Discuss everything SPACE within DC canon. Green Lanterns, Kryptonians, Thanagarians, The Reach, Lobo, Brainiac, Apokolips, New Genesis, and everything else in-between obscure or otherwise. I'm fascinated by the galactic community of countless alien races living and working together with all of this shit going on too. Like for example how vast is "Starro Space", the planets and entire systems conquered by Starro? Is it ever expanding and entire races have to flee/fight it off? What are some likely black market items sold and traded? Let's do a deep dive and explore some of these ideas
I want to know about Tamaraneans, have they any interesting lore?
>>150171593Cool art
>>150171740Tamaran got blowed up.Then they found a New Tamaran somewhere and a Sun-Eater ate their sun.Also, they originally came from Okara, but Okarans themselves have mutated unrecognizably.
>>150171593The JLA Secret Files implied Starro has conquered entire universes, including alternate DC universes.
>>150171740>>150174014Aren't they a warrior race also fueled by suns but are a favored race for slavery?>>150174031Is Starro one of a kind? Or is he like, the entire species just unified under one psychic link?
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>>150174107oh god that looks like shitso many pixels sandpapering my corneas
>>150174107The fuck happened with this image?
>>150174125I have no idea why this site randomly does that to .pngs. Anyway here's a nice soothing .jpg.
>>150174074>warrior raceNo, Tamaraneans live generally free of war on their own planet, although they do understand the need for defensive warfare. That being said, they were walked over no diff by the Citadel in their only ever planetary conflict. It's the Okarans that are known for their warrior prowess.>StarroNobody has explored the origins of the Lovecraftean starfish, sadly. My headcanon is he's one of a number of outerversal fauna living in the Bleed, including the Fisherman and the Dark Destroyer.
>>150174172I have to wonder how much of known charted space is labeled as off limits or "quarantined" due to Starro expansion, Reach Empire, or simply within the gaze of Darkseid as a likely target to replenish Apokolips's resources
know what? I miss this guy. Space Chinggis Khan was a good idea and they should have kept him, just modify him a bit, have the nine galaxies under his thumb under the threat on internal collapse so he's more concerned with consolidation instead of conquest yet he remains an existential threat to all those around him.Heck, make the mother stars his main rebellion threat.
>>150174301Eh, they never come up. DC's main no-go space empires are the Dominion, the Khund Empire, and whatever the fuck Lady Styx' wake of destruction is referred to (when it's remembered at all). Those you mentioned are more like outside forces that are occasionally encountered.
>>150174375My point was its fun to think of the galactic community having up to date reports on such threats and how they collectively react to it in their day to day lives.
>>150174345He was just another Starro victim deluded by the starfish raping his mind for some undisclosed length of time. His story was meh.
do they even use Styx these days? I was also hoping the revitalized mongul and United Planets idea would pan out but it feels stillborn
>>150174391what? he made his mother star bend to his will and used it to hack the other stars, was it retconned?
>>150174384They don't, though, and I think that sounds lame, personally. Like, how fucking small do you want your universe to be that everybody is doing the same gay space reddit shit?
>>150174415He did no such thing, if you read the whole Rebels arc.
>>150174419>They don't, thoughHow the heck do you know that for a fact? We rarely, if ever, focus on the average day to day space faring citizen who lives in this universe.
>>150174450Read the Space Cabby stories from the 60's, the closest thing to a 'space faring citizen' take.Also, space is a frontier. There are no 'citizens' in space.
>>150174394We probably need Morrison to come back to properly flesh out the current 21st century version of the United Planets. His run on The Green Lantern is where that concept feels most alive.
>>150171740>Originally from Okaara, and they were talking cat people>Then the Psions plucked some of them, experimented on them and made the Tamaraneans capable of absorbing sunlight and getting superpowers from that.>They move to Tamaran, in the same solar system.>Psions also mix Okaarans and Gordanians into the weird ugly ork people they are today.>Eventually evolve into human looking people>Gordanians try to take over the Vega system, they defeat the Tamaraneans and take Starfire/Blackfire as prisonersfastforward a few years>Evil Raven blows up their planet>Sun eater blows up their second planet>They settle on Rann, but so do the Thanagarians, Blackfire kills Hawkwoman>They go to some other planet, keep waging war with the Tamaraneans>Now their king is one of the most important people in the universe for some unexplained reason and meets with the other big leaders of the universe.
