been an obsessive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Obsessed with comic books in general, and more importantly, obsessed
with all things Green Lantern.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Check out
some of the other posts on this blog if you don’t believe me!<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">The funny thing is, Hal Jordan isn’t even my favourite
Green Lantern.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: lime;">He isn’t even my
favourite Green Lantern from Earth (that honour goes to John Stewart), or
indeed my second favourite (Kyle Rayner).</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="color: lime;">But the book itself unleashed something within me that cannot be quelled
or sedated.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: lime;">I’m not going to try and
tell you the story contained with the pages of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Green Lantern: Rebirth</i>.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: lime;">I
know my fellow GL blogger Myron Rumsey of </span><a href="http://www.blogofoa.com/" style="color: lime;" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">The Blog of Oa</span></a><span style="color: lime;"> intends to publish a
celebratory post today as well.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: lime;">Myron is
a die-hard Hal fan and I admire his writing and his blog very much and expect
he has provided an exceptional recap of the book that I can piggyback on.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: lime;">So stop,</span><a href="http://www.blogofoa.com/2014/10/green-lantern-rebirth-ten-year.html" target="_blank"> <span style="color: orange;">go read his post</span></a><span style="color: lime;"> and make sure you
come back here when you are finished.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: lime;">Ok
then… welcome back.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">What I do want to tell you about is why <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rebirth</i> lit the touch paper within me
that quickly became an everlasting green flame.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>First I have to tackle the art.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
it comes to getting under the skin of Green Lantern, Ethan Van Sciver is untouchable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are actually a few artists out there
who I probably like more, Ivan Reis being one of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Reis nor anybody else could have done
justice to this book like Van Sciver did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I can imagine Geoff Johns’ receiving his artist’s pages through the mail
and thinking “Wow, I kind of thought I knew what I was trying to say here but
Ethan just nailed it better than I had even imagined possible”. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let me home in on one specific concept to demonstrate
what I mean. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With Hal back in the green
there are now four Green Lanterns from Earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In another creative team’s hands they could all be said to wield the
same power – ring energy is ring energy, right?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>No.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Johns tells us, each
Lantern’s power is influenced and enhanced by his own personality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is all very well to write this in a script
but Van Sciver went to town on the concept and brought it to life in a way that
I think has not been replicated since.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>John Stewart is an architect, a designer, he builds his constructs in
minute detail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Guy Gardner is a wild force
and his constructs burn and flare just as he does.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Without even reading the narrative textboxes
we already know from the art alone how each GL thinks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What fuels them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How they look at the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To capture that emotion in such a unique way
is, I think, one reason why <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rebirth</i>
should be considered some of the best art that comic books have to offer.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">So that’s the art.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But, let’s face it, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Green Lantern:
Rebirth</i> would not exist at all if it were not for the brilliant and unusual
mind of Geoff Johns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My obsession is entirely
borne out this writer’s own obsession.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He opened me up to a history that I had never really considered before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I started reading Green Lantern on and off
through the Kyle Rayner era.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kyle was my
guy, he was young and essentially cool but with a touch of the Peter Parkers
about him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was well aware that he was
the latest in a long legacy but I didn’t really give it much thought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With Johns arrival on the book I could think
of nothing else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know it has been said
elsewhere but it should not be underestimated the risk that Geoff Johns took
when he brought Hal back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He could have
gone down the traditional comic book route of retconning all that came before
out of existence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He didn’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Johns took every bit of mythology from every
era of GL.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Golden-Age, Silver-Age,
Bronze-Age, Modern-Age.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He took them all
and threw them all into the mixing pot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He gave it a stir, blended the ingredients together a little, and poured
out the glorious creation that is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Green
Lantern: Rebirth</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And not only did
he manage to hold on to the essence of the last 60 odd years of the character’s
portrayal in comics and bring back the most famous iteration of said character
in a move that many thought was impossible; hindsight shows that he also sewed the seeds
for the next ten years of his unrivalled story-telling. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wonderful stories like <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sinestro Corps War</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Blackest
Night</i> have their origins right here in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rebirth</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">I’ve written other blogs about how much I like to
scrutinise both the <a href="http://flodospage.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/the-oath-maker-alfred-bester.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">real</span></a> and <a href="http://flodospage.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/the-legacy-of-green-lantern.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">imagined</span></a> history of Green Lantern.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It appeals to the geek in me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is there a hardcore comic book fan that doesn’t
spend hours deliberating over continuity and who begat who, killed who and
brought who and who back to life?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was
Johns that opened my eyes to the endless possibilities that Green Lantern mythos
contained for just this activity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sure I’d
read quite a bit of Kyle’s run and had come across Hal and the rest here and
there, mostly via Justice League but I hadn’t sat down and blown my mind with a
billion years of continuity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I hadn’t
respected how much ground Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps had covered,
even in the last twenty or thirty years, until Geoff Johns tied it all up in to
one neat little package for me.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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Lantern: Rebirth</i> has it in spades and I love it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But that’s not the main attraction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The real reason I hold <i>Rebirth as one of </i>the finest comic books ever written is the feeling it
gives me every time I read it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
