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[Trey Strain Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Trey Strain]

If there were five Green Lantern titles, would you like to see two of them based on Earth instead of all of them being based in space?

[SD80MAC Not a True Fan Find all posts View Profile Close SD80MAC]

Sure. One Kyle book. One classic/anthology book, featuring early Hal and the Corps.

The other three GL books would be Corps in space...and I don't know. Where would you place two more GL books?

[Trey Strain Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Trey Strain]

If I'm writing it,then it's Green Lantern and Emerald Flame based on Earth, and The Green Lantern Corps, Lantern Academy and Mosaic in space. Kyle is in Lantern Academy.

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

Between those two options, I'd go for two based on Earth.

But I think one based on Earth would likely be sufficient (unless it was a Simon Baz book. When I want a GL book on Earth, it isn't so much about Earth itself, but about having a book where one or more of the established GLs are able to reconnect with their formerly established on-Earth lives. I don't really care about Baz, and if there was only one Earth book, I wouldn't want him taking the spot in preference to one of the GLs with established Earth lives).

I'm not sure I'd even want five whole GL books, though I'd likely try them all if they existed (well, I've never been as interested in Alan Scott, so a book focusing solely on him might get a pass if he remained unconnected with the Corps). If I was to try to come up with five books, I guess I'd go with:

an Earth-based Hal or Kyle book

a GLC book that was a team book anchored by one or two of the other Earth GLs

an anthology-type, with one-off stories of a wide variety of alien GLs (maybe a few of the other color types in there on occasion if they are still sticking around)

a Mosaic-type book for whatever non-Baz Earth GL that wasn't already covered in the other books (not necessarily Mosaic specifically, but a book where one of the GLs ends up in a unique situation that represents a sort of ongoing quest for them)

and then for the fifth? Uhhh...I don't have any really compelling ideas. There are certainly possibilities. The idea of a title involving the training of new GLs (I think you mentioned such a concept?) is a promising one, IMHO. Could even throw Baz in there to give him some training and give us a chance to care about him.

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

Well, maybe one (preferably Kyle's), but space-faring action is part of what I always dug about GL anyway (I loved the arc in s2 where Hal was banished from earth).

[Trey Strain Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Trey Strain]

This is Emerald Flame, and it's set on Earth. Green Lantern would be too. I realize that it's been so long since a GL title has been based on Earth that people would have a hard time imagining it. It's a pity that things have gone THAT far in the space direction.

Alan can be gay and/or kept separate from the Corps on Earth 2. I've got nothing to do with that. This is Earth 1.

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[Big Daddy Dave Skywalker Moisture Farmer Find all posts View Profile Close Big Daddy Dave Skywalker]

If I were to have FIVE GL books? I'm assuming I could cancel all of the rainbow titles and just have Green Lantern titles. If I had five GREEN monthlies, I would want the characters in different places to spice things up. I'd do:

Hal solo title on Earth and space.

Kyle solo title on Earth only.

Guy GLC title in space. Maybe an undercover type of setting like the Corpse concept offered.

John solo title in space, putting him on a special mission, like the 5 year mission on Star Trek or something.

Actually, screw five titles. Four is plenty. The GLC could be covered plenty between Guy and John's titles. Anything else would be overkill, not gravy.

[Trey Strain Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Trey Strain]

If I were to have FIVE GL books? I'm assuming I could cancel all of the rainbow titles and just have Green Lantern titles. If I had five GREEN monthlies, I would want the characters in different places to spice things up. I'd do:

Hal solo title on Earth and space.

Kyle solo title on Earth only.

Guy GLC title in space. Maybe an undercover type of setting like the Corpse concept offered.

John solo title in space, putting him on a special mission, like the 5 year mission on Star Trek or something.

Actually, screw five titles. Four is plenty. The GLC could be covered plenty between Guy and John's titles. Anything else would be overkill, not gravy.

That's pretty close to what I'm proposing, except I'd have Kyle in space in Lantern Academy and Alan on Earth in the fifth title. And yeah, they're all GREEN. Come on, Dave, break down and scroll up, click on that link and take a look at my script for an Alan title. I think after you read it you'll be ready for change.

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Me am no do fanfiction.

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

I think after you read it you'll be ready for change.

I dunno. I thought I remembered Dave being a Spectre fan? Your script makes some serious...unflattering changes to the character of Jim Corrigan that might not sit right with anybody who was a fan of the original.

[Trey Strain Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Trey Strain]

You need to get behind me to write GL. Take a look.

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

You need to get behind me to write GL. Take a look.

Are you talking to me? Or Dave. I read the script. As somebody with no particular attachment to the Spectre, I thought it was fine. Promising start to a story, though my lackluster level of interest in Alan Scott kind of tempers any excitement.

I'm actually quite a fan of Raker, but only as part of the story of the lone GL stranded on Apokolips, working against Darkseid behind the scenes with no official support. Take him off Apokolips without a really compelling story to justify the change and replace it with an equally intriguing narrative and you may as well just invent a new character as far as I'm concerned.

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Are you talking to me? Or Dave. I read the script. As somebody with no particular attachment to the Spectre, I thought it was fine. Promising start to a story, though my lackluster level of interest in Alan Scott kind of tempers any excitement.

I'm actually quite a fan of Raker, but only as part of the story of the lone GL stranded on Apokolips, working against Darkseid behind the scenes with no official support. Take him off Apokolips without a really compelling story to justify the change and replace it with an equally intriguing narrative and you may as well just invent a new character as far as I'm concerned.

I was talking to Dave. But Raker gets off Apokolips in issues 1-4 of the GLC here. He's a great GL, and they don't even use him.:

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

I'm glad you've got a storyline explaining his exit from Apokolips. I'd need to actually read a script to better form an opinion about whether it seems sufficiently compelling to replace his defining narrative as the unofficial GL of Apokolips. Do you have a script for that one?

In my mind he's the sort of character that is largely defined by his circumstances. To me the reason he is so compelling a character is the whole notion of him trapped and largely powerless on a world FULL of evil, yet still choosing to fight the good fight, and fulfill his oath against hopeless odds and for LONG years, with no official recognition or support.

It doesn't bother me that they don't use him if they don't have any good story ideas that add to that narrative. Pull him out of that situation and he runs the risk of losing what really made him unique, unless you can come up with an equally compelling mission for him. I was very disappointed when, post-Rebirth, he simply showed up as a regular member of the GLC, off Apokolips, with no explanation, and no real development to attempt to maintain his uniqueness.

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I'm glad you've got a storyline explaining his exit from Apokolips. I'd need to actually read a script to better form an opinion about whether it seems sufficiently compelling to replace his defining narrative as the unofficial GL of Apokolips. Do you have a script for that one?

In my mind he's the sort of character that is largely defined by his circumstances. To me the reason he is so compelling a character is the whole notion of him trapped and largely powerless on a world FULL of evil, yet still choosing to fight the good fight, and fulfill his oath against hopeless odds and for LONG years, with no official recognition or support.

It doesn't bother me that they don't use him if they don't have any good story ideas that add to that narrative. Pull him out of that situation and he runs the risk of losing what really made him unique, unless you can come up with an equally compelling mission for him. I was very disappointed when, post-Rebirth, he simply showed up as a regular member of the GLC, off Apokolips, with no explanation, and no real development to attempt to maintain his uniqueness.

I'm proposing five titles, and I'm going to write the first eight issues of each. That would include the Apokolips story. The set-up is that the inhabitants of the planet need to be moved. So what are the bad guys there going to do? Darkseid will seem to go along, but he has a double-cross planned for the Corps.