Topic: GENERAL COMIC BOOK THREAD (MANGA NOT ALLOWED)

[Protoman Blues]

Yeah. But in the current DC, they oughta give the New Gods a rest. They're good for the IMMENSE EPIC every ten years or so.

NO! I WANT IT NOW! 

[Bueno Excelente]

They should rest up on the massive events. Even Brightest Day seems to be business as usual, without alot of immense epic happening. That's good. Plus, giving relevance to older characters, making new ones that are cool... Seems to be all on the right track.

BLACK MANTA VERSUS AQUAMAN BATTLE ON THE NEXT ISSUE [tornado fang] YEAH

[Quickman]

I told my brother that he'd be happy with the next issue as he loves the Black Manta.  Too bad he hasn't started reading the comics yet.  Getting him to read them will be tough as he has alotta catching up to do.

Oh, and while I was getting my comics, the clerk mentioned a planned Larfleeze Christmas Special.  That totally made my day.  Hell, what would be super awesome is if it were animated.

[Bueno Excelente]

Indeed. Already got mine pre-ordered!

[Quickman]

[tornado fang] yes!  If I can get to the store this evening, I'm gonna do the same.  Or at least tell the clerk to add it to my subscription service.

[Protoman Blues]

Cannot wait till that comes out!

[Quickman]

Is he holding a bottle of beer?

And what would truly make that even better is if DC decided "Hey, let's make an animated version of it!"

[Protoman Blues]

I'm pretty sure that's a bottle of Champagne over beer! LoL, although why he's holding the gun is another question all together.

[Quickman]

Perhaps it's a Nerf gun.  Larfleeze should totally have a Nerf gun.

[Bueno Excelente]

That's one of those guns bathed in gold that rappers have and pose with. Look at the chains around him! Larfleeze has DISCOVERED BLING!

[Protoman Blues]

Hahahahaha, you're right!

He really is one of the greatest new character in recent comic history.

[Quickman]

He totally needs to be animated.

[Protoman Blues]

i think the whole Green Lantern universe needs to be animated.

[Bueno Excelente]

Emerald Warriors is one of the next DC movies (sequel to First Flight), and the animated series starts next year, after the movie.

[Quickman]

Nice.  Any relation to the Emerald Warriors series that just started, or is it in name only?

[Protoman Blues]

If it's a sequel, then most likely it has no tie in to the comic of the same name.

And yeah, the animated series will hopefully be good.

[Acid]

Indeed. Already got mine pre-ordered!

Calling it now:

This will be a parody of/homage to Dr. Seuss' Grinch

[Bueno Excelente]

Calling it now:

This will be a parody of/homage to Dr. Seuss' Grinch

>Implying fans haven't got that covered yet

Every Green Lantern
Down on Mogo
Shared Christmas a lot...
But Larfleeze,
Who's Lantern was of Orange,
Did NOT!
This Larfleeze wanted Christmas! The whole Christmas season!
Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason.
It could be that his ring wasn't screwed on quite right.
It could be, perhaps, that his spectrum was too bright.
But I think that the most likely reason of all
May have been that his greed made everything his call.
But,
Whatever the reason,
His ring or his spectrum,
He floated there in space, hating those Lanterns,
Staring down with his cravings with a sour, Larfleeze frown
At the green lighted windows below in their town.
For he knew every GL down in Mogo beneath
Was busy now, willing a green mistleoe wreath.
"And they're hanging MY stockings!" he snarled with a sneer.
"Tomorrow is Christmas! It's all MINE you hear!"
Then he growled, with his Fleezy fingers round his Lantern tight as can be,
"I MUST find a way to keep Christmas just for me!"
For, tomorrow, he knew...
...All the GL girls and boys
Would wake up bright and early. They'd rush for HIS toys!
And then! Oh, the noise! Oh, the noise! Noise! Noise! Noise!
That's another thing he wanted! The NOISE! NOISE! NOISE! NOISE!
Then the Lanterns, young and old, would sit down to HIS feast.
And they'd feast! And they'd feast!
And they'd FEAST! FEAST! FEAST! FEAST!
They would eat his Rann-pudding, and rare Thangarian-roast-beast!
For you see Larfleeze wanted every morsel they'd all have the LEAST!!
And THEN
They'd do something he liked least of all!
Every GL down on Mogo, the tall and the small,
Would stand close together, with Lantern Oath ringing.
They'd stand hand-in-hand. And all his rings would start slinging!
They'd sling! And they'd sling!
AND they'd SLING! SLING! SLING! SLING!
And the more Larfleeze thought of the Green-Will-Christmas-Sling
The more the 'Fleeze thought, "I must have this whole thing!
"Why for fifty-three years I've wanted it now!
I MUST have Christmas MINE for the keeping!
...But HOW?"
Then he got an idea!
An awful idea!
LARFLEEZE HAS ALL WONDERFUL, AWFUL IDEAS!
"I know just what to do!" The 'Fleeze Laughed in his throat.
And he brought forth an orange Santy Claus hat and a coat.
And he chuckled, and clucked, "MY, What a great Fleezy trick!
"With this coat and this hat, that I took from Saint Nick!"
"I need is all his reindeer..."
Larfleeze looked around.
But since reindeer that fly Black Lanterns ate all last year, there was none to be found.
Did that stop the old Larfleeze...?
No! Lar' simply said,
"If I can't find a reindeer, I'll make one instead!"
So he called his agents forward. Then he took some red thread
And he tied a big horn on top of their heads.
THEN
He stole some bags
And anything to hold his payments
On a ramshakle sleigh
He hitched up his agents.

