Not G. Ivingname said:
MovieBob said:
So in effect, ten years of fanboy whining was worth it, sort of. Do you really think they would of done the Blackest Night, which was basically the cleverest excuse to bring every single character from... ever, if the whole Green Lantern fiasco never happened? Or find a way to bring Batman back from the not dead?
They had already done it on a smaller scale, which works as a GREAT bit of foreshadowing to Blackest Night long before Hal came back to the role.
In Green Lantern Annual #7 Kyle Rayner discovers a living Abin Sur who tells him that he should be dead, and is soon set upon by the dead Green Lantern corp, all living and all under the control of Nekron. They have Death-Powered Power Rings and Kyle is at this time the ONLY Green Lantern.
So he fights a veritable army on his own before finally getting the drop on Nekron (and I do mean drop, Nekron is way to powerful for any single hero to beat straight up. Even the overpowered ones) and Nekron says he'll be back.
Annual #7 was in it's basics, a prototype for Blackest Night except before the Emotional Spectrum existed and on a smaller (by which I mean only 3000ish Black Lanterns instead of a whole universe full of them) scale.
Also another note is that the idea for a 'Corp War' was also not Geoff Johns idea, or at least he wasn't the first person to come up with it.
In issues 120-124 of Green Lantern Volume 3 Kyle Rayner is shot, and then put in his own little dreamworld by The Controllers, who can be considered the Guardians if the Guardians were even BIGGER pricks than they already are. And trust me the Guardians are dicks.
The dream world depicted shows a New Oa with a new Green Lantern Corp, Ganthet is still around as the Guardian and the entire planet is much more full of life than the original. Anyway the Corp not only protects space but also fights against the Controllers who have their own Corp the Effigy Corp.
Effigy was a Supervillain of Kyle Rayners who was just like him, in the right place at the right time, when the controllers abducted him and reconstructed his body to have flame powers that could create constructs. So yeah an entire Corp filled with those guys. Ontop of that each of the Effigy Corp were people from Kyle's past, even if they shouldn't be around. a Manhunter Robot he had killed, Fatality who he had seen die (Twice in fact, Fatality never stays dead, or rather was never killed) etc. etc.
It all turned out to be a controller enduced figment of his imagination right? well... not exactly.
See Kyle is still seeing weird things and realizes the Controllers are still trying to influence him, so he flys to space and confronts Effigy who's been stripped of all his will and mearly repeats "I serve the controllers" when Kyle is captured by the Controllers he awakens to find that they HAVE constructed an Effigy Corp, and they intend to do the same thing to Kyle.
The story arc ended with Kyle telling the Controllers that if they came back they would be a facing a REAL Green Lantern Corp.
This WAS supposed to happen very soon as writer Ron Marz wanted to bring the Corp back and put John Stewert back in as a Guardian figure along side Ganthet. But unfortunatly Marz went to CrossGen leaving Green Lantern to Judd fucking Winick.
Now Judd Winick had GOOD ideas like Nero the crazy (by which I mean actual crazy not comic book crazy) weilder of a yellow power ring who's mind spurted out Great Horrors because of how twisted it was. And Ion, which at the time was basically 'Kyle Rayner has become God' but Ion didn't last as Kyle became fearful when people started worshipping him (what do you expect when your Omnipotent and Omniscient as well as being able to re-weave the fabric of time while preventing a paradox)
But he also never followed up on the Corp idea, and it would never properly be followed up on until Geoff Johns came back.
