#xudar

[katmaatui]

"Well look who it is, the greatest Green Lantern of us all. I can't believe you decided to slum it with us peasants." Guy laughed, loud and long. He dropped his bag off on the table with a clang.

"Screw off, Guy," Hal sighs, not ready to deal with this. Not right now.

"Oh princess is prissy, I see. What has you around here anyway? Thought, you were off doing a top secret mission for the old blues."

"I'm on break and I want a drink, so get out of my way."

"Thought you didn't do that anymore."

"Maybe I do now, now go away, please. You can do whatever you want elsewhere. Go visit the JLI, see G'nort, fight with Lobo, whatever."

"Eh, JLI and I aren't really on speaking terms currently. There was an incident with some explosions and burnt pants and some panties. It was hot though." He waggled his eyes. "Though of course Mr. Perfect wouldn't know anything about that sort of thing.

"Not Mr. Perfect, Guy," Hal rolls his eyes, "you know, if I did even a fraction of the things you did....well it'll make the Guardians up to now look reasonable."

"They would never get too mad at their golden boy, besides, they kept me on Maltus for a month after Crisis, that has to count for something."

"Guardians, I can't believe you. Do you hear yourself? I got stuck away from home for a year for delaying to save the Ungaranians, while you get a month away from home for almost destroying the whole universe, and you got to just leave and come home with no contest, and you still think they don't like you?"

"Oh boo hoo you couldn't go home for a while, well at least they actually want something of you, versus just sticking me here to be out of the way. They made G'nort my partner, G'nort."

"Well, maybe if that's what you get for not being wanted, maybe I want to not be wanted."

"Well, if being wanted means getting trusted and getting actual missions and being in the group, maybe I want that. Everyone just wants me to be you."

They both laugh. "I can't believe Guy Gardner is admitting to wanting to be me. I wish I could get it on video for John."

"Oh Hal Jordan wanting to be me? That video would be all over the jl servers in seconds. You're never living it down, Jordo."

"Well, I guess I have to give you some wins. Ugh, I guess I should get back on duty. I'm flying to Xudar next, and I really shouldn't get behind schedule."

Guy doesn't say bye, or anything stupid like that, but he might, just maybe, think it.

#hal uses guardians like most people use god and/or jesus christ #this is not my favorite snippet but I'm developing on it #this is like 90s era hal and then vague guy because I don't know him as well #the idea is going in my head

[meatyhandbag]

Rebirth new Krypton

so i just finished the new krypton saga from 2008-2010 and it’s left me with ideas on how to do a new krypton in the modern age.

clearly i can’t just do the bottle city of kandor again, even though that was brilliant, because we don’t just repeat other people’s stories in this house, we mutilate them until we can have a legally distinct counterpart, so here’s my thinking.

So Krypton was a space empire that primarily competed with neighboring systems like Xudar, the home of Tomar-Re. And when Krypton blew up, the radiation could only spread so far, and the outer-colonies did manage to survive. BUT, they were now left unprotected from the Xudarian people who wanted to take this land.

Some like Romat-Ru wanted to genocide the whole race, but stable minds prevailed and the surviving Kryptonians were all absorbed into Xudar, most living on the Kryptonian outer colony of Mirao (original name easily could change, but my thinking is it’s kryptonian for “out of Rao’s gaze” or “Blind Rao”. I.,e. the land was so far away the people could barely see Rao’s star in the night sky)

due to time-dilation, there were many generations of the Mirao-Kryptonians, which were not just made of “true” Kryptonians, but other ethnicities such as Xannians and Vathlovians, which also lived on Krypton but were overshadowed by them.

[planetaryalphabet]

Xudar, located in Sector 2813, is home to an advanced race dedicated to the arts and sciences. The have taken a benevolent interest in the universe and they have one of the most peaceful histories in the cosmos. It's people, Xudarians appear to have physical characteristics similar to both birds and fish from Earth. But their DNA is similar to that of the ichthyologic species.

Source: Green Lantern #6 (1961)

#planet alphabet #xudar #green lantern #tomato ree #fish-bird

[primepanels]

Trilla-Tru Is a Bird

Maybe you've heard of Green Lantern Tomar-Re, the Xudarian Green Lantern who kind of looks like a cross between a human, a bird, an elf, and a swordfish. He debuted in the 60's, I think, and eventually he died and had his ring passed down to his son, Tomar-Tu, who looks just like him.

Well, when Grant Morrison, the writer of The Green Lantern (the only ongoing Green Lantern comic on the shelves), must want it to be explicitly clear that Xudarians look like birds, because he created Trilla-Tru, a busty Xudarian Green Lantern who likes to make bird puns and say bird-like things.

