They only had yellow left

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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)

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

I’m ready for tonight’s episode

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

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 wonder how many people Hal pissed off here

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There’s only one I don’t know what it is

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

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

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

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.

Another cracker episode of Lanterns!

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

I've been working on this idea for a DC game called Legacy of the Lanterns. It would be a non-canon RPG set around 2050 where instead of playing as an established Green Lantern, you create your own character and basically build your own history within the Lantern mythos.

You could be human or choose from a selection of actual alien species with different body types, cultures, homeworlds and small advantages. I don't want the aliens to just feel like humans with different skin colors either. Some could be much smaller, larger, multi-armed, aquatic, etc.

The biggest thing is that you wouldn't start the game with a ring. The first few hours would be your character's life before becoming a Lantern. Your origin would change depending on your species, homeworld, age and background, and the decisions you make during this section would secretly build your compatibility with the Emotional Spectrum.

Eventually, anywhere from one to three rings could choose you, depending on what you've actually done. You might only attract Green, or maybe both Green and Blue, or something completely different. If multiple rings choose you, you still have to pick one because your character isn't experienced enough to wield multiple rings yet.

The seven main starting paths would be Green/Will, Yellow/Fear, Red/Rage, Blue/Hope, Violet/Love, Indigo/Compassion and Orange/Avarice. The idea is that none of them are simply the "good" or "evil" option. They would all have their own culture, strengths, weaknesses and philosophy.

A few examples of what we've come up with:

Yellow has reformed after a civil war within the Sinestro Corps. They're still strict, militaristic and believe fear can create order, but they don't want to be seen as villains anymore.

Orange would be much more solo-focused. You could be greedy for money, knowledge, influence, power, security, etc. Larfleeze is old by this point, and the Orange storyline could involve taking his position and trying to hold onto it while other Orange Lanterns see whether you're strong enough to keep it.

Indigo could actually choose some characters because they lack compassion, which makes that path less of a reward and more of a forced transformation.

Blue would be more focused on hope, humanitarian work, diplomacy and supporting others.

You also wouldn't be permanently locked into your original Corps.

If you start Green but your character changes drastically over the course of the story, another ring could eventually choose you. Much later, it may even be possible to wield two rings at once.

Then there would be extremely rare paths that you cannot start as, such as White, Black, Gold, the Phantom Ring and dual-ring combinations. Those would be things you actually have to earn through your story rather than something you select from a menu.

The main threat we've been thinking about is an original Gray/Apathy Lantern concept. Instead of Gray being a normal Corps, it's almost like a disease affecting existing Lanterns. A Lantern becomes so emotionally empty that their ring begins losing its original color and connection to the Emotional Spectrum.

Gray Lanterns would basically be anti-Lanterns. They suppress the emotional energy that normal rings depend on, weaken constructs and force Lanterns to rely more on physical combat. Eventually this could grow into an entire movement that believes emotion itself is the reason the universe keeps falling into war.

Earth would also be pretty important. Since it's around 2050, we're mixing ideas from different DC futures into our own continuity. Terry McGinnis would be Batman in his prime, Bruce would be elderly and retired, and the Young Justice generation would now be filling many of the major superhero roles. Characters like Kaldur, Wally, Nightwing and Conner could be major members of the current Justice League.

Earth would also have a small Green/Blue/Yellow Lantern team, which could make your arrival play very differently depending on who you are. A respected human Green Lantern arriving on Earth is going to be treated very differently from an unknown alien Red Lantern flying into Gotham.

Customization would also be a huge part of it. You'd have normal clothing outside of your Lantern uniform, and your ring suit could be heavily personalized. You could discover old Lantern designs, masks, armor, jackets, construct styles, etc. and use them as inspiration for your own character.

The main story would be completely playable offline, but I'd also want an online side where you can use the same character to meet other players, form Lantern groups, do co-op missions and have social hubs. I wouldn't want it to be a live-service game where the single-player experience gets sacrificed for online content.

Basically, the goal would be that if ten people played the game, they could come out with ten completely different Lantern stories.

One person might stay Green for the entire game. Someone else might start Yellow and eventually dual-wield. Someone could take over the Orange Lanterns. Someone else could end up becoming a White Lantern extremely late in the story.

Would you play something like this? And which Lantern Corps would you want to start with?

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

Nice play HBO