Even though I was very glad to get the heroic Hal Jordan back after his Parallax phase, I have to admit that I really liked his look then and there were some decent stories told during that time. DC kind of lost me when they merged him with The Spectre, though. Combining two of my favorite heroes did not result in a character that I liked twice as much!
Bad guys rule!
ReplyDeleteI agree with you about the Hal Jordan/Spectre mashup. Not good.
Thanos has got so much megaBad manna from his movie appearances. He really is a Big Bad. Shame DC never got the chance to do the same for his long-lost twin brother, Darkseid.
Wonder how Brainiac would deal with Dr Manhattan & the Infinity Gauntlet?
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Wonder how Thanos & the Infinity Gauntlet would do against Dr Manhattan?
Could the I.G. make a difference to Dr Manhattan if he had it?
Spectre merged with Green Lantern almost seems like where the Spectre/Oliver Queen merger came from. That "robe" was not the right look for that CW role.
Parallax was unique. A hero who turned, not out of greed or simple wanting "power", but to bring His City's souls back to life. Good thing the power ring never got a worthiness spell on it like Thor's hammer did. *Hint*
Creating a creature called Parallax to clear Hal seemed a cop out. Hal's insanity from feelings of guilt should have stayed the focal point. That was real and valid.
Having felt such guilt & depression AND having met so many beings that could twist reality into what they wanted gave reason for Hal's refusal to give up trying to bring Coast City back to life.
I was just glad that crab faced lantern was no longer primary focus when Hal was back. It seemed the writers of movie got his personality into Hal.
ReplyDeleteI have to agree with you, re: Hal Jordan as The Spectre. Guy Gardner, maybe. But, my pal Hal? That was just plain old, undeniably wrong!
ReplyDeleteBtw: didn't these two first meet in that Silver Surfer/GL Kyle Rayner crossover?
@Carycomic - You are exactly right about the Surfer/GL team up. Thanos and Parallax met.
ReplyDeleteAfter "Infinity War", I wonder if anyone recalls why Thanos killed half the universe? And I rather missed his love affair with Death from those movies. I don't think the movie conveyed his evilness quite adequately, despite how nasty they presented him.
For a brief time, I thought Parallax was a great name for what Galactus took for a sour stomach... :P
This is a pairing, and situation, that I think I would've preferred in an issue whose number ends with 99, so the fallout could be addressed in the 100-page issue following! The cover would have me thinking, "Oh, %$#@!" and grabbing the comic off the shelf.
ReplyDelete@Tobor: Dr. Manhattan with the Infinity Gauntlet? That image puts a new twist on an old idea: Dr. M tossing the Gauntlet aside as "superfluous" or "useless" or whatever, only who should be waiting for just that moment but Pinky and the Brain?
Also, I thought that Oliver looked pretty foreboding in his look as the Spectre.
@ELS: The movie Thanos destroyed half of all living things in the universe because the population was putting a strain on resources. The tactic was sort of self-defeating, though; many of those living things were necessary resources. (In real-world history, when plagues have wiped out a large percentage of the population, the reason the survivors had more resources to work with was precisely because it was mostly humans who died, not crops and livestock.)
since u asked. Bob Greenwade said...
ReplyDeleteDr. Manhattan with the Infinity Gauntlet? That image puts a new twist on an old idea: Dr. M tossing the Gauntlet aside as "superfluous", only who should be waiting for just that moment but -----Freakazoid!! Pinky and the Brain later.
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ReplyDelete@Horsefeathers: I'd rather see Freakazoid vs. The Mask. Or The Mask vs. Earthworm Jim. Or, Earthworm Jim vs. Freakazoid.
ReplyDeleteOr, maybe even all three of them vs. Deadpool!
Ross should do a crossover depicting Mr. T going up against Wade Wilson. That way, he could entitle it... "Dead Fool!"
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