![]() ![]() … Green Lantern Abin Sur crash-landed on earth and in his final moment sent his ring in search of a replacement. Clearly gifted, Hal excelled at flying but his cocky reckless behavior led to his dishonorable discharge.ĭevastated that he failed his Dad, Hal turned to Carl who hired him as a test pilot. More determined than ever to become a pilot and honor his late father, Hal enlisted in the Air Force on the day he turned sixteen. … One day while watching one of his father’s test flights with her, Hal experienced his greatest fear: the plane malfunctioned exploding and instantly killing his Dad. Green Lantern is a prime example of this.Īn official DC fact page for GL shows what I mean. ![]() Marvel’s heroes are flawed and troubled and their powers echo and magnify those flaws and troubles DC’s leads, generally speaking, are dudes who get some great idea to shrink or go fast and then proceed to shrink or go fast. It’s often noted that DC’s heroes for the most part lack the melodramatic emotional flair of the Marvel heroes, Batman and Superman being the notable exceptions. While I’m willing to shoulder the blame for shunning Green Lantern over the years, as I’ve been learning and growing, I have noticed a few things about the character that do strike me as flaws, dramatically speaking. Now I know he was called Abin Sur and he gave Hal Jordan his powers! Go me! Honest, when I saw that dead guy in the Warner Bros., booth at Comic-Con last year, I had no idea who or what it was. It’s really only covering the movie’s progress through Hollywood that has given me the opportunity to bone up on Lanterns. I knew that Lantern fans argued about people named Hal, Kyle, John, and Guy Gardner, but had no idea what any of it meant. Maybe because he had a ring and I liked THE LORD OF THE RINGS and there was room for only one ring in my pantheon? I do know that my oblivion to Lantern lore was complete. I don’t know the source of this lack of comprehension. It was very clear to me that Green Arrow was a wise-cracking hard-ass Dinah was his sassy girlfriend and….some other guy was also in the book? This idea persisted even after reading a collection of the Denny O’Neil/Neal Adams GL/GA comics. The one character that made no impression on me whatsoever was Green Lantern. (True story.) Still, I understood all the basics: Superman came from a doomed planet Batman had a traumatized childhood Wonder Woman came from a race of Amazons to bring protection to Man’s World The Legion were from the far future The Flash had a lab accident The Atom had a lab experiment…and so on. But even I have a few puzzling gaps in my education.Īlways more of a Marvel reader, as a teen I tried to get into DC Comics, but never got far because a) at the time they were pretty damn dull, and b) I didn’t like Power Girl’s giant boobs. Star Wars, Star Trek, Xena Warrior Princess, Lost, wrestling, Conan, comic books, Bazooka Joe, Tolkien, Harry Potter…my nerd lore is well rounded and expansive. ![]() Let’s be honest here: I never met a gaudy, geeky subject I didn’t like. My immunity to Lantern love is a similar story. The next I’m a full grown adult standing on the beach and afraid of the water. One moment, I seem to recall, I was learning how to float as a tot. In my case, one such example is learning to swim. I admit to being completely unable to answer this question myself I’m completely immune to the Lantern’s power, and I find this highly puzzling.Įveryone’s life has gaps, memory holes that remain a mystery. ![]()
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