After the excitement, the tension and the moral drama that was Green Lantern versus Alien part one (of four, for those of you who like numbers) I could barely wait the twelve hours that I promised myself I would wait before opening part two. Too much excitement can be detrimental to your heart.
The opening page starts with Kyle the current Green Lantern who dresses completely different to all the previous ones and is apparently the last Green Lantern and has some other powers and doesn’t shave when he takes the costume off.
Kyle has a lot going for him.
He is also a comic book artist. Yeah that’s right. Hal the previous Lantern was a test pilot, Kyle is a comic book artist.
We get to watch Kyle draw a clear trademark infringement of Mars Attacks minus Tom Jones. How cool is Tom Jones? Cooler than Kyle I would have to hazard a guess.
Suddenly several Green Lanterns who are not Green Lanterns (I know, I know, less Green!!) show up in his apartment and tell him the sad story of a group of pinheads who dumped a parasitic destructive alien species on Mogo. Apparently Kyle has visited Mogo, this does not make him cooler than Tom Jones.
So now this motley crew of ex-ummm Lanterns head off to Mogo (giggle) to rescue the crashed spaceship that was mentioned in the previous issue.
The writers of this issue who may or may not be the writers of the first one, they probably are but I can’t bare to go back and look have seen an Aliens film because they know that Ripley strips down to her underwear in the last scene and decided they should have a lady running around in essentially her underwear. This is the preferred alien fighting outfit as opposed of armour or spacesuits because nothing stops acid blood like bare flesh. They do also introduce her in her underwear fairly early on too so they seem to miss the point of vulnerable human in final battle, but then I suspect they didn’t consult with Ridley Scott.
The aliens then start to attack and Kyle rather than putting everyone under a shield chooses just to keep rescuing the non power ringed individuals on a case by case basis whilst very clumsily debating the virtue of wiping out the aliens… yawn…
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WHAT!?!
WHO!?!?
Oh sorry where was I?
One by one the group get taken down an alien hole until Kyle drops his ring down the hole too. You know Kyle I’m pretty certain you can get rings resized, you should look into it.
Butterfingers.
It’s to be continued, I assumed as much as the issue didn’t really end on a good note and I expect that most Green Lantern stories don’t end with him losing his ring.
Did Gnort ever lose his ring?
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18/12/2007 at 10:41 pm Permalink
I bet Kyle can’t dance as awesomely as Tom Jones either.
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18/12/2007 at 10:51 pm Permalink
Gnort didn’t actually have fingers, so technically his ring was more of a bracelet.
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19/12/2007 at 4:23 am Permalink
AHAHA, Fool, got jacked!
Great stuff, this is my new favorite blog.
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19/12/2007 at 8:43 am Permalink
I feel ashamed to call myself a comic nerd now. I’ve been a Marvel loyalist for too long so I have no idea who Gnort is. I don’t even know why the ring is so important to GL
19/12/2007 at 8:59 am Permalink
Tracey, no I’m sure he doesn’t and I bet he finds everything unusual as opposed to thinking to himself it’s not unusual.
19/12/2007 at 9:02 am Permalink
Dan - now you have me at a disadvantage I thought he had fingers, furry fingers but fingers nonetheless. I was not aware that one could get other power jewelery. Apparently Gnort’s father bought his position in the Green Lanterns, maybe he blinged him out too.
19/12/2007 at 9:13 am Permalink
Ahhhh Sir Jorge that’s an awesome thing to say - reserve judgment though until I start in on Aquaman again, that should take me down a couple of spots LOL.
19/12/2007 at 9:18 am Permalink
Ian, don’t feel bad look Gnort up in wiki and relieve yourself of several brain cells that would’ve been allocated to something possibly important had they not been taken up with information regarding the one we call Gnort.
The power ring is where Green Lantern gets his powers, it possibly doubles as a mobile phone and he may be able to download the spice girls greatest hits on it.
PS When are you going to get a blog?
19/12/2007 at 4:02 pm Permalink
Me? Have a blog? Isn’t there enough blogs around now that review comics, movies and TV shows?
19/12/2007 at 4:32 pm Permalink
Yes, yes there is LOL