Monday, October 03, 2011

With This Ring, I Thee PWN

Batman's great, but stealing the power ring off the finger of a Green Lantern without him even noticing it? I call shenanigans.


Panels from Justice League America v.2 #1 (October 2011), script by Geoff Johns, pencils by Jim Lee, inks by Scott Williams, colors by Alex Sinclair, letters by Patrick Brosseau


Uh huh. Yep. (He said, dismissively.) This out-of-character nonsense from the New 52niverse is a poor plot device that, let's face it, wouldn't have happened under the "old guard." Before the events of Infinite Crisis Final Crisis Flashpoint, you'd never catch a GL getting de-ringed by the Dark Knight! Not in a bajillion years.




Panels from The Batman Chronicles #15 (Winter 1998), script by Kelley Puckett, pencils by Joe Staton, inks by Bill Sienkiewicz, colors by Rob Schwager, letters by Ken Lopez


Oh. Um. Okay. Well...

Never mind.


3 comments:

Siskoid said...

Aquaman did much the same in the Peter David series.

Sleestak said...

Yeah, but Kyle was a doofus. Hal was the kind of guy who would spend half of each day thinking up protocols for the ring to follow and programming it in.

SallyP said...

Yeah, I call shenanigans. Especially, since the Lanterns can make their rings come when they want them.

Why is it ALWAYS Batman.