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Huh, interesting indeed. Thanks, Ben!
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Welcome to the Corps! Loved your run, was some of the best Kyle Stories!Comment
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If any of the continuity from my run was intentionally used as the foundation for anything that's going in the books now, it's news to me. The sense I got from the opening pages of #176 was that it was all getting swept under the rug to make way for Hal's return. But maybe...Originally posted by Nived View PostComment
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Any thoughts on the current direction and state of affairs for GL and Kyle Rayner?
Do you lean more toward Hal, or Kyle?Comment
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To be perfectly frank, I'm WAAAAAY behind on my GL reading (I know, for SHAME!) so I can't really comment on the current direction. I will say that even though I feel privileged to have written Kyle, I've always been a Hal fan at heart. Which is why I was both psyched and crushed to learn of his return. Psyched because he always was THE GL to me... but crushed because after reading about "big changes to GL in the coming year" in Wizard magazine only a month after my run began, I realized I wouldn't be the one writing his new adventures. But hey, at least I got to write one Hal/Alan Scott story for the DC 1st one-shot...Originally posted by Andrew NDB View PostComment
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That's a very crummy way to find out the end was nigh...Originally posted by BenjaminRaab View Post
Would you say that Hal was more or less compelling as Parallax?
That was you? That was badass.But hey, at least I got to write one Hal/Alan Scott story for the DC 1st one-shot...Comment
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Are any of your/his arcs available in hardcover/trade paper back?
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I believe all of Kyles run is available in TPB at this point, though I do not know the name of the one containing Ben's stories.Originally posted by xionice View PostComment
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Well Ben, its not so much that that dangling plot hook was used just this fan thought it was for a long long time.
In the leadup to Infinite Crisis in Rann/Thannagar War and I think maybe Recharge Kyle was told he shouldn't be alive, or shouldn't exist, in IC I think it was Alexander Luthor or Superboy Prime that made some comment about how Kyle shouldn't exist, in the Ion maxi the Monitors said Kyle shouldn't exist/be alive, and in Countdown he was declared a multiversal anomaly that shouldn't exist!
I looked back at your story and thought "Well right there's when he 'should have been dead' wonder how Lianna figures into all this." But I guess I was the only one.
I guess it was just refering to how the 'world went wrong after the Crisis' and how 'Kyle was supposed to die at Rann/Thann rather than Jade' even though both IC and the actually "Rann/Thann" series seemed to assume the other would carry this part of the story, because it was implied but never shown really what the big deal with that series was.
Shame referencing back to Lianna would have made more sense.Comment
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Yeah, it sucked. But it's ancient history at this point.Originally posted by Andrew NDB View Post
Was never a fan of the whole Parallax thing. It seemed forced and artificial to me at the time.
Yeah, I did that Alan/Hal story. It was A LOT of fun. And Pete Woods did a BEAUTIFUL job on it. My favorite page is that splash shot of Alan Scott seeing the Guardians for the first time... What an awesome image! Imagine my surprise when that story wound up in the "Greatest GL Storied Ever Told" TPB! Truly an honor...Comment
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Except for the DC 1st one-shot, none of my GL stories have been collected into a TPB as far as I know of...Originally posted by GLJIMT View PostComment
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I appreciate that you took the time to hunt that plot point down and consider it as a possible explanation. Means a lot to me. Thanks.Originally posted by Nived View Post
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What's your favorite work within your core GL run?
Another question... if you'd had the chance, where would you have taken Kyle beyond where things were left with his whole odyssey in space? In your vision, would you have ultimately gravitated him back to Earth at some point, or do you see him falling more into the traditional role of a galactic protector in space as an evolution of the character?
What do you think about where Lianna was taken in the Omega Men?Comment
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Ben just wanted to say that I loved the cast you where introducing and using during your run with Liana now MIA or with the Omega Men or something and Dark Lantern Wog those 2 where my favorites!Comment
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Yes, I loved him drawing from Last Will & Testament in that way.Originally posted by GLJIMT View Post
I wonder... Ben, was bringing back Kilowog dictated by DC, or was that something you brought to the table? I'm assuming you used the 80s issue of GL Vol. 2 where Kilowog carried all the life-essences of his dead planet as at least a loose reference.Comment
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