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sherkahn (sherkahn) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-05-09 21:01:00

Entry tags:

char: green lantern/soranik natu, char: sinestro, creator: patrick gleason, creator: peter j. tomasi, event: blackest night, genre: previews, publisher: dc comics, title: green lantern corps

Green Lantern Corps 36 preview
Sinestro makes some revelations to his daughter.

From One page from The Green Lantern Corps #36 preview

As much as they are flushing Black Adam down the toilet right now in JSA, they are fleshing out Sinestro... balancing the scales.

Sinestro has been playing the "long game" for a while now, moving his daughter into a position of prominence on his homeworld. He knows his people and their needs, and for all the evil he has done, he does make very solid and valid points as to why he does what he does.

This, of course, makes him the most dangerous kind of villain... the kind who truly believes he is doing the right thing for the greater good.

A couple of things...

Oh, and the image of Green Lantern Sinestro flying with his daughter... the wonder and awe and pure joy of a child in her eyes... awesome and heartbreaking.

And the need of a father to go out and tame the world and universe from doing any harm to his family and child, by any means necessary.. I can understand and appreciate it. Especially if Sinestro knew about the prophecy of Blackest Night and what was coming.

And yes, this feels a lot like the Skywalker / Vader talk at the Cloud City.

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	parsimonia 2009-05-09 11:34 pm UTC (link)
	Your LJ-cut needs a fixin' there, especially since this is a new comic. I think you may have left off the first "<" bracket. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	sherkahn 2009-05-09 11:41 pm UTC (link)
	Done. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2009-05-10 12:28 am UTC (link)
	Hell, when did we find out she was in fact his daughter (which I think most of us called anyway) ? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	sherkahn 2009-05-10 12:41 am UTC (link)
	The last issue... the image was posted here with Sinestro adopoting a stern fatherly tone all the while holding the princess neck in his hands. (Reply to this) (Parent)

thehefner
2009-05-10 02:47 am UTC (link)

Sinestro is so awesome. Johns (and in this case, Tomasi taking Johns' lead and running with it beautifully) is making the ultimate one-note mustache-twirling villain into one of DC's most compelling, complex baddies, much like they did with Black Adam before they botched it.

But unlike Black Adam, Sinestro still manages to stay juuuust on the side of "creepy as fuck," even at his awesomest. The most dangerous kind of villain indeed. Remember, in the Sinestro Corps War... this is the guy who won, even if only a handful of people know it.

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statham1986
2009-05-10 04:17 am UTC (link)

I still don't see exactly how this is necessary, beyond Johns wanting to cram some more dramatic elements into the Green Lantern mythos by somehow trying to make Natu divided between Sinestro and her duties to the Corps, which is all this really is.

It was enough for me that Natu was an interesting Korugan character who obviously had to balance her duties as a Lantern with the fact that she could become more and more like the man every single one of her people hated, and this just spoils it, to me, despite adding a vaguely interesting legacy idea to Sinestro and his ring.

If Blackest Night turns out the way I personally think it will - Johns talks of the aftermath as having 'one hero's redemption ending, and another's beginning' - That Sinestro could rejoin the Green Lantern Corps in some degree, and make an unusual father/daughter team, fraught with annoyances because Natu's currently with Kyle. Either that, or Natu outright revokes him, or it takes the really obvious current-DC idea that having evil parents means that you too are evil, and Natu will be donning a yellow ring or whatever.

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	nymphgalatea 2009-05-10 05:38 am UTC (link)
	Oh dear, Soranik now completely doomed. Girlfriend of Kyle, daughter of Sinestro: doomed, doomed, doomed. Though the pages of her as a toddler with her Green Lantern daddy are utterly adorable and utterly heartbreaking. Fun art too, I love the way Gleason draws such her as such a chubby, happy baby. (Reply to this)

pyrotwilight
2009-05-10 09:29 am UTC (link)

So as far as I can assume from these pages...Natu and her people have no mirrors on the planet, or look at Natu's face considering Sinestro apparently put those face markings on her and she never noticed them or apparently wondered how she suddenly had them.

Nor did her GL ring let her know she had a tracker on her.

I loathe this turn of events. I would've loved if he was Iolande's father through a dramatic twist but this? LAME.

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Going against the grain

oddpuppets
2009-05-13 08:16 am UTC (link)

I'm going to have to say that I'm actually enjoying this, so far at least. While I too was wary of the whole legacy thing, so far Tomasi is pulling it off really damn well. Now, if Soranik can avoid the Johns 'Legacy is EVERYTHING' paradigm, then we can have a really interesting story. Imagine Blackest Night with a subplot that...gasp...actually has Soranik at the heart of it. One of the threads that weaves into and shapes the conclusion.

It's asking for a lot, but though Johns is subpar in many areas, with the Greens he tends to get it right. Even if there is far too much Hal!wankery.

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