>>150174172They tried to give him an origin back in the late 00s when they made the Prime Starro called Starro the Conquerer, and he was just some guy in armor. But apparently the main one in charge of all the stars.
>>150171740I'm always amazed at how certain species are really important but never ever explored much at all. Almost nothing was known about most DC aliens until the 00s. I want to hear some more about the Thanagarians, but they are almost never talked about,
>>150174497>Also, space is a frontier. There are no 'citizens' in space.Anon there is a intergalactic economy for several space faring races.
>>150174074>Aren't they a warrior race also fueled by suns but are a favored race for slavery?Not really no, they are backward cat hippies that have sex a lot like an early era Star Trek alien of the week. They just get into fights because they are in the Vega System that has the Citadel, Spider Guild, and Gordanians constantly starting shit over and over again.
>>150174497They did the United Planets thing for a few years there from 2021 to just last year. I think it's mostly dropped now.
>>150174678Thanagar is a planet orbiting the star Polaris and the former seat of an intergalactic empire that included the space our solar system inhabits. Some 3000 years ago their empire was beginning a decline and they had some very limited contact with the people we today call ancient Egyptians, here on this primitive backwater planet. To this day, they remain the hegemon in this region of their former empire, despite thousands of years of decadence and retraction.
>>150174693That doesn't contradict what I stated in the slightest. Exchange of resources =/= civilization, let alone citizenship.
There actually is still a galactic government, recently taken over by shapeshifting aliens with the intent of securing their position of power thanks to The Source Lantern, which is a special power battery that harnessed the entire emotional spectrum and allowed their loyalists to shift colors on the fly. Hal and Pals got involved though, and now the entities are back
>>150174848I think you are misconstruing what "citizenship" means, and actually yeah trade is a part of what makes a civilization. We're not saying there's a unified one government everyone follows, but a complex network between several space races since they're frequently interacting with one another
>>150174881Some do, some don't. There isn't really some all encompassing intergalactic community, though. There are many, and most are at odds or so distant from one another there is simply no real connection. United Planets space is very different and distant from Dominion space, for example, or the Khund Empire. The H'San Natall are completely unknown, despite there empire spanning multiple galaxies. You sound terribly naive and low iq.
>>150171593DC Cosmic is lame. What exactly is there to discuss?
>>150171740Their backstory is relatively cool (everything with X'Hal, >>150174644) and Wolfman did some cool stuff in the 80s but everything after that, no. All DC does is blow the planet up.And for the most part, DC has made that entire race useless except for Starfire, Blackfire, and making up a new member whenever they want a cute/hot alien (Harley's book, Batman Off World, etc).
Why does DC's space stuff suck so fucking bad? 90% of it is Lantern shit and 90% of the lantern shit is boring construct wars with humans with 10% interesting aliens who end up dying.
>>150171593Hal Jordan and Green Lanterns are the cancer to the DC galactic community and DC cosmic.
>>150174967When people say galactic community, they don't mean everyone is buddy buddy
Does DC's intergalactic empires even have any heavy hitters outside of Lanterns and random Kryptonians?
What will be the first DCU movie to have the soul of Guardians of the Galaxy?
>>150175312Technically yes, daxamites are just kryptonian s who can't handle lead paint (but the most prominent one Sodam Yat just uses his GL ring) and tamaranians are supposed to be some of the fiercest warriors but all they do is get blown up and Starfire is stuck in Titans hell so that means no actually good feats.
>>150175470That's a no then. Daxamites and Phaelosians are just rebrand Kryptonians and thus count as Kryptonians.
Spider Guild, Spider GuildDoes whatever a...Spider Guild Does
>>150175312White Martians
>>150175675You can hardly consider the Green/White Martians an intergalactic empire when they were limited to just Mars and are currently nearly extinct.
