alternate lantern corps

[onewhowishes]

Imagine you are hired to write a new Lantern comic by DC Comics.You have complete freedom except for color.The power ring/battery weaponry is NOT GREEN>What color would you choose?

Black,grey,purple,blue,white,yellow,orange,red,bro wn,or other?

[Shellhead]

I would go with blue, because it's a popular color, though I prefer green.

Some of the other colors could be construed as having racial connotations, especially with both black and white ring wielders. Red lantern reminds me too much of a different meaning, as referenced in the excellent chinese movie, Raise the Red Lantern. Yellow or brown lantern could lead to some childish potty jokes. Orange is a slightly awkward word, and a garish color.

[The Wayner]

I'd definitely form the Grey Matter Corps. It's my favorite color and I could work that, easily.

[Taskmaster]

Black, just avoid the racial connotations, a dark lantern with black ring constructs would be visually cool

[onewhowishes]

Who among you would like to see an Alternative Lantern Corp in their favorite color?

[CaptainAwesome]

I would probably make it yellow. Sinestro and Guy Gardener have already had yellow rings, so it wouldnt be to far off. Also, I wouldnt make it lantern based. I dont think there is any real reason to have a lantern shaped battery other then the name, but the concept is what is important. They could be a group of rouge GLs who defend ths universe their own way.

[onewhowishes]

An excellent idea.Anti-hero characters in a Doom Patrol or Suicide Squad like format.What would you suggest to replace the traditional GLC ring/battery system.This Yellow Lantern Corps could be a rival for the GLC,perhaps with yellow lantern equivalants to Katma,Hal(Monk Loomis perhaps),Jon,Jade,Guy,Kyle,Alan and other favorites as members.

[Darth Vader]

An excellent idea.Anti-hero characters in a Doom Patrol or Suicide Squad like format.What would you suggest to replace the traditional GLC ring/battery system.This Yellow Lantern Corps could be a rival for the GLC,perhaps with yellow lantern equivalants to Katma,Hal(Monk Loomis perhaps),Jon,Jade,Guy,Kyle,Alan and other favorites as members.

You need to pick up Green Lantern #10.

Sinestro is handing out yellow rings to big bads throughout the galaxy. He's starting "The Sinestro Corps."

Vader

[onewhowishes]

I did.If this is a permanent team,clones of other GLs may be interseting.Perhaps reverse-colored ones,to match reverse-colored uniforms(yellow.white,black vs. green,black,white).A sinestro anti-Katma could have orange-within black eyes,white hair with orange highlighting,and green skin.An anti-Laira with yellow skin,anti-Arisia with purple skin.Perhaps "black"Hal ,Guy,Alan and Kyle clones,and a "white"one,among others.

[jadegiant77]

What about Pink? That would be awesome! :rolleyes: Pink Lantern...sounds kinda dirty!

[Rhydaman]

Or you could borrow from the Alan Moore story about a GL from a sightless race (contained in the Tales of the DC Universe TPB): in which the green lantern (a meaningless concept for a sightless being) became the F-sharp bell.

[onewhowishes]

What about Pink? That would be awesome! :rolleyes: Pink Lantern...sounds kinda dirty!

I once saw a posting where someone proposed just that.That post no longer exists,but I borrowed this poster's member names for a Red Lantern Corps concept of my own.Although the characters would look precisley like up to 20-25 of the most famous GL members except for the green posrtions being the color of a tomato,the rings would emit an energy with a magenta PINK color.A character of my own,Jenny Harlo-the Ruby Wonder,leads this group.

[Wannabe]

Or you could borrow from the Alan Moore story about a GL from a sightless race (contained in the Tales of the DC Universe TPB): in which the green lantern (a meaningless concept for a sightless being) became the F-sharp bell.

In loudest din or hush profound
My ears hear evil's slightest sound
Let those who toll out evil's knell
Beware my power, the F-Sharp Bell!

I'd make the Lantern a color that's jst akward. Crayola always had those Macaroni and Cheese colored crayons. They should have a Lantern Corps. Mac and Cheese Lantern.

[stealthwise]

I'd make them invisible. It's much easier to sucker punch aliens when they can't see you coming.

[onewhowishes]

That may be an idea publicity and/or novelty food for a Yellow Lantern Corps,whose rings have an Invisable Woman-like range of capabilities as well.A small yellow cylinder on a grey circle for a logo,perhaps?

[aeastwic]

I like the idea that willpower fuels what is done with the ring and the concept that current GLs need to overcome fear before their rings work on yellow.

I'd like a black --> white corps. Where depending on how much willpower you have, the more whiter/blacker your ring constructs are. So someone in the middle would be grey and if you are really strong, you/your ring/what it creates is either really black or really white.

[BoosterBronze]

When I was a wee kid, I only had a few comics, and didn't quite understand what the Green Lantern Corps was about, and on top of that, apparently had it confused with Voltron, so I imagined that there was a "Lantern" for each color. Somewhere in my moms garage is the sketch pad where I drew the adventures of Gold Lantern and Black Lantern.

[Ontir]

I'd go with the Tangent version. The Green Lantern would be exactly that, wielded by an exotic, Asian woman who revives the dead to seek justice.

[Lonewalker]

Red, as it was originally meant.

[Mr. Croup]

I'd go with red, instead of a ring, their guantlets, and to a smaller extent, their costumes, would be work like the ring does for the Green Lanterns. The battery would look like a red crystal, instead of a lantern.

[Lonewalker]

I'd go with red, instead of a ring, their guantlets, and to a smaller extent, their costumes, would be work like the ring does for the Green Lanterns. The battery would look like a red crystal, instead of a lantern.
Perhaps, the crystal, being the "battery", could be placed at the center of the suit, like the symbol. A Guyver-esque battery. ;)

I like that concept, Croup.

[The Red Hood]

Red, as it was originally meant.


Care to explain this a bit more?

'Hood

[Lonewalker]

Care to explain this a bit more?

'Hood
When Martin Nodell was interested in acting, and ended up “acting through pages" after his one-shot gigs at independent comic companies, he went to DC trying to get a steady one in All-American Comics. Sheldon Mayer, the editor, told him he was looking for a new hero, so pretty much Martin had free reign. After that, he went to the subway, when he saw a trainman holding a red lantern, which ignited his muse, bearing fruit to the concept until he saw the same trainman waving a green lantern, completing his creative trance...

And here we are today, discussing Green Lantern. ;)