Hey, It’s the Green Lantern’s Green Lantern
The Daily Blam — who should really work on a somewhat less subtle watermark — scored the first pick of the green lantern from Green Lantern, shown above. I dig it, because it looks alien and weird, and I never really got why alien space cops would be carrying around Coleman lanterns anyways (this is the same reason why I approve of Geoff Johns’ Skittle Lanterns, because I also never understood why just green — the new answer being it’s not just green). It looks a little Matrix-y, admittedly, but I’d rather have that than the comics version.
However, I’m very much not of that hardcore GL fan variety where major differences from the norm bother me, so I’m guessing there are many of you GL fans who are shocked and appalled at how non-comics accurate this thing is, and I bet you think it looks stupid. I don’t begrudge you this, because I hold the shit I love to that same, unyielding standard. What I want to know is if you hate it or just don’t like the movie lantern, or even if you’re all right with it. What do you think?
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.