>>150175361Probably Supergirl since they're pulling from Woman of Tomorrow where Kara will trek across the universe
>>150175017That's all DC ever does, blow up planets for drama. They just blew up Thanagar...again last year. This is the third time their planet has blown up. We had a Green Lantern discussion a few months ago and it was pointed out that Johns run was notable for building things. Johns invented lots and lots of new lanterns, came up with things like sector partners, sector houses, the Corpse black ops department, Alpha Lanterns, Book of Oa stuff, more Guardians lore, he was constantly inventing new things and adding stuff. While everyone else can only think to blow up the central battery, kill off half the corps or the guardians etc. The central power battery blows up in almost every single run after Johns.
>>150171593The original of Oragane lantern ring.We have a story of how Larafleez got the ring but not where it came from, how it was made.I think that'd be a cool story
>>150175047Space stuff is hindered because the lanterns exist. There cannot be any big giant space empires or pirate fleets since the GLC took care of those. Cosmic big bads are also GLC territory. There is not a whole lot left for other heroes and stories. They had to make up a special reason for space shit to happen in the Vega System free of GLC taking care of all of it.
>>150174804That planet blew up back in Final Crisis, Their new colony also blew up last year.
>>150175851>came up with things like sector partnersThis was to address the growing number of Earth lanterns.
Plot leaks for the first three eps of the upcoming Lanterns show, it's mostly set on Earth but it's doing the "established DCU aspect" where normal people now and are casual about aliens being aroundEpisode 1:>The episode is bookended with flash-forwards of John Stewart and Hal Jordan being interrogated by strange, alien voices in dark, unearthly rooms. They explain how they met.>The main story is set in modern day USA. In a town called Hope Springs in Iowa, an elderly man is murdered during a robbery. The murderer steals a glowing green lantern and a green ring. There are visual hints that the old man once had some connection to the Justice Society of America, a group of superheroes active in the 1950s. It feels vaguely Watchmen-ish.>The next morning we meet Hal Jordan, flying a fighter jet high enough to see the stars. He wakes up and it’s a dream, he’s living as a drifter bumming it across the country kind of like he was in the 90s comics. He’s got the white temples and is way more angsty/jaded than Ryan Reynolds‘ Hal. He DOES NOT have his ring, but still has a heroic streak that shows when he stops a gas station robbery. He moves on before the police can find him.>Meanwhile the sheriff of Hope Springs, Kerrie Kane, investigates the murder from the opening scene. GL John Stewart arrives. Sheriff Kerrie is surprised to see him, saying she knew the previous Green Lantern and he wasn’t black. John states that he’s new. John initially thinks investigating a small-time murder in bumfuck nowhere is below his pay grade, until he finds out who the murder victim was: Golden Age GL Alan Scott. John picks up an energy signature at the crime scene using his ring.>Hal arrives in town shortly after, and uses the last of his money to purchase a few hours flying a prop plane. It makes him happy, but he realizes he needs a job
>Hal approaches Sheriff Kerrie. Apparently they once had a relationship in the past, back when Hal was Green Lantern. Kane isn’t particularly happy to see him, since she now has a husband and children. However, she sees Hal is down on his luck and lets him have a job as a janitor at the police station. While working, Hal sees John visit with Kane as GL. John has no idea who Hal is (he’s mentioned he “never knew the guy” who owned the ring before him).>John works on the case, flying all across the state scanning for the energy signature from the murder scene. Though he takes his job as GL seriously, he’s very inexperienced. He finds a lead on the signature and alerts Sheriff Kerrie before investigating. Hal, wanting a piece of the action, sneaks off after the sheriff.>On the ranch, John is ambushed by shape-shifting aliens posing as a family of ranchers. They’re freaky, amorphous flesh blob things that meld together. John’s inexperience comes to bite him, as he forgot to charge his ring. It gets pulled off by the aliens before John can recharge it with his summoned lantern. Sheriff Kerrie arrives and saves John, but both of them get cornered until Hal comes to the rescue. He juices up John’s ring and uses it to deal with the shape shifters, and John is amazed to realize that Hal was his predecessor all along.Episode 2:>With Hal’s help, John and Sheriff Kerrie detain the alien suspects at the local police station. Hal recognizes them as a Horminth Collective, an amorphous flesh blob that can split into multiple shape-shifting bodies. He falls back into his old ways as GL, advising John and Kane to detain the suspects on the moon until they can be transferred to Oa. The Collective begs them for terrestrial containment, and John and Kerrie allow it. Angered by what he sees as lax treatment of a dangerous criminal, Hal relinquishes the ring to John and prepares to leave town again.
