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Three new versions of Azrael Batman!
... Please someone at LEGO, end my pain and make an official one.
Left to right:
Classic AzBat: Still tinkering with the original, but I do love how this one came out this time.
JL Odyssey AzBat: Possibly not technically an AzBat (not sure of his Bat-Status in this storyline), but he does have a Bat on his chest in the source. Not sold 100% on the head combos but I'm going for it.
White Knight AzBat: Haven't read this new part of the White Knight story, but I found it has a new black AzBat suit! Very cool.
Week 20/52 — Outtake #2
Today marks a year since the final episode of Lost, and I still miss it. I know, it's ridiculous to get this attached to a TV show, but it's a little like losing a friend, you know? For six years, we all had this connection, these storylines that kept us joined and talking and together. We're all still friends, the fandom — I've had friends here for as long as the show has lasted — but we all miss the series. And even with the new beginnings we get, there's always that... melancholy, that comes on the day which marks a year from the death of the show. It was such a wonderful ride.
Lost was a show, above all, about the power of togetherness. I hated Jack with all of my soul, but the 'Live together, die alone' motto never really left my mind and I'm thankful for that. I love how it brought so many of us together over the thousands of miles that separate us, how it made us all friends. It's something to appreciate. And to miss, as well.
Just for fun <3
I could save this for a BNTM, but I don't think I'll ever use this doll as a model. Her pink streaks make it impossible for ponytails. But I won't cut them out; I love em <3
Storyline(I used a fake name for this, idk what her name will be):
Thalia had a fight with her best friend and got humiliated. She was crying in the bathroom for the rest of the day. When she got home, her parents started yelling at her. She covered her ears and ran into her pigsty of a room. Her eyes are bloodshot from crying and sleep deprivation.
Tell me which option you like best![:
Union flag satellite dish in the not so fictional Albert Square.
For those who are blissfully unaware, Eastenders is a popular British soap opera based in the fictional Albert Square in London's East End. It is a dripping tap of ridiculously unrealistic storylines that are full of negativity and low grade acting. Chewing gum for the eye's . . .
LR3860 © Joe O'Malley 2020
Number: CT-1287
Name: Redwing
Rank: ARC Sergeant
Primary weapon: DC-15s Blaster
Secondary weapon: Vibroknife
Equipment: Bacta-Implants, Integrated Squad Comms, Modified Long Range Binoculars, Explosives Pack
...:: BEGIN LOG ::...
After the swift taking of the erupting warehouse in the industrial sector, we headed out of the loud and bustling rows of grey and white shelters. The clicks and clanks of large machines could be heard around every corner. We were not enjoying these whining screeches and slams so we darted into the slums sector.
“Command to Redwing...” The coms in my helmet roared to life in my left ear. I beckoned to my squad to take cover as I needed a safe place to connect with the Venator. We ducked to the right, next to a large generator. One of my men hopped on my soldiers and scrambled to the top of the building.
“COMMAND to Redwing, are you there?” The speaker blared in my ear a second time. The officer’s voice was clearly rushed and obviously stressed.
I answered with a hint of caution “Yes command, this is Redwing.”
“Afraid we lost you, Sarge.” The young officer said with a sigh of relief.
“Don’t worry about down here, what’s the problem up there?” I asked, knowing there was reason for such urgency and fright.
“Our communications system was breached by a local down on the surface. They knew our codes and claimed to be friendlies.” The Officer stuttered as he repeated his com-log.
“What’d they say?” I needed to know what was holding my squad and I up. We needed supplies fast and were running out of time before the wave of battle droids reached us.
“Yes, sorry sarge. It was a corellian loyalist. He’s part of an elaborate underground group of loyalists down on the planet. He proposed a safe place to collect the supply packages for protection. The opposing separatist alliance knows of his location and needs immediate evacuation of him and his son.” The stuttering stopped as he read further.
“Understood command. Send the location immediately and we’ll be there.” I grew restless as the sound of clanking metal grew past the sound of machines and gears and was replaced by mechanical footsteps.
“Good luck sir, they’ll be waiting.”
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I waited way too long to add this log and I apologize for the wait. This isn’t one of my best logs but it adds a nice storyline to a rather mundane mission. The family storyline continues in the next mission, so come back soon!
Thanks for your patience.
This high tech air speeder was common among the Jedi. Especially open speeders were preferred, because the driver could jump out of it quickly and pursuit the subject by foot.
Those speeders were often lost on missions, so the Jedi Order kept a constant contract with the producers, so there would always be a constant supply.
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Some of you might know this air speeder from my MoC „At the temple“, which was part of my storyline „Uncertain ways“. It has been a while since I last uploaded something for that story and most of you might think that I would not continue it. But I will ! Later this week there will be a new part of „STAR WARS Uncertain ways ! Stay tuned !
Better shots of my own design hand pallet and forklift respectively. As seen in Chapter 1 Part 2 of my P_R_O_X_Y storyline.
Introduction
Gospel Movie "Stinging Memories" (6) - Discuss Salvation and Entry Into the Kingdom of Heaven
Can people who often sin enter the kingdom of heaven? How to get rid of the sins and enter the kingdom of heaven? This film clip will tell you the answer!
Storyline:
Fan Guoyi was an elder of a house church in China. In his over twenty years of service, he always emulated Paul, sacrificing for the Lord zealously and working hard. He firmly believed that he was doing the will of the heavenly Father by pursuing that way and he would surely be raptured to the kingdom of heaven at the return of the Lord. However, when Almighty God’s salvation of the last days came upon him, he clung to his notions, rejecting, resisting, and condemning it time and time again…. Later, after several debates with the preachers from the Church of Almighty God, Fan Guoyi finally woke up. He truly understood the meaning of doing the will of the heavenly Father and the way of pursuing to be saved and enter the kingdom of heaven….
At every thought of the past, the memories were stinging in his heart….
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Image Source: The Church of Almighty God
Just a new version of my smuggler character that I finished. I also finished the storyline and it was pretty decent although I did go on a dark side rampage killing all of my old enemies...
Two US astronauts march on patrol in the Sea of Tranquility, Earth's moon...
Astronaut 1: We have reached the site, over.
Prophet: Well done, record time! I assume you've recovered the supplies? Over.
Astronaut 2: We got them, great stuff, over.
Prophet: Better than those peashooter 3D printed rifles you've been using.
Astronaut 2: They've got just as much sting as all the others. Besides, they're Lunar made.
Prophet: I know, just can't let your heads get too big for your helmets. Great work team. Thanks to you we can better arm our troops stationed there with that new drop-point. Head back to base, over and out.
So I've been wanting to get into scenes in space, it plays a huge role in the story. Expect a bunch more planets to be covered soon as well as some new storylines and builds. Let me know what you think. Thanks!
I wrote and photographed a short storyline on my blog... it can be found at www.dollsindystopia.com. Not too bad, but not for kids. :o)
Well folks, I have finally decided to create builds, figures, etc. that pertain to one story line. I am happy to announce that I will be covering Operation Unthinkable.
If you thought 1939-1945 in Europe and 1931-1945 in the Pacific was packed full of intrigue, tragedy, heroism, and wold changing events, imagine if it went even longer. Tides have turned, and nations have changed sides. The second phase of the largest war on Earth is just beginning.
I will most likely be creating a group for this topic, and anyone is welcome to contribute as long as it matches the story.
*I AM CONSIDERING GOING TO BRICKFAIR VA. LET ME KNOW IF YOU ARE GOING, I THINK I WANT TO SET UP A BUILD RELATED TO OPERATION UNTHINKABLE*
Here is some basic info about this storyline, before I get a whole story figured out:
Devils Tower, also known as Mato Tipila, which means “Bear Lodge” in Lakota, is a volcanic neck that rises 1,267 feet from the Black Hills in northeastern Wyoming. It was the very first national monument in the United States, bestowed that designation by Teddy Roosevelt on September 24th, 1906. In recent years around one percent of the 400,000 annual visitors actually climbs the tower. We’ll get to how you do that in a later article.