Then Larfleeze said, "Giddyap!"
And the sleigh started down
Toward the homes where the GLs
Lay a-snooze in the town.
All their rings were quite dark. Quiet snow fell on Mogo.
And the Lanterns all dreaming sweet dreams without Sinesto
When he came to the first construct in the square.
"This is stop number one," The old Larfleeze Claus hissed
And he flew to the roof, empty bags in his fist.
Then he slid down the chimney. A rather tight squeeze.
But if Santa could do it, then so could the Fleeze.
He got stuck only once, for a moment or two.
Then he stuck his head out of the fireplace flue
Where the little Lantern batteries all hung in a row.
"These Batteries," he grinned, "are my first things I stow!"
Then he slithered and slunk, with a smile most unpleasant,
Around the whole room, and he took every ring present!
From Gardner! And Rayner! ! Saarek!
Ch'p! Turytt! Perdoo! And Gpaak!
And he stuffed them in bags. Then Larfleeze, very nimbly,
Stuffed all HIS bags, one by one, up the chimney!
Then he slunk to the icebox. He took the GL' feast!
He took the Rann-pudding! He took the Thanagarian-roast beast!
He cleaned out that icebox as quicker than flash.
Why, that Orange even took their last can of Kryptonian-hash!
Then he stuffed all the food up the chimney with glee.
"And NOW!" grinned Larfleeze, "I will stuff up MY CENTRAL BATTERY!!"
And the Fleeze grabbed the Power Source, and he started to shove
When he heard a small sound like the coo of a dove.
He turned around fast, and he saw a small Black Lantern!
Little Katma Tui, who died in Action Comics Weekly #601-602!
The Fleeze had been caught by this little Zombie covert
Who'd rose from the dead to steal the heart of John Stewart.
She stared at Larfleeze and said, "Santy Claus, why,
"Why is greed all I see? WHY?"
But, you know, that old 'Fleeze was so smart and so slick
He thought up a lie, and he thought it up quick!
"Why, my sweet little corpse," the fake Fleezy Claus lied,
"This willpower core won't light on one side.
"So I'm taking it home to my workshop, on Maltus.
"I'll bring it back there. Then I'll be glad for you to kill us!"
And his fib fooled the corpse. Then he patted her head
And he led her to Stewart's and he sent her to his bed.
And when Katma Tui , went to a bed for her sup'.
HE went to the chimney and stuffed the battery up!
Then the last thing he took
Was the Kilowog's green ringlet.
Then he went up the chimney himself, the old piglet.
On their hands he left nothing but empty fingers, and
green singlet.

