"Beware Their Power" - Green Lantern Mythos Appreciation 2021

[liwanag]

[mrumsey]

Love this!

[SecretWarrior]

While there are certainly some similarities between the Corps and the Lensmen, both John Broome and Julius Schwartz indicated that while they'd heard of the Lensmen books neither had ever read them.

http://www.graspingforthewind.com/20...green-lantern/

1. They can lie and have incentive to

2. Even hearing a general summary could be sufficient to draw inspiration

[Johnny]

Uncle Hal to the rescue.




From today's new Infinite Frontier issue. Good reminder why he shouldn't always be stuck in space for so long.

[Anthony Shaw]

Uncle Hal to the rescue.




From today's new Infinite Frontier issue. Good reminder why he shouldn't always be stuck in space for so long.

Thanks for posting this.

[mrumsey]

1. They can lie and have incentive to

2. Even hearing a general summary could be sufficient to draw inspiration

They certainly could have been inspired by the Lensmen, but there's no proof of that - therefore the "He ripped off the Lensmen" statement is nothing but here say.

[Sodam Yat]

1. They can lie and have incentive to

2. Even hearing a general summary could be sufficient to draw inspiration

Yea, this could be true

[SecretWarrior]

They certainly could have been inspired by the Lensmen, but there's no proof of that - therefore the "He ripped off the Lensmen" statement is nothing but here say.

No more so than Batman having too many parallels with his precursor Zorro. The human mind is an association engine, so it can't come up with new elements, just different compositions. They admitted to knowing about the Lensmen, which pre-dated their property. They didn't have to read the books to know what they were about.

[Frontier]

I don't think it really matters at the end of the day when the GL's are basically just their own thing at this point.

[mrumsey]

I don't think it really matters at the end of the day when the GL's are basically just their own thing at this point.

Agreed - and no reason to throw creators under the bus, either.

[Korath]

Isn't Arisia dead now, by the way ? I think I saw it in Green Lantern #4 ?

[Frontier]

Isn't Arisia dead now, by the way ? I think I saw it in Green Lantern #4 ?

Yeah, that was one of the main talking points of the issue.

[Gaius]

[liwanag]

Yeah, that was one of the main talking points of the issue.

i'm wondering what happened to salaak, or chaselon....

[Gaius]

Joshua Middleton.