tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post2682179902583015328..comments2024-03-27T21:12:28.287-05:00Comments on Collected Editions: Review: Tales of the Green Lantern Corps Vol. 1 trade paperback (DC Comics)collectededitionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14698269790653953645noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-71637594083919015292010-08-12T05:49:58.938-05:002010-08-12T05:49:58.938-05:00Englehart did write Millennium, which was essentia...Englehart did write Millennium, which was essentially a GL-based crossover, as Englehart was the Green Lantern (actually "Green Lantern Corps") writer at the time.D. Mark Simmshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16537028797086907873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-6452136983928196392010-08-11T16:50:58.826-05:002010-08-11T16:50:58.826-05:00The Englehart JLA issues you mention are #140 and ...The Englehart JLA issues you mention are #140 and 141, not collected as far as I can tell. There's a lot of hinting in Green Lantern as to why the Manhunters went crazy, and surely there's a story coming that bears the collecting of those early issues. Englehart wrote Millennium, too, that also included the Manhunters, if I understand correctly.collectededitionshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14698269790653953645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-57063247096057929742010-08-05T18:11:58.655-05:002010-08-05T18:11:58.655-05:00Most longtime GL fans (such as myself) have repeat...Most longtime GL fans (such as myself) have repeatedly pointed to the Tales fo the GLC miniseries from 1981 as the greatest GL epic ever done.<br /><br />And ~30 years later...it's still hard to argue otherwise. The storytelling style is a tad archaic, perhaps, but the plot and basic character beats are pitch-perfect.<br /><br />So it came as no surprise that in writing what is being billed as the biggest GL story of the modern era - Blackest Night - Geoff Johns is actually just telling a sequel to this story.<br /><br />And that is apropos. Once John broome left GL in 1970, little was done to build upon the GL mythos, as Denny O'Neil turned GL into a more grounded, Earthbound adventurer/crusader. The only significant addition to the GL mythos actually took place outside the GL series: In his JLA run, Steve Englehart created the Manhunter robots as a precursor to the Green Lantern Corps. In the story the Manhunters frame Hal Jordan for the (faked) destruction of their home planet, as a means of discrediting their former bosses the Guardians.<br /><br />And even today, a fair amount of what Geoff Johns has done in his GL to build up Abin Sur has its roots in this story. Here Abin is presented as a legend in his own right, one beloved by the other Lanterns - a mirror to what would happen to Jordan beginning with this story. The two are tied together by fate and succession, something Johns has built upon by adding Sinestro as another link between Hal and Abin Sur.Sandor Cleganenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-8990731264401263502010-07-06T15:03:40.496-05:002010-07-06T15:03:40.496-05:00If you read In Brightest Day, I think you'll f...If you read In Brightest Day, I think you'll find Tales of the Green Lantern Corps Vol. 1 a good companion book. The Alan Scott/Hal Jordan story in In Brightest Day gets a mention in Tales, and the character who's resurrected in one of In Brightest Day's two-part stories (if you've read it, you know), dies in Tales -- that is, there's a lot of give and take between In Brightest Day and Tales Vol. 1. Review of In Brightest Day coming Thursday, actually.<br /><br />I'll have to fix the Contact link; if you want to email, my address is in the footer at right. Thanks!collectededitionshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14698269790653953645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-91779383414330609182010-07-06T05:46:50.064-05:002010-07-06T05:46:50.064-05:00Pre 1985 is usually my cut off, but this sounds qu...Pre 1985 is usually my cut off, but this sounds quite worthwhile and compatible with the GL books that come later.Hixnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-29215825684602590862010-07-06T00:29:52.466-05:002010-07-06T00:29:52.466-05:00On an unrelated note, the link to your "Conta...On an unrelated note, the link to your "Contact" page seems to be broken. I only note because I was interested in writing a guest review or two for you. :DZach Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17905320964723323391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-61601160433953160012010-07-05T18:25:16.932-05:002010-07-05T18:25:16.932-05:00I has just deleted this (and the second volume) fr...I has just deleted this (and the second volume) from my Amazon wish list, and now it looks like I'm going to put it right back on. Thanks, CE.<br /><br />Seriously, this is why I love your site. Here's a book I probably would not have given a second thought to. I've got a few GLC stories in "In Brightest Day" and my Alan Moore collection (which I'm sorry to see DC is cannibalizing and doling out into smaller Moore-centric volumes like the "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?" deluxe edition), and I had been content with those. Now it looks like I'm missing a valuable piece of the puzzle - particularly because I'm a sucker for these "first appearances" collections.<br /><br />I'm glad (though not surprised) to hear that modern continuity builds on what went before instead of blatantly contradicting it. I know Geoff Johns takes a lot of flak for "borrowing" from the GL mythos; Alan Moore is the loudest voice in this camp, complaining that today's stories have been stolen wholesale from his writings of yesterday, but that's exactly what I love about comic books, DC in particular: this is a company that, despite minor bumps in the road, always ends up rewarding long-time readers, even if it's just with little references here and there. So that's why I'm going to end up getting this, I think - because I like being "in on the joke," so to speak.Zach Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17905320964723323391noreply@blogger.com