>John returns to investigating. Searching the ranch, he finds the strange energy signature again. It leads him to Alan Scott’s depowered ring, discarded in a field, but the stolen lantern remains missing. John interrogates the Horminth Collective, which insists it had nothing to do with Alan Scott’s murder but refuses to reveal why it is on Earth.>Because of Hal’s advice being ignored, the Collective escapes captivity and John fails to stop them. Sheriff Kerrie proposes he ask Hal for assistance due to the former Green Lantern’s experience, but John is too proud to accept help. Kerrie goes to find Hal on his behalf, stopping him at a bus station at the edge of town. They discuss what happened to his life, and Hal reveals little while implying that he’s made a lot of decisions that he regrets. He decides to reluctantly stay and help John, but only because Kerrie asked him to. They get flirty, but stop short of reigniting any old flame between them due to Kerrie’s current marriage and family.>John, meanwhile, is angry with himself for screwing up twice. We get some insight on his motivation through flash cuts of the past – he’s a war veteran and a former marine with some obvious emotional trauma weighing on him. He hunts down and captures a part of the Horminth Collective and notifies the sheriff that he’s done so. Once again, however, he’s ambushed by Collective drones from amongst a crowd of onlookers. John is hesitant to use his ring since he can’t tell which of the bystanders are innocent and which are Horminth shapeshifters.>Sheriff Kerrie and Hal arrive to help, and there’s an action scene that mirrors a real-life riot in the downtown area of Hope Springs. Hal meets up with John in the middle of the brawl and coaches the younger GL on how to recognize the Horminth. With Hal’s guidance, John drops the entire Collective with one punch to the creature’s “brain” (disguised as a small child). The riot ends.
>>150175855Considering the collectors tried to claim it, and how he found it in the first place, it is likely that it was a failed project from the Guardians.
>Without waiting to detain the Horminth again, Hal begins brutally interrogating the creature in the middle of the street. John is perturbed by what is essentially torture, but Hal gets the Horminth to finally admit why it is on Earth: it was hired by “The Black Hand” to recover and traffic an item called “the Starheart,” and tells them where they can find it.>After Hal finishes the interrogation, he tells John to throw the Horminth to the moon. John cannot bring himself to condemn the creature to misery, so he hands Hal the ring. Hal launches the creature into space in a sphere of green light, then cavalierly hands the ring back to John. John is unsettled by the ease with which Hal is willing to inflict pain on another creature.Episode 3:>Hope Springs starts to recover after the chaos caused by the Horminth Collective. John does his best to repair the damages, earning the town’s trust and admiration. Hal is clearly envious of the townsfolks’ adoration of him, but tries not to show it.>Hal takes John on a “beat,” touring the less scrupulous parts of town. Using his wits and experience rather than a ring, he identifies a black market trafficker from the alien Spider Guild in a gunshop who admits to smuggling the Horminth onto Earth. After an interrogation and search, John is unsettled by Hal’s unsavory methods of dealing with the underworld, and equally reluctant to take advice from someone who “threw away” the ring. Hal hotly insists he threw nothing away. Between their duties, they discuss different philosophies of life and crime fighting, from John’s refusal to wear a mask to Hal’s supposedly “corny” oath.
>Their disagreements lead them to a deeper discussion in a diner, where both men touch on their shared regrets and motivations. Striking a nerve in each other, they decide to resolve their differences in a brawl. Hal hotly insists John leave the ring in his truck’s glove compartment, since it will automatically protect him if it’s on his person. John, equally angry, agrees.>They fight to a standstill, both refusing to admit defeat until Sheriff Kerrie arrives to break things up. Hal and John return to Hal’s rental truck, realizing with a sinking feeling that the ring has been stolen from the glove box.>The rest of the episode intercuts between the shenanigans of Hal and John trying to track down their power ring with Sheriff Kerrie doing the mundane (but useful) work of pursuing leads. Her findings indicate that Alan Scott had an estranged teenage daughter, who visited him just the day before the murder.
