Hopefully the upcoming DC Fandome event will have some information on their plans for Green Lantern. Fans have been waiting a long time to get a live action John Stewart, and they have three options that I can think of: A big budget movie, the HBO Max GL Corps series, or as a supporting character on Superman & Lois. Where do you think he will show up?
Clever storyline here. Plus room for future appearances of various brands of Guardians...
ReplyDeleteI've been really impressed by series like The Boys, Watchmen and Titans. So... the HBO series.
D. Nowhere among the above.
ReplyDeleteAnon is obviously a Guy Gardner fan.
ReplyDeleteI think we'll be seeing John in both the HBO Max series and (under the name John Diggle) Superman & Lois. The former has been formally announced, and the latter was telegraphed so loudly at the end of Crisis on Infinite Earths that it hurt people's ears.
ReplyDelete(To be honest, though, I do hope to learn that the comics John Diggle does take up the Spartan identity before too long.)
Interesting cover, Ross -- kind of green-heavy, which can be either a plus or a minus (I'm leaning toward plus). Ronan's statement makes me wonder about the backstory, which would lead me to buy the comic. (It also has me ready to go look up Xanshi on the Web!)
Is Ronan working for the Manhunters, now?
ReplyDelete@Bob Greenwade: I gather that you've never read Jim Starlin's "Cosmic Odyssey," then? I recommend it.
ReplyDeleteNot much of a G.L. fan after 1968. Never could understand why so many Earthers became a Lantern back up. No other sector seemed to have near that number.
ReplyDelete@Tim Fishman: It's meta-gene thing. Similar to how mutants grew to be a persecuted _majority_ on Earth-616...prior to M Day
ReplyDelete@Bob Buethe: I have a greater preference for his Dreadstar Epic.
ReplyDelete@Other Bob: I haven't read much of anything comics-wise in quite a while.
ReplyDeleteFor the sake of the names joke--Ronan vs. Conan.
ReplyDelete@Kid C: I actually keep thinking of Ronan vs. Rodan (the Flying Monster).
ReplyDeleteBut if one really wants a names joke, try Lockdown vs. Gambit: "Cagin' the Cajun"!
Or how about the Puppet Master mind-controlling everyone's favorite supersonic pteranodon on behalf of his old accomplice? That way, Ross could entitle it...
ReplyDelete"The Thinker's Rodan!"
@Anon: BOOOOOOOOOOO!
ReplyDelete@Anon01:24 and @Bob G.: I'm sure Dreadstar was great (never read it, but I've heard good things about it), but it was in Cosmic Odyssey (1988) where the planet Xanshi was destroyed as a result of John Stewart's overconfidence.
ReplyDeleteSounds more like a recycled version of that Late Silver Age tale in which Tomar-Re unsuccessfully tried to stop the red sun of Krypton from going nova.
ReplyDelete@Anon: In a way. But Tomar failed to save Krypton because he ran out of time. In Cosmic Odyssey, John and J'onn J'onzz were sent to Xanshi to stop a planet-destroying bomb. John, confident that his ring could handle anything, sealed J'onn in a protective bubble and continued on his own... only to discover that the bomb was yellow.
ReplyDeleteLike I said; a recycling. A masterfully poignant one from the sound of it! But, still a recycling.
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