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  I first started following Green Lantern on a regular basis back when Kyle Rayner was the only Lantern in the universe.   I mean, Alan Scott was still there, but they made enough superficial changes to him that they could pretend he wasn’t a Green Lantern anymore…even though he absolutely was.   And I’m glad that this was the era where I first got to dig into Green Lantern, because Kyle himself viewed it as this awe-inspiring thing to be a part of, and he had fun welding that power while also having respect for what it can do.   The mix of reverence and imagination that Kyle’s stories brought to Green Lantern made it so much fun to watch him figure out what his ring is capable of, and how far he could push his limits…and he could push them pretty damn far. Kyle had a habit of displaying overwhelming levels of power whenever the situation called for it, and it pretty much started right away.  One of the earliest things Kyle did with his ring was destroy a plane...

  Today I want to help you get over one of the major hurdles of becoming a Green Lantern fan: figuring out where to start.   A series with this many characters and this much history can be intimidating, and I wouldn’t blame anyone who looked at all of it and found it too overwhelming to dive into.   So I’m going to do what I can to make the process as easy as possible for you, so that you can start enjoying Green Lantern with very little trouble. First of all…and I can not stress this enough…there is no right or wrong way to start reading Green Lantern.  We all tend to get really hung up on starting things from the beginning so we don’t miss anything, but this franchise has been going for 80 years and is full of so many good jumping on points that there’s honestly not much reason to worry about starting in exactly the right place.  If anything, you should exploit that 80 year history to make sure the Green Lantern you start with is the Green Lantern most suited...

  The time is finally here, we’re looking at the first issue of a new Green Lantern series written by Geoffrey Thorne, with art by Dexter Soy and Marco Santucci, colors by Alex Sinclair, letters by Rob Leigh. And we’re starting off with Oa filled with people, because the Guardians agreed to host a gathering of the newly formed United Planets.  If you don’t know, the United Planets is basically just the United Nations in space…a large number of worlds throughout the galaxy agree coexist peacefully in the interest of creating a galactic community that can benefit everyone.  It’s a concept that originated in the Legion of Super-Heroes, and something that Brian Michael Bendis did when he took over the Superman books was tell the story of the United Planets being founded in the present day, the idea being that if all of these worlds are supporting each other, it becomes a lot more difficult and risky to make a move against any one of them, thus preventing global catastrophes ...

  I have a weird relationship with Zack Snyder’s DC movies.   I’ve been a defender of Man of Steel ever since it came out, and I always thought the criticism levied at it was unfair.   Though if I’m being honest, I do have a history of being too forgiving of movies right after I see them…I could walk away from basically anything and tell you it was pretty good, no matter what the quality actually was.   Part of that’s recency bias, part of it’s not wanting to admit that I wasted time and money on something bad, and part of it’s the fact that I generally want to see the good in things.   And that was complimented by the fact that Man of Steel gave me several things I’ve always wanted from a Superman movie but never got before. The original Christopher Reeve Superman is one of the absolute best super hero movies ever made, and unfortunately no Superman movie that came after it did anything all that different.  That movie had four sequels that all felt like w...

  A question that everyone eventually asks is just why there are so many Green Lanterns from Earth.   There are currently seven Humans active in the Green Lantern Corps, plus Alan and Keli who’re each their own independent thing.   But why?   Every other sector has a maximum of two Green Lanterns, why does there get to be so many from a single planet?   Doesn’t adding more of them just take attention away from the characters we already have?   Why not just bring in some alien characters from the Corps if your story needs more Green Lanterns?   And why can’t any of these new Human characters join other Corps instead of Green?   What is DC thinking? I’m going to be looking at this from two angles: the ways this makes sense in-universe, and the real world reasons that DC does this.  And by the end, hopefully we’ll all be on the same page and understand why DC keeps accumulating more Human Green Lanterns.  So let’s start with the fun one an...

  So today I’m going to be explaining to you what Ion even is, and believe it or not, doing that is going to involve spoilers for the Death of Superman, Reign of the Superman, Emerald Twilight, Zero Hour, Final Night, Circle of Fire, Power of Ion, Rann/Thanagar War, the 12-issue Ion series, and the Sinestro Corps War.   Yes I’m serious, so SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS, you’ve been warned. Ion is a great example of a really simple idea that was made absurdly complicated every step of the way.  The easiest way to explain it is to just say that Ion is the most powerful Green Lantern, and doesn’t need to use a ring because the power is inside their body.  Sounds simple, right?  That’s because I didn’t try to go into any kind of detail.  Because in order to explain this concept that first appeared in Green Lantern #145 in 2001, I have to start all the way back with Superman: The Man of Steel #18 in 1992. Here’s the extremely abridged version.  Doomsday sho...