Long before the tower was being recognized by the American government, Native tribes had geographical and cultural connections to it. They called it everything from ‘Aloft on a Rock’ (Kiowa) to ‘Grizzly Bear Lodge’ (Lakota). It wasn’t given its demonic name until Col. Richard Irving Dodge led an expedition through Wyoming in 1875. His interpreter botched the translation, calling it ‘Bad God’s Tower’, which was eventually shortened to Devils Tower.
There are two great legends regarding the tower and the unusual looking columns that bear a striking resemblance to claw marks. It’s no surprise that both the stories, from the Lakota Sioux and the Kiowa, involve a similar narrative. In the Lakota Sioux legend, six girls were out picking flowers when they were attacked and chased by bears. The Great Spirit felt bad for them, and raised the ground beneath their feet. The bears gave chase and attempted to climb the newly formed tower, but they couldn’t get to the top. The bears fell off, clawing the sides of the monolith.
The Kiowa legend follows a similar storyline but includes astrology as well. Seven little Kiowa girls were out playing, spotted by several giant bears, and were chased. The girls prayed to the Great Spirit, and sure enough the ground rose beneath them towards the Heavens. The bears tried to climb the rock but only managed to leave their deep claw marks on the sides. The girls reached the sky and were turned into the constellation Pleiades.
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After last year’s passion project, this year’s annual MOC is back to the tradition of being a contest entry, but that doesn’t make it any less exciting of a project! Like I said in the teaser, this may very well be the most ambitious project I have ever worked on… unsurprisingly so, as the whole point of this series is to keep challenging myself to up my game as a builder!
As some of you may be aware of, this statue is my entry to the contest on LEGO Ideas, celebrating 10 years of the amazing LEGO IP, NINJAGO. As soon as I saw the contest topic, I had the vision of creating one giant statue to capture all the exciting adventures our ninja heroes have had over the past decade. However, I must also confess that I personally never paid too much attention to the TV series nor the storyline of NINJAGO, and therefore I had to binge all 14 seasons, 160 episodes of the show in preparation to create this model, making sure that I get the characters and stories right, such that when a NINJAGO fan sees it, he/she will be truly impressed. Ironically, by the end of this journey, I have turned myself into a NINJAGO fan as well, and now I simply can’t wait for the next season!
As a NINJAGO fan, you will be able to find references to every single season within this model, even a minor Easter egg of a micro Dareth, the Brown Ninja, on the Destiny’s Bounty, as a call back to his claim of being represented by a brown spot on the Monastery Mural on the show.
Over the years, many people have been asking me why I never use minifigures in my builds, so I thought this may also be a great opportunity to finally make an annual MOC involving tons of minifigs, without compromising of the artistic style of my builds. This also led to the idea of building some brick-built big-figs to diversify my composition, which is also something that I have always wanted to build. In addition, if you have been following my work, you may know that I have always wanted to create poster-like visuals with my composition, and I would argue that this is the most successful attempt so far in this aspect!
Last but not least, I am very proud to say that I have only spent 7 days on this build, which is significantly faster than the previous annual MOCs that took 2 to 3 months… yet the size of this thing towers over any of the previous entries! It was such an exhilarating experience to see my vision and sketches come alive within such short period of time. Now… what is it gonna be next year? 🤔
Hey all.
My first free build of the new year, and the start of a new (though related) storyline. Expect some of my (hopefully) best writing and building in the coming months.
This build was a whole boat load of fun, and I am happy to share it with you.
Enjoy
CCG
The Cort Theater located on 48th St in Manhattan.The theater first opened in 1912 and is modeled after the Petit Trianon, en.chateauversailles.fr/discover/estate/estate-trianon/pe...a small chateau in the Palace of Versailles in Versailles,France.There are 1082 seats inside.The Cort Theater is one of the few Lamb (Thomas W. Lamb,architect) theaters still extant and functioning as a legitimate theater.In order for an old NYC theater to receive landmark status it must continue to function as one,and not anything else.
There is a play currently playing at the Cort Theater called Indecent by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel.The play's storyline comes from a book by dramatist Sholem Asch called God of Vengeance (1907).The drama is about a Jewish couple who run a brothel in the basement of their house.The couple's married daughter,Yekel,has a love affair with the their prized prostitute in one of the scenes.A Torah is also hurled across the stage in the play (OMG!).
When the Asch drama was translated from Yiddish into English,it was made into a play which opened at the Apollo Theater (then on 42nd St) in Manhattan in 1923.The play caused quite a firestorm with arbiters of the Jewish community and NYC authorities.It was shut down after six weeks of production with the cast,producer,and one of the owners of the theater facing charges of obscenity and arrested.
A mystical forest where scribblers and authors have found refuge since time immemorial.
There are huts with pillars and windows made of books, where traders sell their wares creating an endless marketplace for the preservation, re-creation and exchange of words and writings – hidden in the library of memories and countless booksellers and readers.
A place where every visitor is welcome to actively write his or her own life story, to hold on to it or to let it go and start anew. At the tree of stories and many small reading corners, along the paths…
Are you ready to write your own story?
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The region has been puzzled together by Mondi Beaumont & Sweetgwendoline Bailey
don't be like a worm in a tree
don't be like a roadrunner either
stay with the sensation
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Officer Reynold Davis, American GRAND Unit 498-Foxtrot.
Northern Outskirts of Monterry, Mexico.
Early Spring, 2039
We started our patrol at 0700 hours, leaving from a small operating base south towards Monterry. No hostile resistance was expected during this routine exercise, but then again it almost never is. We were expecting to meet up with two US DARKWATER Units, Tanget and Clayton who were scouting the area ahead at the outskirts of Monterry and gathering info on the statis there. We found them 3 miles from downtown Monterry, near the outskirts, taking cover behind a relatively old looking small white office building at which they had set up there gear on the roof.
"What do we got boys?" (Officer Renold D.)
"'Bout time you arrived, looks like a possible hostile situation here. It seems some of the inhabitants in this area aren't so keen of having us in their territory. Someone on that building just fired an RPG at us not five minutes ago. We blew his head off, and eliminated their 'get away' car, but since then it's been quiet. Too quiet." (Clayton)
Alright, here's what were gonna do, Fisher, you come with me up to the roof to get the info these guy's have been gathering."
"Yessir" (Sergant Fisher)
"McGinnis, you and Clayton check that house just in case. Tanget, get on that com-link and radio the situation in. Baxter and Rys, prepare to supply supressive fire and back-up for Mcginnis and Clayton. It doesn't look too bad, but don't get sloppy. Let's move!"
"Yessir!" (All troops)
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Well here it is! I'll let you all imagine the outcome of this. So sorry this took Eric and I SO long. There was a lot of slacking (mainly on my part), but it is great to be done! A TON of credit goes to Eric for this, hopefully next time he keeps the dio at his house. Anyway, hope you like!
Editing, photographry, part of the storyline, and etc. Goes to Eric.
Individual pics are up on my stream now.
I'm really into the years after the OT. I think the Shattered Empire comic and the Battlefront 2 storylines have been really really good. So here's my take on a few of the main characters from those stories...
(from left to right)
Kes Dameron in his combat outfit from Endor.
Shara Bey in her pilot outfit.
Han Solo some time before the liberation of Kashyyyk.
Iden Versio in her rebel alliance pilot suit after the battle of Jakku
Del Meeko also as seen after the battle of Jakku.
Let me know what you think... :)
Addendum to my Toy Project.
I've bought this minifig on the flea market and would love to know which storyline (or set) it's from, but my search at Bricklink had no success.
day 2547
i look closely at life. i notice details in people and nature. i savor everyday moments. but sometimes i need a broader perspective: the storylines in my head are simply that; i'm not a huge player in the story of the world.
it's a delicate balance--i'm completely worthy yet i'm not a big deal; my life is meaningful but i needn't take myself so seriously. life is a delightful paradox.
Continued from Part 1 (link)
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“It’s safe to say that today has been years in the making. In a way, I feel like I’ve been waiting for this moment all my life. All the dreams, the half-realized clues; images of shadows moving through soft moonlight. Terror and a sense of purpose.
