Okay, how the hell did Dogfucker do it? Every aspect of this book's premise was hopeless.
>Johns' abandoned OCs
>Humphries
>Red Lanterns are evil again
>Rebirth issue had ugly art
How the fuck did this turn into one of /co/'s most sought-after reads?
Blank slates and a broken clock being right twice a day. I really have no idea how he did it.
It's fun and not trying hard to be some super cosmic apocalypse event that is a completely muddled mess. Instead it focuses on what made older GL great: a small number of Lanterns protecting the Earth from space baddies. That and he's actually trying to give Simon a personality that is more than "I'm not a terrorist reeeeeee"
It also helps that the worthless colors haven't shown up yet. Any time a Blue/Indigo/Pink lantern shows up you know the issue is going to be retarded shit. They expanded the Lantern spectrum too quickly, as much as I enjoyed Johns' run. Sinestro Corps was a great concept to give some fresh life to Sinestro and really revive that Hal/Sinestro rivalry, and even the Red Lanterns are a decent idea for recurring villains for people other than Hal to deal with. Larfleeze was fine because he was mostly comedic relief and he was only a solo character and not a whole massive Corps.
Blue and Indigo corps only ever exist as plot devices - are the Greens about to get their shit slapped in? Toss a Blue into the story to supercharge them. Lanterns need to get across the universe instantly? Better have the Indigo's show up to teleport them. And then there's Star Sapphires who only exist to give Carol something to do other than bitch about Hal.
Also literally anyone is better than Venditti. I real can't belive DC is letting him continually shit all over Hal, Guy, and the rest.
>>84325373
>Lanterns need to get across the universe instantly? Better have the Indigo's show up to teleport them.
Which I always had a problem with because prior to Johns, they could wormhole their ass across the universe.
>>84325410
Yeah they dropped that because it makes Indigo worthless. Now it's just that Lanterns can fly really fast, and whenever the big baddie is threatening everyone he's always conveniently on the other side of the universe.
>>84325373
This.
They focus on the characters instead of the plot, which is a thing /co/ (and me) really likes. It helps that Simon is actually fun now. Jessica's struggles are relatable. The whole social anxiety angle is fleshed out and isn't overdone.
A lantern that overcomes great for just by going outside? GOLD.
That and Jessica a cute. CUTE!
>>84325373
I love every letter of this post. Venditti, pay attention.
>>84325530
Still wish they kept the jacket and/or the headband. Her old costume was so much better
These NEET fucks just like her because it's their self insert.
>wierdo freak who too scared to go outside
>all they need to do to get superpowers is go outside
It's all they wish they could dream of and do.
>>84325588
ok but why do we like Simon?
>>84325217
>fly around on a column of blood
>everything is covered in blood wherever you go
>children and adults alike are traumatized by the screaming, blood-shitting superpowered alien that appears out of nowhere and straight up murders the guy that was trying to mug them
>not evil
>>84325710
Who cares about Simon, they had a fucking interesting character when they made her Power Ring.
Killing Volthoom was stupid. Now she's just generic human lantern #28 or whatever they're at now. It's fucking upsetting
>>84325710
you do realize that once he is done with the editorial-mandated stuff its gonna turn into this?
>>84325710
he's the new wolverine
>>84325763
Simon is best boy and cuter than Jessica
>>84325779
Bad Marvel writers are just good at DC. No one knows why.
>>84325530
You'd think those clickbait comic sites would be posting about a good, hispanic female superhero and a misunderstood muslim superhero teaming up and protecting people they don't want anything to do with.
>>84325587
Agreed
>>84325588
Try reading some comics before you shitpost, mate. She didn't get the ring because she went outside, she got the ring because she managed to overcome her fear of Valthoom and sacrificed herself in order to save Barry.
Not to mention the sole requirement for using a ring is simply: have emotions. Anyone can use a ring as long as they aren't an emotionless robot. The whole point of GL is overcoming fear and anxiety, no matter how silly and simple that fear may be, and try to be a better person. Contrary to popular belief by people that don't read GL, the rings aren't powered just by overcoming life-threatening danger but rather by raw emotions. If you are so apathetic that you can't comprehend how other people can have fears/anxieties that seem really foreign or stupid, you'll never be able to appreciate a Lantern book.
>>84325779
DC has lightened up on mandated shit lately. It's Marvel that keeps all their writer's balls in a vice grip and force them to write so much garbage. It's the only explanation for why nearly ever Marvel book is garbage, but the moment those writers go work for someone else they actually improve.
>>84325587
I would have liked the headband. Jacket feels like it would be infringing upon Guy's style.
