I had to fix the eyes, let my man have his green eyes! consistency people.
also
these are so simple yet spectacular looking to me
THE SIGNAL (Duke Thomas) is DC's secret shonen protagonist so I made him a fandom wiki
also, check out "The Signal Tape" a Duke Thomas fan project.
currently following:
- DC: Red Hood: The Hill
- Marvel: TBD
- Manga (Shonen/Seinen): One Piece, My Hero, Dandadan, Jujutsu Kaisen, Kaiju No. 8, Reincarnation of The Veteran Soldier, Oblivion Rouge, ORDEAL, The Breaker: Eternal Force
"power does not corrupt, power always reveals."
Jorge Jimenez is a really good artist. I'm thinking about putting him in the top 3 artists who I would love to see draw John in a solo.
So John still has a tattoo ring it seems. And we still don't have no answers. It's been like what, close to a year already since John first mentioned about having a tattoo ring? I'm starting to run out of patience!
Oh, I can say a lot about why I don't really like JLU, or John Stewart in it, and since I haven't too much better to do at the moment (I actually do, as I'm literally in the middle of producing a Youtube video)...
First of all, what you said is true. There were some great break out characters like Question, but I feel characters I liked previously would sometimes get lost in the mix (like Wally West, though I know Rosenbaum had some other engagements, but still...), in favor of characters like Green Arrow. Speaking specifically to John Stewart, since this is his thread...
Instead of being an interesting multifaceted character like he was on Justice League (see Metamorphosis, Legends, and Hearts and Minds for examples), John Stewart became a one note "woe is me" sad sack whose whole story revolved around his ex-girlfriend. No longer was he multifaceted. The only other thing he kind of did was mentor Supergirl...which is okay I guess.
I think the people who really like John Stewart's relationship with Vixen primarily do so because it presented a "black power couple," and not necessarily because it was any good. A black power couple is fine and dandy, though it's ironically shallow in this particular instance, because John Stewart clearly was still in love with Hawkgirl (that was his story) and Vixen was just an ancillary part of John Stewart and Hawkgirl's story. So you have John Stewart pining for a white woman (we'll just call Hawkgirl that) while he is officially with a black woman. That destroys the whole "black power couple" purpose as I see it. I have discussed with some who choose to be blind to that story point because it interrupts their fantasy, but that is the actual story.
Vixen and John Stewart had scenes being together, but we didn't see much of their romance unfold. It was just kind of plopped on us, so it's difficult for me to be invested in, and I don't think the viewers were supposed to be after two seasons of building up John with Hawkgirl. For a more "genuine" black romance in DC animation for people specifically interested in that, I think Static and Daisy is a better portrayal. Static was no longer pining for Frieda while he was with Daisy. Speaking of all of this...
After all of that, John Stewart and Hawkgirl's story had a pathetic non-conclusion. It isn't wrapped up, but we're shown they have a child in the future, so it is. Just off camera. A cop out.
I didn't like his look, though I concede that's completely subjective preference.
There are plenty of other things about the show I don't like in comparison to the earlier iteration, but I don't want to go too far off on a tangent. I don't think the show is necessarily bad, but I realize that after my last re-watch of it, I don't have any desire to see it again, and I don't think that will change much in the future.
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I was reading Green Lantern: Mosaic #1 just now, and it's amazing how nobody noticed this. But nutburger Gerard Jones closes out the issue by not so subtly turning John Stewart into a pedophile. He is sexually admired by two little girls and then leaves to engage in sex acts with them, referring to it as "distractions" from his duty as Green Lantern of Oa. I'm pretty sure this isn't any kind of coincidence and is clearly what it appears to be. Really interesting how obvious it is yet nobody saw it :T
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The fact that this actually made it to print says something both for the author and editorial.
All the more reason why we need more content with this character besides team books. Mosaic can't and shouldn't be the only run pointed to.
lemme preface this by saying, I whole-heartedly agree that, despite any artistic merit to the series, it is problematic that John's only notable solo outing is written by a convicted pedophile and DC should look to release more note-worthy John-centric stories to remedy that. HOWEVER, before we get up in arms about this perceived pedophilia insert, context is necessary here. These are the glad girls, we see them earlier in that issue, they are alien creatures that "play" by murdering John (which he allows) on an apparently regular basis.
Now given the writer and the phasing, I wouldn't put it past him to have intentionally coded their phasing sexually but as far as John is concerned, no he is not a pedophile. It's been a minute since I tried to read Mosaic, so maybe there are some other questionable things somewhere else in the series but this particular instance isn't pedophilic; in story on John's part anyway.
THE SIGNAL (Duke Thomas) is DC's secret shonen protagonist so I made him a fandom wiki
also, check out "The Signal Tape" a Duke Thomas fan project.
currently following:
- DC: Red Hood: The Hill
- Marvel: TBD
- Manga (Shonen/Seinen): One Piece, My Hero, Dandadan, Jujutsu Kaisen, Kaiju No. 8, Reincarnation of The Veteran Soldier, Oblivion Rouge, ORDEAL, The Breaker: Eternal Force
"power does not corrupt, power always reveals."