Favorite Green Lantern?

[Kouji Kabuto]

I don't know if this topic's been brought up before...

I just read some old Green Lantern comics and I started thinking which of the earth GLs is my favorite? Alan Scott? Hal Jordan? John Stewart? Guy Gardner? Kyle Rayner?

I'm leaning towards Alan Scott simply because of the audacity of his costume... heh heh.

 

[Ragna "D" BloodEdge]

Hal Jordan and Kyle Rayner.

 

[Domino 555]

Kyle just kicks ass.:buttrock: :buttrock: :buttrock:

 

[Keith Justice]

Kyle Rayner by a long shot and no contest.

Hal Jordan bores me to motherlovin' tears.

I like John Stewart on JLU, but in the end..... Kyle is the Lantern that stands above all others.

 

[Kouji Kabuto]

Just looked at the Greatest Green Lantern Stories ever told. There was one story were Guy and Hal and a battle of wits (and fisticuffs) and it ended with Guy saying that Hal is one courageous sonuvabitch.

Sigh, really loved those Lantern-Arrow team-ups.

 

[scikaiju]

Kyle Rayner got me back into Green Lantern comics, although I quickly became a fan of John Stewart during JL/JLU

 

[NAND NOR]

Listen up poozers!

Kilowog is the best of the best!

 

[icebolt]

Kyle Rayner got me STARTED on GL in the first place, and even though I've drifted over the years, he still rocks more than the others IMO.:thumbs:

 

[MattComix]

I liked Kyle when he started but the writers never seemed to know what to do with him. An artist with the GL ring is just a awesome idea. Then they pulled a dumb move by killing Alex in the infamous refrigerator incident. But I also didn't think it was cool to really dick over Hal Jordan's character and the whole GL mythology to make room for Kyle. I think one of the things that made it a lot easier for fans to adjust going from Barry to Wally as The Flash was that Barry got to die a heroes death. There was a sense of closure there. With Hal he just up and becomes a total asshat one day and fucks over the entire Corps? I was never even that big a Hal fan and this just struck me as a real unncessary whizzing on him by the writers.

The JLU animated series really got me into liking Jon Stewart as GL. The staff has been accused of tokenism or whatever but I never really saw it that way. I mean for one thing, not having the greatest superheroes in the world represented by all white guys just makes sense regardless. But more than that, Jon was a character from the comics who was indeed a GL in those comics. ..and you know so many of the cooler superhero powers and gimmicks are taken up by white guys so having GL be a black man who gets to fight for justice alongside Superman while being more than enough of a kickass hero in his own right is pretty damn cool if you ask me.

As for Guy Gardner I've only this to say. One punch! :laugh: You Giffen-era JL fans will know what I'm talking about.

I also dig Killowog, Katma, and Ch'p.

 

[Fireguard]

I like Hal, but that's because I can look at him and see a remnant of what DC used to be. Before all the murders and the antiheroics and zillions of different Criseseses. When a superhero was still a hero and didn't need to have lots of secret pains. I'm not saying I don't like it when superheroes have bad things happen to them or have to make hard choices, but it seems comics these days are about nothing but heaping as much angst on the characters as possible.

I don't want to read about that. Call me old-fashioned but I want to read about guys fighting the good fight. Not because a mugger killed their uncle or because some guy trusted them on his deathbed to carry on his legacy, just because it needs to be done. That's why I read the comics about Hal and I was pissed they killed Captain America, because to me they're just good people at heart doing a job that has to get done, in a medium peppered with so much angst and darkness.