TheBlueRabbit said:
Therumancer said:
Hmmm, well actually there are several "Green Lanterns". "The" Green Lantern is Hal Jordan (all others are poseurs) and yes he was white. The black guy is John Stewart (if I remember) who was his buddy for a long time before eventually getting a ring himself. The third "Green Lantern" is a guy called "Guy Gardner" who originally had the potential be be awesome, as the idea was that he was going to be "The Punisher" with a Green Lantern ring (Guy being the result of a split between the Guardians, with a faction deciding that they needed to be pro-active as opposed to reactive and only responding to things that already happened), he got turned into a comedy relief character though. Then of course we had *cough* Kyle Raynor who was Hal's successor and IMO wasn't even worthy of polishing the ring.
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Your knowledge of GLs are pretty impressive, but if you're going to be that comprehensive, why not throw in the real "original" Green Lantern,
Alan Scott.
He appeared almost 20 (1940) years before Hal Jordan (1959) and he's actually a pretty compelling charachter.
He's cool, and I didn't really think of him since truthfully I don't know all that much about the JSA side of things. I'm really more of a Marvel fanboy. I've read enough DC over the years due to liking comics to be pretty familiar with Hal Jordan and most of the direct spin offs. I believe the first time I ever looked into Alan Scott was due to his apperance of sorts in "Kingdom Come" and (I Believe) during the entire Imperiax war thing when the JSA guys attacked the ship Imperiax had prisoners on and was also using to create the duplicates of himself (it's been a while).
Technically (I just double checked on the link you put up) despite the name, and being the inspiration, he doesn't really fit into the Green Lantern mythology. He's crossed over into it (and I mean they made that obvious in Kingdom Come as a nod) but the origin of his powers is entirely differant than coming from The Guardians Of Oa and all of that stuff (which all of the characters I mentioned did).
Great referance though, I'm glad you pointed that out.
It's fairly similar to knowing about the World War II Android who was "The Human Torch" (and who has met and even fought Johnny Storm since then). He's been around, but generally not what anyone thinks of when they talk about "The Human Torch" and can be brought up for "nerd points" if someone refers to Johnny as the original...
To be honest though the whole "Invaders" thing is better known than it used to be though, especially seeing as the relationship between Namor and Cap from that shared history was a big part of the resolution of the "Civil War" mega-event Marvel did a few years ago.
I'll also be honest in saying that I don't follow comics as much as I used to (though I still get some TPBs now and again). I just have a certain opinion of what "The Green Lantern" should be like, especially if your making a movie that is supposed to capture the essence of the character.
While I think people are more aware of comics than Hollywood gives them credit for, I do think a lot of people are going to come up seeing this BEFORE they read any comics, and some will indeed be being introduced to the character through it. I just hope that if this movie is as bad as it seems, it will open the door for them to do it right in a couple of years.
It's sort of like how kids who know the character through the most recent cartoons think of the character as being black. One of the Green Lanterns is, but that isn't what the actual character that John spun off of was. From what I've seen of Ryan Renald's performance so far, I'd really hate for people to grow up as thinking of The Green Lantern as a "modern meterosexual" sitcom fodder character. Like many heroes, especially classic ones, he's supposed to be bigger than life. That's what makes him iconic, nobody could ever be quite like that, but it gives one something to aspire to so to speak. The idea of being a super hero, especially one like "The Green Lantern" is not for the character to be extremely human. I understand the appeal of very "human" characters, and it works in some cases, but characters like this are the ones that need to exist for stories like "The Watchmen" to make sense as a counterpoint to.
Ah well I'm rambling from simple comments. Apologies about the long, irrelevent post.
