Comments on: Review: Green Lantern #36

By: Salieri

Salieri — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:08:34 +0000

Found the link. I pitched it, right there, before SCW even started. Blue and Red Rings and everything. Johns owes me money!

http://www.majorspoilers.com/archives/1564.htm/

(Heh, kidding.)

By: kd

kd — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:15:04 +0000

Geoff Johns really let his affection for Hal show through in this issue. Why Superman isn’t the first choice for leader of the blue lantern corps is beyond me. I mean yea I know “why” he can’t be a blue lantern, but jeez they couldn’t have just some sidenote of dialogue like “Yes Kal-El of Krypton or Superman of Earth as you know him was our first choice, but the universe told us he would reject our offer…”

By: mosdef

mosdef — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:48:50 +0000

I see what you’re saying but i think with the tremendous amount of praise and fans Johns has brought GL, I doubt any writer would have the balls to just erase it immediately. I know its gonna happen sooner or later but, not within the first 2-3 years after Johns moves on. Hype can be a very bad thing also, but im gonna keep my fingers crossed…

By: Creep

Creep — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:44:14 +0000

Oh please no…..we already had a universe without a corps…

But it’s really interesting, how the fans come up with own ideas…

Of course it will be impossible by Johns und Blackest Night to please the fans and it will be disapointing (at least after it’s now a mega-event -.-), but I think despite that it will be fun….but i hope, that Johns is allowed to do, what he wants, ’cause I think that the Infinite Crisis was weak (or not so great), ’cause Didio didn’t give Johns a free hand

By: Ricco

Ricco — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:37:05 +0000

In all futurs the Green Lantern Corps ceased to exist at some point, will it die at the end of Blackest night along the rest of the corps spectrum? Will it leave only a few Lantern powering their ring with their own willpower/emotion?

By: applejack1310

applejack1310 — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:38:15 +0000

OK, Steve McSheffrey, let me try. It’s not that willpower is an emotion, it’s that it’s the CENTER of the emotional spectrum. It is the balance of all emotion. The willpower to overcome emotion (see the Guardians, who wanted to keep emotion out of things for a long time).

So, the point is not to convince you that willpower is an emotion, but that’s it’s the balance of emotion.

How’s that?

By: Salieri

Salieri — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:49:19 +0000

The other problem with Blackest Night is that I pitched the idea back when we were in the middle of Sinestro Corps. I recall referring to it as “the War of 42,000 Rings” or something like that. And you didn’t like it even then, Stephen.

By: Steve McSheffrey

Steve McSheffrey — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:34:09 +0000

1) The Earth Lantern who seems the best fit to be a Blue Lantern to me would be John.

2) Willpower is not an emotion and no Johns apologist will ever convince me other wise!

By: Stephen Schleicher

Stephen Schleicher — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:33:06 +0000

The problem with blackest night is everyone has built it up in their minds so much that it can’t possibly achieve what the masses expect. The other problem is as soon as Johns is finished with whatever he is doing at DC and moves on, everything will be undone.

By: mosdef

mosdef — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:09:36 +0000

Y dont u think Blackest Night will work Stephen, i mean if anybody can pull off Blackest Night its Geoff Johns. He has turned GL around and hes gonna do it with The Flash-Rebirth. I cant wait for Blackest Night

By: Eye-Roller Lass

Eye-Roller Lass — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:50:49 +0000

My money’s on Soranik Natu as Sinestro long lost daughter.

By: Brent

Brent — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:15:37 +0000

I don’t think it is tenable for DC to sustain so many ongoing color corps, Unless a new Rainbow Brite monthly is in the works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35cRCGy8n54

I’m guessing this whole shebang will end up with a single remaining Lantern per color. The exception would be the existing Green Lantern Corp which gets to keep their whole army since willpower is not an emotion in the first place.

Or as Tecrogue suggested, all the colors/corps will converge into a White Lantern. But hasn’t that been done somewhere else already? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXu0Jx7gO6g

By: Creep

Creep — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:24:17 +0000

That’s an interesting idea…

By: Tecrogue

Tecrogue — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:13:49 +0000

Well, Hal has already wielded both green and yellow…

Far-fetched as it may be, maybe by the end of Blackest night he will end up being all at once? Kinda “White Lantern” sort of thing?

Ok, it’s really nerdy, but with the spectrum of emotion taht is already established… if you go with how colored light works, black would be the lack of emotions, and white would be the combination of all the ‘colors’ of emotion…

Ok, it’s a stretch, but still… my nerd sense has been tingling after reading this issue…

By: Ricco

Ricco — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:00:18 +0000

My greatest hope is that Blackest Night’s ressurected heores and villains warrant more tie-ins with DC titles then Sinestro Corps War that only had guest appearances.

I’de love to see the Titans and Teen Titans deal with their ressurected teammates and the Bat-Familly having to deal with an evil life absorbing Bat-Man? That’s just good TV.
JSA Vs. Kal-El of Earth 2, Bart Allen and Conner Kent Vs. Teen Titans… the possibilities are endless.