Comments on: Speaking of Green Lantern…

By: Al Jordan

Al Jordan — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 04:23:17 +0000

I guess what i was trying to say Kelson was that there was alot of backlash at the time especially in the Batman titles (cancelling of subscriptions etc. when Jean Paul took over) & yes Wonder Woman was different & could have possibly worked long term if she had her own book perhaps just titled Diana(just a thought,i personally would have got both titles).For the most part it seems as if only certain heroes are replaceable i.e. Robin,Flash,Gl but I think change is inevitable for even the more popular ones in the near future.As a side note though i am interested to see how the Captain America story will ultimately playout.Thanks for a reply!

By: Kelson

Kelson — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:59:25 +0000

I don’t think it was really “righting wrongs” to switch back to Bruce and Diana. I’m not convinced that Artemis and Azrael were ever intended to be permanent replacements the way Connor Hawke and Kyle Rayner were. I think they were much more similar in structure to the Death of Superman, or John Fox temporarily replacing Wally West as the Flash. Artemis, especially: Just going by the covers, Diana never even left the book, even if she had to change her costume.

I am still annoyed that they managed to heal Bruce’s paralysis, but not Barbara’s. As cool as she is as Oracle, it’s still a double-standard: Batman gets paralyzed, and he gets healed. Batgirl gets paralyzed, and she’s stuck with a desk job.

By: Al Jordan

Al Jordan — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:34:39 +0000

Personally,DC won me over from marvel in part due to their crossover stories of the 90’s.I loved the “new” Batman of Jean Paul Valley & Artemis taking the title of the new Wonder Woman from Diana.I only wish they would have gotten more issues(say 6 months to a years worth of storyline)especially with Mike Deodatos studios doing the art work.It was cutting edge to shake up some of their longstanding established heroes with a more aggressive breed but people typically frown on change of any kind so DC hurried to right the “wrongs” of their consumers opinions.GL being the exception as they turned that title completely upside down.I wish though they would not have created a newer Parallax story to explain Hals madness.Its like they have to come out years later with some attempt to unruffle feathers from the early 90’s.I could accept a hero going mad given the demise of Coast City,i think it was likely any hero could topple over the edge if the event was traumatic enough.That is also why i liked Marvels initial story line of the Spiderman clone being the comicbook Spiderman from issue 149 till its Scarlet Spider conclusion.Hopefully we’ll continue to see these types of storylines from time to time if nothing more than to either appreciate the old hero that much more or embrace a new champion to carry on the change of time.

By: GLHawk

GLHawk — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 01:04:54 +0000

Parallax didn’t have two rings. He had 0. Hal had 10 rings in that arc though during the going insane aspect, and during the Death of superman it actually made more sense than people realize.

Hal did take the yellow impurity into himself though when he basicly took all the oa power battery into himself.

He dropped the ten rings as he fought sinestro. Parallax had no rings.

As much as they made it work, Hal is a chump, and they pulled a cop out.
Especially after final night, and GL issue 81 with the memorial.

Kyle may have gotten the ring by accident, but it was nice to finally have an artist who could use the ring right. Instead of boxing gloves and clippers all the time. Kyle gave the ring that creative edge that kept drawing me back for more. I’ve dropped GL completely now since Hal’s back. I’ve read enough of his run prior emerald twilight to get the jist of it. No need to relive the same stories again.

Ion on the other hand, looks to be interesting and growing moreso by the day, as they realize just how much Oan power Rayner has absorbed over time, and how much he dumped back into the battery. He may not be the god like Ion (thank god, as that made me drop the book briefly as well.) But he’s still ranked pretty far up there now. Even more powerful than Hal.

And the self replicating ring was a gift from Hal in issue 100 to kyle, when kyle traveled back in time ‘accidentally’ and met hal pre insanity, fighting sinestro.

