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I remember being ten years old in 1993, sitting down on the floor in front of the tv, and just randomly catching the very first broadcast of the very first episode of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.  And even after all of the hours I’d already spent watching live-action superheroes, I’d never seen anything quite like Power Rangers.  It was silly, but nothing like Adam West’s Batman, and it took itself seriously, but not like Christopher Reeve’s Superman.  Instead of one main hero, there were five, and instead of having a teen sidekick, they were all teenagers…the concept of a teenager being the main hero instead of the sidekick was revolutionary when Spider-Man was created in 1962, but Power Rangers was my introduction to the idea.  And, like most kids, I got hooked fast…I couldn’t get enough of these brightly-colored, highly merchandisable superheroes battling strange monsters and piloting their transforming giant robot Zords, available at a toy store near you.  ...

  Here we go, the top ten Green Lantern runs.   I should make it clear up front that this is not the most historically important or influential Green Lantern runs, and it’s not some totally objective list of the actual best Green Lantern runs ever, because something like that is literally impossible for anyone to make, since every list is influenced by the personal opinions of the people making it.   These are the runs that mean the most to me, and I strongly encourage you to tell me yours in the comments below this video.   What are your top ten Green Lantern runs?   If you don’t have enough, then what are your top three?   Or maybe just tell me your number one favorite, and why it means so much to you.   I look forward to hearing all of your opinions on the subject, but for now let’s get into mine. 10) Green Lantern by Ron Marz Green Lantern #48-125 1993-2000 This run form the 1990’s is what got me into Green Lantern in the first place.  Th...

Batman’s had a very long, contentious relationship with the Green Lanterns of Earth.  His emphasis on fear and darkness is the exact opposite of their core values, and he tends not to get along with them.  But despite that, we’ve seen numerous examples of Batman wielding a Lantern ring himself, and not just Green Lantern rings…the Emotional Spectrum is filled with different kinds of rings that’ll only work for you if you have a particularly high affinity for a specific emotion, which begs the question: out of all the Lantern rings in the Emotional Spectrum, which one is the best fit for Batman? There are two rings that people usually go to first as the answer to this question.  They either say it’ll be a Green Lantern ring powered by will, or a Sinestro Corps ring powered by fear.  And both of those seem to make sense, because not only has Batman worn green and yellow rings before, it’s easy to make a connection to the willpower needed to mold himself into Gotham’s...

Earth 11 is a world in the DC Multiverse where gender is flipped.  It’s a society lead by women, where the biological sex of many high profile characters are the opposite of what we know from the main DC Earth.  So instead of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman they have Superwoman, Batwoman, and Wonderous Man.  Some appearances call him Wonder Man, but hopefully they’ll settle on just calling him Wonderous Man, because Marvel already has a character named Wonder Man, and we don’t need another Captain Marvel problem. DC’s Multiverse has always been a work in progress, and there have been different worlds called Earth 11 before, but the specific one we’re talking about today first appeared in 2005 as part of the “With A Vengeance!” storyline in the Superman/Batman team-up book, and characters from that world have been popping up across the DC Universe ever since. As far as the Lanterns are concerned, we met our first Earth 11 Green Lantern in the one-shot titled “Countd...

  Alright everyone, it’s finally time to talk about Green Lantern #12 written by Geoffrey Thorne, art by Tom Raney and Marco Santucci, colors by Mike Atiyeh, and letters by Rob Leigh.   The long-awaited finale to Geoffrey Thorne’s first arc of Green Lantern.   I’ve seen some people talk about this as the end of Thorne’s run, or the end of the story Thorne’s been telling…neither of those are likely to be true.   This has always been planned as a run made up of three arcs, and everything we’ve read so far is just the first one.   So while we still don’t know exactly what’s going on with the future of Green Lantern, understand that this issue was only ever going to end some of the plot lines that we’ve been following for the last year.   But enough about that, let’s get into issue twelve. So, if you recall, last issue we saw the renegade Guardian Koyos reach out across space to break down and absorb everything related to his own people…the Guardians, the Zama...

  Hey everybody, it’s time to dig into Green Lantern #11 written by Geoffrey Thorne, with art by Tom Raney and Marco Santucci, finishes by Maria Laura Sanapo, colors by Mike Atiyeh, and letters by Rob Leigh. It is all out war on the planet Oa.  On one side you’ve got Sojourner Mullein and Hal Jordan, both with functional Green Lantern rings.  You’ve got the Justice League, the United Planets, the depowered Green Lantern Corps piloting Iron Man suits, and the Guardians fresh from their weird stasis/death/coma.  On the other side you’ve got Koyos, a Guardian bent on ridding the universe of his own people and their creations, convinced that the universe can only grow and prosper naturally without their interference.  Koyos is currently the size of Godzilla, and powered by a mixture of the Green Lantern Central Power Battery, magic from the sorcerer’s world, and the anti-chaos weapon we saw back in Green Lantern #1 (which I guess is what the yellow squid hat is?)....