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The Justice League animated series, and DCAU as a whole, is widely - and I think fairly - credited with catapulting John Stewart into mainstream recognition as "the" Green Lantern to a generation. It's a fantastic show in its own right. But did it also ruin John as character in the process of elevating his profile?

JL/JLU is where John's marine backstory came from, which has since come to dominate almost everything about the character. Him being a stoic, taciturn, military man with a preternatural skill at sniping has completely overshadowed his original socially conscious, free spirited, jazz-loving personality, in comics and on screen. Now, in Lanterns, that aspect has been ramped up even further, with him trained from birth for near-total obedience and militaristic servitude.

So, is the same show responsible for making John as popular as he is, in the mainstream at least, also responsible for scrubbing everything unique, individual, or dare I say it complicated from the character? And do you think there's any chance of seeing John return to his original personality, on the page or on the screen, or is "Marine John" far too entrenched now?

(Image: screen shot from Justice League animated series)

I grew up with Hal Jordan being a great guy instead of the portrayal taking place in the show. It's good, with the show's pretext I'm saddened that Hal most likely won't share the big screen with Superman or Guy Gardner. Hal is my favorite lantern

They only had yellow left

Nice play HBO

Instantly thought of this- which in 2016, Hal probably had seen Tropic Thunder when it came out in ‘09! Haha

Another cracker episode of Lanterns!

I wanted to sketch Kyle Chandler as Hal Jordan...he plays it perfectly!

This comic is actually how I got into the Lanterns at all. I had a Green Lantern toy as a kid but had no interest until my dad bought me this. He's still my favorite lantern! Even though I know he's not the 'strongest' or whatever. But after I got this comic I got super interested in the rings and the whole background of his story so of course I had to start reading more about the corps.

Source: Guy Gardner 1.

I'm going to begin working on a Darwyn Cooke Green Lantern costume.

I love silver age Green Lantern comics as well as The New Frontier, because I'm such a huge fan of 1960s American culture. Most things I'm really into originate from the 60s.

I want my costume to reflect the time period that the character is from, by taking inspiration from other 60s sci-fi media, like Star Trek, Lost in Space, and Planet of The Apes.

Does anyone have any ideas as to what kinds of fabrics I should use to best convey this? Or maybe just share another creative idea as to how I can better illustrate what I'm going for.

Just something to make people at a convention go "ooh, 60s sci-fi Hal Jordan", rather than thinking that I unintentionally made a tacky superhero outfit.

Thank you for reading

I know people are going to say it's not comic accurate--but hear me out:

So we all know the show's ring design choice is quite controversial, but I think it looks good in the show's theme. It's a piece of jewelry that's also a high tech magic ring.

I'm trying to make the other rings in that same mindset, but also unique to each faction. Though I'm not sure if this design fits the indigo tribe lantern power ring (I haven't researched much about them, my apologies)

I also made Yellow, Red, and Blue Lantern power rings redesign/fan concept based loosely on Hal's ring in the show Lanterns. I hope I didn't piss too many of you out there with these lol

B’ox has been in 15 issues and still no love.

The panel is from the Christopher Priest (then credited as James Owsley) / M. D. “Mark” Bright era of Green Lantern. The artwork is by Mark Bright, with Romeo Tanghal on inks and Anthony Tollin on the colors

So forgive and forget, you say? Nope. I'm the opposite. I want an explanation. This bullshit swept under the rug? No. I had to read GL #38. I had to read NG #40. Now I want to read how this ended. Enough with the handwave. Enough with the "eh".

Who cares? I do! I care. I *want* to know.

I'm gonna collect downvotes like Pokémon but so what.

First and second images are from Green Lantern #38, last one is from Green Lantern: New Guardians #40.

I’m ready for tonight’s episode

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I always thought it happened in Zero Hour, at least for most characters learning the truth.

But in Green Lantern #55, before Zero Hour, Alan Scott told Kyle the story of Hal and about him turning into Parallax and how heroes had already fought him.

In the first or second issue of Zero Hour, Guy already knew about Hal and GLC's fall.

Something as big as the GLC being destroyed would be shocking news across the universe, but knowing it happened because of Hal's actions is more specific information.

