tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post4032682415837488459..comments2024-03-27T21:12:28.287-05:00Comments on Collected Editions: Review: Green Lantern Vol. 1: Sinestro hardcover/paperback (DC Comics)collectededitionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14698269790653953645noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-44566746885953462822012-05-21T03:45:22.756-05:002012-05-21T03:45:22.756-05:00Sinestro training Hal was never new. For the most ...Sinestro training Hal was never new. For the most recent non-Johns iteration, see Emerald Dawn I & II by Keith Giffen,Jim Owsley and Gerard Jones, which to me still presents a more intriguing origin than Secret Origin.<br /><br />Johns has incorporated Sinestro seamlessly within the new mythos (starting with his run on GL in Rebirth). When you read it from start to current, in Emerald Dawn how the student teacher relationship changes, in Emerald Twilight, when Hal snaps Sinestro's neck, in Sinestro Corps War and now here back to allies, it all seems so epic without being patchy or a downright eyesore.Aalok Madhusudan Joshihttp://aalokmjoshi.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-5730518731737683882012-05-20T19:58:55.116-05:002012-05-20T19:58:55.116-05:00Geoff Johns is the 1st writer in decades to truly ...Geoff Johns is the 1st writer in decades to truly grasp the scope & depth of the GL mythos. Anyone reading Johns GL should be able to grasp in a second that there is so much more that he is just scratching the surface of so far. The worst thing DC could do right now is have Johns the driving force behind GL leave. GL is the 2nd best selling franchise at DC right now & the most consistent franchise. <br /><br />If Johns left I don't even want to think what would happen w/ half assed concepts like New Guardians and the like becoming the norm on GL.Benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14105824639464431432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-39266720758758453572012-05-20T04:20:02.435-05:002012-05-20T04:20:02.435-05:00I'm pretty sure Johns has already had the long...I'm pretty sure Johns has already had the longest run on Green Lantern in history. I think it's about time for him to wrap up his storylines and pass the torch.<br /><br />But honestly, I'd settle for him just wrapping up his storylines. The War of Light was cool for the first two years, but after 4 solid years of it, I'm sick of the concept already. Put the Rainbow Corps (which is a concept that I really do like, and I think people who find it childish should think about the genre they're reading) on the backburner and use some of the rest of the Green Lantern mythos. Johns has said numerous times how rich the Green Lantern mythos is, yet he's used very little of it in favor of his own innovations. Which is fine. But I think the time has come for him or someone else to innovate another angle.<br /><br />Also, I am not going to forgive the complete excision and ignoring of Cowgirl lightly, and I think it's a dreadful waste for Johns to have spent a whole arc detailing how Hal got back into the Air Force, only to have him lose his job after doing almost nothing with it.Imitorarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03789589943902054909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-27529371440794241382012-05-18T06:35:02.697-05:002012-05-18T06:35:02.697-05:00This GL book seems like a pretty straightforward a...This GL book seems like a pretty straightforward ans seamless transition from the previous continuity into this New 52.<br />Recapping the mythos and rules of the GL book, with an all-new twist (good!Sinestro and student!Hal) yet the same formula and usual plots.Eyzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05350758607787528425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-35401257798426448982012-05-17T16:15:31.500-05:002012-05-17T16:15:31.500-05:00Tomasi on Green Lantern is an interesting suggesti...Tomasi on Green Lantern is an interesting suggestion, though I rather like how long Johns has stuck it out on Green Lantern. Seems to me in the "olden days" writers used to remain on books forever -- Mark Waid on Flash is a good example; Dan Jurgens on Superman is another -- and it built a sense of familiarity and voice with the character. Whether that must ultimately lend itself to an end that peters out, I'm not sure.<br /><br />As for Adventures #648, I know that one off the top of my head. No, sorry, never collected.collectededitionshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14698269790653953645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-13752357795878684282012-05-17T11:43:32.263-05:002012-05-17T11:43:32.263-05:00I think this review has illustrated that Geoff Joh...I think this review has illustrated that Geoff Johns should have stopped writing Green Lantern with the reboot. Lots of creators have had great runs on titles, but eventually stayed too long and things got stale. The reboot would have been a great time for Johns to have moved on and a new creator, perhaps Peter Tomasi, take over. Examples of this would be Mark Waid at the end of his Flash run, and it is happening with Ed Brubaker on Captain America. The stories are still good, but they are less then what came before. As CE pointed out many of the story ideas are just rehashes of old ones with a new twist. Thoughts?<br /><br /> *Random question alert* Can anybody tell me if Adventures of Superman #648 was collected anywhere? It was Greg Rucka's last issue of his first run on the title and was an Infinite Crisis tie-in. <br />@CE: This would have been a great question to ask in the Collected Editions Forum. ;)Nikosnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-14971285896395064412012-05-17T08:44:58.988-05:002012-05-17T08:44:58.988-05:00Marketing and such had lead me to believe that the...Marketing and such had lead me to believe that there might be some acknowledgement of Flashpoint in War of the Green Lanterns, but there wasn't -- there's the bit with the Guardians in Flashpoint: Abin Sur, but of course that's out of "our" continuity. <br /><br />Still, I've been wondering the same, whether the Green Lantern title specifically might touch on the changes in the DC Universe (though in terms of moving the company forward, looking back and acknowledging the old continuity might not be the best strategy). <br /><br />In the annual, though? I think they might have bigger things to deal with ... (cue ominous bleeding Green Lantern symbol)collectededitionshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14698269790653953645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-42017475033289962792012-05-17T08:23:19.687-05:002012-05-17T08:23:19.687-05:00Am I the only one hoping that the Green Lantern an...Am I the only one hoping that the Green Lantern annual will explain some of the continuity quirks between the old and new DCUs? Or at least, will it acknowledge that there is a past and present and so we don't need to worry about some of these questions? <br /><br />The situation isn't as bad as "Spider-Man went through the entire Clone Saga, just without MJ", but some of the pre-Rebirth stuff in relation to the rest of the GL storyline would have to be really compressed to work in the new universe.doug.glassmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18018711097234509826noreply@blogger.com