Or - “Two Crossover Issues Involving The Color Green In A Row…”

It’s a Verdant Monday at Major Spoilers! When last we saw the Green Lantern Corps, Sinestro’s evil plan is proceeding as written, with the Guardians in disarray, Mogo under assault, John Stewart and Guy Gardner MIA, Kyle Rayner possessed by Parallax, and Ion under lock and key. The myriad Sinestro Corps members have been killing Lanterns left, right, and center leaving the Corps more and more thinly stretched. Hal Jordan has taken the fight directly to Qward, but even the man once called ‘Greatest Lantern of Them All’ may not be enough to pull this fight out of the fire…

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Or - “Cry Havoc, And Let Slip The Translucent Yellow Energy Dogs Of War.”

The first shots have been fired, and the GLC is forced to regroup from the completely unexpected attack of Sinestro. The inter-Corps Worps… Err, Car War… CORPS WAR, rather, has begun, and the first salvo was quick and brutal, fitting the personality of the vicious former Korugarian dictator who masterminded it all. With Lanterns by the dozens killed, the most experienced of the space cops sporting bloody noses, and even the Torchbearer himself corrupted, I (and more than a few of the GL’s) are wanting to know what the big blue midgets have planned as a counterstrike…

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After reading Matthew’s review of Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps Special, you might be of the mind to rush to your local shop to grab a copy now so you can brace yourself for the oncoming unslaught of the Anti-Monitor.

Good luck…

DC Comics has announced the issue has completely sold out at retails stores. This is completely different than selling out at Diamond Comics distributors as it means you will be pressed to find this issue in stock.

However, hope is on the horizon. The company says it is going back to press for a second printing, and plan to have it in the story on July 18.

If you are really into the Sinestro Corps War, we have your checklist after the jump.

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Or - “Sinestro Apparently Offers Great Benefits, Pension, And A Hefty Signing Bonus.”

When I picked up my comics this week, I asked my co-workers Jim and Jason (if the store were the Legion of Super-Heroes, and Tom Grice were Lightning Lad, they’d be the equivalent of Ultra Boy and Element Lad. [I'd probably be Star Boy, always around, but seldom the focus of the main story.]) about getting a copy of X-Men #200 to review, they both loudly told me that the REAL gem of the week was right here in Sinestro Corps. We’ve all seen the buildup to the Corps Wars in Green Lantern and GLC, but I couldn’t imagine what was so big that it would trump the shocking events of X-Men…

But this time, the guys… were RIGHT.

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Or - “The First Meeting Of ‘The Awkward Silence Club’ Will Now Come To Order…”

That table looks quieter than the morning after a drunken road trip to Tijuana. “Wanna stop that WHISTLING??” Hal Jordan’s love life has never been simple, but the DCU’s designated stud muffin’s life just got even more complicated, with a super-powered woman wanting to go praying mantis on him (and I ain’t talkin’ kung fu, here) and a cadre of alien amazons with a grudge. Seems like some days, you just can’t keep the ladies away with a stick… luckily, he’s got a power ring.

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Or - “A Naked Blonde Walks Into A Bar…”

“She’s got a mystical extraterrestrial artifact of infinite power under one arm, under the other she has a six-foot salami.” I honestly can’t decide whether I’m disappointed in Green Lantern or not right now. Certainly, they’ve lost a bit of momentum… Not so very long ago, in the wake of Geoff John’s and Ethan Van Sciver’s excellent “Rebirth” miniseries, Hal’s book was the DC’s second best selling title. Heck, GL even had enough momentum to spawn a second title, ‘Green Lantern Corps,’ but in March of this year, Hal’s book clocked in at #33 in overall sales. This certainly isn’t a bad showing, and he’s got it better than The Flash (#51) but not quite as good as Wonder Woman (#28, with the second or third solicitation of her long-delayed issue #5) but delays have certainly hurt this book’s momentum, and the amazing disappearing Ethan Van Sciver has been missed as well. This issue is one of those that seems to bear great portents for the future, but is it enough to keep GL on top?

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Or - “Beware My Power… Making My Exes Go Crazy.”

Perhaps more than any other concept, Green Lantern illustrates the kind of changes that have befallen the comics industry since it’s inception back in the Golden Age. The original Green Lantern was Alan Scott, a train engineer who found a magic langern, a quintessentially Golden Age origin. As the influence of Superman waxed and waned, G.L. Scott became first INSANELY powerful, then depowered, then eventually stopped appearing in HIS OWN BOOK (replaced by Streak the Wonder Dog) as superheroes lost their lustre. One of the first concepts revived in the Silver Age, Green Lantern was reborn with a science fiction tilt, and was a mainstay of comics for years. When comics were suddenly, relevant, there was Green Lantern, crossing the country in a pickup with a liberal and a blue midget. Then, when everything went grim and gritty, our old Lantern (Hal Jordan) was tortured, reborn as a villain, and eventually died. At the time when every character was feeling the “Wolverine Factor,” Kyle Rayner was born as a new kind of G.L., a lone tough guy in a sea of lone tough guys, as someone misunderstood the uniqueness of the Corps concept. Now that nostalgia rules the roost, the Corps is back, the old Lantern is back (but not until AFTER Kyle got a huge following of his own. You gotta love the comics industry, folks…) This latest re-imagining has been plagued by delays, but it’s at least consistently interesting…

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Not a huge fan of Craigslist, but there’s a casting call for a television show called “The Corps.” The auditions are already over (December 20), but here is a rundown of the roles being cast.

• John Stewart- (african american male, age 24-27). A SGT in the Marine Corps and just coming back from a trying tour in Iraq. Lead role.
• Katma Tui- (asian or caucasian female, 25-30). A very attractive and sexy, yet militant operative and lead trainer in The Corps. Must be athletic. Lead role.
• Addie Stewart- (african american female, 45-50’s). John’s mother who is dying of cancer. supporting role.
• Hal Jordan- (caucasian male, 27-35). Former Air force pilot who is injured in a battle with an unknown evil, while on his way to recruit John Stewart. Reoccurring role.
• Tyler- (any ethnicity male, 24-27). Serial killer, works as a hired gun for a local crime boss.
• Erin Towers- (any ethnicity male, 24-27). Former Marine, John’s friend from boot camp.

The only thing that makes me question if this is the real deal, or just a fan film is the blatant NON-UNION requirements. And WTF? No Guy Gardner?

via Craigslist (link)

Came across this step by step tutorial on how to make your own GL ring.  The instructions are pretty specialized, and you would probably be better off if you had some jewelry experience, but it is awesome non-the-less.

Click it here for the step by step. 

If you can’t make it yourself, why not contact the author directly and see if he would consider selling you his.

via Instructables.com (link)

Neal Adams son, Jason Adams, posted at the Collector’s Society Message Board on the thieving that took place at the San Diego Comic Con this year. In addition to one of his own statues walking off, so too did two of his dad’s comics.

I found that the thief came back to steal 2 things from my father worth a couple hundred dollars each. He had a Superman CGC graded comic which he had drawn an original Superman portrait on and a Green Lantern with an original Green Lantern and Green Arrow portrait on. Both were on stands and both were gone while lower priced items were put in their place.

Via Collector’s Society Message Board (link)

The United States Postal Service unveiled the commemorative DC superhero stamp collection last week at the San Diego Comic Con. The 1st day of issue stamps were available at the convention, but Friday morning post offices around the country began selling the 20 stamp collection.

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