The constant struggle of Light and Dark. Skirmishes in the half-light of places that defy explication. Temples beneath the sand, water, snow, and the shadows of ancient trees. And stars .. so many stars!
If I hadn’t lived through all of this myself, I wouldn’t believe me either.”
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Okay, so this is a different sort of entry for me and I'm still trying to figure out how it's going to go. What you see above is a bit of a character entry; an introduction, if you will, to a story arc I'd like to build over the next few months.
Apologies in advance for the mess! :D
Blog post here!
I dusted off my Forest - Elf and pulled her out of the inventory and sent her on her travels in Fellowship Falls.... In her luggage she had her bow & arrow, her spirit animal the wolf, her friend the dragon and some other animals...
Are you curious now and do you want to discover all the corners and secrets of the sim? Then visit Fellowship Falls -
An Elven & Tolkien - inspired sim where all free folk are welcome. Rez a horse to ride through the forest and over hills and make your way to Rivendell. Also explore The Labyrinth of Light...an underground maze of lights that leads to the Fantasy Forest
Explore the Sim @
Last year one of my favourite books was one called StrangeWorld's Travel Agency. It's written by L.D. Lapinski and the storyline is one filled with magic and adventure.
Essentially the main characters are able to travel to different worlds through a series of magical suitcases. Each case, when pulled off the shelf can transport those with the chosen magical touch to far off places and entirely new worlds. It was a great story and the second book in the series is out in a few months which is exciting.
When I started to think about words that fit the word "O" for the alphabet series, Open was the word the came to mind and after brainstorming open doors, open books, and open minds, I realized I could combine them all in this image inspired by a great story!
Shanghai International Port. 0025 hrs. Shanghai.
(Translated from Mandarin Chinese.)
Make sure you're wearing your rubber gloves when you begin loading. No contamination, nothing to possibly link these back to you. Understand?
Yes, sir.
Yes, sir.
How many rifles do we have to pack?
In this container, umm...looks like about 30.
...And there are still 3 other containers?
Yep.
*Sigh*
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Alright then, General; are you absolutely certain that these won't be traced back to us, or you?
Completely certain. As of about 3pm yesterday, these rifles ceased to exist in all records. And you've had no problems removing the serial numbers from the rifles themselves, so I'd say we're in the clear, wouldn't you?
Absolutely. As we agreed, your payment's in the case.
Pleasure doing business.
Thank you.
When's the sailing, sir?
Soon. Of course, the exact date depends on when these two finish packing. Which could take days, at this rate.
Hurry up, you idiots! Best not keep our clients waiting.
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For Modern Conflict. Continuing on from this storyline.
As always, MC bros tagged. Comments and criticism appreciated too.
Here is another build I made for the sample capes Dave sent me at cape madness. I really like how they turned out and you should definitely go check out the other colors!
This is a recreation of Batman Vs Superman in the Dark Knight Returns, one of the most famous storylines due to DC's biggest heroes battling it out!
Please comment if you favorite and let me know what your'e doing for Batman Day!
Built for the ABS builder challenge Season 2 Finale, with the Flat Silver Goblet as the seed part.
Equally built for an upcoming Lands of Roawia global storyline update. I now have all the builds finished and the story about 2/3rds done, so it will be released at the end of the week. However, I wanted to get the jump on the ABS competition, so I posted this early as a teaser. More to come!
Edit: Update out! Check it out: Part 9- Wheels Within Wheels
Overlord: "You guys know what to do, eliminate the target then get back to the pick up zone."
Hammer: "Roger that Overlord, just drop us off on one of the buildings."
Butcher: "Looks like the target is going into one of the buildings, Overlord go a little towards the right and maybe I could get a better angle.
Overlord: "I see a couple of tangos on one of the buildings and I think one of the has an RPG.
Hammer: "Oh shit, deploy the flares!"
Butcher: "That was a close one just drop us of to the nearest building and we will go from there."
Overlord: "Alright but just remember, we need the target dead or alive.
Hey guys, so here is another part of the storyline and I think this is one of my favorite scenes I made so far. The scene is inspired by -Aldin. Right now I am working on WW2 scene and also, I am going to change the figs because I think they look plain so I will update them in the next scene. So I hope you guys liked this scene as much as I did and tell me what you think of it! ~Alex
The play is based on a true story that happened to a member of the theatre company, when suddenly Youssef, a relative from Iraq she never met before, arrived as refugee in Vienna, and they are asked to help him, because he can`t stay any longer at the emergency shelter ....
The play was performed during 2015 and 2016.
Now, 13. November 2017 Yousef`s application for asylum is rejected.
Birgit Stöger nützt ihre Redezeit bei der Nestroy Preisvergabe gestern (sie erhält den Preis als beste Nebendarstellerin 2017), um über Yousef zu erzählen und auf die Ablehnung des Asylantrags aufmerksam zu machen (das Stück Lost and Found war 2016 mit einem Nestroy ausgezeichnet worden):
"Rede Birgit Stöger Nestroy Preisverleihung 13.11.2017"
anschließend lange Standing Ovations, sodaß die bereits begonnene Einspielung der nächsten Trailer wiederholt werden mußte, da der Applaus für die Rede anhielt.
Später während der Preisverleihung: Preisträger Jan-Christoph Gockel über politisches Theater und: nimmt Bezug auf die Rede von Stöger, sowie anschließend auch Bundesminister Drozda (SPÖ):
Volkstheater Trailer: "Lost and Found" (youtube, 2min45)
Szene 11:nach dem Begräbnis des Vaters beim Essen in der ehemaligen Wohnung des Vaters kommt der Anruf, ob sie Yousef aus der Notunterkunft für Flüchtlinge abholen können. Die Tochter holt ihn. Er möchte nicht mit ihnen essen, sondern duschen und schlafen. Die anderen beratschlagen, diskutieren, streiten, während der Fortsetzung ihres Essens, wie sie nun weiter verfahren sollen, bis Yousef, aufgewacht, sich zu ihnen setzt....
Part of: Empty Padded ~ LeerGefüllt - Waiting Time at Work - Left handed drawings and writings on the empty left pages of my prompter`s book Soufflierbuch "Lost and Found" (Yael Ronen und Ensemble - Nestroy Preis Stück des Jahres 2016, Autorenpreis. Uraufführung, Premiere 18. Dezember 2015)
Storyline, Querverweise, Parallelen, rote Fäden, die sich durchziehen, nicht abreissen, Fäden die sich kreuzen, Ablauf, kein Sprung, Verlauf, Dramaturgie: voriger Upload am Tag der Nestroypreisverleihung vor der Nestroypreisverleihung ein back-stage Bild entstanden vor der Aufführung eines Stückes von Nestroy, nämlich "Höllenangst" am Tag nach der Nestroypreisverleihung eine neue Bearbeitung eines Fotos von der Seite aus einem meiner alten Soufflierbücher von einem Stück, das im Vorjahr einen Nestroy gewonnen hat und auf das in den Reden beim heurigen Nestroy Bezug genommen wurde.
drawing 2015 2 fotos: 670: 10.1.2014 + 725: 13.2.2017 merged, bearbeitung: 13.11.2017 veröffentlicht 14.11.2017 #proben #rehearsal #arbeit #work #handwerk #profession #souffleuse #theater #theatre #flüchtling #flucht #asyl #verloren #gefunden #interview #speech #talk #künstler #vogel #bird #vogelpfeiferl #wasserpfeiferl #pfeiferl #eule #owl #baum #tree #forest #wald #wood #holz #textur #balloon #lampion #ballon #luftballon #hand #zeichnung #drawing #sketch #skizze #doodle #interviewer #interviewter #interview #bleistift #pencil #red #grey #grau #gray #weiß #white #seeds #kern #granate #pomegranate #granatapfel #grenadine #saft #juice #fire #flame #flamme #feuer #feuerrot #blutrot #bloody #blutig #rot #portrait #porträt #mann #man #male #gesicht #face #auge #eye #beard #bart #kimono #schlafrock #morgenmantel #lampe #lamp #licht #light #sonne #sun #sonnenlicht #sommer #summer #winter #schatten #shadow #müde #müdigkeit #erschöpfung #atemlos #tired #schlaf #sleep #schlaflos #nachtarbeit #dream #traum #albtraum #schrei #scream #schreien #vogelscheuche #gitter #fence #bett #bed #laken #bettlaken #leintuch #falte #fold #welle #wave #ocean #ozean #sea #meer #form #inhalt #aussage #message #botschaft #freund #friend #konzept #real #realität #diary #tagebuch
Character Creation
Green Lantern is the name of several superheroes appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.