>Hal and John finally find the ring after tracking down several local ne’er-do-wells. They’ve sold it to the gun store owner, oblivious to the fact that the man is actually an alien from the Spider Guild. John is hesitant to face the Spider Guild and its agents without the help of the ring, but Hal brazenly approaches the problem as he always has this far — fists first.>It doesn’t go smoothly, but using a combination of teamwork, grit, and sheer ballsy-ness, the two GLs are able to recover John’s power ring from the Guildsman and his henchmen. Both Hal and John walk away from the experience with a newfound respect for one another. Hal realizes that John is a true-blue man of honor rather than a gloryhound, and John develops a new understanding of Hal’s “fearlessness.” He is brave, but that bravery borders on suicidal mania. John seems to both respect and fear this in equal measure.>Reuniting with Sheriff Kerrie, the GLs learn about Alan Scott’s daughter, 17-year-old Jennifer-Lynn Hayden from Wisconsin. Though her father has been dead for days, she suspiciously hasn’t entered the picture. Hal and John think it’s time to pay her a visit.That's it so far.
>>150171740Tamaranean lore is a subset of Vegan star system lore, which is itself an obscure and rarely repeated subset of Green Lantern lore.Basically it all starts with the Psions, a race of scientifically curious reptilians that came about on the planet Maltus due to experiments conducted by beings who would come to be known as Oans. The Psions evolved on this mostly dead and abandoned planet within and amongst the remains of one of the first and most advanced civilizations in the universe. They would eventually seek out their predecessors, expecting some praise, or at least answers as to the meaning of their existence. Instead, the then Guardians of the Universe they found on Oa were horrified and embarrassed by the results of their past work, banishing them to work only within a largely uninhabited star system surrounding the star Vega.Vega at that time had two (out of 16) planets inhabited by sentient life - Okaara, inhabited by a gold-skinned humanoid feline race that had a planetary culture of peace; and Emana Branx, populated sparsely by strange four-armed warriors who sprung fully grown and armed from pods and eternally fought one another to death, with their life essences being gathered by bound angelic soul beings to be reborn again and again.The Psions, being reptiles, came up with a way to interbreed these two disparate races. They somehow tore the angelic soul being from the Branx warrior it was tied to, then forced the Branx into traumatic copulation with a captured Okaaran female named X'Hal. This union produced two children - one, the shining golden god known as Auron, and the other the dark, misshapen and deviously evil First Citadellian.X'Hal went mad after this, and, empowered by her son Auron, destroyed two planets within the star system before being restrained within Vega itself. The First Citadellian, meanwhile, set about teaching the people of Okaara the ways of war, fighting, and strife.
>>150175851>Johns invented lots and lots of new lanterns, came up with things like sector partners, sector houses, the Corpse black ops department, Alpha Lanterns, Book of Oa stuff, more Guardians loreand that's why space DC is so fucking barren, because 99% of his run focus on making new lanterns and having them fight each other instead of trying to build up various empires or space teamsAnd I get it, the name is GL so most of the attention should go to GL but not putting more attention on DC's existing intergalactic empires or at least trying to create and push new ones is fucking criminal
>>150175979Nobody cares about your fanfiction
>>150176098Okaaran society was torn apart. Some would leave the planet to found new civilizations on other Vegan worlds, most notably being Tamaran. Okaara itself would be devastated by various forms of war, until the surface became an irradiated hell, and the remaining population retreated underground, mutating into stocky blue-skinned orcish creatures. The Warlords of Okaara, dedicated solely to defensive fighting and extending invitation to all races to entertain their teachings, remain the ruling party on the planet today.The First Citadellian, it seems, would eventually receive a boon from the Psions in the form of a discarded Maltusian computer system called Complex-Complex, which took over one of the 14 remaining Vegan planets. There, now simply called Citadel World, Complex-Complex would create a vast cloning infrastructure to endlessly clone the First Citadellian. Eventually, this Citadel army would start the Citadel War with the now inhabited planets of the Vegan star system, until they were stopped by the messianic freedom fighters known as the Omega Men uniting the system militarily.
