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pyrotwilight (pyrotwilight) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-07-16 01:41:00

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char: agent orange/larfleeze, char: saint walker, creator: geoff johns, creator: jerry ordway, event: blackest night

Tales of the Corps #1
The Search for the Messiah begins! ...and ends...unlike another publisher who's milking it...

Saint Walker's Story from Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps #1 a 12 page story

Saint Walker tells Larfleeze his origin story and why he believe's in hope so strongly. Bro'Dee Walker has spent days trying to climb a mountain with his family in search of the Messiah of his planet Astonia, slowly losing family member's one by one which was super tragic to see but I loved what happened when he finally reached the Mountain's summit.

God I love Saint Walker.

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	proteus_lives 2009-07-16 05:58 am UTC (link)
	That is a great little story. True faith is always striking. (Reply to this)

	cmdr_zoom 2009-07-16 05:59 am UTC (link)
	... I believe him. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	greenmask 2009-07-16 11:34 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, me too. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	mcity 2009-07-18 08:24 pm UTC (link)
	Motto. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	thokstar 2009-07-16 06:08 am UTC (link)
	Now I need to go and reread Job. (Reply to this)

	hearthemvoices 2009-07-16 06:32 am UTC (link)
	If it weren't for their veritable Green Lantern requisite, the Blue Lantern Corps would be the interplanetary Justice League. (Reply to this)

	smarmyimp 2009-07-16 07:10 am UTC (link)
	... Would it entirely ruin the atmosphere of this truly awesome sequence to say that it kind of reminds me of Kung Fu Panda? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	stig 2009-07-16 08:11 am UTC (link)
	... ...Ah, crap. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	craigoxbrow.livejournal.com 2009-07-16 10:26 am UTC (link)
	... versus the Seagulls From Finding Nemo Corps! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ninjapeps 2009-07-16 02:18 pm UTC (link)
	Kung Fu Panda was awesome so I don't think so. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jlroberson 2009-07-16 09:54 pm UTC (link)
	Nah. I was thinking the same thing. And that's not a bad thing. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	arilou_skiff 2009-07-16 07:42 am UTC (link)
	Okay, that IS fucking awesome. (Reply to this)

	zegim 2009-07-16 09:26 am UTC (link)
	Blue Lanterns are awesome, yo! This story was most excellent. (Reply to this)

	silverzeo 2009-07-16 02:14 pm UTC (link)
	If I was Hal, I would tell Saint Walker to kick Larfleeze's hairy muppet ass! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	smarmyimp 2009-07-16 02:34 pm UTC (link)
	If I was Hal, I'd go crazy and screw over everyone I know. ... Wait, are we talking about things we want him to do? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ashtoreth 2009-07-17 03:31 am UTC (link)
	If I was Hal, I'd've stayed Parallax cuz that costume was just SO BADASS. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jlroberson 2009-07-16 09:54 pm UTC (link)
	If I was Hal, I'd ask, "JUST WHAT THE FUCK USEFUL DO YOUR BLUE RINGS DO, ANYWAY?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	enerprime 2009-07-16 11:53 pm UTC (link)
	Recharge Green rings, drain Yellow ones, and shut down red ones? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jlroberson 2009-07-17 01:29 am UTC (link)
	And if faced with a bunch of orange ones that actually aren't really there? They make great beacons to find the corpses. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	enerprime 2009-07-17 01:51 am UTC (link)
	I don't know, his ring seems to be doing something in that last panel. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	silverzeo 2009-07-25 10:28 pm UTC (link)
	I think so, I mean. Why can't the Blue use their own will power to make Hope work? I mean, the Main Powers Batteries are all powered by the different emotions of the universe... (Reply to this) (Parent)

	comicoz 2009-07-16 02:44 pm UTC (link)
	First - Dayum, that's good storytelling! Second - "End" Didn't know that was in comic book writers vocabulary! I so need to pick this book up. And I hope (ha! didn't even do that intentially) that this is not the end of the Blue Corps. Walker is made of awesome. (Reply to this)

	sistermagpie 2009-07-16 03:05 pm UTC (link)
	My LCS has free buttons they're giving out with purchases, each one for a different corps. I got the HOPE button the day I picked this up. Blue Lanterns rock! (Reply to this)

	mullon 2009-07-16 03:43 pm UTC (link)
	Its...not very original. I wonder if he is just reading from his own book, or if he wrote a new testament. (Reply to this) (Thread)

smarmyimp
2009-07-16 04:10 pm UTC (link)

What isn't very original? The "bible" verse?

I think there's only so many ways you can phrase these sorts of things. There are a finite number of ways you can advise being kind and respectful to your fellow man and finding joy in living life without getting into "Be excellent to each other and party on, dudes". Or just making up silly completely alien things that don't have any real relevance to the story. "Thou shalt not gnarfle your garthok more than snargly times in a zerl."

If you mean the actual comic story itself, well, again, there's really only so many ways you can do a classic "Discover the essence of faith" story without just making it strange. I'm sure Neil Gaiman or Grant Morrison could have written something original in this vein, but people would wind up talking about the meaning behind the disembodied flying heads that quote fairy tales or the multilayered references to Victorian theology, and not about Saint Walker and how awesome and inspiring he is.

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	ashtoreth 2009-07-17 03:34 am UTC (link)
	"Be excellent to each other and party on, dudes" But that is the best way. :) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	marsdejahthoris 2009-07-16 05:09 pm UTC (link)
	... That panel with Saint Walker and his family? My HAIR is standing on end. Wow. (Reply to this)

	milleniumrex 2009-07-16 06:23 pm UTC (link)
	Well, Saint Walker is dead dead dead by the end of Blackest Night. They just made his inevitable sacrifice a happy ending for him. (Reply to this)

jlbarnett
2009-07-17 02:37 am UTC (link)

I really like the Blue Corps, but their limitations kind of annoy me. Without a GL present the Blue Corps can fly, survive in space, communicate(I think)... and transform dying stars into young blue stars.

Yeah. That last one seems kind of different from the rest.

I wish they'd said they either need the concentrated willpower of a GL ring or the combined hopes and wills of a large grouop collectively hoping. Such as an entire planet hoping their sun won't crispy fry them. Either way they'd still need help here.

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	silverzeo 2009-07-25 10:32 pm UTC (link)
	But why do they need to rely on another's will instead of their own to make their rings work? It may take more effort for the Blue Lants but it could still work, kinda like how some Green Lanterns can get over "fear" and able to affect yellow... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jlbarnett 2009-07-25 10:35 pm UTC (link)
	GL's are sort of concentrated willpower in the current storyline, though. Even extremely stubborn individuals like Batman and Green Arrow have trouble welding the ring effectively. So that's why they'd need a concentrated form of willpower. (Reply to this) (Parent)