They fight evil with the aid of rings that grant them a variety of extraordinary powers, all of which come from imagination, fearlessness, and the electromagnetic spectrum of emotional willpower.
The characters are typically depicted as members of the Green Lantern Corps, an intergalactic law enforcement agency.
The first Green Lantern character, Alan Scott, was created in 1940 by Martin Nodell with scripting or co-scripting of the first stories by Bill Finger during the Golden Age of Comic Books and usually fought common criminals in Capitol City (and later, Gotham City) with the aid of his magic ring.
With the insistence of the then DC editor, Julius Schwartz to bring in a new science fiction age of comics and to revamp the superhero genre, Hal Jordan was the Silver Age Green Lantern created by John Broome and Gil Kane. He first appeared in Showcase #22.
His first appearance signaled the reboot of characters away from the magic and supernatural based stories of the Golden Age and replaced them with science fiction based stories. Along with the newly re-imagined Atom, Flash and Hawkman, this was a landmark moment which many consider to be the beginning of the Silver Age at DC Comics.
Gone was the magic based Green Lantern of Alan Scott, and now came Hal Jordan, wielder of a ring of alien origins, part of an intergalactic police force protecting the universe.
For the Silver Age of Comic Books, John Broome and Gil Kane reinvented the character as Hal Jordan in 1959 and introduced the Green Lantern Corps, shifting the nature of the character from fantasy to science fiction.
During the Bronze Age of Comic Books, Dennis O'Neil and Neal Adams introduced John Stewart, a new member of the Corps. Other notable Green Lanterns include Guy Gardner, Kyle Rayner, Simon Baz, Jessica Cruz and Jo Mullein.
The Green Lanterns are among DC Comics' longest lasting sets of characters. They have been adapted to television, video games, and motion pictures.
Fictional Character History
Origin
Hal Jordan was born into a military family. His father, Martin Jordan, flew in the war and, during Hal's childhood, was occupied as a test pilot for Ferris Aircraft. Hal had an especially close bond with his father, both of them sharing a love of flying (Hal often skipping school to watch his father fly). Martin was killed during a test-flight gone awry, with both Hal and Carol Ferris watching. As a result, Hal's mother forbade him from frequenting air fields or having anything whatsoever to do with the world of aviation which had taken her husband. In accordance with this ultimatum, Hal promised not to join the Air Force.
At the age of 18, however, Hal joined the Air Force anyway, and was considered one of the best young pilots. His first combat deployment was in the Korean War. Years later when Hal's mother was dying, Hal planned on visiting her. However, his brother Jack said his mom had no interest in seeing her son. Knowing that the reason his mother refused to see him was due to his being in the Air Force, he enacted a plan to get discharged as quickly as possible- punching his commanding officer. He was summarily dishonorably discharged and went immediately see his mother, but she passed away just before he arrived at the hospital.
Much later, while testing a flight simulator, an energy field surrounded him and took him to Abin Sur, a member of the Green Lantern Corps, an intergalactic peace keeping force, who patrolled Space Sector 2814. On the verge of death, Abin Sur, with his power ring, sought out the most worthy successor on Earth. The ring actually found two Earthlings, Hal Jordan and Guy Gardner. Hal happened to be closer to the crash site so he was chosen. Despite some character flaws, Hal Jordan was given the power ring and its power battery.
He journeyed to the planet Oa, home world of the Green Lantern Corps, and trained with Sinestro, a Corps member that would later become one of Hal's deadliest enemies. He became the Green Lantern of Sector 2814 (the location of Earth) and formed many relationships among the superhero community. Hal is considered the greatest Green Lantern of them all.
Character Evolution
After meeting and befriending Green Arrow, Hal Jordan became more socially conscious, seeking to help ordinary people. After this, Hal Jordan was exiled into deep space.
The most important personal relationship which Hal has is that with Carol Ferris. As the inheritor of the family business at Ferris Air, she is his boss, and over time the childhood friends grew to love each other. As she was possessed by the Star Sapphire, it also fell to him to rescue her from its grips. As she now has control over the Star Sapphire she now acts as a hero occasionally alongside him, and while the two seek to be in a relationship, their tumultuous past history together often comes back to haunt them.
During Emerald Dawn, Hal Jordan's origin story was retold. It explains how Hal Jordan obtained the ring after Abin Sur's death. Emerald Dawn II shows Hal going to jail for driving under the influence and later Hal and Sinestro start their 90 day lesson.
Hal would go on to be possessed by Parallax, and turn evil. He would later do some good, such as healing John Stewart, bringing Green Arrow back to life and sacrificing himself to stop the Sun-Eater, and reignite the sun. After Hal dies stopping the sun-eater, he becomes the Spectre. Hal would later regain his life, and return as the Green Lantern.
Major Story Arcs
Green Lantern/Green Arrow
In the 70's Hal was spreading himself thin, dealing with the Guardians' galactic problems and the close-to-home problems on earth. Hal went on a road trip with fellow hero, Green Arrow, whose personality couldn't be more different then Hal's. Hal even settled for a time in Evergreen City, Washington. It was during that time the Guardians assigned a back-up Green Lantern to sector 2814 named John Stewart and also depowered Hal's ring. After Guy Gardner's presumed death, Hal met and fell in love with psychic Kari Limbo, however once Guy returned from the dead Kari left Hal at the altar to take care of the comatose Gardner, and Hal went back to Ferris Aircraft.
Tales of the Green Lantern
The Tales of The Green Lantern is a 3 issue mini-series. It follows the battle between Krona and Hal Jordan. The tales start of with the calling of all the 3000 Green lantern that still survive, by the Guardians. When the Lanterns are re-united they learn that their universe is at unrest. We then follow the battle between Hal's Heroes and Krona's minions. The last issue we see that Krona had been recharged by Nekron, the king of the Dead, we see Hal's personal battle Nekron, and an exciting ending, where Abin Sur helps Hal to escape death. At the end of this ordeal Hal is promoted by the Guardians and asked to join them.
Ganthet's tale
The guardian Ganthet requests Hal to stop the guardian Dawlikispopok from changing time with a time machine. During the early years of Oa the scientist Krona used a time machine to see the beginning of time and created the Anti-Monitor. Hal battles Dawly and beats him. The guardians then reveal a secret to Hal.
Emerald Twilight
Jordan's hometown, Coast City, was destroyed by the Cyborg Superman and the alien warlord Mongul in order to turn it into something called Engine City, a replacement for Warworld. While the two were beaten, Hal could not accept the fact that his city so Hal used his ring to create the constructs in the form of people of Coast City. One of the constructs he created took the form of his dead father.
Hal told his "father" how he was always looking up to him and wanted to be just like him. He only wanted to see his father being proud of him instead of just saying how his brothers Jack and Jim are great. His "father" told him how Hal's brothers have done something with their lives while Hal's head was in clouds. Even when Hal says he became a hero, his father mocked him on how he wasn't able to save Coast City and as Hal begs his father to come back, he sees his father dying on testing flight for Ferris Aircraft.
Next moment, he sees his mother in the form of construct telling him how he will always he a failure in his father's eyes. He asked his mother how she accepted the fact that her husband's plane crashed. She tells him how she loved Hal's father and she thought and even wanted to die when her husband died but eventually she just accepted it. Over time people go on and they are left with good memories. She remembers all the good times she spend with her husband and she tells her son not let go of the pain he feels now and just keep all the good memories he had to satisfy him or the pain will consume him. As the construct of his mother disappears, Hal focuses his willpower again and this time uses his ring to recreate the Coast City in a form of an energy construct while at the same time creating constructs of all people from the Coast City he knew that are now dead.