This is about the most deluded i've seen /co/ fellate DC. The issue was barely passable for mediocre. The writing was abysmal and still holds the random dialogue that Humphries is known for. At best, it was equivalent to his Ultimates run and during the first few pages it felt almost straight out of Star-Lord.
How many issues until there is a dog red/yellow lantern and jessica starts dating it and they get into a love triangle with dex-starr?
>>84325882
everyone loves kid lanterns being cute
>>84325864
Beat me to it.
>>84325882
You need to understand that Lantern books have been unreadable garbage for 5 years. Even mediocre is a breath of fresh air.
It'd be like if someone other than Slott took over Spiderman and it was just about Pete going to grab some burgers and stopping a bank robbery on the way and that's it. Incredibly boring and average, yet still it'd be a masterpiece compared to anything that came from the decade of Slott.
>>84325900
G'nort/Jessica?
I'd read it.
Why'd they have to make her a generic Green Lantern? I really liked Jessica as Power Ring, had a better design too.....
>>84325882
People are so used to the GL line being shitty that something that's mediocre and cute instead of mediocre and miserable seems like a godsend
>>84325217
To be fair the buddy cop aspect was something promising
Where does the dogfucker meme come from?
>>84325588
But she dident need to go outside to first get her powers
>>84325710
BIG
FUCKING
TRUCK
>>84325763
>Now she's just generic human lantern #28 or whatever they're at now
The only thing generic about her is the costume. The rest is pretty original given she's agoraphobic and has problems just going to the market yet is supposed to live up to the ideal of being a lantern without fear.
>>84326127
For some reason they refuse to let humans be anything but Green, except for Carol and her containment corp. Ideally it'd be :
Hal - Green
Jessica - Power Ring, or at least Green with a lingering Volthoom
Guy - Red
Kyle - Blue
Carol - muh Sapphires
Simon - Yellow. Let's face it, he scares people and he knows it, and he could use it as a force for good.
John - Indigoor retired because hates being a GL so much
Larfleeze stays and is the red-headed stepchild of the family that they can't take out in public because he's always embarassing them and getting into trouble
Black Hand is the creepy uncle that's always in and out of prison
White can go ahead and fuck off into non-existence just like the idea that emotions are a finite resource.
Im glad Jessica caught on, certainly better than Simon
>>84326127
I wish they had kept some design elements other than the tattoo but the reasoning is obvious. They wanted to give her an ongoing and on one would buy a Power Ring book.
>>84326453
In a perfect world, Carol would never go back to the Sapphires after what they did to her and vice versa with the alien baby abortion thing, but we gotta have those Silver Age references.
>>84326454
Simon is way better than Jessica, pleb
>>84326462
>tfw when no Power Ring / Flash rom-com book
>>84325217
I have no idea why people refer to Jessica Cruz as dogfucker.
>>84326385
>>84326507
Humphries wrote a book about a guy who fucked a dog
>>84326494
Carol needs to have some sort of busywork to do otherwise every Hal story inevitable turns back to her bitching at him for going out and saving the world instead of saving her shithole company. The eskimo guy should've gotten a ring before she ever did.
>>84326453
>Earth based Yellow Lantern
See this is something I really want. A guy whos trying to do the right thing, but is afraid he'll become like Sinestro. Hell Batman could teach him a thing or two about fear.
>>84326525
Batman has his diddle in enough sidekicks, thank you very much.
>>84326524
>The eskimo guy should've gotten a ring before she ever did.
If we're being technical, he did. Sapphires didn't get rid of the parasite rocks for rings until Johns era GL and Pieface had already used Hals ring to bring back Oa before Rebirth happened.
>>84326525
I'm pretty sure the Sinestro Corps left some guys stationed here? They basically replaced the GLC.
It's too bad that whole power struggle drama is going to be handled by Venditti.
>>84326554
I forgot all about that. I also forgot they called him fucking Pieface. Can you imagine that shit happening today? I should go reread some of those older stories again.
>>84325710
He's fun and he's actively enjoying being a superhero.
>>84326541
Well nothing long lasting, just a brief moment is what I meant. Like for instance the Lantern saves a group of people, but scares the fuck out of them while doing so and hes left kinda shaken by it.
>>84326561
Arkillo is Earth's Yellow Lantern, with help of Saint Walker.
Is he the best boy this summer?
>>84326453
Kyle can stay White and only show up in books on occasion.
Also
>not letting Guy be Warrior again
>>84326611
His only competition is boy in the middle TB H.
