Green Lantern #27 *spoilers*

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guess so

ei, i just remembered RAKER in this issue ahhaha!! good thng you posted eehhe!!

i didnt like how he was drawn, did you ?

No, he was too big and muscular. I hope that Reis does a better job drawing him Mackone is a good artist but some of the GL's looked off somewhat.

[Mister Ed Horse of a Different Color Find all posts View Profile Close Mister Ed]

Also relieved to see that the GLs involved in the Alpha project really do actually volunteer... I was fearing a scenario where Lanterns would just be "chosen" by the Guardians, then drug kicking and screaming to be forcibly operated upon -- this would have been a bit of a stretch to not get any immediate GL Corps backlash about.

Well, I got the impression that, while they did volunteer, they had no clear idea of what they were volunteering FOR exactly. (I found it a bit disturbing that of all those folks, John Stewart is the only one that wanted some clarification, and the Guardians were actually disappointed by that. Frankly, I would think that sort of mindless devotion to the Guardians would be a liability, one that the Guardians would have learned of by now. What kind of law officer will mindlessly pledge to enforce laws without even knowing what those laws are?) I sure thought the beginning of that "cosmic surgery" scene played like the participants were grabbed and restrained, then forcibly operated upon. I sure got the impression that at least SOME of them might have backed out when they realized what was going on, IF they weren't being restrained. But the rank and file Corps won't know that, as that scene played out behind the scenes. The public record consists solely of them volunteering. I gotta say, though, now that the Alpha Lanterns are revealed, if one of them goes down, they might have a bit harder time scaring up volunteers for replacing them.

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guess so

ei, i just remembered RAKER in this issue ahhaha!! good thng you posted eehhe!!

i didnt like how he was drawn, did you ?

No, he was too big and muscular. I hope that Reis does a better job drawing him Mackone is a good artist but some of the GL's looked off somewhat.

Why was he even still on Oa? I would think Raker would hightail it back to Apokolips as soon as the immediate crisis was over (in fact I found it out of character that he would have left Apokolips unmanned even for the Sinestro Corps War, especially if he has a partner available).

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I just read the issue, very good issue i really liked it because its moving things along and setting up stories for the future. yeah its hard to get used to the regular titles again after the hight impact Sinestro Corps War arc.

Im glad John rejected the Alpha Lantern offer. I mean did anybody else notice the trickery behind accepting it?

I mean while i was reading the guardians made it sound like the pinnacle of honor and all that and a bag of chips. BUT they left the catch till the very end and that was "you must leave who and what you are to move foward."

Then when Chaselon accepts they get the real catch cosmic surgery basically selling their souls.

I really don't believe any of them really knew what they were getting into. Their "duty" and others "need for power"(Kraken) blinded them of what they were really getting into.

Anybody else now pissed at the Lost Lanterns for leaving Laira just out there to dry with their statements of "murder." I don't know I was divided on that but either way good stuff....can't wait till the next one!!

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[QUOTE=Aberration;32670]That's been bugging me for awhile too (no pun intended). I would have said that the 4 Earthmens' lanterns (and all lanterns) are connected to the Central Power Battery, so even though Parallax isn't in the CPB, he's still linked to it, thus the weakness remains. It's a thin explanation, but it's better than saying the weakness is completely arbitrary when there are five other colors besides yellow out there.

This is the same conclusion, I came to. I also wonder if even though his power is very limited, if Parallax can't influence the Alpha Lanterns eventually. They have a power battery infused into their chests, that provides a direct link back to the CPB. If Parallax, can instill fear and overide their central programing, they can eventlually become vessels for him to escape to. Giving him direct access to the CPB and possibly making him as powerful as he was when He and Hal had all the corps power absorbed in them.

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I liked the issue. I am betting this Alpha-Manhunter business is going to come back and bite the Guardians and the Corps in the ass, though, and HARD!

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I liked the issue. I am betting this Alpha-Manhunter business is going to come back and bite the Guardians and the Corps in the ass, though, and HARD!

Probably is.

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Yeah, that's just braindead. I mean, I know you aren't fond of the Parallax retcon in any case, but you gotta admit, one thing it DID do nicely was explain the previously unexplained lack of a yellow weakness in Kyle's ring, and it did it rather neatly, too IMHO. But not anymore, dangit! Now we are left wondering once again why Kyle NEVER had a yellow weakness, and why?

Kyle's ring was explained by Ganthet in GL62 (Vol 3.). Kyle asks about the yellow weakness and the 24hr time limit and Ganthet tells him that they were due to impurities (that's word is actually bold text in the issue by the way - freaky coincidence?) in the Central Power Battery, and because his ring was constructed AFTER its destruction it wasn't linked to it. Kyle's battery was also a shard of Oa itself, so again not linked to the battery or the impurities.

Hope that clears that one up for you.

[Mister Ed Horse of a Different Color Find all posts View Profile Close Mister Ed]

Kyle's ring was explained by Ganthet in GL62 (Vol 3.). Kyle asks about the yellow weakness and the 24hr time limit and Ganthet tells him that they were due to impurities (that's word is actually bold text in the issue by the way - freaky coincidence?) in the Central Power Battery, and because his ring was constructed AFTER its destruction it wasn't linked to it. Kyle's battery was also a shard of Oa itself, so again not linked to the battery or the impurities.

Hope that clears that one up for you.

Actually, I believe Kyle's battery was made from a shard of the CPB, but I could be wrong on that.

But first off, that explanation of Kyle's lack of a yellow weakness didn't make sense at the time because the yellow impurity had, previously, always been referred to as NECESSARY, as in, if it isn't present, the technology DOESN'T WORK.

Post-Rebirth that explanation DID make sense, in a way, assuming Ganthet was dealing in a Jedi sort of "point-of-view" version of the truth.

Now, however, it doesn't make sense again, as it has been re-retconned into Parallax's mere EXISTENCE causing the weakness, which means that Kyle SHOULD have had it all along.

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Actually, I believe Kyle's battery was made from a shard of the CPB, but I could be wrong on that.

But first off, that explanation of Kyle's lack of a yellow weakness didn't make sense at the time because the yellow impurity had, previously, always been referred to as NECESSARY, as in, if it isn't present, the technology DOESN'T WORK.

Post-Rebirth that explanation DID make sense, in a way, assuming Ganthet was dealing in a Jedi sort of "point-of-view" version of the truth.

Now, however, it doesn't make sense again, as it has been re-retconned into Parallax's mere EXISTENCE causing the weakness, which means that Kyle SHOULD have had it all along.

My head hurts, I thought I understood it, I don't understand why after the re-retconning that it should have been in his ring/lantern.

[Mister Ed Horse of a Different Color Find all posts View Profile Close Mister Ed]

My head hurts, I thought I understood it, I don't understand why after the re-retconning that it should have been in his ring/lantern.

It's simple. After the latest retcon, it is supposedly the case that Parallax's mere existence causes a yellow weakness in the rings until one learns to overcome it, even though he is no longer in the Central Power Battery. Parallax existed during Kyle's entire tenure as GL, therefore his ring SHOULD (by the most recent logic, anyway) have had a yellow weakness that entire time, unless he had learned to overcome it, which Rebirth showed us he had not, yet.