Justice League International (1980s version) #10

[ebailey140]

The League learns a dark secret about the Green Lantern Corps...



Okay, maybe just an embarrassing one.









 

Comments

[tigerkaya]

And I thought the X-men were jerks.

[ebailey140]

I'll put it this way... G'nort's ring even gets frustrated with him. "I didn't know power rings could sigh."

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

Who wants an idiot near them in a deadly situation?

[tigerkaya]

Well the Guardians for starters for even inducting him in the first place. But I always found the strategic mindset of the Guardians lacking.

[reveen]

Yeah, maybe don't leave him alone in an empty sector with no backup? Even ignoring the social isolation aspect they're leaving him a sitting duck to get ganked by any of the Corps enemies.

The Council of Blue Knob Ends can just suck it up and keep him around as a janitor or something, jeez.

[cainofdreaming]

Isn't that the case for all the Corps members, though? Only one guy per sector. Their sectors just aren't empty.

[kirayoshi]

In the Guardians' defence (remember, this was before they became Straw Fascist "Free Will is Evil" jerks), IIRC in a subsequent storyline, it was discovered that G'nort was not truly a GL at the time, but was given a counterfeit power ring by a group of fake Guardians in a plot to discredit the real Guardians. Later, Guy Gardner was impressed by the way G'nort handled himself during their confrontation with the fake Guardians, and requested that the Guardians make him a Green Lantern in earnest.

[beyondthefringe]

Poor G'nort. A joke that would not die. And thus had to be retconned multiple times in order to fit into the greater GL mythos. And then horribly abused by later writers. I hear he last appeared in Larfleeze, so at least he's presumably still alive.

[reveen]

Eh, I dunno, I kind of have a low tolerance threshold for idiot, loser schadenfreude characters unless they're a jerk or bring their problems upon themselves, like Daffy Duck or Mike Dawson. And G'nort seems like a pretty chill guy, idiocy notwithstanding.

[wizardru]

G'nort was, of course, a running gag throughout a chunk of the Bwa-Ha-Ha league run. G'nort was presented most of the time as a privileged sad-sack whose cluelessness frustrated everyone around him. On occasion it would put folks in danger and on some occasions he would save the day. The endless retcons to justify and explain him are almost painful.

He kind of has to be taken with the grain of salt in context of where he appears. This is the league that has Booster and Beetle getting involved in schemes, Martian Manhunter eating Oreos and so on. I remember at the time enjoying it but also being frustrated that they often were doing comedy and not nearly as much superheroics and adventure. In the context of the grimdark crap that followed (of which Identity Crisis is the apotheosis), I appreciate it a LOT more.

[ebailey140]

I'll be posting some G'nort saving the day when I do the Manga Khan arc.

[donnblake]

"The whole planet is a body! Of course, it makes sense- a meat race would come from a meat world!"

[lbd_nytetrayn]

It's hard not to appreciate the concept of the Martian Manhunter hunting Manhunters.