I don't have anything deep or cool to say about this. I just think it's weird, and not in a normal Grant Morrison-y way. I don't know if he thinks Trilla acting this way is funny or if he's hanging a lampshade on how ridiculous he thinks Xudarians look. But he also created a Green Lantern whose head is a volcano, so it's hard to read this guy (in more ways than one).

Two of these images are definitely from The Green Lantern vol. 1: Intergalactic Lawman. The other two are either from that one of the following two volumes in Morrison's series.

#Green Lantern #Trilla-Tru #Xudar #Xudarian #Grant Morrison #The Green Lantern #DC Comics

[tessatechaitea]

The English word you're looking for, Xudarian, is not saliva.

#Green Lantern Corps #Xudar #DC Comics #Grunion Guy!

[strangeduckpaper]

Green Lanterns: Sectors 2814/2813

Sector 2814

Earth Lanterns: Explained in this post.

Abin Sur: Lantern from Ungaros, thought of as one of the greatest. Blessed (or cursed) with Lantern Sight, had visions of Blackst Night. Studied the Indigo Lanterns of Nok.

Arisia Rrab: Lantern from Graxos, successor to her uncle and previous Lantern of Graxos, Blish. Looks like a college student, but she’s been operating since the 70′s. Expert pilot.

Yalan Gur: Lantern who came to the defense of Earth during the first Apokalypse War (Circa 1200 BCE), died, and his ring was lost, eventually finding its way to Asia.

Sector 2813

Tomar Re: Lantern of Xudar, a planet that boasts a legacy of Lanterns similar to Korugar in Sector 1417, or the one developing on Earth in recent years. Avid reader, haunted by his inability to save Krypton.

Sodom Yat: Lantern of Daxam, quit in sorrow following the destruction of Krypton and ravaging of Daxam. Now protects one of Daxam’s remaining refugee fleets.

#E136 #DC #DC AU #Green Lantern #Green Lantern Corps

[poison-shark]

Violet Knight

Fandom: Young Justice/ DC

Characters: Star Sapphire 2814 (Noa Ramires) OC, Star Sapphire 2813 (En’Cennaria Al’Verk) OC

*If you want to see more Noa content or more/different OCs I tag anything with Noa in it with #noa ramires*

**I obviously don’t own DC or Star Sapphire**

Hazel eyes gazed at the sky, for the first time without curiosity. She was aware of what was up there now, and it was war. Each light a star or planet in some sort of peril or dismay. They no longer sparked her heart as they once did. She wasn’t sure anything ever would. As far as she was concerned the vast expanse of darkness above her was no longer inspiring nor was it beautiful. Now it was cold and unforgiving. Noa Ramires had lost almost half of her family. She was an orphan and no longer fit the label ‘twin’. She blamed the sky.

The young girl stood alone in the graveyard, her uncles left with her brother and sister, along with her Obachan, hours ago. Still she sat in front of the headstone with heavy heart re-reading the names etched into the rock. She had to beg them to let her stay. It was not her first time in the Coastville Cemetery, however. She and Ren had hopped the fence many a time to explore and say hello to people long forgotten, without families to visit them, but now Ren was gone. She was alone with her wet, white tights covered in dirt, and her black dress did practically nothing to shelter her from the chilly night breeze threatening to blow her small frame down. The wind howled and the sound of the ocean nearby comforted her.

A few minutes passed and Noa decided she couldn’t bare to read the names anymore. As if on instinct, she ventured past the rows of tombstones and mausoleums, snow crunching as she stepped, and into the shrubbery. The seven year old came out the other side to face the ocean with twenty five feet of cliff face holding her up. Noa had no foolish plans of jumping. She had a baby sister to look after and protect, and a big brother to hold up, and so many people that would miss her. No, that was not her intention. She and Ren would sneak out here often to have picnics and make comics, using rocks to hold down papers. She glanced forlornly at the Pacific beneath her feet, waves crashing against limestone as the wind picked up. Her brother used to dive off and swim to the bottom. He always brought her gifts like seashells or ‘buried treasure’ from the underwater caves. Soon she would have to move in with Obachan and that meant saying her goodbyes to Coastville. Those goodbyes included this cliff face and the memories it held. Turning her head to the stars once more, she noticed something in the inky abyss shining particularly bright and getting bigger by the second. Forgetting where she was, Noa moved her left foot slightly forward before quickly realizing and attempting to step back, but her weak center of gravity combined with her small stature and a rather large gust of wind meant the cosmos had other plans. Noa spilled forward and over the edge.

