tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12464833.post1108699307653819332..comments2024-03-09T13:14:56.299-08:00Comments on Silver Age Comics: Darwin of the GuardiansUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12464833.post-45773551707234481612011-07-23T18:30:23.624-07:002011-07-23T18:30:23.624-07:00Once upon a time, GL #40 was a VERY expensive comi...Once upon a time, GL #40 was a VERY expensive comic book.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12464833.post-86410007400293027382011-06-30T06:38:07.373-07:002011-06-30T06:38:07.373-07:00In fairness, the punishment is pretty standard for...In fairness, the punishment is pretty standard for the Silver Age——the Crime Syndicate's imprisonment between dimensions for decades was pretty harsh too.<br />I think this bothers me less than the usual Mad Scientists Should Not Tamper With God's Domain theme because it's clearly a literal thing--God really doesn't want them probing this stuff for whatever reason (and the shot of the cosmic hand was really cool)--rather than superstition. And Silver Age GL is hardly an anti-science series.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12464833.post-37470361074860518012011-06-25T21:55:53.974-07:002011-06-25T21:55:53.974-07:00For whatever it may be worth, when SF writer Larry...For whatever it may be worth, when SF writer Larry Niven wrote a pitch for Green Lantern (sometime in the late Eighties, I think) he rationalized this story as an obvious fairy tale concocted by the Guardians to conceal a darker secret. Niven fan John Byrne subsequently nicked this idea for a GL one-shot he produced some years later. Both of these developments came after Marv Wolfman used this same issue as the centerpiece of <i>Crisis on Infinite Earths</i>. My point is, this one daft story that doesn't stand up to the slightest bit of scrutiny has been used as the basis for a lot of ill-advised later embellishment.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01714171897239398438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12464833.post-13572629082998618132011-06-25T09:25:05.482-07:002011-06-25T09:25:05.482-07:00Something that makes Krona a great villain is the ...Something that makes Krona a great villain is the key element of the reader being able to identify with him slightly. I know I can't read this story without thinking I'd be just as curious.Aaronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04513689328502499665noreply@blogger.com