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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