Hal meets his first love Jennifer and takes a walk over "Coast City", telling Jen how she was Hal's first love and how she helped him live his life again. Even after 3 years have passed since Hal's father died, he still could't get over it but Jen helped him stop hurting himself and even convinced him to become a pilot like his father. He tells Jen how the time he spent with her was the best year of his life and that he was a fool to turn his back on her. Hal comes home and meets his father again, telling him how Hal recreating Coast City and everyone in it is a huge achievement meaning that Hal finally did something to make his father proud but before he can say that to Hal, his father, his home and all of Coast City Hal recreated disappears because his ring lost power. The guardians appeared and Hal asked them for more power but the Guardians of the Corps refused to give Hal more power.
Consumed with fear, Hal was left vulnerable to Parallax, the spirit embodiment of fear. Accuse Hal for using his ring for personal needs, The Guardians demand it back. Hal drains energy from Guardian's projection and travels to Oa.
Hal, under the influence of Parallax, lost his senses and murdered other Corps members, including: Tomar-Tu, Boodikka, KE'Hann, Laira, Graf Toren, Kreon and Jack T. Chance, claiming Guardians made him a slave and stole the power rings of Lanterns he defeated.
He sent them off in space and they became The Lost Lanterns. Hal even went on to reluctantly kill Kilowog.
He reached Oa where he battled Sinestro (who was let free by the guardians). Hal removed his other rings in order to face Sinestro in a fair fight. The battle ended with Hal's victory by snapping Sinestro's neck and led to the death of Sinestro (for a time), claiming it is something Hal should have done a long time ago. Hal claims he crossed the line and he can't go back and when the Guardians claim he will be punished, Hal accused them for not being there to give him the power he wanted to use only to get his normal life back.
He didn't want anything else. Hal claimed there is no turning back and nobody can't stop him, not even he can't. He abandoned his ring and started to absorb the emerald energies of the central power battery and destroying the battery along with the entire Green Lantern Corps. He killed all the Guardians except for Ganthet who had absorbed their power and retrieved Hal's ring in order to went on to Earth to find the person who will become the new and the last Green Lantern. He encountered the man called Kyle Rayner, gave him Hal's ring and disappeared. Hal finally comes out of the scenes, absorbing all energy from power battery and became the villain known as Parallax.
Zero Hour
Parallax is responsible the crisis known as Zero Hour. He started it by defeating the Time Trapper coming to the end of time with the intention to recreate the Universe and rewrite history the way he thought it should be. Parallax killed various time travelers, sparing only those he does not consider to be a threat to him and makes sure to kill the Time Trapper once he finds out he survived the encounter with him. With the help of Waverider, the Earth's heroes encountered Parallax who easily defeated Kyle and Superman and attempted to end all of creation and start a new one.
When Parallax started to recreate the Universe, he claimed how all he wanted to do is bring Coast City and it's people back but eventually he came to a conclusion that the loss of Coast City is not the only problem he needs to take care of but all the Universe is full of agony and flaws and he needs to fix it. He even claims he can give all heroes everything they wanted. Waverider teleports Earth's heroes to encounter Parallax who faces all of his former allies, even Green Arrow. Even The Spectre joined the fight. Waverider used the power of Earth's heroes to drain Parallax of his power and they successfully recreated the Universe with a few differences compared to the way it was before Parallax destroyed it.
Parallax vs Kyle Rayner
Right after Parallax was stopped during the final events of the Zero Hour, him and Kyle were teleported back to Oa and started a fight. With most of his power gone, Parallax wants to take his ring back from Kyle in order to use it to drain power from Oa and try to fix things again. Kyle refuses and as he overpowers Parallax, Hal sees the skull of his friend Kilowog he killed during Emerald Twilight. Hal tells Kyle how he only wanted to fix things. To be the hero but he did terrible things and he became "one of the bad guys:. Kyle understands Hal's words and tells him how he became the Green Lantern and how he lost Alex, a woman he cared about.
Realizing the great responsibility of being a hero, Kyle gives Hal the ring. Hall tries to use it's power to absorb the energy from Oa and reach higher levels of power like before. However, because he is weakened, Kyle was able to take the ring back. Hal gives Kyle an opportunity to give him what he lost, his girlfriend Alex. Kyle refuses as it doesn't seem right in his eyes and he used ring's power to overwhelm Oa by charging it with energy. Oa gets destroyed, removing Hal's opportunity to become more powerful. Kyle survived while Hal is nowhere to be seen.
It turned out Hal actually survived Oa's destruction and came back to Earth in his human form. He encountered Kyle Rayner once again in his own house and was able to track him by being connected with his ring Kyle now wears. Hal had no intention to fight Kyle and only asked for his ring. Hal thinks he should become the Green Lantern again in order to put his life back together and being the Green Lantern was a huge part of his life. Everything he did since the destruction of Coast City was a mistake and it is something he regrets doing. He only tried to fix things and nobody could understand him.
Ganthet on the refuses to allow Kyle to hand over the ring who was in Kyle's home at the time to tell him how and why he gave him the ring and wants it back because he considers Kyle unworthy of it. Hal mocks Ganthet and the Guardians, stating the only thing they do is manipulating others for their own personal needs and always following their rules without doing things that are necessary and demands the ring back.
Kyle refuses to hand it over because Hal already had a chance of redemption and he failed back on Oa. Hal takes the form of Parallax once again and attacks Kyle (although he is not willing to fight him).As the two fight, Ganthet asks various superheroes for help, including Martian Manhunter, Aquaman, Hawkman, The Flash (Wally West) and his best friend Oliver Queen Green Arrow. Unfortunately, not even their combined power can stop Parallax and words from his best friend Oliver and Wally won't get though him. Parallax beats Kyle and takes his ring. Superman arrives on the scene, telling Hal how he can't bring Coast City back but he won't accept it and again, easily beats Superman.
Ganthet tells Hal how he wanted to bring Coast City back and he killed the Green lantern Corp and the Guardians, he wanted to become the Green Lantern again and he defeated all of his former friends. Hal feels guilt but he still requires power. Kyle Rayner now powerless still attacks Hal and he asks him why is he still fighting when he stands to chance without his ring. Kyle says Hal is not a hero and even tho Kyle is powerless, he is the only one left standing and because Hal has to be stopped, he will try to stop him. Even if he stands no chance, because that is what a hero would do. Hal realizes he can't be the Green Lantern anymore and he gives Kyle back his ring, claiming how he is the Green Lantern now.
Ganthet gives Parallax his powers and he flees up into space. Somewhere in the Universe, Hal mourns his destroyed city and people who died in it and remembers all the good things he had done as the Green Lantern, back before the Coast City was destroyed.
Death of Hal Jordan
At the edge of the Universe in front of the Source Wall, Parallax encounters Hank Henshaw, Cyborg Superman, the man who destroyed Coast City and he is finally ready to make him pay for what he did. Parallax creates an army of seven million people Henshaw killed when he destroyed the Coast City and finally kills him. Hal thinks about what he truly accomplished. What kind of hero he is when he killed his own enemy? Why he doesn't feel anything but emptiness? What is his purpose now? As he thinks about it, he is met with the arrival Kyle Rayner who asks for Hal's help to stop the Sun-Eater, a being that consumes Suns and is about to consume Earth's Star. Hal tells Kyle he will think about it while asking himself will he be able to actually stop it.
Hal came back to Earth to meet all of his friends. He first visited Guy Gardner, telling him how he wanted to fix the Universe but nobody understood him and Hal admits that he was wrong. He was talking about everyone seeing Guy as an idiot no better than the villains they were facing. Guy says he doesn't care as he knows he is doing the right thing. Hal tells him how he needs Guy watching his back and teleporting away thanking him for everything.
Next person he meets is John Stewart in the hospital who was paralyzed. John asks him how he could kill the Guardians and the Green Lanterns. Hal tells him how he wished he had time to explain but he doesn't so he just came to visit his old friend and he heals him from his wounds, giving him the ability to walk again.
