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POS Industries · 07-13-2011, 08:28 PM

Oh hey, looks like Wonder Woman lost her pants again.

Also, the new main character of the flagship Green Lantern series is... Sinestro, apparently. I can't say I'm not okay with that.

Fifthfiend · 07-13-2011, 08:52 PM

It's fantastic that someone looked at that costume and decided that pants-having were what needed to be changed about it, it is like, everything about the clowncar merry-go-round that DC Comics clearly must be.

...Everyone finally agreeing to shrug and say bygones over Sinestro being a galactic-scale mass murderer is also pretty good.

Fifthfiend · 07-13-2011, 08:58 PM

The great thing is that Johns apparently doesn't even remember any more that when he decided to call takebacks on Hal killing the entire universe, he did it by blaming the entire thing on, you know, Sinestro, so Sinny's on the hook for all of that too.

But I dunno, maybe Superboy punched all of that out of causality? Who can even tell anymore.

POS Industries · 07-13-2011, 09:12 PM

Well, I just read the latest issue explaining all this and basically everything went batshit because of a rogue Guardian doing some technicolor evil, Sinestro showed enough will while jumping in to help Hal that a ring from one of the dead Green Lanterns chose him, and then Hal did a big green willpower Kamehameha and killed the rogue Guardian and saved everyone, most notably including all the other Guardians.

And since he showed he was strong enough to kill one Guardian, the other Guardians (except Ganthet, as always) immediately decided to keep their streak of being complete awful dickholes running uninterrupted and kicked him out of the corps, and I guess they're having Sinestro take his place, which has pretty much everyone in the fucking universe cheesed off.

TL;DR Sinestro being a mass murdering fascist hasn't been forgotten, it's just that the Guardians are terrible, ungrateful bastards.

The Sevenshot Kid · 07-13-2011, 10:37 PM

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Also, the new main character of the flagship Green Lantern series is... Sinestro, apparently. I can't say I'm not okay with that.

Well, I won't be picking up that book now. I like Sinestro as a villain but I'm just not interested in a book with him in the lead.

Magus · 07-13-2011, 10:48 PM

I like how this reboot quickly turned into "not actually a reboot at all with most of our franchises" and then "not actually a reboot at all with any of our franchises".

POS Industries · 07-13-2011, 11:17 PM

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Well, I won't be picking up that book now. I like Sinestro as a villain but I'm just not interested in a book with him in the lead.

Conversely, this has joined Suicide Squad as one of the two books I'm even interested in picking up.

The Sevenshot Kid · 07-14-2011, 12:11 AM

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Conversely, this has joined Suicide Squad as one of the two books I'm even interested in picking up.

I'll probably be picking up either Suicide Squad or Red Hood and the Outlaws but I'm not sure which one to get. They both seem to have similar concepts at play: a Batman villain is involved with some other neerdowells on a mission. I might just have to get both and see which one is stronger.

Edit: Y'know what? I won't be picking up Suicide Squad because I can't believe we got a Suicide Squad book instead of Secret Six.

Fifthfiend · 07-14-2011, 01:19 AM

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Originally Posted by POS Industries

Well, I just read the latest issue explaining all this and basically everything went batshit because of a rogue Guardian doing some technicolor evil, Sinestro showed enough will while jumping in to help Hal that a ring from one of the dead Green Lanterns chose him, and then Hal did a big green willpower Kamehameha and killed the rogue Guardian and saved everyone, most notably including all the other Guardians.

And since he showed he was strong enough to kill one Guardian, the other Guardians (except Ganthet, as always) immediately decided to keep their streak of being complete awful dickholes running uninterrupted and kicked him out of the corps, and I guess they're having Sinestro take his place, which has pretty much everyone in the fucking universe cheesed off.

TL;DR Sinestro being a mass murdering fascist hasn't been forgotten, it's just that the Guardians are terrible, ungrateful bastards.

Here's the thing I'm getting at, is back when Geoff Johns did his whole big crazy Let's Give Hal A Do-Over On That Destroying The Whole Universe Thing, they did that by pinning the whole thing on A. Parallax and B. Sinestro. Like the whole thing where Paralaxx posesses Hal and Hal goes crazy and then kills all the guardians of the galaxy and then the universe was Sinestro's crazy-ass idea.

So they are pushing aside a guy who killed one guardian in favor of a guy who killed all of them.

Like I guess maybe Johns at some point retconned his retcon because I mean it's not like I'm going to start reading Green Lantern comics to find out but I'm just saying if not that's fairly ridiculous, I mean like even for a Green and Blue and Red and White Rangers Comic by Geoff Johns that is fairly ridiculous.

Fifthfiend · 07-14-2011, 01:24 AM

I mean like the guardians have always been ridiculous assholes but "we will throw a party for the guy who literally murdered us all in order to spite Hal Jordan for saving all of our lives" is just this entire new universe of the guardians being ridiculous assholes.

I mean I don't even like Hal Jordan but come on.

07-13-2011, 08:28 PM	#141
POS Industries Argus Agony Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Gotta go fishing! Posts: 10,483	Oh hey, looks like Wonder Woman lost her pants again. Also, the new main character of the flagship Green Lantern series is... Sinestro, apparently. I can't say I'm not okay with that. __________________ Either you're dead or my watch has stopped.

07-13-2011, 08:52 PM	#142
Fifthfiend for all seasons Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 19,409	It's fantastic that someone looked at that costume and decided that pants-having were what needed to be changed about it, it is like, everything about the clowncar merry-go-round that DC Comics clearly must be. ...Everyone finally agreeing to shrug and say bygones over Sinestro being a galactic-scale mass murderer is also pretty good. __________________ check out my buttspresso

07-13-2011, 08:58 PM	#143
Fifthfiend for all seasons Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 19,409	The great thing is that Johns apparently doesn't even remember any more that when he decided to call takebacks on Hal killing the entire universe, he did it by blaming the entire thing on, you know, Sinestro, so Sinny's on the hook for all of that too. But I dunno, maybe Superboy punched all of that out of causality? Who can even tell anymore. __________________ check out my buttspresso

07-13-2011, 09:12 PM	#144
POS Industries Argus Agony Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Gotta go fishing! Posts: 10,483	Well, I just read the latest issue explaining all this and basically everything went batshit because of a rogue Guardian doing some technicolor evil, Sinestro showed enough will while jumping in to help Hal that a ring from one of the dead Green Lanterns chose him, and then Hal did a big green willpower Kamehameha and killed the rogue Guardian and saved everyone, most notably including all the other Guardians. And since he showed he was strong enough to kill one Guardian, the other Guardians (except Ganthet, as always) immediately decided to keep their streak of being complete awful dickholes running uninterrupted and kicked him out of the corps, and I guess they're having Sinestro take his place, which has pretty much everyone in the fucking universe cheesed off. TL;DR Sinestro being a mass murdering fascist hasn't been forgotten, it's just that the Guardians are terrible, ungrateful bastards. __________________ Either you're dead or my watch has stopped.

07-13-2011, 10:48 PM	#146
Magus Archer and Armstrong vs. the World Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 7,164	I like how this reboot quickly turned into "not actually a reboot at all with most of our franchises" and then "not actually a reboot at all with any of our franchises". __________________ The Valiant Review

07-14-2011, 01:24 AM	#150
Fifthfiend for all seasons Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 19,409	I mean like the guardians have always been ridiculous assholes but "we will throw a party for the guy who literally murdered us all in order to spite Hal Jordan for saving all of our lives" is just this entire new universe of the guardians being ridiculous assholes. I mean I don't even like Hal Jordan but come on. __________________ check out my buttspresso