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I've only ever read a little of the Larfleeze comics by Giffens, Dematteis and Kolins, and I thought it was a bit too goofy for my taste.
Are there any comics featuring Larfleeze that are more serious? or is he a perpetual clown?
I don't really know anything about the character, that's why I wanna read the comics in the first place :)
Thanks in advance
In his first appearance, he was scary as f**k. Geoff Johns' Green Lantern, not sure of the issue numbers, but the trade was called Agent Orange or something. That's what you want to read.
After that first appearance, he started to become less scary and more funny, and last I saw him, that was all he was.
But I do recommend checking out the Larfleeze Christmas Special, from a few years back (2009? 2010? Not sure). It was the more "funny" version of the character but it was a extremely well done comic, with lots of weird extras like games and cookie recipes....very creative stand-alone issue. The basic premise is that Larfleeze, during his brief time on earth, heard about Santa Claus, and being an alien from another world on a planet were flying people with miraculous powers is not at all uncommon, he assumes Santa is real and goes out to fulfill the "Christmas contract" and get everything he wants on his Christmas list (which is, of course, everything) Things dont go so well when the contract is unfulfilled. It sounds silly and stupid, and it was, but it was well crafted and fun despite that.
I think the Christmas Special is your best bet.
The Larfleeze ongoing series was just not as entertaining. And the ongoing storylines came off as tortured to the point that the humor was lost completely by the end.
Thanks! I'll be sure to check that out :)
It's Larfreeze, right?
The only acceptable answer is:
All of them.
[the preceding is a cheap, but funny, gag and is by no means an actual book recommendation]
very good
very good
Larflezze was the back up feature in the first 5 issues of the Threshold: The Hunted series.
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I never actually read of the character before that run. Iirc, that back up was what launched the ongoing. Which I quite liked as a change of pace from the rest of the johns era comics. It ended up, of course, as the poster child for "we want something different that we won't touch with a ten foot pole" line of thinking.
[QUOTE=Ascended;2014326]In his first appearance, he was scary as f**k. Geoff Johns' Green Lantern, not sure of the issue numbers, but the trade was called Agent Orange or something. That's what you want to read.
After that first appearance, he started to become less scary and more funny, and last I saw him, that was all he was.[/QUOTE]
Even though I enjoyed the humorous take on Larfleeze, I absolutely loved it when he was written scary.
Given his appearance on the cover for Green Lanterns number 1, I'm hoping for a return to that more menacing take.
[QUOTE=NexusTenebrare;2021027]Even though I enjoyed the humorous take on Larfleeze, I absolutely loved it when he was written scary.
Given his appearance on the cover for Green Lanterns number 1, I'm hoping for a return to that more menacing take.[/QUOTE]
Where do you see this cover? :) this got me interested
[QUOTE=Hulizar;2022988]Where do you see this cover? :) this got me interested[/QUOTE]
Here it is.
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No! You can't have them, they're all mine!!!!!!!!!!!
[QUOTE=NexusTenebrare;2023613]Here it is.
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This looks fricking cool. Nice