"Beware Their Power" - Green Lantern Mythos Appreciation 2021

[Robanker]

My boy Alan making everyone else look like chumps.

And I like all those guys.

[Gaius]

My boy Alan making everyone else look like chumps.

And I like all those guys.

[Frontier]

John with a mask is a rare sight.

[Robanker]

PG with the Super family, Alan leading the charge against Prime.

That page lives in my brain rent free, man.

[liwanag]

those heat vision just went thru superman.

[Gaius]

[Robanker]

While irrelevant in the age of wikis, I do love these sorts of things.

[SJNeal]

I love that Lok Neboora (whoever the hell that is?) rated a spot on this but Brik didn't... *eyeroll*

[Frontier]

While irrelevant in the age of wikis, I do love these sorts of things.

I wouldn't mind a new Who's Who .

[Robanker]

I wouldn't mind a new Who's Who .

You could have the Questions as framing devices with each arguing over different iterations of characters, like Superman Pre-Crisis and Post-CoIE.

[lemonpeace]

While irrelevant in the age of wikis, I do love these sorts of things.

I actually think wikis make these things even more special. it's always nice when DC does these little guides letting you know what's what with their characters, makes updating the wikis easier.

[Robanker]

I actually think wikis make these things even more special. it's always nice when DC does these little guides letting you know what's what with their characters, makes updating the wikis easier.

That's a very fair point, but I wonder how cost efficient it is because once you sell a couple of them the wiki is now updated and the book has no purpose, and unlike proper pirate sites there's nothing illegal about parsing those books for information and posting them on a snazzy confluence of text, images and geekery.

Oh god I wrote "snazzy" unironically.

In this world of trendy, evolving internet language I have become the villain.

[Bored at 3:00AM]

My students pore over the DC and Marvel Encyclopedias I got like they are holy *%&@ing scripture...

There's something about the tangibility of a printed book. It feels more official. More real, maybe. I dunno.

[HsssH]

That's a very fair point, but I wonder how cost efficient it is because once you sell a couple of them the wiki is now updated and the book has no purpose, and unlike proper pirate sites there's nothing illegal about parsing those books for information and posting them on a snazzy confluence of text, images and geekery.

I think what makes them "special" is that they are short (reading Wiki page of some established character in my opinion is a nightmare) and shows what DC considers "relevant" at this point. If someone said that he wants to get into GL franchise I'd show them those 4 pages before showing any GL related Wiki page.

And sure, people can later update the Wiki with this information, but Wiki will still be less readable than those 4 pages.

[Robanker]

I think what makes them "special" is that they are short (reading Wiki page of some established character in my opinion is a nightmare) and shows what DC considers "relevant" at this point. If someone said that he wants to get into GL franchise I'd show them those 4 pages before showing any GL related Wiki page.

And sure, people can later update the Wiki with this information, but Wiki will still be less readable than those 4 pages.

Yeah but those hyperlinks lead you down the most awesome rabbit hole on the internet!

I think both have a place. As Bored mentioned, there's something about having the tangible book to pour over that's part of the magic.