Green Lantern

Green Lantern #67

Green Lantern #67War of the Green Lanterns, thankfully, comes to a conclusion with this issue as the united rainbow lanterns make their final stand against Krona in an attempt to free the various colored entities.

The main story itself, like most of this story are which began back in Blackest Night, is mostly forgettable. However, the issue does delivering a few startling events worthy of notice including Sinestro as a Green Lantern. The sequence which leads to this is as interesting as the panel where the ring chooses Sinestro is shocking. Hal Jordan‘s most hated enemy appears to come to terms with Jordan and in doing so earns back the position which was forcibly taken from him decades ago.

Although Sinestro seems to have earned his way back into the Corps, Hal Jordan’s ring is stripped from the Greatest Green Lantern (again!) when his uses it to commit to cardinal sin of saving the universe, I mean killing a former Guardian.

We’ll have to see how both of these events play out in the DC reboot, but I’m betting Jordan won’t be without a ring for very long. Worth a look.

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First Look – Green Lantern: The Animated Series

  • Title: Green Lantern: The Animated Series
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Cartoon Network has released the first teaser for Green Lantern: The Animated Series. I have to admit to a mixed reaction for this first sneak peek. On one hand they’ve kept the classic look of GL (unlike Green Lantern: First Flight and Green Lantern: Emerald Knights) which I’m all in favor for. But on the other hand I’m much more a fan of old school animation than this streamlined CGI style (which always looks cheap to me).

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Green Lantern

  • Title: Green Lantern
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green-lantern-posterHere’s the thing, I’ve been waiting for a Green Lantern movie since 1980. That’s a long time (and a big stack of comic books). On hearing Green Lantern was finally getting his own live-action franchise I was cautiously optimistic. And then every still, trailer, and commercial I saw made me increasingly less so. Was this really what I waited so long to see?

Director Martin Campbell unleashes a CGI extravangza which certainly isn’t the Green Lantern of my childhood. However, the script by Greg BerlantiMichael GreenMarc Guggenheim and Michael Goldenberg gets enough of the character right and does a fair job of combining various story threads, told over several decades, into a single cohesive narrative that by the time the credits rolled, I’ll admit, I had a slight grin on my face.

Of course it’s also possible that my longtime love for the character and my growing unease at something during its marketing began to look all too similar to Marvel’s botched Fantastic Four franchise may have caused a psychotic break.

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Further Reading – Green Lantern

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If you’re set to see Green Lantern this weekend but would like to know a little more about the character going in, or if by the time you read this you’ve already seen the film but would like to brush up on the character’s history, I’ve got you covered. Here are a few graphic novel selections from a guy who’s been reading about the character for more than a quarter of a century.

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Green Lantern: Emerald Knights

  • Title: Green Lantern: Emerald Knights
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green-lantern-emerald-knightsThe latest animated feature from DC Animation is a sequel to 2009’s Green Lantern: First Flight. There’s a little continuity juggling from the first film (Hal Jordan is a veteran and Sinestro is still part of the Corps). The focus here isn’t on Earth’s Green Lantern but other members of the Green Lantern Corps.

As the threat of Krona‘s return looms Hal Jordan (Nathan Fillion) takes new recruit Arisia (Elisabeth Moss) under his wing and regales her with tales of different Green Lanterns over the course of the Corps’ history.

“The First Lantern” tells the tale of Avra (Mitchell Whitfield), a scribe chosen as one of first Green Lanterns and the first to use to ring to create a construct. “Kilowog” shows Kilowog‘s (Henry Rollins) and Tomar-Re‘s (James Arnold Taylor) first adventure with the hard-as-nails drill instructor Deegan (Wade Williams) who makes Kilowog look fluffy by comparison.

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