Whilst falling she tried to reach out and grab a branch or latch onto some stone, but instead only some cuts, scrapes, and bruises. She attempted to right herself as to not land on her head, which actually kind of worked. Her flailing feet hit the water first with a freezing splash. The fall knocked most of the wind out of her, but not enough to stop her from swimming to the surface. Noa Ramires was not a weak swimmer in the slightest. In fact, she could almost keep up with her brothers and father, and they were Atlantean. The seven year old, however, was nowhere near strong enough to fight the ice cold waves pushing her further and further away from the rocky surface. Her head shifted to the sky as she screamed for help, lungs filling at a slow steady pace. The shiny light had gotten bigger and brighter now and Noa could determine that it was a specific purplish color. That was when she realized that it was getting closer and headed straight for her. Her hazel eyes widened and she flipped her black locks out of them in an attempt to prove her vision wrong. It was not. Noa made a mad splash for the cliff, battling the current, but could feel the warmth of the purple light gaining speed as it hurtled to Earth. The freezing temperature of the water contrasted incredibly with the searing heat from the purple meteor.

The supposed meteor slammed into the water with astonishing force, creating a wave that sent Noa tumbling under the depths and into the cliff side, hitting her head. Her drowning body sinking slowly.

The meteor, in reality, was not technically a meteor at all, but a woman encased in bubble of violet light. Her name was En’Cennaria Al’Verk, Star Sapphire of her home planet Ignia in Space Sector 2813. Ignia in actuality was not a planet, but the Ancient Ignites did not know that. Ignia’s proper classification would be a star, a red supergiant to be precise. Well, it was a red giant. Ignites as a people were not typically all that intelligent, but do operate on a code of honor. They are a warrior-like species with great passion and drive and a deep respect for other people’s. Like all Ignites, En’Cennaria was encased in a yellow fire that started in her heart and spread to her eyes and other appendages. The pathways the fire took to get to those places reveal themselves as scars of blue flame. As Ignites get older their fires change color like the life cycle of a star. If an Ignite’s flame goes out they will die

En’Cennaria was coming home from a mission nearly fatally injured and in need of her home’s energy to fully heal. She hadn’t even entered the atmosphere when Ignia imploded, blowing its outermost layer to pieces and sending En’Cennaria to Earth in the next sector. Most of the population of Ignia was evacuated and the blue lanterns eventually returned Ignia to its former glory, but En’Cennaria would never see it.

Now on this strange planet, En’Cennaria was dying, unable to heal, and, in her mind, the sole survivor of her native star. The only thing keeping her from instant death was the protective casing of violet light she made with her ring. Her eyes blasted open revealing bright blue fire. By gazing at the life form just ahead of her she supposed she was on Earth. She had come to Earth a couple of times and had seen humans amusing themselves in the substance they called water, but this human did not look amused. She had heard that some Earthlings could breathe underwater and figured this being was of their kind. En’Cennaria scanned the human for an analysis. A small screen-like energy construct of violet light appeared before her and displayed the humans vital signs.

“I have no idea what that means.” she informed the ring in a raspy voice.

The ring responded on screen with ‘It is a human female child. She is dying. She has an immeasurable amount of love in her heart and has lost many she loved very recently. She will die. Nearly nothing in the universe can prevent that now.’ En’Cennaria glanced down at the injuries she sustained, the gaping holes in her chest and abdomen were nowhere near healing any time soon and any Star Sapphires that heard her distress signal would not be able to aid her or the human girl in time. En’Cennaria was going to die, no matter what, just like that child. Nothing could heal something so severe, unless…

If she was to die, the Ignite did not want it to be in vain. “Is she eligible?”

‘You will die.’

“That is not what I asked.”

‘If you give this child your power ring you will die, En’Cennaria Al’Verk.’

“Would the initiation process save her?”

The ring waited before providing an answer, ‘Yes. Yes, she is extremely eligible. Yes, it would save her.’

Before she was to initiate her plan she had to know, “What happened to Silne-Zo?” Silne-Zo had been her partner in protecting their sector. She was from the planet Xudar not too far away from Ignia. Ignia was not Xudar’s sun which was fortunate for the Xudarians. En’Cennaria and Silne-Zo had become involved a few Earth years prior. She was flying her to the edge of Ignia’s atmosphere when it imploded. She could have been injured or worse in a nearby galaxy.

‘She is close. She is on the planet Mars. Her ring is searching for a new host.’

The news of her love’s fate cracked her heart and solidified her decision, “Then I suppose this is farewell. Please, save her.”

En’Cennaria Al’Verk removed her violet power ring before it could respond. As she did so her gaze fixed on the little girl, whose eyes had opened slightly as if to catch a last glimpse of life. She grinned at the child as the bubble of light collapsed and her flame suffocated. Her black, charred remains dissolved quickly into space dust and soon there was almost no evidence of En’Cennaria Al’Verk’s very existence.

Almost no evidence. Noa Ramires lay quiet and still under the waves and a bright beautiful light came ever closer. It was much smaller than it had been a few seconds ago and she was sure she was about to join her parents and become a twin again. In her eager weakness she reached her hand out toward the light accepting what was to come. It wrapped around her finger like a ring and soon she was fast in a deep sleep. For a moment she even saw them.

