The only thing Hal Jordan ever invented was the boxing glove.ĭon't tell him otherwise it would break his heart. Aquaman didn't invent Serum X but he did guide the project and at least Arthur went to college, where he got a degree in marine biology.Īnd where he was vice-president of Hillel. Barry Allen invented the Comic Effing Treadmill. Wonder Woman, lest you forget, invented the Purple Healing Ray. Batman inventing, well, anything he needs in his never-ending war against crime.Įven the amazing BATARANG X, painted red for stealth. Superman puttering about his Fortress of Solitude inventing robots that - somehow - have his powers and are functional AIs that can not only pass the Turing Test but pass it AS SUPERMAN. SO many heroes are hypergenius scientists. Or more accurately, dismiss intellectual acuity as some sort of absolute virtue or sine qua non of being a superhero. The solution for that is pretty simple: let Hal be an idiot. You can have a bunch of familiar characters as Lanterns, with a natural different spin on their abilities, and have Hal coordinating them as the central figure in a heroic dynasty of Lanterns.īut, you wisely interject, how can you do that when Hal is, well, not the brightest Lantern in the sky? Okay, fine Hal's an idiot. Let Guy be the Red One, Jessica be the Yellow One, and so on. Hal is the GL and in charge of a team of Other-Color Lanterns. Make a unified Lantern Corps, with the GLs being in charge. Let that be the relationship of the Green Lantern Corps to the other ones. Willpower is in fact what we use to keep our emotions in check and may sure they benefit us rather than hold us back. As mentions, as part of the Green Lantern Corps, Hal is just one of many equals. Speaking of the 'emotional spectrum', the Corps of Another Color can be used to solve another problem: the lack of a Green Lantern dynasty. Heck, Rainbow Raider, who uses COLOR to control EMOTIONS is pretty much made to order for Hal. Light, as Lantern rogues and they'll get a new lease on life. Re-purpose a few appropriate villains, like, say, Dr. They are pretty formidable and more has been made of stupider villains, for sure.
Polaris, Black Hand, Sonar, the Tattooed Man.
While on Earth, focus on Hal's Earth-based foes. Don't make Aquaman and Green Lantern that much less likely to interest readers by focusing on events so far removed from the world at hand. It's hard enough to get Americans to care about real-life events in real-life countries-that-aren't-the-USA. With Aquaman, that is, of course, Atlantis. Stop making the same mistake with Green Lantern that is often made with Aquaman: spending too much time on the part of his job we can't identify with. You can acknowledge the Corps with references and an OCCASIONAL sojourn, but focus on Hal doing his ring-thing on Earth. Marshals are one person by themselves dealing with crap on the frontier (as in EARTH). I have watched more than my share of old western shows and flicks, and I can't recall any one where the federal marshal has an exciting trip to Washington/Oa to attend a meeting with all the other marshals to discuss how they are going to deal with, um, widespread prairie dogs infestations or the like. GLs are basically like wild west federal marshalls (IN SPAAAAACE!). It only dilutes the concept and makes it evern harder to view Hal as special (except in the sense that, you know, he takes a short bus to Oa).
Look, stop shoving so many Lanterns down our throats. Probably because even a seagull is more competent than Hal, so turning opponents into seagulls would - somehow - backfire against himīut the fact remains that almost invariably it's just used to make 'green energy constructs' who cares WHAT those constructs are? It makes you wonder why Hal didn't just turn every opponent into a seagull and rename himself "Green Seagullmaker". "What goes on?" is a much better catchphrase than "jumping fish-hooks', so run with it, Tom. The magic lamp that is the Green Lantern ring has been shown to do any number of ridiculous things (including accidentally turn Poor Tom Kalmaku into a seagull).
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