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Green Lanterne Corps.

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From “The Curse of Ibac” in Captain Marvel Adventures #8, March 1942. Henry Lynne Perkins (?) plot, John Broome (?) script.

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BHOC: THE FLASH #139

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DC Finest: Green Lantern - Hard-Travelling Heroes by Denny O'Neil, Neal Adams, Gil Kane, John Broome and more. Cover by Adams. Out in July.

"NO EVIL SHALL ESCAPE THEIR SIGHT!

One of the greatest eras of Green Lantern comics begins in this DC Finest collection marking the handoff from the classic Gardner Fox/John Broome era to Dennis O'Neil and Neal Adams's groundbreaking reinvention of the series that paired Hal Jordan with Oliver Queen--a.k.a. Green Arrow.

Collects Green Lantern stories published between July 1968 and March 1971 from the pages of GREEN LANTERN #62-82, THE FLASH #191, and WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #201."

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From Green Lantern #11 (1962)

"Sit down! I am offering you a full partnership"

They would just let you publish Sinhal foreplay back in the day

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Alan Moore, Frank Miller, Grant Morrison, and Neil Gaiman all killed comics as a medium. They sucked the joy from their stories. Grant Morrison has some silly characters that I love, but I don't like how he's also got cynical things like the leader of the Doom Patrol being secretly evil. I don't think that's ever what Arnold Drake wanted, and it feels like a repudiation of the original silver age text. Frank Miller ruined Daredevil by making him a brooding figure with a crazy love interest and a long list of dead bodies trailing behind him (Karen Page and Heather Glenn didn't deserve to die, and Elektra doesn't deserve her fame). Alan Moore wrote Watchmen, a book about cynicism and bitterness and misanthropy. It's meant to be realistic, but it's just a screed of bitterness and cynicism. That's not what comics are for. Comics are for hope! There's always light in the world, but no. These fucking authors wouldn't dare write about it.

Somebody save Doctor Manhattan from Watchmen. He could've been such a good character, if it wasn't for Alan Moore basically making him an emotionless man with no empathy. He deserves so much better. Save Swamp Thing too, because Alan Moore is not my Swamp Thing author. Never. It's the 70s run for the win. Somebody save Batman and Daredevil from the ruination of Frank Miller.

You know what the 80s gave us? At least for comics, it apparently created cynicism. Cynicism about everything. Nobody wanted to write about silly things being silly, because they'd rather see blood and gore and sex and drugs. I miss the silver age and the bronze age. I really miss them. I'm depressed now, but it's because comics truly haven't been really good since 1981. 1987 or 1988 is the last era in which even one comic might be good, because everything just goes to hell. 1976 or 1977 is when it begins to die, but 1987 to 1988 is when it fully dies.

We need New Sincerity. We need comics explicitly written and modelled after the 60s and 70s. Lots of words, silly but fun,never too dark and dreary. Darkest it should ever get is the level of something like Steve Gerber or Doug Moench's writing. It can be dark but also be funny and kind and heartfelt. Modern comics don't get it. They never will, it seems. I miss Stan Lee and Gardner Fox and John Broome and Steve Gerber and Otto Binder and Arnold Drake and stuff. sigh....

This seems to be a minority opinion, but I think Hal Jordan becoming Parallax (for real, not because he was possessed by a "fear demon" or whatever dumb bullshit Geoff Johns came up with to hand-wave it away) and then sacrificing himself in a demonstrative way in FINAL NIGHT was, in the main, a pretty logical and organic development for the character.

In THE COMIC BOOK HEROES, Jacobs and Jones (and yes, I know about Jones, don't @ me) describe Hal Jordan as the ultimate "organization man," and that's stuck with me because I think it identifies an important feature of the character. Hal first appeared in 1959, but he was the quintessential Kennedy-era hero, a charismatic individualist who drew strength from the conviction that he was part of a just liberal order in a rational, knowable universe.

This was true even in his early appearances, when he had a very limited awareness of the Green Lantern Corps and no idea who they were working for (which is something that has, regrettably, been retconned from latter retellings, although it was an important part of the earliest issues of the series). What made Hal so successful as a Green Lantern was not that he was especially clever, imaginative, or even strong-willed — it was that he respected the parameters of the role, even when no one was looking, and worked creatively within the rules by which he was bound. If he were more intellectual, he would have been a great lawyer.

The side effect of those tendencies was that, like many liberals, Hal could not cope gracefully with challenges to his world view, and his response to such challenges was authoritarianism. Denny O'Neil called Hal "a crypto-fascist," and that was evident in the 'Hard-Traveling Heroes" stories with Ollie, where Hal faced a series of crises challenging his deeply held presumption that laws and institutions are basically good. His reaction to those crises was panic and rage — lashing out in an attempt to reestablish his own rules of moral order through force, as authoritarians do.

That was the driving force of his disintegration in "Emerald Twilight," where his reaction to being told that he couldn't just use his power to forcibly return things to the way he thinks they should be was an explosion of power-hungry rage. That escalated more quickly than I think felt credible, especially in Hal's sudden willingness to kill his own comrades, but the gist was consistent with his previous trajectory, as was his goal in ZERO HOUR, to go back to the Dawn of Time and rewrite the rules as he thought they should be.

What gave ZERO HOUR's climax its (admittedly very limited) emotional weight was that Hal still saw himself as a right-minded reformer who was still ultimately serving the cause of moral order. That I think could have been Hal's most significant legacy as a character: an actual cautionary tale, not confined to an Elseworlds Annual or Imaginary Story, about someone who used to be a hero until he went too far. (Often, in modern Elseworlds-type AUs, that narrative centers on Superman, but Hal was, and remains, a more credible choice because it didn't require making him into anything he wasn't already.)

The finale of FINAL NIGHT then gave Hal a grandstanding opportunity for redemption: He sacrificed his life and his remaining power to destroy the Sun-Eater and save the world one more time. Probably the most interesting aspect of that story was that some of his former comrades — notably Batman — were not sold, recognizing that it was really just Hal continuing along the same path that had been his moral downfall in the first place, and it didn't make up for the things he'd done or the people he'd killed.

I can see how for a Silver Age Green Lantern fan, that was something of a bitter pill, but I *don't* think there was a way back for Hal from being Parallax, and so ending on an ambivalent note was most appropriate. If it had been up to me, they would have left it there.

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"How? How did you... Do I talk in my sleep?"

Those who know, know. The others... see below.

Yes, Barry married Iris without telling her he was the Flash and Iris did indeed find out because he was talking in his sleep. Silver Age comics are wonderful.

What makes it even more wrong is that in an earlier story his secret identity had been made public by aliens and before erasing all public knowledge of it via time travel (speedsters really love playing God with reality) Barry had promised Iris he'd tell her again on their wedding day.

Which of course he didn't.

Joan Garrick wasn't too happy about it and made Barry promise he'd finally tell Iris on their one year anniversary... but the point was moot because she told him first that she already knew.