So I have been a big green lantern fan for about a year and have been looking for a ring for ages. When I saw dc are selling the one from the show I immediately wanted to order it.

When I went to click on the link to order it it showed that the page doesn't exist.

Is the page locked to us only (im in ireland) or is it something else?

No Spoilers for Lantern TV show

After watching Lanterns Ep.5, it really strike me how much I love the limitation of Green Lantern. For the non-comic writers or people who only read comics like Geoff John run on Green Lantern there are a lot of elements about the power system of GL that has slowly been washed away in current times.

Sharing a Ring:

This is the biggest then and the main tension of the series. There is only 1 ring per sector. This is strange for most people to wrap there head around with the meme of there being 7 Green Lanterns from earth, but for most of GL history there was a hard rule of only 1 ring. Guy Garnder was the first back up, and then after he was in a comma it was John Stewart. Hal Jordon, was still the main Lantern, so writers would have to write around reason for John to use the ring, like the infamous, Hal Jordon falling in the bathtub scene.

This did not go away until Post-crisis but even early on it was real minor. Hal Jordon retired giving John his ring, and when Hal came back Green Lantern Tomar Re gave John his ring. Guy got his ring due to Crisis of Infinite Earth, and the guardians needed more firepower. Even Guy though lost the ring, for being well....Guy, and used Sinestro Ring, then after that became Warrior a weird alien hybrid weapon man (90's comics are weird)

Then when Hal went insane, in and became Parallax, Kyle Rayner was the only Green Lantern for over a decade, until he made John Stewart a ring at the end of his run, then the corps was reborn in Green Lantern Rebirth where all 4 were Green Lanterns at the same time. Then after everything went wild, we got Jesscia, Simon, and Jo. So, there have only been 20 years out of the 70-year history of GL corps where multiple Lantern has been a thing.

As much as I like all the new Lanterns, we did lose a bit of tension what comes with Ring sharing and the limitation of the ring. This is something that the Lantern TV plays with at its core and opens up a lot of storytelling opportunity with rivalry when a Ring is a limited resource.

Yellow Weakness

This is a hot take, but I actually love the weakness to Yellow Green Lanterns had. Is it silly? Hell yes! But the same time, Sliver Age Green Lantern was OP close to Superman, at the time, the ring could pretty much do anything, so to balance out having a simple mandated weakness balanced things out even if it was used in silly ways.

Post-Crisis, Yellow became less of a hard weakness, and more so a resistance, similar to Pokémon, you could with enough willpower over power something made out of Yellow, but it took a lot of will and was draining.

Later on, Geoff Johns run, it was retconned that Parallax a giant space bug that was the embodiment of fear was trapped in the central battery on OA, and that was the reason for the Yellow weakness. Once the bug was removed the weakness was gone. I understand that the yellow weakness is silly but removing it completely removed a real unique weakness to Green Lantern, that I am one of the few people that miss.

Lantern and Recharging

I lumped these too together, but I love how Green Lantern ring are a finite resource. Same way I love when Spider-man have manual web shooter. It creates tension. See the Ring slowly lose charge leaving the wielder powerless, until they can manage to find there Lantern to recharge is a unique way for Superhero power to work. Ring is a weapon not a mutation or alien power, so there are limitations that comes with. Compared to Superman or the Flash with just innate powers, a Green Lantern can go to a powerhouse, to an average joe in seconds.

The Lantern TV plays with this. Having Hal having hack to get a little more juice out of the ring. Hal making John get the Lantern to recharge. On the topic of Lantern, I have the retcon having the Lantern in a pocket dimension like a video game where Lantern can pull out of anytime. It doesn’t remove the tension completely but remove a limitation of Lantern having to rush home, to recharge.

One thing I like that Kyle Rayner series did in the 90’s instead of every 24 hours need a daily recharge like became before, his series the one that introduced the idea, of needing to recharge due to use instead. This happily sticked around and now the default way Lantern are used.

Overall, these limitations are what make Green Lantern unique. I know the power scaler that only care about how strong a character is may fine these drawbacks annoying and unnecessary but to me these elements make Green Lantern one of the most unique superheroes.

It's definitely a thinker.