Category Green Lantern Corps

Mar 27 2012

Green Lantern Corps 7

Today, Shelby and Peter are discussing Green Lantern Corps 7, originally released March 21st, 2012.

Shelby:  Resolution is important in any good story-telling, but I think it’s especially important in a medium as serial as comic books. The fans have to wait a month between each installment; that’s a month of talking about what happened last month, and what’s going to happen this month. Comic book fans also develop an immense devotion to the characters they read, so much so that it’s a necessity for any huge issues, emotional or otherwise, to be dealt with accordingly. Also, sometimes you just need to take a break from the action in a comic book arc, take the time for that resolution that is so needed. I know all of this, and I agree with it, but I don’t think that means resolution issues need to be quite so boring as Green Lantern Corps 7.
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Feb 20 2012

Green Lantern Corps 6


Today, Peter and Patrick are discussing Green Lantern Corps 6, originally released  February 15th, 2012.

Peter: I have always liked the idea of the Green Lantern Corps; an intergalactic peace keeping force run by a council of small, immortal blue aliens. Over the years, the Green Lantern mantle has been carried by several different humans, from Hal Jordan to Kyle Rayner. However, for a very long time, outside of large-scale events the rest of the Corps was rarely seen. With the advent of the Green Lantern Corps monthly we are given a look into the the workings of the Corps and a sometimes needed, always appreciated break from Hal Jordan and his ever-fluctuating mental structure. Peter Tomasi has begun to sculpt a new set of stories that are so far piquing my interest and are leaving me excited for the future of the Corps. Continue reading →

Feb 7 2012

Green Lantern Corps 4-5

Today, Shelby and Patrick are discussing Green Lantern Corps 4-5, originally released December 21st, 2011 and  January 11th, 2012.

Shelby: When it comes to comic books, I have a sort of traditional archetype in mind of the “classic comic book.”  You’ve got action action action, a lost battle where someone from our side is captured, a villain monologue that reveals the plan while a rescue is coordinated, and a big final battle. It’s a very aggressive, masculine style of story-telling, and GLC fits into this stereotype perfectly. It could be because we haven’t met any of the awesome lady Lanterns I know to be out there (Soranik Natu, where are  you?), but I think it mostly has to do with Guy Gardner. Oh, Guy; you are the douchebag frat boy that I can’t help but love. Maybe it’s those moments where you see his toughboy act is just that: an act meant to cover up the fact that he’s just a guy (ha!) trying to get by. Continue reading →

Jan 24 2012

Green Lantern Corps 1-3

Originally Published November 25, 2011

may nobody question our nerddom againDC Comics recently relaunched their entire series, giving curious but uninitiated nerds a convenient entry point.  Fellow blogger Patrick Ehlers and I are two such nerds, and we’ve decided to jump in with a handful of monthly titles.  We really wanted to pull out all the nerd stops, so we’re also going to be writing about them here and on Patrick’s Blog (which you should all be reading anyway) every Friday.  This week, I’m hosting the discussion of Green Lantern Corps, while Patrick is hosting the discussion of Nightwing.

Drew:  One thing I’m really enjoying about The New 52 is getting to see how comics stories are structured.  Being able to compare the first, second, and third issues of numerous titles side by side has revealed striking similarities. I suppose some of the patterns are true of any serialized storytelling, from Dickens to Breaking Bad — using early chapters to establish the characters and their motivations while teasing the larger plot, ending chapters with cliffhangers, etc. — but some of the titles we’re following seem to follow a much stricter formula.  As we’re only three issues deep, the established formula isn’t complete, but we’ve already seen the same stages come up across a number of the titles we’re following, namely: a cold open, character exposition, and the first, disastrous encounter with the villain.  All of these stages are pretty common to storytelling, but it’s the specific way they’re being treated that makes me call it formulaic, and Green Lantern Corps exemplifies these methods beautifully. Continue reading →