Pages Tagged “Green Lantern”
Reviews
- Justice League: The New Frontier (Movie) ★★★★☆ Cooke’s drawing style and the 1950s retro look to the artwork both translate well to the screen. A bit disjointed at first, but settles into a solid story about hope and trust.
Blog Posts
- Lord of the Rings as an “Event” Comic Book
No doubt it would have tie-ins, side stories, spinoffs, and a bunch of extra tie-ins added to plug the inevitable gaps in the schedule.
- Green Lantern is a Stressful Job
I was flipping through The DC Comics Encyclopedia looking up names, and noticed something interesting about Green Lantern. All the major Green Lanterns’ names have had the same stress patterns, except the original, Alan Scott. Hal Jordan Guy Gardner John Stewart Kyle Rayner
- Deadly Nightshade After Closing Time
Comic Cavalcade was an anthology series that ran from 1942 until 1954, publishing super-heroes and other adventures for the first six years. Wonder Woman, the Flash, and Green Lantern were the headliners. Earlier this year, DC reprinted the first three issues as The Comic Cavalcade Archives, Vol. 1. (At 100 pages per issue, it’s still […]
- Speaking of Green Lantern: Untangling Hal from Parallax
At the comic store this week I actually flipped through the current issue of Green Lantern: Rebirth. And I was shocked to find that it made sense. I’ve been avoiding the miniseries because, in general, I’m of the opinion that it’s better to move on than to go back. Yeah, it took me years to […]
- Clearly heâs changed his mind
I found this while looking for pictures to scan for some new profiles on my Flash site. It’s very interesting in light of where Hal Jordan has gone since: This is from Flash #276 (1979), right after the Flash’s wife, Iris, has been killed. Barry goes straight to the JLA satellite HQ and asks Superman, […]
- Green Lantern Madness!
Yesterday I was trying to explain to Katie the furor that erupted back when DC replaced Green Lantern Hal Jordan with Kyle Rayner. I came up with this analogy: Imagine that a new Star Trek series begins with Captain Picard going insane, killing off the entire crew of the Enterprise, and destroying all of Starfleet […]