The Hoard Potato: In Brightest Day....

[athelind]

This made me laugh out loud:


I may have to print it out and post it at work.

Speaking as a long-time fan of the Green Lanterns, who's read the book(s) through all the ups and downs since 1970 or so, this multi-year arc that Geoff Johns has been writing is the Best Damned Run Of Green Lantern ever, one of the best things DC has done in the last decade, and Blackest Night is shaping up to be the "Final Crisis" that Final Crisis wasn't.

Honestly, it's a big part of why I still bother with superhero comics.

After, what, five years of non-stop Big Events and Red Skies Crossovers from both major companies, after a year of working in a comic store, and after my Fanfic Epiphany from a couple of years ago, I've come very close to burning out on commercialized adolescent power fantasies.

But Johns is good, and Blackest Night is not so much an Editorially-Mandated MegaCrossover as it is the logical climax of the story he's been telling for the last five years.

Still and nonetheless... "They turned Green Lanterns into Care Bears" is spit-take-worthy.

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Comments

[tombfyre.livejournal.com]

As I was reading that strip I thought they were turning the Green Lanterns into Power Rangers. ^^() Either that or they were going to summon Captain Planet. Or Voltron.

[hitchkitty.livejournal.com]

So, if violet is love, does that mean we're going to have Star Sapphire brought in as a Violet Lantern?

"Come on, Carol. What kind of lame power is 'Heart', anyway?"

[tombfyre.livejournal.com]

Its a possibility! Then we'll get to see Ted Turner running around throwing people out of windows.

[athelind.livejournal.com]

Yes, the Star Sapphires are the "Violet Lanterns". The Zamarons are changing their modus operandi.

Yes, Carol Ferris is one of them -- this time, for once, voluntarily.

[hitchkitty.livejournal.com]

I'm somewhat amused by the assignment of color to attributes.

If we go by pigment instead of light:
Willpower = Hope + Fear
Avarice = Wrath + Fear
Love = Wrath + Hope

Death, of course, is the absence of all.

[cpxbrex.livejournal.com]

Must . . . control . . . rising . . . rant . . . about . . . Grant Morrison . . .

But I totally agree about Johns, and this strip, hehe. They're Care Bears, hehe.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

For bonus points: "a show that comes on saturdays after the snorks" = "Rudy The Undead Dog" = a reference so geeky that I'm shocked Scott Kurtz went there, even if he *was* part of the original.

Yes, so geeky that I'm surprised *Kurtz* did it.

Holy crap.

[stalbon.livejournal.com]

Agreed! Geoff Johns is writing some -excellent- stuff, and has been for the past four years! Sinestro Wars really got me back into Green Lantern, and I pretty much consider the Corps/Blackest Night/Green Lantern comics to be the best material in the DC comics universe, at the moment. I was and still am not much a fan of Grant Morrisson and his work on both Marvel and DC, but if you also want some very fun stuff to look at while you're at work, try Greg Pak's Incredible Hercules and Peter David's incredible work with X-Factor.