characters contained within these pages are the very definition of ‘superhero’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the face of the untold adversity they
stand tall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the shadow of evil they
burn brightly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the space of these six
issues the Green Lanterns come together to combat two of the greatest enemies
they have ever had to contend with, namely Parallax and Sinestro.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They show valour akin to knights of old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Strength worthy of ancient Greek titans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ferocity reminiscent of Viking warriors. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And an unswayable determination matched only
by mighty modern champion himself, Superman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In short, the heroes of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">GL:Rebirth</i>
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>are truly the stuff of legend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And let me assure you, as if there was any
doubt, the bad guys get well and truly beaten!<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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meaning more clearly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hal Jordan
battling for his soul against Parallax and Spectre at the same time as both entities
fought to possess him will always stick out in my mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Green Arrow donning a power ring and mustering
all of his will to construct a single arrow of green energy and drive it into
the chest of Sinestro is another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And if
my respect for Green Arrow was raised measurably through this act, my
respect for Green Lanterns and the effort it takes to use the ring every day
was raised a thousand fold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Guy Gardner
purging his Vuldarian DNA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John Stewart standing
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aforementioned Superman with a pinpoint accurate beam of energy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The list goes on and on.</span></span><br />
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Titans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d followed team-ups and crossovers
were allies band together against a mutual foe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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I experienced reading <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rebirth</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was something I wanted to be a part of
and to read more of.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Geoff Johns
understood that Green Lanterns aren’t just a legacy of characters sharing the
same name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For all of their differences they
are bound as closely as any blood-tie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
together they will face down anybody.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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some hidden broom cupboard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They roar it
proudly in the field of battle, standing side by side with their fellow
Corpsmen and revelling in the association. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Beware our power…”<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;">Frankly, I’ll never look back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hundreds of unwritten issues awaited me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hours of trawling back-issue bins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Literally thousands of pounds of hardcovers, trade
papers backs, variant covers, T-Shirts, prints, cups, caps, figures, belt
buckles and DVDs featured in my newly discovered life. …And one crazy little blog
that I am pretty damn proud of!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On 27
October 2004 a bright green light was switched on and it has been shining over
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03266957148333194240noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186612204383672806.post-61556071811047650762014-10-18T04:23:00.000-07:002014-10-26T17:59:40.912-07:00A Hero's Life<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;">The life of a superhero has never been an easy one. Forget travelling to a parallel universe to foil the nefarious plans of would-be planetary invaders. That sort of thing is all in a day's work. </span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><b>This week was a first in the life of this humble Green Lantern blogger. It was my absolute pleasure to be invited to appear as a guest reviewer on the venerable Lanterncast, the first and longest running GL podcast around.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><b>And this one runs longer than most... For episode #200 the guys assemble a motley crew of listeners, as well as bringing the show's original hosts out of retirement to produce an amazing 4 hours of content all focused around our favourite Emerald Gladiator.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So here's what I've got for you. <i>Green Lantern #87, volume 3</i>. On the face of it this is the most boring comic that was ever written. 99.9% of the real action takes place between the panels. Yawn! I'm going to race through the plot at Flash speed to give you some idea of what I mean. Try to stay awake...</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Suddenly (not so suddenly) an alarm goes off and Kyle and J'onn fly out into space to investigate a gigantic vessel utilising a dastardly laser to cover southern California in plants. GL creates an unnecessarily seductive construct of a lady pirate who launches an old fashioned cannonball at the space ship. Not surprisingly it has no effect whatsoever. He spends two pages cutting his way into the ship and discovers the only crew member is dead. J'onn sneaks up on him. Oh, the tension! The Martian telepathically links to the ship and concludes that the rest of the crew has bonded with the ship's computer. He convinces the ship (off panel, mind you) to fly to the dead planet formerly known as Mogo and terraform there instead of southern Cali. Kyle and J'onn have a moment. Fly away. The end.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Opening page; Jade is camping out in Kyle Rayner's apartment. BOOM! - Kyle is still going out with Donna Troy but here he is hanging out with the girl we GL fans know is his future one true love. Reinforced by no less than Geoff Johns 20 odd years later in the run-up to Blackest Night.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Takeaway 1: Given that J'onn J'onzz has the power to enter people's minds and stir up emotions and memories that have been long buried, it is only fitting that a team-up book containing the Martian Manhunter should do the same. Green Lantern #87 tugged on my heartstrings and resurrected memories of a great many story arcs that I thoroughly enjoyed. With the extensive history of the Green Lantern Corps and my long association with it, it is not always easy to remember all the twists and turns that took us to where we are today. If an occasional offering from the longbox forgoes traditional action sequences in favour of dropping a marker for future generations to reflect on, then who am I to argue?</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Takeaway 2: The Martian Manhunter needs a catchphrase. What's the point of being able to solve any problem virtually as it happens if your fellow heroes don't even know you did it because you are the strong, silent type? All the best heroes have them. Some even have whole verses of poetry to make it clear to all and sundry they are taking names and kicking ass. "Beware our power" ringing bells for anyone? But the way I see it J'onzz needs something short and to the point. Something that says he has arrived. Something that says "BOOM!!!"</span><br />
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the only time in over two years of blogging that I will have featured a DC
Comics character that has never appeared in any Green Lantern title.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ever.</span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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Movement</i> slipped under my radar when it was released.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was marketed along with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Green Team</i>, a book that I was
disappointed to discover had nothing to do with either Green Lantern or Green
Arrow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With that my interest in either
title was tossed to the wayside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was
only with the growing critical acclaim on Twitter (particularly from one Mr.
