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March 30th, 2013 at 9:05 am
So true. Sometimes it seems like they can’t stick with a plan for a month, let alone a year.
March 31st, 2013 at 4:01 am
Plus, killing off a well loved character is a surefire way to make them into internet fan favorites.
March 31st, 2013 at 4:46 am
‘Well loved”. By hundreds of people who don’t even read the comic he’s in. Because that’s what matters: comics sold. Babies.
March 31st, 2013 at 8:13 am
Ya know, is Cyborg really an A-lister now? Because he may be on the league, but he’s gotten virtually no development, no enemies or any Cyborg related plots. He only seems to be part of the league because he never leaves their freakin’ base.
March 31st, 2013 at 9:12 am
Every panel of this comic is gold.
March 31st, 2013 at 7:30 pm
Heh . . . Didio and Johns gargle Hal’s balls like Jeff Probst on alpha males. Hal was great in GLTAS, but yeah . . . I miss the days where Kyle was the only GL around. Let’s hope they don’t remember Kyle is half-Hispanic . . . at least according to GL(v3) #150. Then he might be screwed.
Also: Fuck Didio for killing off Ryan Choi.
April 1st, 2013 at 1:57 pm
I’m still at a loss as to why it was necessary to bring Hal Jordan back.
April 1st, 2013 at 5:14 pm
“Ya know, is Cyborg really an A-lister now? Because he may be on the league, but he’s gotten virtually no development, no enemies or any Cyborg related plots. He only seems to be part of the league because he never leaves their freakin’ base”
word.
Also its a good thing they are going to be expanding the league, that way there will be even more characters to share the spot light and be developed since they’ve done such a bang up job of that.
April 2nd, 2013 at 5:48 pm
Also, playing the devil’s advocate here, but does it really strain credibility that DC would scuttle one character for the sake of their preferred character?
I mean, look at Wally West, Cassandra Cain and Steph Brown and that’s just off the top of my head. All were successful to one degree or another, and now writers can’t even mention them by name in any books.
April 2nd, 2013 at 7:36 pm
“Also, playing the devil’s advocate here, but does it really strain credibility that DC would scuttle one character for the sake of their preferred character?”
Well, it does and it doesn’t. I totally buy that they occasionally do away with some characters in the interest of strengthening the perceived brand of another, I just don’t think that there’s anything personal about it, or that it’s plotted so maliciously.
(The possible exception being Stephanie Brown, who DC seems to be waging total war on via a series of editorial edicts that at first just seemed petty but soon reached the level of hilariously confusing. I’m not even going to attempt to speculate on the reason for that particular wild hair up their ass.)
April 3rd, 2013 at 1:49 am
Ryan Reynolds would have made a great Kyle.
April 3rd, 2013 at 2:33 am
He’s had practice; he basically played Kyle already.
April 3rd, 2013 at 3:15 pm
Love this strip. Love it. One of the gems of the site.
April 4th, 2013 at 7:28 am
Did they really kill off John Stewart? Aww. He’s my favorite Lantern.
April 5th, 2013 at 10:18 pm
@JelloKZ
That was a rumor. Joshua Hale Fialkov was the writer DC hired to take over writing Green Lantern Corps and then left even before the 1st issue. He stated that he had editorial differences with DC which some reported was that it was because DC wanted to Jon Stewart. Then later DC said they were not.
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/03/21/fialkov-left-dc-comics-over-plans-to-kill-off-john-stewart-dcs-black-green-lantern/
April 13th, 2013 at 8:14 am
Sure, John gets this, but Cassandra Cain? Sentenced to Comic Book Limbo.
May 3rd, 2014 at 10:48 pm
That was really funny. Well done guys!
John Stewart is like Samuel L. Jackson — everybody wants to see him and no substitute will do. You’d think DC would get that by now.
BTW, it’s no longer a rumor. Joshua Hale Fialkov did confirm that DC wanted to kill John Stewart.
2814 – Hal Jordan, Kyle Rayner, John Stewart, Guy Gardner, Simon Baz, Jessica Cruz