>character has a magic ring which can create anything that he can imagine based on his willpower>actual comics are about a space cop working for some midgets and the magic ring is treated like a taser that space squirrels can workIs there a character with more wasted potential than Green Lantern? The concept is so interesting and imaginative, and then you get to the books and it's just... nothing. Like a cross between a bad procedural and Star Trek with poorly rendered superpowers on a budget. GL should be a literal Space Knight, not a goddamn cop.
Truth is the Ron Marz shit should've been young Hal beating Parallax Hal and taking his place, as Parallaxbasically the Crossing but done wellMy interest in Johns GL disappears the second he leaves the Earth
>>154318524You want them to be like the Jedi? That's not imaginative either. I do agree there's potential in the GL concept that DC failed to do something with because there are so busy creating countless human Lantern characters that they have no idea what to do with.
>>154318524>not a goddamn cop.Why not? The concept itself is very flexible. The corps often have that chivalrous order sense of camaraderie. Likewise, going against orders because your will is another great synergy of the concept. I agree they .could lean a lot more into the space opera angle, but as it stands, i think DC has done a decent job with it across the years, even with the many many hiccups it has had with it.
>>154318794>You want them to be like the Jedi? That's not imaginative either. But you said that.
>>154319364I think the main problem is oddly leaning to much into the punch aspect of the job.Let's see a few GL help divert a space storm or rescue an island. We ultimately just see Lazers or large bat, nothing too creative in the books. A GL has every tool in exist, let them use em
>>154318524Agreed.