Her eyes shot open to reveal an endless expanse of blue. Was she still in the water? No, she couldn’t be. She was dry, and warm, and breathing. There was no plausible way for her to still be underwater, but she was. A thin lining of air surrounded her in violet light. She glanced down at her hands to check if this phenomena was actually happening to her and to her horror found a very familiar ring on her left middle finger and that she was no longer in her own clothes. She was wearing a violet dress with a white star on her chest, white tights, and matching purple boots. She exhaled deeply, trying very hard not to freak out. She attempted to run her fingers through her hair to soothe herself, but there was a tiara in the way that had not been there before.

‘Noa Estela Ramires of Space Sector 2814,’ a voice rang throughout her head that did not belong to her. It was mildly robotic while still being calm and melodic, like a mother’s. ‘You have great love in your heart. Welcome to the Star Sapphire Corps. Follow your heart.’

“Are-” her ability to speak gave her a slight start, “Are you going to fill me with rage or hope and get me killed?”

‘You have great love in your heart, Noa Ramires. That is up to you. Will you return to Zamaron to be properly introduced?’

“Do I have to go now? My family will be worried. What time is it?”

‘You do not have to go at this time. It is 8:17 P.M. Pacific Standard Time. You have not slept recently. You would not have enough energy to reach Zamaron. You must go home and rest, Noa Ramires. We will venture to Zamaron tomorrow.’

Noa flew carefully up the cliff face. When she stepped onto the edge she stepped much further away from the drop. She asked the ring if she could change back into her old clothes and suddenly she was back in them, but the ring kept them warm and dry. She walked home,which was only a street away, where she received a lecture from her uncles before collapsing into bed. She could figure out what to do in the morning.

@gegeru @insideoflit

#noa ramires #young justice #young justice season 3 #yj #young justice outsiders #young justice oc #yj oc #yj outsiders #yj season 3 #star sapphires #star sapphire #star sapphire corps #violet lantern #carol ferris

[docgold13]

Jarro just exist as another example of Scott Snyder saying "The Batfamily sucks so I'm gonna fill it with my "better" OC's" (& look how well they turned out one immediately retired after a year (Harper Row) & another that was all hype & did nothing of value beyond bringing Bruce back to being Batman (Duke Thomas)). Bruce puts more love into a creature that nearly enslaved all of Xudar & other planets than his own son who's current lobotomizing Supervillains. That's not right man.

I don’t know about all that.  Comics tend to be cyclical and I’m just waiting for DC to swing back round to being more of my tastes.  Hopefully soon in that Marvel has cancelled nearly all their titles I follow...  In the meantime, I’m all for the BatFam growing ever larger.   I don’t imagine this Jarro in and of itself does anything to diminish Harper, or Duke or Tim, Case, Steph, et cetera et cetera...

[wasps-ships]

Thinking about Tomar re and fankids

Like 1) what would they even look like as half Xudarian and half human and 2) what would we name them

Like with Mark and Tomar re who already have kids in canon I never think of fankids for bc like with Mark we have Josh little Joshy washy and with Tomar re we have Tomar tu the birdy boo but at the same time I'm curious ya know like Mark has been someone I've been with for years Tomar re as well and whenever I think domestic stuff with them I think about Josh and Tomar tu

I feel like if Mark and I had a kid they would have his powers and probs end up being a criminal as well with like a god complex but also being like "am I a bad person I'm an awful person aren't I I mean I'm better then everyone else in the world I'm practically a god but I'm like a really shitty bad one and hat feels bad" (me and mark: we've had a kid everyone else: you fucked up a perfectly good kid is what you've done look it's got Mark's god complex and Andy's depression and anxiety)

On the flip side if Tomar re and I had a kid it would probs be such a nice kid and grow up to be very well rounded I could see them being into history or science if not a job on Xudar then they would probs end up being a blue lantern how adorable would that be Tomar tu becomes a green lantern and they would be a blue lantern raised by a green lantern and star sapphire

#genwasp #i am in a loving mood rn #i like have the vaguest idea of what both of them would look like #if feel like mark's kid would be a girl with long black hair and brown eyes a real trouble marker #tomar re's I'm not sure what gender but i feel they would grow up to b very kind #ship science is art #ship our love is god

[tuxedoelf]

I have so many feelings about this. I think Tomar has been treated pretty harshly by John. Even though Tomar made a terrible mistake, Romat Ru goaded Tomar into killing him. (Which is why I still have lingering doubts that he’s actually dead, especially given the end of the issue.) However, even if he is later exonerated and gets another ring, it won’t be his father’s ring and that stings.

I also find it ironic that Tomar is getting the full extent of the law, when John just handed GL rings to ex Sinestro corps members, despite their almost certainly murderous pasts. Bit hypocritical!

