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scans_dailyTime for a post showing an earth green lantern at their worst, and today we get to my favorite John Stewart. This is an amazing story from DCs 80s retroactive and so it takes place pre marine retcon of john stewart. Now he is just a rebellious kind hearted and passionate architect...who fights crime. Over the course of this story he finds love, fights a talking shark, saves the world from nuclear disaster, shows another villian why crime is stupid, and Screws up big time. This by far has to be the best john stewart centric story and(its giant sized) I have read in a long time.
It will hurt to tear John down a bit in this story, but meh all green lanterns deserve it now and again.
Anyway john answers a distress under water and runs into an old Green Lantern foe. This is the 80s in the period where JS was the green lantern of Earth.
I wonder who the evil bastards is...
Mean while in outerspace
Evil Star: Ha Ha ha I will use saturns ring to destroy earth!
Aquaman: Not if I have anything to say about that!
Evil Star: WTF
Aquaman: We like to mix things up a bit
Any way shark launche a shit storm of nukes but john catches them all....no one destroys planets except him.
Now John goes to play deadfliest catch with psychic shark
I know some animal rights activists will complain about him doing this, but John has a hot date with a female reporter. He wheres the coolest disguise ever.
No one will suspect that Green Lantern is actually Howling Wolf. Anyway that really saves time on finding a phone booth. I am glad John Stewart is not afraid to use his ring to have some fun, judging by the first issue of GLC he is the same way now.
Anyway they take it to the park where they encounter a genleman commiting noise pollution.
Uh oh and just like in GLC#1 he is not above cutting loose on someone with the ring. John you prankster.
John Stewart of Earth you have the ability to instill great fear in others, welcome to the sinestro corps. Now for the shocker...
Wow I commend this action and think he is being horribly irresponsible at the same time. For one this instead of doing the run around for years with a women he loves he is already bringing her into both lives. On the other side of the spectrum though...she only knows him as green lantern and not John Stewart. Atleast with other hero relations they know each other in both lives, but John stewart is a stranger.
At the same time this story takes place in the 80s. A few years ago, John was a married man with a wife who had all that taken away because he allowed Hal to stay at his house. They do not bring up his wifes murder in this book, but going by comics time, jumping from 1970s to 80s is only a few years. So its kind of good to see him conect with someone, lets just hope for the best.
Looks like John has Fry's problem of turning on the tv when it pertains to him. Damn I hate it when good mornings get ruined by bullshit.
Nice job John you confess your identity to a reporter and look surprised when she reports on it. Super hero/journalist relations never work out. Thats like superman marrying Lois Lane not happening in this universe anytime soon.
John goes to address the public and once again damn he looks good in a suit.
Smooth john real smooth, he goes to see Tawny at work. They just started dating and she is already putting him through the ringer.
Foreshadowing meet Sonar an old school lantern villian who just wants to put his country on the map.
Sonar kidnaps Tawny live on tv and john rushes to save her.
Now john shows why he is by far my favorite lantern
There we go he is one of the few charachters in comics who can see the big picture and thinks i=for the long term. Whether its destroying one life to save billions, not letting greedy buisness people put others in danger(everyone read Green lantern cors by tomasi), or just calmly showing a villian how they can make things better.
Every comic should have a wizerd of Oz moment where Lantern john stewart makes the villian learn their errors
John: Magneto by killing all humans you are no better then hitler
Magento:Damn I know
John: Loki you do not really hate your brotther Thor, but your father Odin.
Loki: I know, okay fiddlesticks he never hugged me
John: well guess what Thor has something to say
Thor: Brother...I hate father too
Thor and Loki Bro hug
John: Black manta you do not need to kill aquaman to make a kingdom for black men and women, you can just build a large city/submarine.
Black Manta: By god stewart you are right...hey by the way where is aquaman
Mean while in space
Guardians: Aquaman you can not name yourself king of the planet neptune...go back home
Aquaman: NO
Anyway the bad guy is done, its just time to address one more issue.
This is by far the worst case scenario of telling someone your secret identity. A lot of heroes are lucky not to learn this.
Farewell Tawny you lost a good man, and further pushed him away from the rest of the world. But of course john pushes past this horrible screw up.
I loved the DC retoactives for giving us the awesome giant sized issues, and me this amazing story one of my favorie DC heroes. Although he screwed up a lot he was still the freaking man, and this is by far one of the funniest mainstream books I have read.
On the Lantern screwup scale I rate it a 6.5/10
It will hurt to tear John down a bit in this story, but meh all green lanterns deserve it now and again.
Anyway john answers a distress under water and runs into an old Green Lantern foe. This is the 80s in the period where JS was the green lantern of Earth.
I wonder who the evil bastards is...
