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blake_reitz (blake_reitz) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-07-21 02:04:00

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creator: john cassaday, creator: warren ellis, publisher: wildstorm, title: planetary

Into the Blue
The Real First Blue Lantern (not St. Walker!)

It occurred to me that I've seen a Blue Lantern before, one who looks a little bit like this guy...

Just not in the DCU.

(The planet dying is a planet not unlike Krypton, with one a sole child being rocketed away.)

I think a lot of people here would prefer these guardians as oppose to the little blue guys, as they seem to be, well, good.

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jlroberson
2009-07-21 11:37 am UTC (link)

Perhaps, but it's also not contradicting what was already known, but rather fleshing it out. Personally, I fond it more interesting than just accepting the Guardians are good. This fits in better with our world now, which is multipolar; the Guardians were the product of a (excuse the expression) bipolar world, and this idea of one side being absolute good and the other being absolute evil(which, as I've mentioned a lot, is shot through DC's entire cosmology--think of any silver age JLA issue--and I think it's interesting Johns has been deconstructing that)is a dated concept that should be re-examined and be made more complex. Consider the war of light in light of either the breakdown of the Iron Curtain or the "War on Terror."

What the Guardians show is that those who think they're "good" and thus everything they do is "right" can cause far more damage sometimes than "evil." It's an idea that takes into account what that idea has caused in real life, all the way up to the neocons. It's this theme, examined even more closely in Tomasi's GLC, that keeps me reading the books.

My PERSONAL opinion is that the Guardians are tools. But regardless of what it makes you think of them, it's this theme and examination that has been Johns and Tomasi's greatest strength.

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