I honestly can’t see Tomar being vilified back on Xudar - Romat Ru was a mass murderer of children after all. However the Starro-Xudar plot now fits in as it served into introduce Tomar’s replacement, a young Xudarian named Somar Le. She seems very young for a lantern, but hopefully that means she’ll work alongside Tomar one day.

The one bright spot was Hal unwaveringly sticking by Tomar’s side. Maybe that’ll make all the difference in the end.

#green lantern #tomar tu #somar le #hal jordan

[americancomicon]

Tomar-Re of Xudar: Green Lantern of Space Sector 2813 -

Dragon*Con: The Atlanta Hilton: Patio Courtyard Exterior.

#Green Lantern #Cosplay #DC #American Comicon

[gokinjeespot]

off the rack #1149

Monday, January 30, 2017

 It's the Chinese Year of the Rooster folks and there's a cock in the White House. We are living in interesting times indeed. I am trying my best not to get riled up by the d-bag but it's difficult. The empathy I feel for others means I cannot ignore the affect the changes have on everybody. I just hope we all get through these difficult times relatively unscathed.

 I'm going to have a fun Sunday on February 5. I'll be at the Walkley Arena for the Capital Trade Show where my partner Chris and I will be flogging old comic books. Then it's Super Bowl 51 with two gun slinging quarterbacks. I am cheering for a high scoring affair.

 Civil War II: The Oath #1 - Nick Spencer (writer) Rod Reis, Raffaele Ienco, Szymon Kudranski & Dono Sanchez-Almara (art) VC's Chris Eliopoulos (letters). Didn't see that coming. While it makes sense to appoint Captain America as the new Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. (again) the surprise is that I don't think it's Steve Rogers under the mask. I don't particularly like the new political landscape that the Marvel U is headed towards but it does make for some easy enemies for the good guys to fight with. Nick put in a lot of rah, rah patriotism in this book so it was a tough slog trying to get through it but the payoff at the end is worth it.

 Kamandi Challenge #1 - Part One: Dan Didio (writer) Keith Giffen (pencils) Scott Koblish (inks) Hi-Fi (colours) Clem Robins (letters) Part Two: Dan Abnett (writer) Dale Eaglesham (art) Hi-Fi (colours) Clem Robins (letters). He's the last boy on Earth and he's going on a wild adventure to find his parents. One of Jack Kirby's creations is getting a round robin of comic book creators to excite fans like never before. Each part of the story will be done by a different team that will end with a cliffhanger that the next team must find a way to resolve. I have a nagging feeling that this stunt has been done before but I can't remember when so I'm going to tag along to see who does what. I'm not a fan of Kamandi but I want to see who all are going to be involved on the creative side.

 Loose Ends #1 - Jason Latour (writer) Chris Brunner (art) Rico Renzi (colours). The cover says that this 4-issue mini is a southern crime romance. They got that right. We're looking at a trailer dwelling war vet whose friend gets him mixed up in running drugs. You can expect that the vet and the friend get into a heap of trouble and they do. I like how Sonny and Rej each wind up where they do at the end of this first issue so you bet I'm going to keep reading. Not much romance so far but I'm sure Jason will get to that.

 Star Wars #27 - Jason Aaron (writer) Salvador Larroca (art) Edgar Delgado (colours) VC's Clayton Cowles (letters). Yay Yoda. Root for him I will.

 Batgirl #7 - Hope Larson (writer) Chris Wildgoose (art) Mat Lopes (colours) Deron Bennett (letters). Part 1 of "Son of Penguin" introduces Ethan Cobblepot and I don't care if there is no reference to him anywhere else in the DCU because he's going to be a great adversary for Barbara Gordon. I like how Chris draws her older than Rafael Albuquerque did. This is going to be fun.

 Briggs Land #6 - Brian Wood (writer) Mack Chater (art) Lee Loughridge & Jeremy Colwell (colours) Nate Piekos (letters). I really like Grace Briggs. The risks that she is taking will hopefully keep her people safe. Brian has crafted a story fit for cable TV.

 Totally Awesome Hulk #15 - Greg Pak (writer) Mahmud Asrar (art) Nolan Woodward (colours) VC's Cory Petit (letters). Greg continues to feature heroes of the Asian persuasion in this story about Amadeus hanging out with Jake Oh, Kamala Khan, Cindy Moon, Shang-Chi, and Jimmy Woo. It does play on some stereotypes but I think it's okay because they're true for these guys.

 Odyssey of the Amazons #1 - Kevin Grevioux (writer) Ryan Benjamin (pencils) Richard Friend (inks) Tony Washington & Tony Avina (colours) Saida Temofonte (letters). This 6-issue mini has a lot of women but not a wonder one in sight. Kevin features Diana's sister Amazons in a tale worthy of Homer. If you like classic sword and sorcery, you'll like this.