Mean while in outerspace
Evil Star: Ha Ha ha I will use saturns ring to destroy earth!
Aquaman: Not if I have anything to say about that!
Evil Star: WTF
Aquaman: We like to mix things up a bit
Any way shark launche a shit storm of nukes but john catches them all....no one destroys planets except him.
Now John goes to play deadfliest catch with psychic shark
I know some animal rights activists will complain about him doing this, but John has a hot date with a female reporter. He wheres the coolest disguise ever.
No one will suspect that Green Lantern is actually Howling Wolf. Anyway that really saves time on finding a phone booth. I am glad John Stewart is not afraid to use his ring to have some fun, judging by the first issue of GLC he is the same way now.
Anyway they take it to the park where they encounter a genleman commiting noise pollution.
Uh oh and just like in GLC#1 he is not above cutting loose on someone with the ring. John you prankster.
John Stewart of Earth you have the ability to instill great fear in others, welcome to the sinestro corps. Now for the shocker...
Wow I commend this action and think he is being horribly irresponsible at the same time. For one this instead of doing the run around for years with a women he loves he is already bringing her into both lives. On the other side of the spectrum though...she only knows him as green lantern and not John Stewart. Atleast with other hero relations they know each other in both lives, but John stewart is a stranger.
At the same time this story takes place in the 80s. A few years ago, John was a married man with a wife who had all that taken away because he allowed Hal to stay at his house. They do not bring up his wifes murder in this book, but going by comics time, jumping from 1970s to 80s is only a few years. So its kind of good to see him conect with someone, lets just hope for the best.
Looks like John has Fry's problem of turning on the tv when it pertains to him. Damn I hate it when good mornings get ruined by bullshit.
Nice job John you confess your identity to a reporter and look surprised when she reports on it. Super hero/journalist relations never work out. Thats like superman marrying Lois Lane not happening in this universe anytime soon.
John goes to address the public and once again damn he looks good in a suit.
Smooth john real smooth, he goes to see Tawny at work. They just started dating and she is already putting him through the ringer.
Foreshadowing meet Sonar an old school lantern villian who just wants to put his country on the map.
Sonar kidnaps Tawny live on tv and john rushes to save her.
Now john shows why he is by far my favorite lantern
There we go he is one of the few charachters in comics who can see the big picture and thinks i=for the long term. Whether its destroying one life to save billions, not letting greedy buisness people put others in danger(everyone read Green lantern cors by tomasi), or just calmly showing a villian how they can make things better.
Every comic should have a wizerd of Oz moment where Lantern john stewart makes the villian learn their errors
John: Magneto by killing all humans you are no better then hitler
Magento:Damn I know
John: Loki you do not really hate your brotther Thor, but your father Odin.
Loki: I know, okay fiddlesticks he never hugged me
John: well guess what Thor has something to say
Thor: Brother...I hate father too
Thor and Loki Bro hug
John: Black manta you do not need to kill aquaman to make a kingdom for black men and women, you can just build a large city/submarine.
Black Manta: By god stewart you are right...hey by the way where is aquaman
Mean while in space
Guardians: Aquaman you can not name yourself king of the planet neptune...go back home
Aquaman: NO
Anyway the bad guy is done, its just time to address one more issue.
This is by far the worst case scenario of telling someone your secret identity. A lot of heroes are lucky not to learn this.
Farewell Tawny you lost a good man, and further pushed him away from the rest of the world. But of course john pushes past this horrible screw up.
I loved the DC retoactives for giving us the awesome giant sized issues, and me this amazing story one of my favorie DC heroes. Although he screwed up a lot he was still the freaking man, and this is by far one of the funniest mainstream books I have read.
On the Lantern screwup scale I rate it a 6.5/10
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Date: 2012-01-06 09:26 pm (UTC)well fun except for you know the Identity danger.... but still. i like this John much more than the current and JLU John (well late JLU John grew a sense of humor so i liked him too)
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Date: 2012-01-06 09:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-06 11:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-07 01:14 am (UTC)Wow, Aquaman sure has a lot ambition! I cracked up when you commented on the switcheroo between these two.
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Date: 2012-01-07 03:18 am (UTC)Shark: "I'll bypass the submarine's intricate security systems! With my right arm! Which I just lifted! By me! A shark wearing spandex underwater!"
John: "Oh no! You just lifted your arm! I'll use my ring to trap you in a cage! A green cage! Because I'm Green Lantern! I'm also underwater!"
They released the Retroactive Issues a few months before the reboot, right? I wonder if they used the figures (you know, which issues were bought the most) to determine what kind of stories they'll do for the DCNU?
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Date: 2012-01-07 11:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-09 12:59 pm (UTC)