By: David

David — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 19:53:54 +0000

um… arnt you all going too far into this? Hal’s rage and all made him great as the spectre because 1, he became like a god as Parallax, so correcting the world and stuff would be natural and 2, because DC Comics did it right. And you cant say they are crap cause you all seem to either love Kyle or Hal. And DC made them both. So instead of whining, why not shut up and see what happens?

By: mike

mike — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 21:43:20 +0000

On the whole possession and corruption issue, the alternative theory behind Hal going crackers in the first place was that he was wearing Malvolio’s power ring when the whole Coast City thing went down (for those of you who don’t know him, Big M was a nutbar renegade GL that Hal had a major run-in with back in the Action Comics Weekly days. He destroyed Hal’s ring during the battle, but Hal wound up beating him and getting away with the villain’s power ring. Supposedly this was by design, but the storyline was never followed through on).
Now that being the case, after Hal became Parallax, Ganthet reconstituted his ring and gave it to Kyle at the end of GL#50. That means Kyle is wearing the allegedly corrupted ring Hal got from Malvolio and has throughout his entire career. How’s that for making things more convoluted and messy? Maybe poor Kyle is up next for the laughing academy?

By: tobi

tobi — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 17:58:17 +0000

i know this was aaaaages ago, but i just found it and have a question. (just to say first, love the website, especially the speedsters bit, it has more information on people that done even ride the lightning that most websites). so do some rings still have a yellow impurity, cos didnt they trap parallax back into the core lantern on oa?

By: mrbrklyn

mrbrklyn — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 05:54:18 +0000

The problem stems from DC messing up the original Hal Jordan in the first place. They just never seemed to understand the power of the Kane/Broome Green Lantern. And they kept screwing up the core “Man Without Fear” persona.

This is largely an attempt to fix 20 years worth of character assasination and to put the scifi back into GL.

I hope they succeed. It looks like they did.

Ruben

By: Amy

Amy — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 18:52:22 +0000

I Love KYLE RAYNER!!!! Hal is cool too, but if DC made a mistake in killing him off they cannot just change that by inventing a long lost demon-possession!! Kyle earned the JLA’s trust and the love of hundreds of faithful readers…it’s just low to get rid of him to try to relive past glory.

By: quantumcat

quantumcat — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 10:37:35 +0000

I ‘ve missed a lot of the dcu mythos in the last few years but i thought they might
go into how the Qwardian universe had the good blue power (the Darkstars,i think?)
and Sinestro and his ilk used the nasty jaundiced power but somewhere in
time and space the two were joined to make the ultimate creative force:
entrophy and order,reason and id,yin and yang-the same force that begat
the earth elemental Swamp Thing:
GREEN……..

By: Kelson

Kelson — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:59:08 +0000

No, Kyle's a major character in The Rann-Thanagar War, and all the Infinite Crisis miniseries take place after Green Lantern: Rebirth.

By: John

John — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 07:10:39 +0000

I heard that kyle dies in rebirth I just want to know if that’s ture or pure Bull ’cause he can’t just die you know he’s the GL salvation and he’s very profitable hehehehe

By: brendo

brendo — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 20:46:36 +0000

I found it pretty easy to follow although that’s a 1st for the GL series

By: Richard Ranke

Richard Ranke — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 15:06:14 +0000

I got mixed up.I was going to say that I am giving up on Green Lantern entirely.

By: Richard Ranke

Richard Ranke — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 15:05:23 +0000

So everything is being redone,Hal is returning and basicly the past ten years are being negated,eh?Hall is now revealed to have been posessed when he killed the others?How much will be brought back to life?BAH!I liked Kyle as Green Lantern and for a while I had high hopes for his relationship with Donna Troy.Now Kyle will be gone and Hal will return?(Sigh)

DC isn’t willing to make drastic changes.Green Arrow came back and now Green Lantern will.I’m surprised they haven’t brought back…I better not mention anyone.Someone at DC might read this and get ideas.(Chuckle!)

I was willing to go along with the change and the new Green Lantern-but I am not willing to go along with brining back Hal(and I hear even Sinestro)after all this time.Maybe DC thinks this will bring older readers back,but I am one older reader is