Green Lantern Corps #10 *Preview/Spoilers*

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Green Lantern Corps #10 PREVIEW
Writer: Peter Tomasi
Artist: Fernando Pasarin

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Were I Stewart, I would ask the Alphas: "If a similar circumstance arose again where a Lantern is about to reveal the location of Oa, or other secrets of similar scale, what would you want a fellow Lantern do?"

I doubt the Alphas could answer that, because protecting the Corps (especially the rules) is very much their focus, they can't openly tell other Lanterns not to do their best to protect Oa, neither can they tell other Lanterns to do what Stewart do since such action would be punished by death.

In short, the Alphas punished Stewart based on his crime of murdering a comrade but they themselves probably don't have a good answer to "what else could a Lantern do in that situation."

[Space Cop The Dandy Find all posts View Profile Close Space Cop]

Well, in #9 the video-log conveniently only shows the neck break and not what came before. The Alphas also claimed they can't take Stewart or the one other's GL word for it. So they're not saying he shouldn't have done that, they're saying they don't believe he did.

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The Alphas could NEVER be in that situation. Their rings are always fully charged thanks to the battery embedded in their chests. They could have always taken him alive.

But, like I said before ... they could have made Stewart's choice more ambiguous for the readers. Making an issue about his ring being charged, pointing out that he kileld Mogo, that he killd Old Timer (old continuity, but you take what you get), that he failed to save Xanshi ... most of these things would be unfair and out of context, but it'd provide plenty to make a believable case for excecuting John. I really hate that the only case here is "OMG he killed that one GL." They could have made a much more ambiguous position for John, as this really ought to be. We don't need to be spoonfed his innoncence here.

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The Alphas could NEVER be in that situation. Their rings are always fully charged thanks to the battery embedded in their chests. They could have always taken him alive.

My point was that an ORDINARY Lantern would not have such leisure in the said situation and Alphas must take that into consideration, weighing the safety of Oa on a difficult scale. Given their supposed absolute logic they cannot deem Stewart guilty if such question was asked, but Space Cop did point out that Alphas might not have the complete data of the event to compute correctly (which I doubt).

But, like I said before ... they could have made Stewart's choice more ambiguous for the readers. Making an issue about his ring being charged, pointing out that he kileld Mogo, that he killd Old Timer (old continuity, but you take what you get), that he failed to save Xanshi ... most of these things would be unfair and out of context, but it'd provide plenty to make a believable case for excecuting John. I really hate that the only case here is "OMG he killed that one GL." They could have made a much more ambiguous position for John, as this really ought to be. We don't need to be spoonfed his innoncence here.

Those past events might instead help Stewart's position. Killing Mogo, for one, was an unfortunate requirement in defeating Krona, and while Xanshi's incident was a failure it doesn't warrant punishment. Since Alphas are the only ones who have access to the data (if Salaak knows, he didn't tell), the less they tell the more convincing it would be. Still, the case is fail on Alpha's side because people never liked the Alphas and John had a good enough case/reputation to earn empathy.

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i am REALLY liking GLC


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Those past events might instead help Stewart's position. Killing Mogo, for one, was an unfortunate requirement in defeating Krona, and while Xanshi's incident was a failure it doesn't warrant punishment. Since Alphas are the only ones who have access to the data (if Salaak knows, he didn't tell), the less they tell the more convincing it would be. Still, the case is fail on Alpha's side because people never liked the Alphas and John had a good enough case/reputation to earn empathy.

I'm not saying that these points would really put the nail in the coffin for Stewart for any reasonable person or that they were mistakes, but I AM saying that the Alpha's case could have been more complex and believable. Using these events it's possible to paint John as kill happy; a threat to his allies and dangerously irresponsible with the ring.

These are solid points the Alphas could have made seeing as the Alphas are dicks. Outside of the situation it really looks terrible. Killing TWO fellow GLs in a matter of months (weeks?), killing a Guardian (never mind that he was mad), destroying Xanshi (again, never mind that he didn't really). Hell, if we still had our continuity we could say that he can't be trusted because he worked for the Controllers in their Darkstar program.

I guess my point is, Tomasi was lazy in his argument against John with just the ONE point and even cutting out the context to show us that the Alphas were wrong and John was right ... and I was disappointed in that. It could have been better. In regards to Kirrt's death, we could actually have had a real discussion on whether it was the right thing to do since John escaped right after. I think the Alphas could have found him guilty even without the evidence tampering.

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I guess my point is, Tomasi was lazy in his argument against John with just the ONE point and even cutting out the context to show us that the Alphas were wrong and John was right ... and I was disappointed in that. It could have been better. In regards to Kirrt's death, we could actually have had a real discussion on whether it was the right thing to do since John escaped right after. I think the Alphas could have found him guilty even without the evidence tampering.

Yes, it could've been better, although ironically it does make Alphas look more simple-minded and threatening. When Laira was on trial the Guardians encouraged her to repent and said the ring might find her again, giving Alphas full authority on this case instead of taking parts only add to that ominous feeling.

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Awesome preview! GLC has really picked up, I can't wait to see what the GLs do to try and save John.

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...I guess my point is, Tomasi was lazy in his argument against John with just the ONE point and even cutting out the context to show us that the Alphas were wrong and John was right ... and I was disappointed in that. It could have been better. In regards to Kirrt's death, we could actually have had a real discussion on whether it was the right thing to do since John escaped right after. I think the Alphas could have found him guilty even without the evidence tampering.

Yeah, when they solicited this trial I was expecting something like that—a full trial considering the pros and cons of what he did there and in the past. It could've been interesting. Now, however, it's clear he's being railroaded, so when it's all over things will return to normal except there will probably be GLs that hate him like they did Hal.

[Tommy Boy Hal's Understudy Find all posts View Profile Close Tommy Boy]

I bet he puts on a funny mask and starts carrying a gun.

[Space Cop The Dandy Find all posts View Profile Close Space Cop]

I bet he puts on a funny mask and starts carrying a gun.

And gets an Arabic tattoo just to throw them off?

[JohnMc Senior Corps Member Find all posts View Profile Close JohnMc]

I wonder if they're going to go with the cliche'd "The Alphas are being controlled somehow" bit again.

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I wonder if they're going to go with the cliche'd "The Alphas are being controlled somehow" bit again.

I think I'd rather that than have the Alphas conveniently act as a plot device to further the Guardian's nefarious ends out of sheer coincidence. Their sentence is so out of left field given the circumstances that for them to have arrived there WITHOUT outside influence is simply stupid.

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I think I'd rather that than have the Alphas conveniently act as a plot device to further the Guardian's nefarious ends out of sheer coincidence. Their sentence is so out of left field given the circumstances that for them to have arrived there WITHOUT outside influence is simply stupid.

I think I would rather the Alphas had been retconned out during Flashpoint. They ruined a bunch of characters that have done absolutely nothing despite the huge buildup Johns gave them.