 Dead Inside #2 - John Arcudi (writer) Tony Fejzula (art) Andre May (colours) Joe Sabino (letters). The plot thickens like congealed blood and murder suspects start to emerge. Linda has plenty to deal with inside the prison but she's surprised when she gets home after work by a sight I did not expect to see. This mystery is crazy good.

 Inhumans vs. X-Men #3 - Charles Soule & Jeff Lemire (writer) Javier Garron (art) Andres Mossa & Jay David Ramos (colours) VC's Clayton Cowles (letters). There are three more issue to this mini but it seems to me that Charles and Jeff have already come up with a solution to the Terrigen cloud that would end the war. The mutant Forge has built a machine that can collect the Terrigen gas and compress it into a solid in this issue. Wouldn't that solve the problem of the gas killing the mutants? Works for me.

 Justice League vs. Suicide Squad #6 - Joshua Williamson (writer) Howard Porter (art) Alex Sinclair (colours) Rob Leigh (letters). All is well that ends well. Both teams join forces to defeat Eclipso and Max Lord is at the mercy of Amanda Waller. Batman sees the light and gathers another team together to fight evil forces. Get ready for a new Justice League of America #1 hitting the racks on February 22. DC is sure spreading Bats pretty thin these days.

 Skybourne #3 - Frank Cho (writer & artist) Marcio Menyz (colours) Ed Dukeshire (letters). The identity of the bad guy was a nice surprise. I like Frank's comic books because they're simple stories about good versus evil that are beautifully drawn.

 Hulk #2 - Mariko Tamaki (writer) Nico Leon & Dalibor Talajic (art) Matt Milla (colours) VC's Cory Petit (letters). Waiting for Jennifer to Hulk out is one of the things I like about the new book. She has a lot more self control than I have. The scary thing about the eventuality of her losing control is that this new Hulk will be an uncontrollable creature of rage but we'll have to wait and see what happens. Until then I'm enjoying Jen's life so far.

 Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps #13 - Robert Venditti (writer) V Ken Marion (pencils) Paul Neary & Dexter Vines (inks) Alex Sollazzo (colours) Dave Sharpe (letters). Now that the planet Xudar has been saved, what now? It's time for a bedtime story that's what. This is a nice interlude issue before we launch into the next story. I've been enjoying this team book now that my loyalty to the Avengers has waned. We'll see if Robert can keep me hooked with his next adventure.

 Saga #42 - Brian K. Vaughn (writer) Fiona Staples (art) Fonografiks (letters). And fade to black. No, really. It's hiatus time again but this issue didn't leaving me screaming profanities about the long wait until the next issue hits the racks. There is a new character introduced who I will be very interested to find out more about.

 Doctor Strange #16 - Jason Aaron (writer) Chris Bachalo with Cory Smith (art) Al Vey, John Livesay, Victor Olazaba, &  Tim Townsend (inks) Antonio Fabela & Java Tartaglia with Chris Bachalo (colours) VC's Cory Petit (letters). Dormammu is finally going to get his chance to kill Doctor Strange after he has been weakened by his fight with the Empirikul. Jason does find a neat way to save Stephen however. The next bit of nastiness involves someone close to the Doc. Oboy.

 Wonder Woman #15 - Greg Rucka (writer) Liam Sharp (art) Laura Martin (colours) Jodi Wynne (letters). Part 1 of "The Truth" finds Diana in a mental hospital. How she got there has yet to be explained but I'm sure I can handle it.

 Punisher #8 - Becky Cloonan (writer) Laura Braga with Iolanda Zanfardino (art) Frank Martin (colours) VC's Cory Petit (letters). That little old lady toting the double barrelled shotgun from last issue is named Ethel. She looks scary but she's not what you think. The change in art took some getting used to but it isn't bad enough to make me bench this book. I do have a couple of complaints though. If you're going to call a motorcycle a Harley, don't show what looks like a BMW logo on the gas tank. Also, draw the bad guy from the chest up when Frank says that he opened up his guts, not a full body shot that clearly shows an abdomen without any wounds at all. I don't know if the art had to be rushed after Steve Dillon passed away unexpectedly but that's just shoddy editing.

 Action Comics #972 - Dan Jurgens (writer) Stephen Segovia (pencils) Art Thibert (inks) Ulises Arreola (colours) Rob Leigh (letters). Trust Dan to come up with a non-violent way to stop Lex from being executed by the bad guys. It also served to show what possible futures are in store for this new Superman. DC has managed to revive my interest in this iconic character.

 Daredevil #16 - Charles Soule (writer) Goran Sudzuka (art) Matt Milla (colours) VC's Clayton Cowles (letters). We find out why Daredevil put out a hit on himself to lure out Bullseye. There's some soul searching this issue which leads into the next storyline. I liked how Charles sets it up.

