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Originally posted by W.West
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QFT. I just dropped all the GL titles until Johns is gone and this pointless event is done. -
I'm still interested in Simon, he is an interesting character and his family problems and life problems still intrigue me. I'm still on board, but yeah, what will Hal and Sinestro being doing in the mean time while the Third Army is hunting everyone down?Comment
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Yes he did and Flash is his favorite character. I hope they put someone who can craft better stories and use the characters to the fullest like the Animated Series can.Originally posted by SD80MAC View PostNo Sir, I punched the viceroy in the stomach, then I headbutted him in the face. Sir.-Hal Jordan
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I wish DC would release Original Graphic Novels that would feature key stories in the Green Lantern Corps history that would fit in The New 52 timeline. These would help us to know which events we knew before bear relevance today.
Simon Baz is now the new Green Lantern, but I'm still more of a Hal Jordan fan. I would really like to see Hal get the lead back in this title not in the same way issues 1-12 happened when he shares the spotlight with Sinestro. I still believe Sinestro should be back in a yellow suit.
But I will still would like to see how Simon Baz will make it to become a Green Lantern on his own. It is exciting when new characters gets introduced.Comment
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That would be nice, but I'm not expecting it. I think they want to keep the past fluid so they can decide later what is and is not in continuity any more. That could be why Johns hasn't pinned down if Hal was Parallaxed or what exactly happened for Kyle to get his ring; he doesn't have to commit to one story.Originally posted by greenblogger View Post
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And, let's be honest, that's just not important anymore. Moving forward instead of fixating on the past is what really needs to be done.Comment
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People who doubt Hal was Parallax are overthinking things. It's not like it was mentioned all the time in Vol 4 anyway. Why would they mention it out of the blue?
Reprinting old comics would be a foolhardy effort because not everything in those comics are valid anymore. Case in point, ET. ET makes no mention of space paracites and it probably mentioned Reign of the Supermen at the beginning, so to work it'd really need to be rewritten. Kyle's best stories involve Jade, Major Force, and Alan Scott and you'd need to rewrite or redraw a lot of them just to make them fit.
Blackest Night is another example. Clearly it happened, but it couldn't have happed as it was. None of the main heroes have died, Martian Manhunter never knew Hal ... not even the GL issues are the same. You can't really reprint any of it as part of the New 52.
As annoyed as we may be as fans, I think it may be even worse if they try to answer these questions. Because they'll just contradict themselves later.Comment
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I agree. We know War of the Green Lanterns happened to some extent (it was necessary background to the main volume and RL) which heavily involved the entities. My opinion is those are still on the table until we read something like Hal has always been good and has never died.Originally posted by Gauntlet101010 View Post
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I don't think WotGLs has to be retconned at all. It was probably around then that they knew they were going to be doing SOME kind of reboot, so it stands to reason that that story is probably the most stable.Originally posted by Space Cop View Post
Birghtest Day, however, is only mostly stable. If only because of the appearance of the Specter.Comment
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Instead of retconning things out of GL history, they'd be better off just going on and not mentioning certain things in the past again. Hell, that's a time honored tradition in comics!
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This.Originally posted by Big Daddy Dave View Post
Trying to nail down a consistent history that wouldn't be a giant retcon party and retelling shindig would be impossible. Hal's supposed to be brash and young AND GL is supposed to be somewhat continuing the storylines regardless of the Spew52? Whatever. Just call it already.
My money still says they're hedging their bets. If they get to push out a bunch of new stories, they coddle the balls of the writers that may be pissing and moaning about being pigeonholed by continuity all in an environment that still smells AltU to me. And as long as New 52 sells books, run with it until the steam is lost and you can essentially "reset" what you did. Enter Pandora, stretch a giant all-title event into the books, and blammo, we're back to where we were.
Personally I blame Morrison and Liefeld. Don't know why, but it's easy enough to do.Comment
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Morrison? Multiversity Morrison? Everything-is-in-plus-the-kitchen-sink Morrison? He has to be one of the biggest fan of old comics there is.Originally posted by Tommy Boy View Post
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And he often takes it waaayyy too far.Comment
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