Green Lantern - Part One

GREEN LANTERN - PART ONE
This is going to be a pretty mammoth post and part of a mammoth undertaking, so these entries will be rambling and frequently take a long time to reach the point. However, I only know of one person crazy enough to read these blogs and she seems to think they're ok, so I won't restrain myself from rambling full bore.

I've never really been a big fan of any DC Comics superheroes. I mean, I don't dislike them or anything, but I can't recall ever really FOLLOWING a DC character. I don't recall sticking with their comics for several hundred issues or defending the character against other comics fans. The problem I had with DC comic books was that they were so wrapped up in continuity. Most iconic superheroes have been around since the 40s. Let's face it - in that amount of time, there are bound to have been many, many terrible comics. The years have produced some absolutely insane superhero comics books, ones where Superman gets turned into a radioactive chimp and battles a giant Jimmy Olsen and Batman sprouts wings and grows a tail.

Superhero comics, bad as they may be, have evolved quite a bit from that silly storytelling (for better or worse, depending on who you ask). When writers began crafting more serious and intricate storylines for these classic superhero characters, it began to be harder and harder to reconcile the new characters with their zany antics in the 50s and 60s. There are two ways you can really choose to handle the situation. You can be like Marvel comics and subtly ignore all the millions of continuity errors present in current comic books, shrugging them off with a wink and a sly grin, hoping that comic fans will just enjoy the fun and choose to ignore the small details. OR, you can meticulously try, again and again and and again over a period of 30 years, to somehow reconcile every single issue of every single comic book that has ever been published by your company into a continuity error free universe. Naturally, this is completely and utterly impossible to accomplish. Each time DC has a big, universe changing event designed to finally fix its continuity, it ends up creating an entirely new series of continuity problems. Naturally, they have to do another event to fix those problems. And so on, and so on.

So it's pretty surprising that the storyline that finally got me into a DC superhero is basically dominated by continuity issues.

Green Lantern - Rebirth

Green Lantern v4 #1-9

Green Lantern Corps - Recharge

Green Lantern Corps v2 #1-9

Ion - Defender of the Universe #1-9