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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1960 on: June 11, 2012, 01:21:52 PM »

Actually, I was just going to do it as a de-karma, but it wouldn't fit. :)
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1961 on: June 11, 2012, 01:24:23 PM »

Actually, Islam has associations with the color green, so if you had to have a Muslim character having them be a green lantern is something of a match. Supposedly, one of the "miracles" of Islam is how awesome the Koran sounds in its native tongue (it's poetry), the tribes of Mohammed's day still clung to traditions of warrior poets. So it's even conceivable that you could make him a black rapper. You could also argue that he elects to wear a mask as some sort of observance of prescribed dress (but that's stretching it).

The fucking pistol though? I do not get that. That's begging for trouble.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1962 on: June 11, 2012, 01:26:27 PM »

Yeah, that doesn't seem like a warrior poet. That seems like THUG LYFE.

The two are not mutually exclusive of course, but HEY THERE'S A GUN IN YOUR FACE MUTHAFUCKA GUN GUN GUN POP POP POP.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1963 on: June 11, 2012, 01:27:25 PM »

David Brothers said on Twitter that a GL using a gun makes a certain kind of sense, considering how prone the GL rings are to running out of energy at the worst possible moments, but... somehow, I don't think that's what they were thinking here.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1964 on: June 11, 2012, 01:29:22 PM »

Also, a regular old .38 is probably not so hot against attack ships off the shoulder of Orion.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1965 on: June 11, 2012, 01:33:04 PM »

Looks like a beretta to me, so it'd probably be a 9mm. Or a 'nine' if you will. What really pulls the design together is the ski mask+gun combo. It couldn't have just been a normal hood/cowl, it had to be a mask perfectly designed to make him look like he was knocking over a convenience store.

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Actually, Islam has associations with the color green, so if you had to have a Muslim character having them be a green lantern is something of a match. Supposedly, one of the "miracles" of Islam is how awesome the Koran sounds in its native tongue (it's poetry), the tribes of Mohammed's day still clung to traditions of warrior poets. So it's even conceivable that you could make him a black rapper. You could also argue that he elects to wear a mask as some sort of observance of prescribed dress (but that's stretching it).

I'm 100% cool with the idea of a black muslim green lantern. The awesome thing about the lantern corps is that there can be a huge number of green lanterns all the time and they have very different ideas of how to use their powers and come from very different walks of life. DC just seems to be incapable of making any character who isn't a gender/preference/race stereotype. I'm waiting for the first panels to come out of him saying something like ALLAHU AKBAR, MOTHAFUCKA or something equally stupid.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1966 on: June 11, 2012, 01:41:00 PM »

I think it'd be nice if they made Green Lanterns that weren't from America.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1967 on: June 11, 2012, 01:53:13 PM »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Green_Lanterns

There's actually been a few, they just didn't get top billing in the main book.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1968 on: June 11, 2012, 02:29:25 PM »

All I see are a monk that lived in medieval China and a Soviet woman that was a GL for two issues. Not exactly what I'd call representational.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1969 on: June 11, 2012, 03:14:14 PM »

SUDDENLY RELEVANT AGAIN:

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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1970 on: June 11, 2012, 03:15:22 PM »

I'm waiting for the first panels to come out of him saying something like ALLAHU AKBAR, MOTHAFUCKA or something equally stupid.

Am I the only one hoping they actually do that?  Like, just go balls-out with it?
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1971 on: June 11, 2012, 03:17:44 PM »

I'm not actually hoping that DC shows any kind of decorum or respect for their subject matter. Does that count?
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1972 on: June 11, 2012, 03:27:46 PM »

Depends on whether it's because you don't think they can, or because you don't think they should.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1973 on: June 11, 2012, 03:40:45 PM »

Given DC's rich history of sensitivity in comics, I'm going to lean more towards the former than the latter.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1974 on: June 11, 2012, 03:59:57 PM »

seriously, giving the black green lantern a gun is like giving the gay green lantern a cape.

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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1975 on: June 11, 2012, 04:47:30 PM »

giving the gay green lantern a cape.

Oh lord, did they do this?
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1976 on: June 11, 2012, 05:03:23 PM »

The new design doesn't seem to have a cape, but Alan Scott's pre-reboot costume always did, so it wouldn't be a surprise.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1977 on: June 11, 2012, 05:26:28 PM »

giving the gay green lantern a cape.

Oh lord, did they do this?

Technically it was making the caped Green Lantern gay, but
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1978 on: June 11, 2012, 06:02:22 PM »

Hey, convenience store robber is not the only green lantern getting a comic in the new 52.



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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1979 on: June 11, 2012, 07:35:34 PM »

Wait. Is that not Jon Stewart?
Did they erase the most popular Green Lantern outside of comic book nerdom and just replace him with another black guy?
Or did they just erase his religion and replace it with another? And then make him into a thug instead of a proud ex-soldier?
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