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Tweak says, "billy martin is no gangsta"

sherkahn (sherkahn) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-04-21 10:55:00

Current mood:	silly
Entry tags:	char: atrocitus, event: blackest night, group: red lantern corps

DCU Blog has another Red Lantern image
Team Scarlet Centurio... wait, no no .... the Blood Stryke Forc- no no, that's not it.... the Crimson Commando's?

From Red Lantern Corps 101

"Red - the blood of angry men!
Black - the dark of ages past!
Red - a world about to dawn!
Black - the night that ends at last!"

From Les Miserables, "Red and Black"

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	interrobamf 2009-04-21 06:07 pm UTC (link)
	Well, with the description given, you could fanwank it so that the Five Inversions of Sector 666 are prisoners amongst the actual Empire of Tears. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

jlroberson
2009-04-22 02:11 am UTC (link)

The Empire of Tears were terrorists, supposedly. However, remember: everything we previously knew about the history of the Guardians was stuff the Guardians said. One good thing about Johns' run(though questioning the Guardians goes back to O'Neil) is how he's shown that the Guardians have lied(though for the greater good) and that, however well-intentioned they might be, they might just be trying to assure their own hegemony, rather than protecting the universe.

Indeed, like the British in the Empire period, they may think "something outside their particular control" and "chaos" to be synonymous.

There's a lot in all this too, and I haven't noticed this mentioned, that seems to be inspired by Europe after the Cold War, with all the splinter nationalisms and ancient hatreds(i.e. Yugoslavia) coming back to the fore without the USSR to repress them. Totalitarian systems oppress much that is good, it is true, but keeping order is also about repressing certain destructive things too, and opening the door to one meant opening it to the other too, and so with the GLC and the other colors.

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