Green Lantern #194

[iamrman]

In the middle of the Crisis, Hal Jordan sees a familiar face desecrating Abin Sur's grave.

Sucks to be Hal. First he resigns from the Corps to be with the woman he loved, only for her to immediately be possessed by the Star Sapphire. Now the Guardians choose Guy Gardner over him to become a Green Lantern again. I would feel sorry for Hal if it wasn’t so fun to take the piss out of him.

Comments

[scorntx]

So the Guardians of the Universe, having a bit of a schism over whether they should do something or not do something, decide to revive Guy Gardner (because they can do that apparently).
And naturally rather than directly assist Guy in this they just leave him to make his way all zombie like to Abin Sur's grave, then give him a power ring.

... yet again, it's really astounding sometimes there's any universe left standing under their watch.

[iamrman]

Their plan was to have Guy lead an army of villains in to the antimatter universe. To the surprise of absolutely nobody, it didn't go well.

[beyondthefringe]

Yeah. The Guardians of the Universe had a long history of schisms based on bad ideas.

There was the male/female (Guardians/Zamarons) split.
There was the policing/controlling (Guardians/Controllers) split.
And then the Crisis split, which saw a small faction deciding to take a more proactive approach by reactivating Guy to lead a direct attack on Qward's moon.

I'm sure had things continued, they'd have been down to two Guardians splitting to create two entirely different Corps.

To say the Guardians have a history of bad choices is an understatement.

[iamrman]

Then there's the whole mess with the New Guardians.

[scorntx]

If it was down to one (non-Ganthet) Guardian left in a room with themself, they'd start arguing with themselves, probably within five minutes.

[super_fly]

Guardians Of The Universe: Kind Of Suck, Actually

[tcampbell1000]

Holy crap. I figured Guy had just gotten his old ring auto-returned when he came out of the coma. The Guardians have done a lot of stupid shit, but this might beat out the time they hired the recruit named Sinestro.

[scorntx]

Hey, "Sinestro" is a perfectly respectable name for an archaeologist from the Planet Where Everyone Has Suspicious Sounding Names In English.
Like Arsona the police officer.

(Now, the fact that in some origins Sinny miiiight have refused to aid his predecessor so he could keep the power ring and no-one cared to check how he got it, or that whole bit about going totalitarian on his entire sector space with no-one bothering to investigate 'til Hal came along... that's a different story.)

[skjam]

In Korugarian, "Sinestro" means, "totally trustworthy person who would never betray you or go mad with power."

[lego_joker]

Honestly, I'm surprised nobody's (yet?) retconned in something like, "Oh, that's what the Ring translates his name to in English, since in Korugarian it means Chief of the Left."