And the one speck of food
That he left in the fort
Was a crumb that was even too small for G'nort.
Then
He did the same thing
To the other Lantern homes
Taking all
That he saw
For he knew it was time to call in his loans!
It was quarter past dawn...
All the GLs, still a-bed
All the GLs, still a-snooze
When he packed up his sled,
Packed it up like a wiz! The Rings! The Batteries!
All his! All the Lanterns! The Green! All for Larfleeze!
Three thousand feet up! One side of outer space,
He floated there ready to absorb at his pace!
"Pooh-pooh to the Lanterns!" he was Fleeze-ish-ly humming.
"They're finding out now that Christmas is mine!
"They're just waking up! I know just what they'll do!
"Their mouths will hang open a minute or two
"Then all the GLs down on Mogo will all cry OA, WHAT WILL WE DOOO?!"
"That's a noise," grinned Larfleeze,
"That I simply must have!"
So he paused. And Larfleeze put a hand to his ear.
And he did hear a sound rising down on Mogo.
It started in low. Then it started to grow...
But the sound wasn't sad!
Why, this sound was their oath!
It couldn't be so!
But the planet WAS glowing! VERY!
He stared down at Mogo!
The Fleeze popped his eyes!
Then he shook!
What he saw was a shocking surprise!
Every GL down on Mogo, the tall and the small,
Was slinging! Without any rings at all!
He HADN'T stopped Christmas from coming!
IT CAME!
Somehow or other, a blast came the same!
And Larfleeze, with his orange-ring ice-cold in the void,
was hit puzzling and puzzling: "I took all MY rings, how could this I avoid?!
It came from their will! It came without green!
"It came without batteries, or rings I'd not seen!"
And he was hit by the power, `till his jaw tusks were sore.
Then the Fleeze thought of something he hadn't before!
"Maybe Christmas," he thought, "doesn't come from this core.
"Maybe Christmas...perhaps...means I have to steal a bit more!"
And what happened then...?
Well...on Mogo they say
That much of Larfleeze's stolen stash
Fell back from orbit that day!
And the minute the rings returned to to the Corps,
He escaped with some swag, though he wanted much more!
And losing all the gear he kept the food for the feast!
And he...
...HE HIMSELF...!
The Fleeze ate the roast beast!

THE END.

[Quickman]

Not the Kryptonian hash!  D:  Larfleeze, you monster.

[Gaia]

My god. That was pure awesome. Larfleeze, give yourself a round of applause for being DC's answer to Marvel's Deadpool.

[Bueno Excelente]

My god. That was pure awesome. Larfleeze, give yourself a round of applause for being DC's answer to Marvel's Deadpool.

Marvel's Deadpool was already an answer to DC's Lobo, who has been underused, which is GOOD considering comedy characters are only funny if you pop them in sometimes.

Larfleeze isn't supposed to be funny all the time. Agent Orange, the first story he showed up in, had him be pretty damn powerful and violent, people were scared of him. But then he evolved into the "I WANT TO BE A QUEEN TOO!" dude you see here. I like Larfleeze, but he's definetly not Deadpool.

[Protoman Blues]

More on Grant Morrison's Pax Americana!

[Bueno Excelente]

Seems good. I just wish people wouldn't constantly reference Watchmen on everything. I know it's still the Citizen Kane of comics and it marked the era when comics were finally good stories, taken seriously, and it might still be the best comic ever in the literary sense, but still, tons upon tons of work later, we gotta evolve from that. Morrison said so many times that Moore was wrong when he said that people just ripped off Watchmen over and over, it's kinda time to show that he means business and create a new standard for comic narrative.

[Pyro]

I'm not entire certain if narrative itself can evolve when fiction depends on archetypes and tropes for audiences to find entertaining, believe me. The more I look at comic over the past twenty-five years the more I'm certain that comics and other narrative forms are in a constant cycle of renewal. I look to your comments on "Batman & Robin" with respect to how Grant Morrison is bringing Batman back to his Silver/Bronze Age sensibilities. The same with Hal Jordan and Barry Allen's respective returns, and how writers have done all they can with their successors so everything comes full circle to DC's Silver Age.

Heck, I see Firestorm in a similar light with the return of Martin Stein to the Firestorm mythos in Infinite Crisis after spending 15+ years as a fire elemental. Same with Ronnie Raymond's return in Blackest Night. Now some fans are buzzing for Katar  and Shayera Hol to return, though I find that highly unlikely.

[Protoman Blues]

That's because comic book characters, just like the readers, grow old and eventually something new & fresh is needed to both keep new ideas coming in or to simply clean up the mess. Sometimes the whole freakin Universe needs an overhaul. Hell, OMD OMiT prove that fact 100x fold.