The Green Lantern by Grant Morrison and Liam Sharp

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

He hasn't had a job in years. No need for him to go back to it. And a NASCAR driver can't make his own hours. They're busy most Saturdays and Sundays (not to mention in-between stuff). What's he going to do when he's on lap 17 of the Coca Cola 600 and galactic war breaks out? Just pop out the window in front of a thousand spectators and millions watching on camera? Tell the Guardians they'll have to wait several hours?

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

Test pilots are becoming obsolete. Software is taking their jobs. Nobody is going to pay for test pilots and their life insurance policies when they can program software at a fraction of the cost.

Race car drivers will always have jobs.

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

Test pilots are becoming obsolete. Software is taking their jobs. Nobody is going to pay for test pilots and their life insurance policies when they can program software at a fraction of the cost.

Race car drivers will always have jobs.

Again, he doesn’t have a job now. It’s not a question of him being a test pilot vs. something else. It’s a question of adding a job he doesn’t have. When he did last have a job it was with the air force and they made it clear he’s not that any more.

[Andrew NDB Shot Caller Find all posts View Profile Close Andrew NDB]

Again, he doesn’t have a job now. It’s not a question of him being a test pilot vs. something else. It’s a question of adding a job he doesn’t have. When he did last have a job it was with the air force and they made it clear he’s not that any more.

But has he really improved as a character since he wasn't that?

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

But has he really improved as a character since he wasn't that?

I'm not arguing for or against that, but Trey keeps proposing this as an alternative to test pilot as if that's what he is. He hasn't been that in decades. And I don't think an answer would be a job that you can't leave or re-arrange and which has a celebrity status that means many more people/cameras are looking at you.

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

His supporting cast -- Carol, Tom and Carl -- are connected to his job.

Yeah, I know. Every writer thinks he has a "better" idea than that. Just like every writer thinks he can create a "better" Green Lantern. But it never works out that way. Any writer who thinks he has a "better" idea should create his own comic.

Just put Hal on Earth in a viable profession that features his supporting cast. His REAL supporting cast, not Cowgirl.

How does a billionaire like Bruce Wayne find the opportunity to do all the stuff Batman does? Come on. It's comic books.

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

^Yeah, Bruce is right on the edge with his "job." They do explain that he's essentially a trust-fund baby and doesn't have to show up for meetings and such, but then they try to have their cake and eat it too by showing him very aware of what Wayne Enterprises is doing.

[Big Blue Lantern Corps Honor Guard Find all posts View Profile Close Big Blue Lantern]

Race car drivers will always have jobs.

Hal has never shown any interest, at least that I can remember, in race cars. After traveling the skies of Earth and the cosmos, I could see him laughing at the idea of being confined to terrestrial vehicles. Racing sounds much more like a Baz characteristic than a Hal one.

An updated job (like DC did with Earth One) is a viable idea, just not racing. There are still other ways for Highball to be Highball.

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

Being a test pilot is dangerous. That's why John Broome gave Hal that job.

Racing cars is dangerous too.

A test pilot needs a company to work for. That's how Hal got his supporting cast.

A race driver needs a company to work for too.

It's the very same idea.

This would require a reboot. And that's a GOOD thing. Many BAD things could be flushed with a reboot -- including Kyle's origin, John's destroying planets and the Giffen era of Guy.

Just don't let someone like Geoff do it, because he'd be more interested in adding his own stuff than in getting rid of the bad stuff. He'd also change hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of small details, for no other reason than to mark it as his territory -- the same reason that a dog pisses on its surroundings.

[Big Blue Lantern Corps Honor Guard Find all posts View Profile Close Big Blue Lantern]

Being a test pilot is dangerous. That's why John Broome gave Hal that job.

Racing cars is dangerous too.

A test pilot needs a company to work for. That's how Hal got his supporting cast.

A race driver needs a company to work for too.

It's the very same idea.

They're not even close to being comparable. Flight is about reaching beyond the bounds of gravity. Racing is a sport, and a niche one at that. I can't imagine it inspiring new readers or being accepted by old ones since it's counterintuitive to the original concept.

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

The kindest thing I can say about that post is that it's all wrong.

A niche profession? Well, how the many test pilots are there? I bet there are fewer of them than there are race car drivers. And soon there'll be none at all.

Besides that, how many professions are dangerous? There are darned few, and every one of them is "niche."

A race driver has the same mentality as a test pilot, except more so, because a race car is even more dangerous than a new aircraft. He's a test pilot on steroids.

Jessica Cruz is not doing so well in over in Odyssey and needs you.

[Big Blue Lantern Corps Honor Guard Find all posts View Profile Close Big Blue Lantern]

The kindest thing I can say about that post is that it's all wrong.

A niche profession? Well, how the many test pilots are there? I bet there are fewer of them than there are race car drivers. And soon there'll be none at all.

Besides that, how many professions are dangerous? There are darned few, and every one of them is "niche."

A race driver has the same mentality as a test pilot, except more so, because a race car is even more dangerous than a new aircraft. He's a test pilot on steroids.

Jessica Cruz is not doing so well in over in Odyssey and needs you.

Yes, in terms of worldwide sports, car racing is a niche sport. Outside of the southern U.S., I seriously doubt if "race car driver" is going to resonate with large amounts of readers. I certainly respect their skills, but nothing about it meshes with the concept of Green Lantern outside of the occasional handy construct.

And how exactly would I help a character who has appeared in a recent movie and is making regular TV appearances? The "Big" & "Blue" in my name is just a sports reference, it doesn't mean I'm Doctor Manhattan.

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

The kindest thing I can say about that post is that it's all wrong.

A niche profession? Well, how the many test pilots are there? I bet there are fewer of them than there are race car drivers. And soon there'll be none at all.

Besides that, how many professions are dangerous? There are darned few, and every one of them is "niche."

A race driver has the same mentality as a test pilot, except more so, because a race car is even more dangerous than a new aircraft. He's a test pilot on steroids.

Jessica Cruz is not doing so well in over in Odyssey and needs you.

The premise that test pilots are gone or going away is flawed. While hot shot, hair on fire, legendary characters like the Chuck Yeagers and Neil Armstrongs may be going away, test pilots are not. Not even close. Not only your big contract outfits like Boeing, Northrup, and Lockheed-Martin are staffing pilots. The FAA, DoD, and each service branch all staff test pilots.

Hal still has a VERY viable career. Now if Ferris was more skunk work-y and less 1944, it'd make much more sense in the practical, but test pilots aren't going anywhere.

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The Green Lantern Season Two #1 Variant by Gerald Parel

[Ωmega Man Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Ωmega Man]

If Hal Jordan has to have a job back on Earth and being a test pilot isn't an option, there's no reason he couldn't fly clients privately if he had his own plane. Gets to make his own hours, doesn't have to report to any bigger bosses, etc.

The only occupation even worse for keeping a secret ID would be a weatherman or news reporter who's constantly on tv. Maybe Trey just has a thing for Nascar, who knows?

Saying racing cars is just as dangerous as testing planes is also ludicrous. A plane crashing from 6-7 miles high in the air is a HELLUVA lot more dangerous than taking a bad turn at the speedway LMAO...