As y'all can tell, I'm a green lantern fan. Ok, this is basicly the most basic GL question on the Earth here.......
Your favourate Earth Green Lantern
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BTW, I'm a Kyle fan. Now you.......
G'Nort.
And this might get more attention in the SciFi/Fantasy forum, which gets a lot of the comic book/TV discussion.
And this might get more attention in the SciFi/Fantasy forum, which gets a lot of the comic book/TV discussion.
Oh right, thanks, if a MOD comes here, please move it there! And G'nort?
Guy Gardner....the GL.
As opposed to the TrekBBS poster, who's a riot in his own right
As opposed to the TrekBBS poster, who's a riot in his own right
In case you can't figure it out...
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Been a fan since around 1991. Guy Gardner comes in a close second, but only the Guy Gardner written 1993 and after (by the likes of Chuck Dixon, Beau Smith, Geoff Johns, Dave Gibbons, and Peter Tomasi).
I don't dislike Kyle, I just never warmed to his character.
John is okay, but no one seems to know what to do with him.
"Old" 52 Alan Scott was great also, probably my 3rd favorite, right after Guy. I haven't been reading the recent Earth 2 mini-series, so I can't comment on him now, though I do have faith James Robinson will write a good Alan Scott. Truth be told, I'm not sold on the whole idea of shipping the JSA characters off to Earth-2. I know that tying them to WWII could only last so long, but I loved the idea of legacy characters. If I continue hearing good things about Earth-2, I'll pick up the TPB.
As for Hal, he's my favorite because he's the anti-Clark Kent in that, the idea behind characters like Clark Kent and Peter Parker is to give us someone we can "relate" to and imagine being, to make it easier to imagine being their alter-egos. Hal is someone who is totally different from myself, which to me makes him more interesting. With characters like Bruce Wayne, Tony Stark, Peter Parker, etc. being super-smart out of their respective costumes and two out of those three being rich, I find it refreshing to read about someone who has average intelligence and is "just a guy" outside of his alter-ego. Sure Hal might jump out of an apartment window into another apartment (see the first issues of this recent Green Lantern series to see what I mean), but it's because that's who he is. He's very much like James Kirk in a lot of regards.
Guy, again late 1993 onward, is a jerk, but he's the kind of jerk you hang out with, because he may joke and tease you, but he'll have your back in a fight, no question. Of the two, at times I think Guy's actually smarter than Hal, but he never lets on. He calls them like he sees them, unlike myself, which again is why I like him.
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Been a fan since around 1991. Guy Gardner comes in a close second, but only the Guy Gardner written 1993 and after (by the likes of Chuck Dixon, Beau Smith, Geoff Johns, Dave Gibbons, and Peter Tomasi).
I don't dislike Kyle, I just never warmed to his character.
John is okay, but no one seems to know what to do with him.
"Old" 52 Alan Scott was great also, probably my 3rd favorite, right after Guy. I haven't been reading the recent Earth 2 mini-series, so I can't comment on him now, though I do have faith James Robinson will write a good Alan Scott. Truth be told, I'm not sold on the whole idea of shipping the JSA characters off to Earth-2. I know that tying them to WWII could only last so long, but I loved the idea of legacy characters. If I continue hearing good things about Earth-2, I'll pick up the TPB.
As for Hal, he's my favorite because he's the anti-Clark Kent in that, the idea behind characters like Clark Kent and Peter Parker is to give us someone we can "relate" to and imagine being, to make it easier to imagine being their alter-egos. Hal is someone who is totally different from myself, which to me makes him more interesting. With characters like Bruce Wayne, Tony Stark, Peter Parker, etc. being super-smart out of their respective costumes and two out of those three being rich, I find it refreshing to read about someone who has average intelligence and is "just a guy" outside of his alter-ego. Sure Hal might jump out of an apartment window into another apartment (see the first issues of this recent Green Lantern series to see what I mean), but it's because that's who he is. He's very much like James Kirk in a lot of regards.
Guy, again late 1993 onward, is a jerk, but he's the kind of jerk you hang out with, because he may joke and tease you, but he'll have your back in a fight, no question. Of the two, at times I think Guy's actually smarter than Hal, but he never lets on. He calls them like he sees them, unlike myself, which again is why I like him.
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Of the humans who call themselves "Green Lantern", I'd say my favorite is probably Alan Scott.
Of the members of the Green Lantern Corps, my favorite is probably John Stewart.
Of the members of the Green Lantern Corps, my favorite is probably John Stewart.
Why not G'Nort?
But, really, probably John. He has the most interesting story. Or did. Who knows now....
John Stewart, albeit mainly because I'm most familiar with GL from the Justice League cartoon series
Kyle....
He inherited a crap situation, out of the blue, and did the very best he could with it.
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He inherited a crap situation, out of the blue, and did the very best he could with it.
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John Stewart, although I would like to see him do more than kill fellow Green Lanterns these days.
Shucks...
What about Alan's little girl Jenny Hayden?
Jade lost her powers and ran around with a ring for a bit while Poochie was playing god out in space.
What about Alan's little girl Jenny Hayden?
Jade lost her powers and ran around with a ring for a bit while Poochie was playing god out in space.
^She doesn't exist any more. 
My favorite is pretty easily Guy Gardner. He's just so damn entertaining. Sure he's a jerk, but he's a jerk that you know will have your back when things get rough. The bromance that evolved between him and Kyle during the 2000s was one of my absolute favorite parts of the Green Lantern Corps book during that time period.
My favorite is pretty easily Guy Gardner. He's just so damn entertaining. Sure he's a jerk, but he's a jerk that you know will have your back when things get rough. The bromance that evolved between him and Kyle during the 2000s was one of my absolute favorite parts of the Green Lantern Corps book during that time period.
Are we sure about that?
Alan is gay now, but he could have figured that out later in life after he had already had children, or or Jenny could be adopted, or he could have used a surrogate so that... Would she still be green in all of these cases?
How old is Alan these days?
The gay man in his early 30s is an entirely different animal than a homosexual approaching 50 because of the formative eras that built them up and knocked them down.
Alan is gay now, but he could have figured that out later in life after he had already had children, or or Jenny could be adopted, or he could have used a surrogate so that... Would she still be green in all of these cases?
How old is Alan these days?
The gay man in his early 30s is an entirely different animal than a homosexual approaching 50 because of the formative eras that built them up and knocked them down.
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Other than the fact the OP specified the GLs from Earth?
I voted for Hal, largely because he's the GL I grew up with.
It's a tie between Alan and Kyle for me. John and Guy tie after, and the one dimensional, cardboard cutout comes last, as always.
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