(Anti-Chick: they weren’t hate-filled, no-one went to Hell, the emphasis was on God’s love, etc)
Spire Christian did some comic adaptations of “The Cross and the Switchblade” and “God’s Smuggler” that were pretty good.
Anyone remember the Marvel Classic’s series? Saved ME a lot of time in High school!
I liked the GL comics where he teams with Green Arrow. There was a fantastic story where GA goes to some planet and is on a giant two-pan balance, with 200 lbs of silver on the others. As the peasants take silver for themselves from the pan, GA dips farther in the acid.
One thing I never got: If sinestro fixed his own ring (Removed the Yellow Impurity) why couldn’t Hal?
PS: Who was that other Lantern that Hal had the hots for? Purple skin, skin tight suit… anyone?
Katma Tui, I think. But GL was never my particular fort. Ey?
That was later than the Adams/O’Neil stuff. IIRC, that story was around #110 or so…wasn’t there something called “The Silver Twist” (a giant infinity symbol in space) involved?
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He didn’t. The Qwardians did, but it used some ultra-rare element and they only had the one (or two) bits.
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Purple skin? Katma Tui had red skin and had the hots for John Stewart. Arisia had orange skin
Fenris
Katma Tui’s skin was more magenta – I guess someone might remember it as purple.
–Cliffy
Hey, as long as the people who actually know stuff are checking in (i.e. not me) what ever happened to Sinestro/Guy’s yellow ring? I don’t remember seeing it since the whole Parallax mess but like I said before Hal Jordan era Green Lantern stuff is not my strong suit.
Shoulda been red, as she’s from the same planet as Sinestro, IIRC
QUOTE: “There’s only a few dozen of them but because they’re near all powerful cosmic busy-bodies they formed the Green Lantern Corps to help keep the peace and to each of these 3600 individuals they handed out power rings which did a whole lot of nifty things.”
Christ, obviously I’m over my head among you experts, but doesn’t a corps of 3600 Green Lantern-like dogooders kinda diminish the Big Guy’s specialness? Suddenly, you’re no longer a designer label superhero. You’re Sam’s Club, off-the-rack instead.
I suppose it could have been turned out that way, but it wasn’t. Rarely did the entire Corps show up for something. It was kind of like following the stories of a Federal Marshal in the old West. Yeah, he’d occasionally team up with other lawmen (and women and bugs and whatever the hell Tomar Re was), but most of the time he was on his own. And on the rare occasions that the entire cavlery showed up, it was like a special treat.
BTW, Sinstero’s/Guy’s ring was destroyed in Kevin Dooley’s (the GL editor at the time) “There can’t be ANY other character with that power in the ENTIRE DC Universe” rampage that f*cked up a MAJOR on-going Legion storyline, ruined Guy Gardener, screwed up Alan Scott and Jade, etc.
Fenris.
Kamai Tui. That’s it.
No silver Twist. That was the Time Trapper. Was in the Legion Comics.
I collected them too. Still have most of them, stopped around the time Blok came around.
Problem with the Legion is that you outgrow 'em. I mean, really. Bouncing boy?
I’m begging you not to say bad things about Chuck. What’s next, dissing Tenzil and Lydda?
There was a reboot in the mid-90’s. Chuck doesn’t bounce anymore. (The current Legion series (at about issue #13) is pretty good, BTW; it was preceeded by two miniseries by the same writers, the quite good Legion Worlds and the stellar Legion Lost.)
–Cliffy
Of course, if my wife was Duo Damsel, the word “threeway” would be always on my mind.
That storyline pissed me off so badly (I know, me and every other GL fan). That new GL series had been building a great storyline around the Guardians (Recap for those who need it: the Guardians had reunited with their cosmic mates and gone off to make a new generation of immortal, near all-powerful cosmic busy-bodies. They left one of their number behind to help manage the Corps in their absence. In their absense the Corps broke the one cardinal rule they had set which was that no Green Lantern should ever kill another one with their rings by executing Sinestro and caused the central battery to self destruct. Only a handful of rings were still capable of getting the power trickling out of Oa and most of those people relocated to Earth. Eventually the remaining Guardian went insane, kidnapped cities from around the universe, and held them on Oa. So Hal Jordan in order to stop him sent a signal into the remains of the central power battery and the Guardians returned. After executing their renegade compatriot they set out to rebuild the Corps. Everyone caught up? Okay, good.).
The whole time in that series there were hints being dropped that the Guardians were not right. There was the early storyline that had Guy chasing down a group claiming to be the Guardians. The fact that they were willing to keep G’Nort. Their personality seemed to be a bit off, less aloof.
So the original solicitation for that issue of Green Lantern was a second group of Guardians show up (this one with their mates and young in tow) and pretty much say “What the hell is going on here?” The new Corps factionalizes over which set of Guardians to back, and it’s the conclusion of fifty issues of build up. Instead I get Hal Jordan suddenly flying off the handle and deciding to kill all of his friends, his employer, and everyone else. If they wanted a new GL the existing story would have been a fine drop in point. They didn’t have to kill off a pile of characters, completely tear down about half a dozen others, and convert one of the longest running characters DC had into a mass murderer.
You’re thinking small. She was Triplicate Lass, you know.
She WAS Triplicate Girl (not “Lass”) but from 1980 or so until the Crisis, she was Duo Damsel (one her selves had been killed) and married to Bouncing Boy. Post-Crisis, she goes by the name “Triad.”
I knew that. Just forgot about the early appearance.
I didn’t want to go into that much detail. The post was already far too long. 
The details that have been added by others just shows how long GL has been around. I agree that Guy became an idiot and a jerk for a while, but it did make for some fun scenes in JL/JLI for a while. :)**
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Also, there is a new yellow ring out and about now. The qwardians got another one together and gave it to a psycho. Kyle’s ring does not have the problem with yellow anymore, but he has had a few problems dealing with the personality behind the new yellow ring.
Oops, another one. But I was only aware of his existance from 2 stories, so I don’t feel too bad. 
No, the Silver Twist was in GL. It may have shown up eventually in the Legion (Although I don’t remember it there, I don’t have a complete collection of them.) But I am pretty sure it started in GL. Flying into it could send you to other dimensions or across the universe. I believe that Hal picked up Itty on a trip through it.
The extra GL ring just showed up recently, it was given to Kyle by Hal Jordan when Hal was accidently brought into his future and found out his eventual fate. Hal wanted to give Kyle the ability to create more GLs by giving him a ring that had the ability to create more rings, something Kyle’s ring can’t do.
Jennie didn’t develop powers similar to a GLs. They were identical to her fathers. (And were powered by the same source. She had to give them up to save Alan’s sanity.) She had the same vulnerability to wood as Alan. And the recent JSA have had some interesting developments with regards to Alan and his powers. I haven’t seen that issue of GL yet. Still waiting for my order to get here.
Missed this entirely. Where was the story?
Lok
What did happen to Malvolio’s ring, anyway?
Yer 22 years off. Triplicate Girl became Duo Damsel when Compto killed one of her selves in Adventure Comics around #342 circa 1966.
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Fenris
I’m usually pretty capable of keeping up with JLA history; I actually enjoy these threads whenever they appear so I can fill in the gaps of my knowledge. But I’m not catching the Legion references (I’m aware of what it is, just not in enough detail to understand the references in this discussion). Anyone care to explain?