 Detective Comics #949 - James Tynion IV & Marguerite Bennett (writers) Ben Oliver & Szymon Kudranski (art) Ben Oliver, Gabe Eltaeb & Hi-Fi (colours) Marilyn Patrizio (letters). The finale of "Batwoman Begins" is a very good prelude to Batwoman's solo book which hits the racks on February 15. It looks like James and Marguerite are going to have a Raymond Reddington and Agent Keen thing going on between Kate and her dad. That's got me interested.

 Infamous Iron Man #4 - Brian Michael Bendis (writer) Alex Maleev (art) Matt Hollingsworth (colours) VC's Clayton Cowles (letters). Brian must have a thing for mother and son stories. He did it in International Iron Man where he introduced Tony's biological mother. Now he's showing us Victor's mom. I really do believe that Doom has reformed and I hope he stays a good guy.

 Spider-Man/Deadpool: Monsters Unleashed - Joshua Corin (writer) Tigh Walker (art) Rachelle Rosenberg (colours) VC's Joe Sabino (letters). The boys save Toronto eh.

 Thanos #3 - Jeff Lemire (writer) Mike Deodato (art) Frank Martin (colours) VC's Clayton Cowles (letters). It's the Imperial Guard of the Shi'ar versus Thanos. A perfect opportunity to give a history lesson on the life of the Mad Titan.

 Spider-Woman #15 - Dennis Hopeless (writer) Veronica Fish (art) Rachelle Rosenberg (colours) VC's Travis Lanham (letters). Jessica subdues the new Porcupine and finds out who put the hit out on her friend Roger. Now she's gunning for the Hobgoblin but he's protected by an army of super villains. I hope little Gerry doesn't become an orphan.

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Starro reigns supreme on Xudar!

Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps #8

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Starro begins flinging its spores all over Xudar. It's totally disgusting. It's like my bedroom when I was fifteen.

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Venditti On the Socially Relevant, Inspirational Power of Green Lantern

This week’s “Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps” #13 by Robert Venditti and V. Ken Marion served as an epilogue to the title’s “Bottled Light” arc, which saw Starro and Brainiac team up to conquer the planet Xudar, part of a grander scheme by Larfleeze to add the Green Lantern Corps to his collection. When the dust settled, the Lanterns emerged victorious, and this issue, titled “Heroes,” explored the Xudarian civilians’ view of a world rescued, as told by a survivor of the siege to her grandchildren, sixty Earth years in the future.

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Venditti and Marion’s story also gave an opportunity to refocus the concept of Green Lantern, delving into its themes of the triumph of will over fear and other less noble emotions. With all of that in mind, CBR spoke with Venditti about the issue, the idea of Green Lantern, and how current events and a reader’s perspective can affect how a story is read.

CBR: First, let’s go back in time a little bit, thinking about what Green Lantern means. In the Silver Age, Hal Jordan was chosen as Green Lantern because he was “without fear.” The modern equation is that Lanterns are “able to overcome great fear.” This change didn’t originate with you, but I’m wondering what you see as the fundamental meaning or value in this shift.

Robert Venditti: I think as a character, when you’re writing stories, you don’t really have a story without conflict. As much as we all love our heroes, we have to put them through the wringer in order to tell stories that are exciting and test their limits. I think if you have a character that is incapable of fear, it kind of takes the conflict out of it. Overcoming great fear, that’s something you can put the conflict into and also something that’s more relatable to the audience. We all know what it feels like to have fears and we know, hopefully, the triumphs of overcoming them, as well. I think that is really integral to who the Lanterns are and their concept in the modern DCU. And obviously the theme was very important to the issue, as well.

We didn’t see it this issue, but I also thought it was interesting that in the “Bottled Light” arc, the Sinestro Corps were teaming up with the Green Lanterns, a team up of will and fear. How does that play into the themes of “Green Lantern?”

You’re going to see a lot more of that in the next arc. This was kind of a breather issue between the two [arcs], where if you haven’t been reading the series up to now, you can read this, catch up on what the concept is and who the characters are and what’s going on, where we are in terms of story. And if you have been reading the series, there are a lot of teasers about what’s coming up, about future storylines that we’re going to do. And that’s not theoretical, some of that stuff is already executed in script and being drawn as we speak. These are actual events that are going to take place.

As far as them teaming up with the Sinestro Corps, one of the things I like to do with the “Green Lantern” series is — all the Green Lanterns are chosen because they have the ability to overcome great fear, and I think that there’s a tendency to lump all the Green Lanterns, not just the human Green Lanterns, as if they’re all the same. They’re all the same person, they all operate the same way. What I try to do with each of our four leads, which is Hal, John, Guy and Kyle, is not just show them overcoming great fear but also showing the differences in how they apply their willpower. Hal does it with a sort of gut instinct, hurling himself into harm’s way. There’s a boldness about him. John Stewart does it more through his strengths; he sits back, waits, gets all the chess pieces on the board and strikes at the right time. Guy is a person who will take every punch in the face he can take so that nobody else has to take them. These are all demonstrations of great will, and I think the same is true of the Sinestro Corps. Yes, they all wield great fear and are powered by fear in some way, but how is that different? We’ll come to see over the next few arcs as these two corps try to work together how fear operates differently for them and where that power comes from now that they’re being led by Soranik, the daughter of Sinestro, rather than the original Sinestro himself.