He visits Oliver's grave and he visits his old friend Tom Kalmaku. Tom says he doesn't believe in stuff they say about Hal, claiming how he is gonna save the world like he always does and how how writes a book, on how great hero Hal was. Hal says thank you and leaves before Tom could show him the book.
Finally he visits Carol Ferris, a woman he loves. Carol tells him how they could never be together because of Hal's life as the Green Lantern. They never had the future and Hal knows that despite the fact that he can't accept it. Still, Carol doesn't care about things Hal has done. Even if Hal doesn't know will he be able to save Earth, Carol knows he can because she knows him and she knows he is the hero. Carol tells Hal she loves him and Hal kisses her right before he leaves.
As Hal looks at the place that was once Coast City, he releases Ganthet who can't ignore the fact that Hal destroyed the Green Lantern Corps despite the fact that he is asking for redemption. Hal doesn't see it that way and in his mind, Guardians are the ones who betrayed him. They didn't want to give him one thing he asked for even tho he gave his life to serve them. Ganthet creates a new ring and gives it to Hal.
Hal remembers when he asked for his ring back from Kyle, thinking he could redeem himself if he becomes the Green Lantern again but he knows that is not enough. He has done a lot of things he isn't proud of. Hal refuses to take the ring and as Ganthet leaves, Hal teleports Kyle back, claiming he wants to help.
While Batman seems very skeptical about this, Superman is glad to have Hal back on their side. Hal claims he is not coming back, he only wants to save Earth. Hal stops Ferro Lad from sacrificing himself to save the Sun using a device build by Lex Luthor and Brainiac 5. As he teleports him back to Earth, Hal stops the Sun-Eater from absorbing the Sun, killing it and repairing the Sun in the process. However, it took everything he had to stop the Sun-Eater and Hal died saving the Earth.
Superman and Batman look into the Sun. Clark wishes it was him who sacrificed himself instead of Hal but he is happy that Hal redeemed himself. Bruce does not see it that way and he still sees Hal as a murderer as Hal himself claimed he didn't change. Clark thinks people don't notice they change and how he will always see Hal as a man who died a hero.
Hal becomes the Spectre
After The Spectre got forcibly bonded to the fallen Angel Asmodel by Etrigan, he unleashed send his army of demons and formerly damned souls upon the planet Earth swearing to take his vengeance, The Sentinels of Magic were formed and along tried to stop the crisis with the help of JLA and JSA. While Batman and his team of heroes held of the Spectre while he was trying to destroy Manhattan, Captain Marvel, Starfire and S.T.R.I.P.E went to outer space in order to retrieve the Spear of Destiny, the only weapon capable of hurting the Spectre. Wonder Woman on the other hand traveled to Heaven and met Jim Corrigan, previous Host of the Spectre who is now dead.
While Because Jim refuses to be brought back to life, the heroes were sent to Purgatory where they meet many dead heroes whose souls lie in the balance, including their former friend Hal Jordan. Alan Scott, the original Green Lantern now calling himself the Sentinel recommends that Hal should be the one to become Spectre's new host as he is probably the only soul besides Corrigan with enough willpower to control the Spectre.
While Wonder Woman thinks that Hal shouldn't be the one to have that kind of power because he slaughtered the Green Lantern Corp, Alan knows that Hal is the right person. Hal tells them how he knows why some people hate him or fear him and he understands why as he did a lot of terrible things. He was a fool but he seeks redemption and changes his costume from Parallax back into his original Green Lantern costume and agrees to help.
As Wonder Woman and her team finally teleport back to Earth, Batman claims how they need to bring Corrigan as he is the man they can trust, not a murderer like Parallax. Hal tells Batman that Parallax is gone and he will help them. However, as he attacks the Spectre, he gets turn into a construct and shattered to pieces.
Captain Marvel finally returns with the Spear of Destiny and attacks the Spectre, while Hal Jordan is saved by Doctor Fate and gets charged by the energy of various Magical Based Heroes and creates all the Green Lantern Corps in the form of Constructs and attacks The Spectre as well. However, it was revealed that Neron possessed Superman, and after the Spectre is injured, he became vulnerable for various souls to become his hosts and Neron fused with the Spectre just few moments after Hal Jordan and the three entities, Neron, Hal Jordan and Asmodel now exist on the soul plane and the Spectre needs to know why he would choose anyone of them over the others. Why do they seek Vengeance?
Asmodel claims him and the Spectre are prisoners of Presence and he has to pay. Neron claims how he realizes vengeance and every soul that needs to be punished will be punished. As Hal tries to explain how he was a hero once and how he needs to stop criminals, he stops with tears in his eyes, claiming how he does not deserve Spectre's Power. He does not deserve to seek vengeance. He is the one that deserves to be punished. He caused pain to everyone he loved. He murdered a lot of his friends. When Spectre hears those words, he bonds with Hal Jordan, punishing him for his actions and seeking vengeance will be his punishment.
As they finally become one and while Asmodel is locked up in Heaven, The Spectre tries to make Neron feel all the pain he has caused but Hal stopped him, refusing to put himself on Neron's level who is demoted to a rhyming class Demon, suggested to have been Etrigan's plan all along. Jim Corrigan tells Hal how all of Spectre's host must battle for influence and Hal bonding with the Spectre was blessed by the Presence himself. Hal will control how he will use that power, either for Vengeance The Spectre seeks or for Redemption Hal seeks. With Kyle and Alan congratulating him, Hal leaves, claiming he has a lot of stuff to do and fixes all the damage Asmodel unleashed on New York and the planet Earth.
Phantom Stranger and Hal Jordan (now as the Spectre) decided to entrust the Spear of Destiny to The Sentinels of Magic which is now the only weapon capable of injuring Hal.
Rebirth of Green Lantern
In 2005, Hal Jordan returned from the dead in the miniseries "Green Lantern: Rebirth" During this story it is revealed that the name "Parallax" came from an ancient yellow symbiote. Parallax was a creature that instilled great fear in entire civilizations, which made him stronger. Because of the menace Parallax represented, the Guardians imprisoned Parallax within the Central Power Battery on Oa. The imprisonment of Parallax was the reason behind the so called "yellow impurity" that made the Green Lanterns vulnerable to the color yellow. When Sinestro was also imprisoned in the Power Battery, he woke Parallax and they started an elaborate plan against the Guardians and the Green Lantern Corps. Parallax searched for a proper host in the Green Lantern Corps to infect, and he chose Hal Jordan of Earth.
After finding his objective, Parallax entered Hal's ring and stayed there without being noticed. When Coast City was destroyed by Cyborg Superman and Mongul, the control of Parallax over Hal Jordan heavily increased, making him insane. It was also revealed that Sinestro never died and that it was only a illusion created by Sinestro to finally break the will of Hal Jordan and drive him completely over the edge. When Hal destroyed the Central Power Battery and killed the Guardians (except Ganthet) he accidentally let Parallax escape at his full power. This was the explanation to the lack of Kyle's ring vulnerability against the color yellow. This story concludes when - thanks to the Spectre, Ganthet, Kyle Rayner, Guy Gardner, John Stewart and Kilowog - Hal returns from the death again as a Green Lantern without any influence of the Spectre or Parallax.
After the events of Rebirth, Hal moved to Coast City which was being reconstructed. He also became a captain in the Air Force of the United States. He also starts to rebuild his friendship with Batman who finally accepts that Hal is a hero once again.
Infinite Crisis
In Infinite Crisis, Hal is one of the heroes that Batman asked to defeat and destroy the OMACS and their leader Brother Eye. Hal is also seen fighting alongside the other heroes against the Society of Super Villains during the battle of Metropolis. Later with other heroes capable of breathing in space he saves Guy Gardner from being killed by Superboy-Prime. After that the Green Lanterns trap the defeated Superboy-Prime and imprison him in a artificial red sun. After this Guy mentioned that they lost a total of 32 Green Lanterns and that name of dead soldier hadn't happened since but before he finishes, he is interrupted by Hal saying that he knows when was the last time that happened (Referring to the days that Hal went mad and started killing the other Green Lanterns that tried to stop him).
