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As Jordan walks away he muses to himself that he'd been very comfortable knowing that he had a back-up should the need ever arise. Gardner (this one's a faaaaaaaar cry from the Guy we knew and loved/hated during the Bwhahahaha Justice League days) tells Hal that he's pretty beat up and will need some time to heal and rehabilitate. Gardner' as Guy Gardner, once named the alternate Green Lantern of Earth. As Gardner and the young girl vault over the precipice, the green energy of Jordan's ring encircles them and brings them back to solid earth. As GL looks up, the school bus moves forward and strikes Gardner squarely in the back. Gardner, is trying to help her back to safety. One of their classmates is at the edge of what's left of the road and their teacher, Mr. As Green Lantern lands, the children explain that they were on a field trip when the quake hit. There, a long bridge over a deep chasm has disintegrated, leaving a school bus and its passengers precariously perched on the edge of oblivion. That is, until he reaches the outskirts of the city.

He does a survey of his surroundings and realizes the damage is slight. Quickly he exits the room to get outside, but by the time he does the tremor has subsided.

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Let's have a look.ĭoug: We open with a look-in on Hal Jordan, in full GL costume and charging his power ring. But today's story is significant as mentioned above, and certainly merits our notice. I found myself not necessarily disagreeing with O'Neil's passion for social issues, but the large club he seemed to wield proved most unsavory as a means of delivery. While the visuals provided by Neal Adams and Dick Giordano provided a saving grace to the four issues we reviewed, the stories themselves seemed to wear on us. But then, how many characters born after the initial wave of creation at either company have gone on to become big hits? I'm pleased to see more diverse faces in books over the years, but when it comes down to it, the big names are still mostly white guys.ĭoug: When last we visited the groundbreaking Green Lantern/Green Arrow series, Karen and I were left underwhelmed by the heavy-handed liberalism and compact storytelling of Dennis O'Neil. Characters like John Stewart and the Panther, and Luke Cage, the Falcon, Storm, Cyborg, and others have become regular fixtures in titles but none have moved into that upper echelon of popularity. Karen: Although comics have become far more inclusive of African Americans and characters of other ethnic backgrounds over the years, it's rather sobering to realize that there's still not a major Black super-hero at the big two headlining their own title. The new Green Lantern, T'Challa, the Falcon and Leila - should be enlightening and hopefully a lot of fun. Throughout these reviews, we'll do our best to not only provide the sort of commentary you've grown accustomed to but also hopefully shine a spotlight on the treatment of Black characters in these stories. After that, we'll get away from our usual trend of arcs contained with a calendar month and begin a long stretch of the 'Secret Empire' storyline from Captain America.

We're going to follow it with Fantastic Four #119, an anti-apartheid story featuring the Black Panther. With this in mind, we're going to review today's fare - the introduction of the Green Lantern perhaps most recognized by novice superhero fans of today, John Stewart. Karen and I have never done anything specific on our blog to bring notice to this, but during our time away we had conversation about it and decided to make 2014 a bit different. The observance is also celebrated in the UK and Canada. In the United States, February has been designated ' Black History Month' - it was first officially recognized by the federal government during our bicentennial year of 1976. Green Lantern #87 (December/January 1971)(cover by Neal Adams)ĭoug: Welcome to our first post-vacation comic review.