tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post2440116084353200840..comments2024-03-27T11:04:31.390-04:00Comments on From the Sorcerer's Skull: Wednesday Comics: Grant Morrison's Green LanternTreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647628467658839351noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-83808610558126314712020-11-18T10:54:40.617-05:002020-11-18T10:54:40.617-05:00I have a lot of similar thoughts on this series af...I have a lot of similar thoughts on this series after reading the first page. I almost see it like Morrison doing Silver Age comics as though they were 2000 AD sci-fi serials. And I think Sharpe is definitely going for that in the art too, which is great to look at but doesn't do a great job of storytelling what's going on from panel to panel. Which is kind of how I remember lots of 2000 AD sci-fi stories from back when I read a friend's older brother's comics growing up.tughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12456641411160319200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-34720480093315165552020-11-18T09:04:48.732-05:002020-11-18T09:04:48.732-05:00I didn't say I don't like Hal as "the...I didn't say I don't like Hal as "the face" of the GL Corps. Rather, I don't know know that a lot of people are particularly excited about GL in general, and Jordan is just a subset of that.<br /><br />I remember the those concerns in the 90s, but that was nearly 30 years ago, and I'm not really sure everyone who was upset about that was an avid reader/buyer of GL comics. In fact, I am pretty sure they were not. Comic book fans (particularly of the Old Man Comics) sort, like to get upset about things that are emblematic, not necessarily because they have a dog in the fight.Treyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04647628467658839351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-45461934677805685072020-11-18T08:58:56.959-05:002020-11-18T08:58:56.959-05:00Having been employed at a comic shop during the 90...Having been employed at a comic shop during the 90s it feels really, really weird to hear someone say they don't like Hal as *the* face of the GL Corps on Earth. For most of the fan base his descent into insanity and cosmic-scale supervillainy back then was a tremendous betrayal of the character's legacy, and the readership (and DC subscription counts overall) suffered terribly when they tried to replace him with Kyle Rayner, and the folks that did hang on through all that wanted to see Jon Stewart or Guy Gardner taking the role of Earth's main GL, not this new guy. I didn't have a dog in the fight myself but DC lost a lot of readers over their fiddling with Hal - who eventually wound up "redeemed" by dying while stopping the Sun Eater, then became the Specter for a while, then (years later) came back from the dead and had all his dodgy behavior blamed on a cosmic entity messing with his head, making the entirety of a decade's worth of comics more than pointless.<br /><br />I'll agree that Hal's written as shallow as can be, but that seems to be what his diehard fans want out of him, at least going by their complaints 25-ish years ago. Myself, I have a soft spot for him, partly because he's such a lunkhead (especially in the Silver Age days) and partly because Gil Kane drew dynamic punches better than any human being has a right to.Dick McGeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14521293874696659063noreply@blogger.com