>>150175312There are loads of silver age guys with similar Kryptonian powers, they almost never appear though. There are still white, yellow, and blue Martians roaming around.Durlans can shapeshift into anything and ignore mass while doing itTromans can transmute matter with psychic abilitiesAlmeracians are Martian-lite with telepathic powersChangralyn are super strong rock peopleColuans are super smartPsions are supersmart lizards, possibly has the best technology short of new godsReach, really advanced bug people Talokites can survive in space and control darkness
>>150175944The post-Johns period explicitly states the orange spectrum was the first one the Oans attempted to harness.
>>150176278>There are loads of silver age guys with similar Kryptonian powers, they almost never appear thoughFunny how starboy originally was one.>Blue Martians.I think this is the first time that I heard about them.
>>150176278*Trommites*Talokians (and specifically, Talok VIII)ftfy
>>150175361Atari ForceOr Star Hunters
>>150175509Infest and blow up stars for energy and subspace travel.
>>150175866The GLC are historically uninvolved in the life cycle of intergalactic empires. The Durlans had an empire of horror and depravity that lasted thousands of years, and was long gone before the Thanagarians arrived on the scene with their empire which also lasted thousands of years. Yet, the Durlans are still feared throughout the known galaxies. The Dominion has never been interfered with at all by the Guardians, even though they hunted down Green Lanterns during Invasion.
>>150175851Now that you mentioned it, wasn't the Corps destroyed before the events of Emerald Twilight? With twilight being set after the rebuilt it?
>>150175065What a shit take.
>>150176685Go to bed Geoff, your Hal Jordan body is waiting for you.
>>150176567They were mostly destroyed a few years earlier, their numbers were pretty low by the time of Emerald Twilight. And that was a few years after the central battery blew up in the 80s after executing Sinestro.
>>150176758Thanks, it seems that the problem is far older
>>150176444The Guardians and The Green Lantern Corp have "Prime Directive"-esque laws that are normally big picture and don't interfere with planetary disputes. I'm not exactly sure where the line is drawn but mostly its stuff that may pose a threat to multiple races/planets. So if one planet conquers another, that's iffy and one could argue the natural order of things. However is said planet is claiming dominion over several planets/races in a never ending campaign, that might be worthy of attention.
>>150174375The Stygian Passover, right? Morrison ripping off the Annihilation Wave.>>150174644Where do I read about the new Tamaranean King? Also you forgot about their attempt to resettle on the Gordanian homeworld after Final Night
>Tamaranean lore.Even teen titans go made fun of it.
I wish REBELS could make a return
>>150176278>can survive in space and control darkness I thought that was just the Mallor lineage?(and then just the darkness, though apparently there's an alt reality where they all have powers)
>>150175851>That's all DC ever does, blow up planets for dramaMaybe that's why the one crime that the interstellar races can get together about litigating is Planetary Genocide. The one law on the books specifically
DC space lore needs to be nuked and rebooted around New Gods and whatever else Kirby had been cooking. Lanterns are dumb as hell and just a holdover from the early days of comics when nothing was good or made sense.
>>150177597Nah, DC lore is far better with the multiple poles and origins it truly has.
DC Space is better than Marvel Space
>>150175017>DC has made that entire race useless except for Starfire, Blackfire, and making up a new memberI'm still mad that Darkfire wasn't in King's Omega Men
>>150177597I'd be happy to see the Empire Of Tears restored to moore's original vision of the guardians waging war against cosmic horrors instead of the watered down shitfest that spawned the pride flag lanterns.I mean, they're not going to give that up easily but you could still have both if handled carefully.
I've always thought the Omega Man had a lot of potential and should be a bigger deal
>>150171593I miss this guy and anything to do with qward (weaponers, void hound, sinestro etc.)also malvolio - appeared once and never again
>>150178707Primus was literal Space Jesus to his people, and it still feels wrong how he was unceremoniously killed off in Invasion and never even hinted at coming back.
Where do you stand on Thanagarian wings?Are they made of Nth Metal? Is the harness and the wings are just for guidance?Would it be better if they just had wings?
So in Young Justice, Mars is still populated isn't it? Wonder if Jor-El considered it for Kal...
