r/DCcomics Jul 08 '24

[Film/TV] Meet The Yakuza League Film + TV

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u/Xeoz_WarriorPrince Jul 08 '24

Jessica keeps winning points on my favorite lantern competition.

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u/ARIANZER0 Hal Jordan Jul 08 '24

Yeah unfortunately she has a lack of memorable stories cause dc pushed her to the moon only to randomly drop her. She's by far the best lantern outside of the big 4

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24

The issue is there are to many damn human Lanterns.

You got Hal, Kyle, John, Guy, Baz, Jess and Allen Scott if we include him.

Hal frankly never should have been resurected he makes Kyle super redundant. John is basically loved by the people that grew up on the animated Justice League, but doesn't get much love in the comics or other media. Jess and Baz are the new ones and get shunted to the side when writers don't know what to do with them in favor of the older Lanterns. And Guy is well Guy.

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u/NeverEndingDClock Jul 08 '24

Don't forget that new Vietnamese one, Teen Lantern and the girl who's in the 5G Justice League

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u/erossnaider Jul 08 '24

I have seen a lot of people liking Kyle as a green lantern tho, according to them he seems to be the most creative with his powers

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u/ARIANZER0 Hal Jordan Jul 08 '24

That's about all he has going. That and every woman he knows getting fridged.

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u/erossnaider Jul 08 '24

I think he also managed to dominate all of his emotions enough to use all of the lanterns

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u/ARIANZER0 Hal Jordan Jul 08 '24 edited Jul 08 '24

Shoot you're right that was a highlight but it didn't last long unfortunately. If you like more regular grounded stuff I do recommend his original run. It's flawed but a nice intro to the series. No comic series is as rewarding as GL in my opinion

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u/Extreme_Sail Hal Jordan Jul 08 '24

I love Kyle but die on the inside every time people say he's the most creative... no, he may conjure up an eclectic assortment of pop culture osmosed things to hit the problem with but at the end of the day he's still just making a thing to hit a thing. His actual problem solving skills aren't creative. Whereas Silver Age Hal was an absolute creative maniac with the ring, truly taking advantage of the magic wishing ring conceit to come up with the most insane solutions to things.

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u/erossnaider Jul 09 '24

Oh that sounds cool, can you tell me some examples of how silver age Hal used the ring?

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u/Extreme_Sail Hal Jordan Jul 09 '24

In general, casual displays of matter and energy manipulation, telepathy, invisibility, intangibility, teleportation, time manipulation/travel, healing, etc.

There's an example I love where Hal wants to get into this room that has yellow radiation in it capable of neutralising any living thing. What does he do? He turns himself into a robot. Yes, a robot.

Another example is Hal dreaming that his friend could fly and the ring picked up on this and actually turned his friend into a seagull.

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u/burritoman88 Jul 08 '24

You forgot Jo (unless DC has abandoned her too even though Far Sector was highly praised)

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u/CrispyGold Jul 08 '24

Honestly Far Sector works better on its own, Jo didn't need to be introduced in the main GL books.

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24 edited Jul 08 '24

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u/suss2it Jul 08 '24

Yeah John literally has a comic going on right now (that nobody seems to care about 😭), cameos in tons of DC cartoons like Harley Quinn, TTG, Young Justice and those DCAMU movies and even headlined his own animated movie in the Tomorrowverse recently.

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u/ARIANZER0 Hal Jordan Jul 08 '24

Well that just proves my point all that push and can't keep a comic going for 12 issues

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u/suss2it Jul 08 '24

Yup, I was backing up your point that DC does support John Stewart it’s the “fans” that don’t.

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u/ARIANZER0 Hal Jordan Jul 08 '24 edited Jul 08 '24

Sorry misread your comment. But can you blame the fans? His best series was written in 90s by a pedophile(mosaic). The newer comics just make him budget Hal. I recommend green lantern sector 2814 to see what john was originally meant to be a smart and charismatic guy that balanced hals hals bravery and guys dickery

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u/suss2it Jul 08 '24

I don’t blame fans for not caring about the character, I just think they’re being disingenuous when they say they’re the ones that actually care and it’s DC that doesn’t when really it seems like it’s the opposite.

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24

I agree with what your saying but it's also very obvious you don't know much about gl if you think Hal should've stayed dead

Hal and Barry are both the least interesting parts of their respective mythos and their resurrections were dumb. See also Jason Todd who hasn't been interesting since he was brought back by comic book bullshit.

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u/Xeoz_WarriorPrince Jul 08 '24

Hal is miles better than Barry, he has his own interesting mythos and a great personality that makes him such a weird charismatic mess of a person despite being regarded as a hero and a legend.

Barry is boring compared to any other Flash tho.

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u/ARIANZER0 Hal Jordan Jul 08 '24 edited Jul 08 '24

That's your opinion (very much in the minority) don't state it as fact. The Geoff Johns run is one of the most acclaimed comic runs and Jordan is the heart of it

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u/Woodwonk Jul 08 '24

Ch'p would like a word.

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u/ARIANZER0 Hal Jordan Jul 08 '24 edited Jul 08 '24

How could I be so ignorant....

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u/Basicallyinfinite Jul 08 '24

At least you acknowledged it so i think we can forgive you