Crossposted From My LiveJournal

So, It's midnight here in 'orrible old Blighty, so it's Friday as far as I'm concerned. It may still be Thursday in Yankyland, but I don't care. I say it's Friday and so you will have page 32 NOW, not later! SUFFER, FOOLS:


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So, you know what I've been thinking about a lot lately? Green Lantern.

It all started after a little exchange with a rather famous and monstrously talented artist in the comments a week or two ago. Basically, jacen said that Green Lantern was an inherently silly idea. Now, he's got a point, at least in terms of how the character has been presented up untill now. And, as anyone who reads this journal regularly will now, I'm a Green Lantern fan. But even I can see the silliness when you have a guy in a green leotard fighting bankrobbers with a giant floating boxing glove.

But it doesn't have to be that way.

Now, obviously, I've been thinking about how I would handle the character, given the chance. And I think there's the pontential for something considerably wierder. I mean, here's a guy who wears a ring that basically makes him able to manifest anything that comes into his head. The way I see it, after a little while, anyone wearing that ring would become like a kind of mini-god, maybe not omniscient, but sure as hell omnipotent.

Think about it this way: a character who shapes the world as he (or she) passes through it, remoulding it in his or her own mental image; surrounded by fleeting phantoms manifested from their own subconscious. A localised god, tasked by wierd little blue space fascists with maintaining order on our world, and in our solar system. A green Dr. Manhattan, but with the temporal issues swapped for job dis-satisfaction...

Now that could make for a very interesting comic.

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Three other things:

1) I note that I am able to view this journal from any computer without having to promise that I'm not under fourteen. So, either nobody reads this thing, or those that do don't mind a few swear words. Or maybe the Judges have yet to pounce.

2) alandaviddoane has hurt his hand, and the blogo[insert word for universe here] is poorer for it. I hope it gets better soon, man.

3) I got book two of New Frontier. I'll probably write a review one of these nights.