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Post by Batflunkie on Jul 21, 2021 19:50:36 GMT -5
Alan is my favorite. I liked Hal and John and Kyle. The rest of the Earth based GL not so much. There's too many Sector 2814 lanterns for my liking, I wonder if this was ever considered to be an issue for the Guardians? (if they're still around that is, haven't followed current GL for a while)
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Post by majestic on Jul 21, 2021 21:26:15 GMT -5
Alan is my favorite. I liked Hal and John and Kyle. The rest of the Earth based GL not so much. There's too many Sector 2814 lanterns for my liking, I wonder if this was ever considered to be an issue for the Guardians? (if they're still around that is, haven't followed current GL for a while) One of the reasons I stopped reading GL. It got absurd with the number of Earth based GL.
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Post by dave on Jul 22, 2021 7:10:43 GMT -5
I dunno, I kinda take the opposite view as far as the number of Lanterns in Sector 2814. To me, it's a natural evolution of the space-cop concept. You start out with the Guardians sending out rings to lone Lanterns, sending them off to be the sheriff of not just a whole planet but an entire sector of space, and you give them basically zero training or back-up--just this incredibly powerful weapon that comes with no instruction manual, it just kinda does what you want as long as you want it enough. It makes sense to me that you might need more than one dude to safeguard that much territory. Plus, it was established during the Englehart run (which I'm presently reading) that humanity is the next race that will take the evolutionary leap to become like the Guardians--this was the reason they agreed to let the GL Corps originally be established on Earth. (I haven't read enough GL to know if this was retconned post-Crisis....) After that, I think of 2814 as sort of a rough neighborhood that needs a little extra TLC. Any number of characters over the years have made comments about the DCU Earth being a backwater dump--it even gets turned into a prison planet and renamed Takron-Galtos in Justice League 3001, also currently reading. Let Salaak guard the posh space sectors, 2814 is the where all the real s**t goes down.
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Post by dave on Jul 22, 2021 7:27:14 GMT -5
You know, it occurs to me that a lot of the debate about too many Lanterns probably breaks down to how invested each reader is personally with Hal Jordan as "the guy". I've been reading the Broome/Kane run as well, and I can see where readers of the '60s and '70s were used to the idea of Hal as a sort of "chosen one"--out of ALL the people Abin Sur's ring could have gone to on Earth, it went to Hal Jordan, and he's the greatest Lantern who ever was, etc.--but the farther the Corps concept progresses into the '80s and beyond, the more apparent it becomes that Hal was just the nearest guy who qualified to wear the ring when Abin Sur's ship crashed.
So, I like the Corps concept because I frankly don't care if Jordan's in the book at all... but I can see the other POV.
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Post by SJNeal on Jul 24, 2021 13:43:39 GMT -5
Huge GL fan here! I became a fan in the early 90's with Jones & Broderick's run; I missed the relaunch by a year or so and had to track down the early issues. There was a lot that didn't make sense to me, but that didn't matter. I was hooked by the concept and the characters. I followed Hal into Justice League Europe (a run that counts about 11 of us out there as fans of ), and the rest is history. I read GL for a while starting about issue one fifty one and sticking with it to Parallax. I read JLE for a year or so. I really liked it but I stopped when Power Girl got pregnant because I could tell it was going to be stupid. My minor quibble with Jones' JLE was the fact that he had every woman (and some of the men) fawning over how great Hal was 24/7. I'm a huge Hal fan and it was still a bit much for me. The Power Girl pregnancy was very soap opera and went on a little too long, not wrapping until almost 2 yrs later in the post-Zero Hour Justice League America. I still liked it.
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