Revenge Of The Green Lanterns
Hal has another flashback where he is a P.O.W. He then goes to Edwards Air Force Base. Him Rocket man and Cowgirl are awarded the P.O.W medal when all of a sudden a ship crashes when Hal sees whats inside it he finds out that its Tomar-Tu.
Hal brings Tomar's body to Oa. They later find out that Tomar wants to kill Hal. while at the cafeteria Hal and Guy Gardner have a fight with other members of the corps. Kilowog and Sallak breaks up the fight Hal later has a meeting with the guardians and asks if he can venture into Space Sector 3601 They deny his request but he goes anyway. He teams with Lantern Guy Gardner and they go to Sector 3601. They later then arrive at their destination.
They are later then attacked by Manhunters. They escape and find all the Lost Lanterns. They then encounter Cyborg Superman. Hal is currently knocked out and Guy tries to combat Cyborg Superman. The Lanterns later break free they then fall into a cave.They then find many bodies of Green Lanterns. Kreon then gets hits at the back. The Man-hunters attack them but the Man-hunters are later then destroyed. Hal and Arisia then tag team to fight Cyborg Superman. They then blow up the planet and Hal and the other Lanterns escape. Back on Oa, Hal rebuilds his relationship with the Lost Lanterns.
Wanted
Later, after he became a Green Lantern again, Hal Jordan finds himself in Checynya and was shot down and became a P.O.W. [Prisoner of War]. He and his friends Shane Sellers and Jillian Pearlmen were tortured for four months, they later escape and get rescued. Later when he meets with his fellow JLA members, Green Arrow said to him what he said every night in that cell "you should've kept the ring on". Hal then finds out that General Stone sent Cowgirl [Jillian Pearlmen] another round against them alone. Hal then leaves the room and goes to his locker. He then recites his oath and leaves the building. Hal then flies to Russia where the Rocket Red Brigade detect him and plan to attack them. Hal finds Cowgirl's fighter jet and bombs the terrorist base. He then sends out some search probes that don't find her yet. Suddenly, the terrorists are killed in a series of green explosions and Hal turns to find the Global Guardians, who are responsible for the attack (later revealed to be under mental control). At the end of the 1st issue an alien is hiring several bounty hunters to find Hal and gives them his ring.
The second issue starts inside Space Sector 3601,a Guardian flies through the debris of a destructive battle. The Guardian then brings the Cyborg Superman who has only half of his face. The Guardian then says "Hank Henshaw. Also known as the Cyborg-Superman and Highmaster of the Murdering Man-hunters". He and the other Guardians of the Universe are going to question him about the 52. At the next page Hal is being thrown into a tree by the Tasmanian Devil. When Hal was on the floor after taking a kick from Freedom Beast, Crimson Fox said " Why fight when we can love ". He then punches her and is furthering his search. Then the two aliens who mind control the Global Guardians,the aliens blast Hal with a neuron net which freezes him. Somewhere in Southern California Loragg tells Amon Sur that they have to kill Hal to get his ring but Amon says that the ring will seek another replacement, Loragg then says it will be Amon but Amon says it will be someone else. The next page takes place in England where a woman becomes Star Sapphire. Then Cowgirl is being brought by the terrorist. Cowgirl then escapes out of the car and runs. Hal is then being brought to the bounty hunters ship the bounty hunters get shot. Hal then is free and fights off the Rocket Reds then the Justice League comes to bring Hal home.
Later in the series Hal gets rescued by the Justice League of America and Alan Scott. While the Justice League of America take out most of the Rocket Red Brigade, Hal goes to find Cowgirl. Then one of his search probes finds her. Hal then rushes to find the injured Cowgirl underwater. Hal then makes an army of soldiers who beat down one of the terrorist. Hal brings Cowgirl to a hospital he made from his ring. Cowgirl finds out that Hal is Green Lantern. He gets shot by some tranquilizers by bounty hunters however the bounty hunters get killed by Hunger Dog another bounty hunter who wanted to capture Hal. He is brought to the California desert to an alien who looks like Abin Sur and turns out to be his son Amon Sur.
The next issue starts off with Batman arresting some goons while Martian Manhunter is reading the Global Guardians. After arresting the thugs Batman leaves the building and then hears a voice. It is a Sinestro Power Ring looking for a worthy wielder for the sector Batman rejects it and the ring seeks another one. Later somewhere in Southern California Hal finds out that Amon Sur was Abin Sur's son. Hal tries to blast Amon but finds out that his power ring is out of energy. Amon then tells why he repels a hatred against the Corps. That his father left before finding out that his mother was pregnant. Later some Green Lanterns came to inform him and his mother about his death. Amon tells how he battled Kyle Rayner but failed to obtain his ring but in their next confrontation his head was blown off. Now he is after Hal's ring.
Amon then asks where he buried his father's body. He then blasts the grave opened. He finds that his fathers body is nothing but ashes and bones. Amon who is angry blasts Hal, but Hunger Dog blocks it. Hunger Dog then reveals to be John Stewart. John, who continues to fight gets hit by a yellow beam of light. It is a yellow power ring and it has come to find a worthy successor and that is Amon. While trying to kill Hal the ring teleports him to Qward. Near the end of the comic book Hal brings Abin Sur's body to Ungara and writes something on his tombstone. Once it said Abin Sur hero of Ungara now it says Abin Sur Hero of Ungara and father Hal then returns to Edwards, which is being reconstructed. At the end of the story, it shows a picture of Star Sapphire going to Coast City. They later forge the Sapphires into rings. Hal then finds out that Carol had a divorce.
Mystery of the Star Sapphire
Carol Ferris is flying her plane when the Star Sapphire possesses her once more. She then attacks Hal and Cowgirl at a bar. Hal powers up his ring and becomes Green Lantern. Hal eventually removes the Sapphire from Carol and the Sapphire then possess Cowgirl. Cowgirl then chases Hal and Carol through Coast City; at the same time, Carol explains the origins of the Zamarons and the violet light of love. They later crash into the honeymoon hotel.Hal then makes Carol a costume. Carol then fights Cowgirl and they are then attacked by the Zamarons. The Zamarons later tell Hal that he has to choose between Cowgirl and Carol Ferris. He then kisses one of the Zamarons and the Star Sapphire possesses that Zamaron. She later becomes corrupt and they retreat to Zamaron.
52
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Hal and John were involved in the first fight against the heroes of China. Saying that the Green Lanterns couldn't help since they were born in U.S.A and that they didn't have authorization to intervene in the problems of China. Hal is also seen along Green Arrow and Metamorpho as the reinforcements for Elongated Man to know if he should believe that they could bring his wife, Sue Dibny back from the death.
In One Year Later, after the event of Infinite Crisis, the DC Universe skipped one year of ongoing continuity. Hal discovers that the members of the Green Lantern Corps he killed as Parallax are indeed alive, so along with Guy Gardner he goes on a quest to save them from Cyborg Superman. This is known as the Revenge of the Green Lanterns.
Justice League
Hal became one of the members of the new Justice League of America in the One Year Later storyline. After being a member for some time, he decides to give John Stewart his place in the Justice League in order to take care of his other responsibilities as a Green Lantern.
Sinestro Corps War
Jordan's greatest enemy, Sinestro, starts building an army with yellow power rings that chose as their wielders people who can instill great fear. Just after that he attacks Oa when Hal and the Green Lanterns of Earth (among others) were waiting to talk to the Guardians of the Universe. After a full attack against Oa a great amount of Green Lanterns die and Sinestro releases both Cyborg Superman and Superboy-Prime. He is also able to kidnap Kyle Rayner and take the symbiote out of him. After instilling great fear in the heart of Kyle, he fuses him with Parallax. After the attack Hal along with Guy Gardner and John Stewart try to reach Qward and save Kyle. However after trying to charge their power rings, wakes up in Qward without Guy and John, and outnumbered by Sinestro, the new Parallax and an army of members of the Sinestro Corps. After Hal failed to try to save Kyle of the Parallax influence, he tries to flee the planet.