>>150180183There's a massive gold mining operation there in the comics.
>>150174132Black in the image is marked as transparent.
>>150171593I wish it never got cancelled. Being a lanternfag is suffering.
>>150171593Words cannot describe how much I despite picrel.I blacked out when I saw the concept. I can tolerate the evil space bug if it means we stop revisiting Hal's Parallax, the same way Marvel can't let go of Hank Pym/Janet slap, while keeping Hal alive then so be it. I mostly just ignore the evil space bug Johns introduced and predator (The star sapphire equivalent) because both are so stupid. But seeing that every single corps gets their own space buy is just so beyond stupid.
>>150171740They all look so gay lol
>>150180183IIRC Mars was populated in the Silver Age comics too and it was only after space exploration revealed that Mars was a lifeless desert that they made J'onn the last of his kind
>>150182036Oh, I didn't know that.
I miss that Threshold bookalso Weird Worlds and My Greatest Adventure books
>>150176444They get involved when they start edging outside their own neighborhood. Local wars between planets is considered small time shit to them. But the second there is a superpowered God Emperor who starts enslaving more than a few worlds a GL is dispatched to take them down. They put a stop to the Empire of Tears, Kryptonian empires, Reach Empire, Martian empire, and a couple others. But then they ignore the Dominators, Thanagarians, Khund, and some other guys that only really show up in JLA. Seems the GLC gets involved when it's not run of the mill space shit, but someone too damn powerful for a space army to handle.The real problem with all of this is that other writers want to make up cool big bad supervillains from space, but they make no sense when there are GLs out there. So a Superman writer will make up some big bad guy that blows up planets every week to show off how cool and dangerous they are, but then readers want to know why the hell the GLC has not done shit about that guy before they came to Earth. REBELS writers just had to come up with an excuse that the GLC avoids the Vega system.
>>150176974M'Yandr only appears in the background from time to time. He's one of the major players in the united planets scheme of things (mostly because readers know what Tamaron is) along with Sardath from Ran, Hawkwoman, and the Dominator leader. They kind of have their own little planet leaders club that meets over things. He's never featured in any books, just makes appearances in Superman when alien leaders are needed to appear.
>>150179549Both of those guys were one time only. Malvolio is 100% forgotten by everyone at DC. Whatever was planned for him is long dead.The weaponers are weird, they are supposed to be the single most advanced species in the antimatter universe, but they smith all their stuff with hammers and anvils. And their weapons are javelins they have to toss at people.
>>150180071I never understood the point of making up a species of bird aliens, if the wings were fake and unnecessary. I want the wings to be real, or at least genetically engineered for the upper classes on Thanagar, low castes get the gravity belts. I can kind of get behind the Savage Hawkman thing of the Nth metal being a shapeshifting body armor that takes up different forms for whatever need they have, and it forms into wings when he needs to fly. I guess.. It's better than space warrior guy that just wears large annoyingly cumbersome wings for no actual reason other than looks cool.
>>150180656I would have preferred every other corps except the greens and Sinestros die off after Blackest Night.
>>150178707The last person to touch the team was Tom King and he kinda spoiled the broth.
>>150183748Ignoring the stupidity of the Bendis stuff like Roger Zoger appearance, it's kind of dumb of the Tamaraneans to show up in a space war with spears and shields while riding on Iguanas. Without help, the Thanagarians bringing space ships and guns to the fight kind of makes it a little one sided. World of Krypton had a fun moment when Thanagarians picked a fight with fully powered Kandorians living near a yellow sun and killed a lot of them too. Also in Savage Hawkman they apparently defeated Czarneans in a war, and were currently kicking the Daemonites from Wildstorm too.
>>150183844Yeah, I totally agree. The fake wings just make them a little too goofy, like they're just LARPers.
>>150171593I didn't like Annihilation.
I miss old KronaVolthooom (old one)NecronblackstarsCaptain CometDarkstarsAdam StrangeJemmOmega MenSpace CabbieTangaVartoxSpace Canine Patrol Agents
>>150180071>Are they made of Nth Metal? Is the harness and the wings are just for guidance?a mix of these two would be perfect.
>>150171593Superhero comics have this tendency to make space feel small. I don't like that.