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on something.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Curiosity led me to flip
through an issue about half way through the run.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My attention was immediately taken by a
masked character who seemed to glow a certain shade of green at one moment and
an oddly familiar yellow the next.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Was
this some kind of White Lantern?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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as Channel M.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the group’s core is a
small band of metapowered young people who come together to protect and be a
voice for the disenfranchised.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
creating the character Gail Simone has managed to develop the most original
spin on the Emotional Spectrum since Geoff Johns wrote <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Blackest Night</i>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I
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emotions”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Twelve issues is shamefully
short for a title as high in calibre as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Movement</i> and not nearly enough to give Virtue’s origins and abilities the
attention they deserve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a result there
is much that is still unclear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What we
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one generation to the next.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She can
detect emotions in others and harness them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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reads.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In her spirit form Virtue can
fly and we’ve witnessed her trail waves of emotion like a bloodhound on the
scent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She has changed her size, growing
huge on fuel of red fury.</span></span></span></span><br />
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encounters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was able to siphon the
fear of being buried alive from her friend Vengence Moth and transfer it into a
would be attacker, leaving the villain paralysed by terror.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The girl, known as Holly to her friends, does not have to rely soley on her special abilities either. She is very apt at administering a swift running shoe to the jaw too when the occassion demands it, and leads her team from the front in a conflict. Mind you, you can't solve every problem with a superpowered light show or a round of fisticuffs. Virtue shows true leadership quality in her understanding of what can be achieved through dialogue. Her favourite venue for peace negotiations is the milk and doughnut store!</span><br />
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representative of a number of minority or maligned sections of society but she
is not written as a token gesture to any of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
stands up proudly for those who will not or cannot stand up for
themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In issue #12 Simone takes
time out from having to wrap up a story that could have happily gone on for
many more months to share some of Virtue’s history with us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The character’s motivations are integral to
the whole premise of this book and it is only fitting that we get to learn some
of what shaped her into becoming a heroine for the folks who live on the wrong
side of the tracks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In her own young life
she overcame traumas that no child should have to face and betrayals that no child
could understand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Much of this was a dubious
consequence of her “gift”.</span><br />
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her to move on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It empowered her to help
those around her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Emotions are laid bare
to Virtue and because of this she can see the smallest spark of love or hope in
anybody, even in the worst that humanity has to offer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While the likes of Superman profess to
believe there is good in everyone, Virtue can actually see it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With this ability as a constant presence in
her life how could she not make a stand for the people who are looked down on
by society for who they are or the circumstances they have come from?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This, dare I say, is the true virtue of the
character, not the fact that she can shoot beams of concentrated energy from
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The image at the top of this post of Virtue unleashing
Green willpower on a hapless Sinestro is a little deceptive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In her private moments she dreams of The
Movement being accepted by the superhero community and standing shoulder to
shoulder in battle alongside the Justice League.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They would quite literally come out of the
shadows and into the light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her team
protect "The Tweens", an area of the city that has been abandoned by
the police and it's monied population.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The series ends on a high note when a detective she befriended observes
that they will never change enough to fit in with the "justice
people".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Oh, I know...”
Virtue replies, "but sooner or later, Captain, THEY are going to have to
change to fit in with US."</span><br />
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see more from The Movement in the DC Universe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I want to read another volume of the self-named title and I also want to
see the characters popping up in other books.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I am already writing Virtue’s first meeting with Earth’s Green Lanterns
in my head.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each would take to her a
little differently and none of them would walk away from the meeting looking at
the world exactly as they had before. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the unlikely event that somebody from DC
happens to read this blog I cannot make myself any clearer - Virtue’s debut appearance
in a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Green Lantern</i> comic has got to
happen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sooner the better too.</span></span></span></span></div>
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