tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post6674541891206523803..comments2024-03-27T21:12:28.287-05:00Comments on Collected Editions: Review: The Green Lantern Season Two Vol. 1 hardcover/paperback (DC Comics)collectededitionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14698269790653953645noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-36961626477612449302020-12-16T13:17:03.097-06:002020-12-16T13:17:03.097-06:00There's an old Silver Age Flash story that had...There's an old Silver Age Flash story that had intelligent human headed birds on prehistoric Earth. I think it's Flash 125 and the first appearance of the cosmic treadmill. And of course they were never explained and probably never mentioned again. That's what I assumed the weird bird people were a reference tooSpeed Bumphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02668451286735319231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-9952236279060833002020-12-14T18:25:15.989-06:002020-12-14T18:25:15.989-06:00The brilliance of Morrison finally agreeing to tac...The brilliance of Morrison finally agreeing to tackle Green Lantern is that he so effortlessly proved himself wrong. He didn’t think the material was that interesting. But Green Lantern is about as pure superhero storytelling as you’re ever likely to find. Free of the constraints he barely acknowledged but still had to abide by with Superman and Batman, he gets to cut loose completely. This is stuff fans will be digging years from now. It’s not just Morrison being weird for the sake of being weird. I think he definitely indulges that in other work because he thinks that’s what fans expect from him, and he loves to indulge that image. But at heart there’s really no bigger fan of the medium than Grant Morrison, who never lets himself get bogged down by expectations. And sometimes it’s easy to get into and sometimes it isn’t. Actually, more often than not it isn’t, but it’s rarely a fault of the material, even though flummoxed readers often decide so. Tony Laplumehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07854455859399339169noreply@blogger.com