The narrator says something in passing in the issue that I thought was interesting, that most of the Green Lanterns hale from planets she’s never heard of, highlighting that these are strangers who are protecting people who are not their own. That’s always been in the Green Lantern idea but hasn’t been emphasized as much.

I wanted to tell a story that was a kind of ground-level perspective. So much of what we do in the series is told from the sky looking down, I wanted to do something from the ground looking up. We’re relating events in this issue that were told in the previous arc, but we’re telling them in a different perspective. I think we take for granted the diversity of the Green Lantern Corps. This is a police force made up of members of a vast and diverse universe. They’re officers from individual communities that come together to police everything as a whole. To see what it looks like from a ground level perspective, that is what I wanted to show.

I think that [issue artist] Ken Marion, this is first time on the series and my first time working with him, we really gave him a lot here. Like nine million characters, and creating a whole culture in the Xudar of the future and these things. He really did a great job with it.

As a little nugget, the character who narrates the story, Somar-Le, she actually makes her first appearance back in issue #9 when [Green Lantern] Rot Lop Fan creates a construct and hits the barrier of Brainiac’s bottle, and that disrupts the communication between all the little Starro spores. One falls off her face, she says, “I’m Somar-Le, has anybody seen my parents?”

We see that from her perspective this issue, when she tells her grandchildren about the siege. Do you see the story as a reminder of the aspirational role of superheroes, and the power of real-life heroes?

Yeah, absolutely, I would love for it to be viewed that way. Obviously, you don’t have to be a superhero to be heroic. This is a woman who is a grandmother. Her grandchildren don’t know much about her but she is imparting on them a life lesson that will teach them to have no fear and overcome our worst instincts in terms of rage and greed and all these other things. Each of us, I think we tend to look a lot toward history and the past for our heroes and I think that’s great, but our heroes are also present and right there. We have the opportunity to inspire our children and grandchildren in the way that hopefully our role models have done for us.

The Xudarians have been part of the Green Lantern mythos for ages, but what led you to set the “Bottled Light” story arc in this environment, with “Heroes” following?

One of the aspects of “Rebirth” that we’re really trying to tap into while pushing the characters and story forward is that we’re also embracing the long, storied histories and legacies of all these characters. In the Green Lantern mythology Xudar, going back to Tomar-Re, kind of embraces that. That was one reason I wanted to do it, but I also wanted to because we have Tomar-Tu, the son of Tomar-Re, as a current Green Lantern, and I want to, in addition to the four leads, focus on some of the alien races. This was an opportunity to, if I’m going to set it on a world, let’s set it on a world that one of these characters calls home and make it relatable that way. Have a mini-plot there with Tomar-Tu. And we aren’t done with his story yet.

I know you didn’t plan it this way, but this issue came out the week after the presidential inauguration and Women’s March. Some folks on both sides of that equation are likely to see a message here. Does viewing the story through this lens affect the message you were originally going for?

It’s an interesting question. I was in Atlanta last weekend for ALA [the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting]. We were downtown and there was a march that came through that was sizable, and it was a part of what was going on throughout the country. All these things are of the moment. For me as a writer, I try really hard to not go into any sort of story in a way that a reader would know what my point of view is on a topic. For example, “The Surrogates” is a story I wrote a long time ago. It’s about technology, and I have just as many people come up to me and say, “You must really hate technology” as say “You must really love technology.”

We all know it feels like when we experience a work of art, whether it’s a film or a book or what have you, and it feels like it should come with a hammer to beat yourself over the head with. Because the point of view is not that of the characters but whoever created the story. I always try to avoid that, because I want the audience to get lost in the story and relate it however they can to their own life and hopefully take something positive away from it.

This is a story I pitched to DC well over a year ago. It was meant to do a lot of things. In one aspect, I knew we were going to have a fill-in issue here, a breather between two arcs. I wanted it self-contained. In another aspect, some of the earliest comics I read that inspired me to want to be a writer myself were Kurt Busiek’s “Astro City,” which is very much an on the ground, looking up at the sky view of superheroes. So I wanted the point of view to be something that was in that tradition.

But, you know, the moment being what it is, when you read the issue… I don’t know how to articulate this! [Laughs] It can convey these things. But I don’t think that’s bad. As a writer, if I can tell a story that can make people think, or inspire them, or be positive in some way, that’s what it’s all about.

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