Polite Dissent

12 Responses to “ Could This Be the Greatest Character Ever? ”

1. Trench
   June 9th, 2006 at 7:51 am
   

   Everybody knows the greatest Green Lantern ever was G’Nort.

2. mrmanatee
   June 9th, 2006 at 9:24 am
   

   One has to wonder how exactly superintelligent viruses and mathematical progressions wear power rings. I mean, they don’t seem like they would make particularly effective lanterns.

3. Scott
   June 9th, 2006 at 9:40 am
   Official Comment

   For some reason, the “Abstract Mathematical Progression” reminds me of the Hoovooloo from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, described as “a superintelligent shade of the color blue.”

4. Juho Salo
   June 9th, 2006 at 2:04 pm
   

   Hey Scott, if you have time, would you care to write a post about different kind of heart-beat illustrations? How they are drawn wrong in the comics, and how they SHOULD be drawn, when the character is in coma/has heart-attack/is normal.

   I know you have talked in brief of them before, but would be nice to have the DEFINITE post about the subject.

   That is, if you have time. Pretty please?

5. Scott
   June 9th, 2006 at 2:13 pm
   Official Comment

   You know, I’ve skirted around that topic, but never really addressed it. I’ll pencil it in for next week.

6. David Oakes
   June 9th, 2006 at 5:31 pm
   

   You are right, Scott. Dkrtzy Rrr *is* the greatest character ever.

   Though the Greatest GL is still Chaselon.

7. Chris Galdieri
   June 9th, 2006 at 6:32 pm
   

   I always liked Driq of Criq, the dead Green Lantern whose ring kept his corpse ambulatory. They should bring him back, what with how the young people are all into the zombie comics these days.

8. Seth Finkelstein
   June 10th, 2006 at 1:03 am
   

   For a virus-lantern, I can imagine a teeny-weeny little power ring, wrapping around some protrusion (but maybe Leezle Pon is big for a virus, no reason to think it’s exactly same size as the unintelligent ancestors). But why can’t it attend meetings? It’ll infect everyone just by being around?

9. Carl Fink
   June 10th, 2006 at 12:29 pm
   

   If Leezle Pon is a smallpox virus, it could only attend a meeting by bringing along an infected mammalian host. Viruses outside a host’s cells are inactive.

10. Anonymous
    June 11th, 2006 at 8:03 am
    

    Isn’t smallpox a terrestrial virus? Meaning Leezle Pon (or his ancestors) is from earth? (Or the smallpox virus was brought to Earth from somewhere in space.

    Calling him an alien smallpox virus is like calling Superman an alien human being.

11. Beta Ray Steve
    June 11th, 2006 at 10:14 pm
    

    It’s a good thing none of Abin Sur’s germs were fearless…or the DC universe would be very different.

12. Richard
    July 10th, 2006 at 9:29 pm
    

    what do u talk about in Green Lantern meetings? are they like union meetings? possibly deciding on a new costume, or maybe shorter hours and a dental plan? hopefully at the next meeting they will get new masks, green lanterns don’t need the “villian from the 1890’s” look from Telemundo…i swear all they need is a top hat, a cape and a cane along with a victim and smoe railroad tracks.

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