>>84326611
The only competition was Sark from Aquaman but he's ambiguously dead right now
>>84326618
>not letting Guy be Warrior again
The world isn't ready for something so great to come back again.Remember when Guy had a bar and all the heroes would go there in their off-time? ME EITHER
>>84326631
shit I forgot about Kenan >>84326629
it will be close
>>84326520
And tranny fucked rock.
>>84326127
It would never have worked out long term story wise
>>84326589
Didn't Hal call him Pieface in his last version of origin?
>>84326520
It was auctualy really good to although the ending was horrible
It's call our love is real
The artist drawing this book is letting down the writing big time.
>>84326631
I think they had him end in a situation where they can easily have him live or die depending on how people responded to him.
Response has been overwhelmingly positive so he will probably live
>>84325217
Why there's green shit on her face? She has half a face, and covers up using the green light?
>>84326987
It's just a GL logo, reference to her previous design >>84326127
>>84327005
Which thankfully carried over from her previous design. Thank god it wasnt another mask
>>84325217
Who is this woman? Is that Carol? She's green now?
>>84327088
Jessica Cruz, she was in JL for a while
>>84326841
No. They stopped calling him that in the 80s
>>84327088
Have you considered reading some of the posts above yours?
>>84326453
There was Rankorr in the Reds but he died
>>84326507
They're calling Humphries Dogfucker, not Jessica
>>84326841
>>84327136
In Secret Origin someone else calls him Pieface and Hal calls them out on it
>>84327144
Of course not. I don't read green lantern. And I never will.
>>84326524
>>84326494
>>84326453
Carol and the Star Sapphires are generally pretty awful and poorly used, how would you improve them /co/?
>>84327219
Kill them all, keep only Carol alive and make her lust for Hal 24/7, like God intended.
>>84327196
>I don't read Green Lantern and never will, but let me shitpost about it
>>84327219
Bring back the Predator, and I don't mean the entity. I'm talking about the 80's guy that beat the shit out of Hal and fused with Carol to form the dominatrix.
I feel like I'm missing something
I need to finish the old Green Lantern before rebirth because I have no clue who this girl is
I do know of the terrorist lantern. Last thing I read was the White Lantern going inside some emotion wall
>>84327480
She was introduced in JL not GL. And you don't need to read GL to understand GLs.
>>84327503
no I mean I just didn't know her
but I should read Justice League too honestly
I can't even remember what I last read in it.
>>84327522
If you're going to read JL just know that Darkseid War was mostly shitty so you can skip it
>>84325710
He's not a forced diversity meme like Johns originally intended.
>>84327580
Johns only made a self insert, it's not his fault his father is Lebanese so the character ended up being a minority too
![[EUROBEAT INTENSIFIES].png](https://i.imgur.com/fvn2IEP.png "[EUROBEAT INTENSIFIES].png")
>>84325710
The beat flows in his veins
Simon is the Green Lantern that carries a gun right?
Smart guy if you run out of juice
>>84327657
What is this Eurobeat joke? I keep seeing it but I don't get it.
>>84327196
Then why are you in this thread
Also think of this more as a buddy cop book then a gl book
>>84327165
>They're calling Humphries Dogfucker, not Jessica
Well she dident exactly get out much you know
>>84327522
You probably don't want to read justice league over the last year it's been pretty shit.
But last issue aside it's decent enough to read if you want backstory on Jessica
>>84327751
Plus his partner might not carry a gun but she's an expirenced enough shooter that she can use his if she needs to for some reason.
why do you all call him dogfucker? all Iread from him are his x men with Fntomex getting divided in 3 and Psylocke being a lesbian with EVA.
>>84328472
Because of his comic our love is real
Ending aside it's really goos
>>84328542
*Was really good
>>84328166
Initial D
>>84329362
What is this and why does it make me want to yell at kids to get off my lawn at the ripe old age of 19
>>84329439
>19
fuck I'm becoming old.
>>84329476I'm 20 in less then a month
Or am I 20 and turning 21 I never can remember
>>84325864
But she and Guy could be jacket buddies
>>84329570
I want a drawfag on this stat
Who will be the bigger husbando, Simon or Kenan?
>>84329797Atrocitus.
>>84326609
>Arkillo is Earth's Yellow Lantern
>with help of Saint Walker
Wiat what?!. Walker is a yellow now?
>>84332030
No, he can help charge Yellows now due to Sinestros... help.
>>84326841
You're thinking of The New Frontier.
>>84332054
That was in the sinestro book?. Maybe ill read it
>>84325793
I blame the editors.
>>84325217
>>84325373
>>84325710
>muslim
>good
>>84332233
he is just arabic not muslim
>>84332114
Yep
>>84332253
>arab
>good
>lebanese
>>84332361
he is a qt
