![]() Meanwhile, we are introduced to the young man from the cover, Johnny Dune, a Vietnam veteran returning home to a country that doesn’t want him. It’s not the most exciting of covers, but it does its job and sets the stage reasonably well. I do enjoy the miniature figure of the Tiny Titan trotting along at his feet. The piece captures the basic idea of the conflict, with Johnny having hypnotized the League. Let’s just say that he’s not wearing a costume. ![]() Well….normal is a relative term in the 70s. Adams’ rendering of our titular antagonist, Johnny Dune, is colorful and interesting, even if he is just wearing “normal” clothes. The tale has a solid, if unexceptional cover. The result is a story that is rather fascinating as a representative of its era, even if the plot itself leaves something to be desired. ![]() We’ve got a very interesting story to kick off this set of comics, a tale that wholeheartedly steers into the relevance push of the early Bronze Age, combining a number of different contemporary issues in its plot. (You can see everything published this month HERE)īolded entries are covered in this post, the others will be covered soon. If you’re new to this little journey, you can check out the first post to learn what it’s all about. However, when life gets you down, there are few better escapes than the wonderful world of superhero comics, especially this particularly exuberant variety from the Bronze Age, so let us see what strange marvels the next bit of this month holds for us! Here’s hoping that 2021 may yet bring us all brighter days. We are physically and materially okay, but we are feeling rather worn-down by life at the moment, and there may be more difficult challenges on our horizon. For those of you that pray, I’d appreciate your prayers. Things have been difficult here in the Greylands, though I suppose that they are indeed difficult in most places these days. Longtime comics and movie writer Marc Guggenheim, who co-wrote the upcoming Green Lantern film, had a more succinct way of explaining his view of the oath, namely, in one of his own.Welcome back to our voyage into the Bronze Age! Once again life has intervened and rather spectacularly ruined my plans for a quicker turn around on this little feature. Whether you're a human from Earth, or a sentient vegetable from some far-off planet, everybody says the same oath - and that's pretty cool!" "Now that the Corps has returned, and Kyle is a part of it, I think the oath serves an important touchstone, something that serves to bind all the members. "When I took over 'Green Lantern,' it was with a mandate to go in a different direction than had been done before, so we left the oath behind because Kyle, frankly, didn't even know it," Marz told CBR. ![]() Writer Ron Marz, who spent a number of years on the Green Lantern title and was the principal writer during the Kyle Rayner era, has a lot of experience with the oath - and without it. ![]() It wasn't until "Green Lantern: Rebirth" in 2004, where the long-defunct Corps was re-formed, that the organization opted for the standardized version Jordan had been saying since 1959. Some, such as the one used by sentient plant officer Medphyll, were variations on the standard, while others veered into the undecipherable - even by the Green Lantern ring's translation function's standards. Owing to the alien diversity inherent in the Green Lantern Corps, comic writers established that many of the Lanterns had their own versions of the oath. "In Brightest Day" referred to his use of the ring as a radar after being blinded by a magnesium bomb "In Blackest Night" owing to his ring's ability to illuminate criminals while tracking them in a dark cave and "no evil shall escape my sight" coming from his ring detecting shockwaves emitted by explosives used by a group of safecrackers he was chasing.Īround the same time Hal Jordan was launched as the new Green Lantern, DC also introduced the idea of a Green Lantern Corps - a task force of ring-wielding space cops protecting the universe - and the idea of an oath carried over to the Corps as a whole, though not the version fans had become used to reading. DC later retconned the origin of the modern oath, tying its verses directly to Jordan, who explained that he crafted the oath based on some early escapades, with each line in the oath referring obliquely to ways he used the ring on particular cases. ![]()
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