Just when he was going to be defeated, he is saved by "The Lost Lanterns". The Green Lanterns go underground and split into two teams, the first one to save John and Guy and the other one to rescue Ion. Hal, Graf Toren and Tomar-Re are encountered by the keeper of the book of Parallax, Lyssa Drak by causing an explosion when John and Guy got free. As his power rings were reaching 0.0, he was saved by John Stewart and Guy Gardner. Hal then says, "I need a weapon, or weapons." Hal then wields a group of Sinestro's yellow rings. He and the remaining Lost Lanterns make it out of Qward. As the Sinestro Corps uses their attack plan the Guardians use their Last Resort and authorize lethal force against the Sinestro Corps.
The mission is a success and the Green Lantern of Earth returned to their planet, just to find out that the Sinestro Corps never wanted to take control of Oa, their real objective was always Earth. Hal saves his family before Parallax (Kyle Rayner) can kill them. During the confrontation Parallax also absorbs Hal and became even more powerful. While Hal is inside Parallax, he helps Kyle to get rid of the influences of Parallax. After being freed from the evil influence, Ganthet and Sayd appear and trap Parallax inside the batteries of the four Green Lanterns of Earth. Hal and Kyle go back to Coast City and use Hal's ring to warn everyone there to evacuate the city. Hal's family refuses to leave, just like everyone else in the city. The people of Coast City start setting green lights in their houses to prove their support to the protector of Coast City, Green Lantern, thus making Coast City to be known to the world as the "City Without Fear".
During the last battle against Sinestro, Hal realizes that Sinestro always wanted that the Guardians of the Universe to sanction the use of lethal force. Sinestro uses the Manhunters to absorb the energy from the rings of both Hal and Kyle. After they are being attacked by Sinestro, Hal uses the head of a Manhunter to also absorb the energy from the ring of Sinestro. Him and Kyle battle Sinestro in a hand to hand fight jumping into a unfinished building. While the other Green Lanterns destroy the Sinestro Corps battery it explodes; Anti-Monitor, Cyborg Superman, and his army of of Manhunters are caught in the explosion. Hal and Kyle defeat Sinestro.
Secret Origins
It starts off with Hal Jordan having a flashback when his dad dies. Then it's Hal's 18th birthday; he runs away and wakes up in front of an U.S Armed Force recruiting service desk. With his friends to a bar this is his first confrontation with John Stewart. Soon after that Hal's brother Jim tells him that their mom is dying and the only way Hal could see her was if he was no longer in the Air Force. Hal later punches Major Stone [later General] to get himself discharged. However his mother died on his way to the hospital. Somewhere in space Abin Sur is interrogating the Five Inversions.
Abin Sur has imprisoned Atrocitus on a ship. He then contacts Sinestro and tells him about his actions. Meanwhile on Earth, Hal finds out Ken Arden [a former friend of Hal's dad] is selling his company to Ferris. While in space Atrocitus escapes from imprisonment. Abin Sur's ship crashes and the ring finds a replacement Hal Jordan. Soon Hal is having trouble mastering his new powers. Hal has earned his badge as a Green Lantern.
Sinestro is contacted by Ganthet to train Hal more. Later Hector Hammond is exposed to the energy from a meteorite. Hal Jordan takes a flight in a newly constructed jet. Sinestro gives Jordan his ring and blows up the jet they get into a short fight. Sinestro then fixes his jet and Jordan flew away. When he lands Hector Hammond pays him a visit. Sinestro rescues Hal and Carol. Hal brings Sinestro to where he buried Abin Sur. Sinestro then tells him how Abin was his master. Later a message in Hal's ring unlocks, showing Sinestro about the Massacre of 666. Sinestro asks if Abin Sur was the only one in the ship. William Hand (a.k.a Black Hand) is attacked by Atrocitus. Sinestro and Jordan save Hand right on time. However they run out of power. They defeat Atrocitus. Hal then comes to Carol Ferris's house; he then finds out how when his father died, causing him great emotional distress. As soon as he has released his anger Sinestro says to him "For beings, like us overcoming fear is what we do best, but when it comes to regret, loss even Green Lanterns struggle with those."
Then Hal and Sinestro are contacted by the Guardians. They then demand an explanation from them. Sinestro tells them how one of them has taken a name Ganhet. They manage to get out of trouble. Hal then tries to affect yellow with his ring. Sinestro then returns Atrocitus to his crucifix on Ysmault. Atrocitus then tells him that Korugar will fall to chaos and a bloody coup will take over. At the end Hal tells Jim that he is Green Lantern.
Origins & Omens of Green Lantern
Hal Jordan meets Saint Walker. Saint Walker, who is the first of the Blue Lanterns, tries to persuade Hal to abandon the Green Lantern Corps and become a Blue Lantern. Saint Walker brought Hal to the Blue Lantern planet of Odym. He showed him the Blue Lantern battery and Hal also saw the leaders of the Blue Lantern Corps. They were none other than Ganthet and Sayd who were former members of the Guardians of the Universe who started the Green Lantern Corps. Hal and Saint Walker watched as Ganthet and Sayd were about to initiate a new member to the Corps. Warth then was made into the second member of the Blue Lantern Corps. Saint Walker mentioned to Hal that the initiation took a very long time to be completed as Ganthet and Sayd would have to judge them and see if they are truly worthy to be a Blue Lantern. Warth and Saint Walker were then sent on a mission to save Sinestro from the Red Lanterns and to recruit him to the Blue Lantern Corps. On their way there, Hal noticed that his power levels were above maximum and they explained that the rings of a Blue Lantern charged the rings of a Green Lantern. As they passed a planet on the way, its sun in the process of imminent supernova. Jordan attempted to call for backup but was unable to because of the interference of Warth and Saint Walker's rings. Warth and Saint Walker combined their power and were able to heal the sun and reverse its aging. Saint Walker then explained what their ultimate purpose was for him. That purpose was to lead the Blue Lantern Corps.
Hal went ahead of Saint Walker and Warth and finally got to the planet where Sinestro was being kept captive by the Red Lanterns. Hal found Sinestro and was ambushed by Red Lanterns. As they fought, Hal's energy levels severely dropped. Hal saw that one of the Red Lanterns that ambushed him was none other than Laira who was a friend to Hal when they were both members of the Green Lantern Corps. Hal was tied up and held captive along with Sinestro. The Sinestro Corps then arrived to save Sinestro from the Red Lanterns. As the two Corps fought each other, Warth and Saint Walker then arrived. They freed Hal and charged up his ring again. The Blue Lanterns meant no harm and told Sinestro to call off his followers. Saint walker was then attacked by Atrocitus, leader of the Red Lanterns. Laira then attacked Hal and had him on the ground. Sinestro took action and killed Laira before she hurt Hal. Hal then was angry because Sinestro killed his friend and then Hal released all his anger and hatred towards Sinestro. Hal was about to kill Sinestro when the unexpected happened. Hal was chosen to become a Red Lantern and was then corrupted by the ring. Hal was now a Red Lantern and fought the Blue Lanterns and the Sinestro Corps. As the Blue Lanterns rely on the power of a Green Lantern to keep
their power levels, Saint Walker and Warth had all their energy drained from their rings as there was no Green Lantern in sight. Saint Walker was able to put a Blue ring on Hal Jordan's finger and Hal was no longer corrupted by the Red ring. Hal then became a Blue Lantern and a Green Lantern at the same time. Hal defeated the Red Lanterns and they left Ysmault. Hal's love, Carol Ferris was recruited to become a servant of love, a member of the Violet Lanterns.
Agent Orange
Hal returns to Odym, home-world of the Blue Lanterns, with Saint Walker and Warth. Hal tries removing the Blue power ring he now wields, but he is unable to remove it. Hal and the Blue Lanterns argue about Hal not having any hope. Hal tries to locate Ganthet and Sayd using his ring, but they cannot be located. Ganthet and Sayd then appear to Hal and the two Blue Lanterns. They tell them that Hal is meant to lead the Blue Lanterns, not as a Blue Lantern, but as a Green Lantern. Walker is then provided a new power ring as his is now with Hal. He then leaves Odym in order to find Sinestro. The Blue Lanterns stay behind in Odym as they are to continue recruiting new members to their Corps.
They also have another mission which is to locate those who wield the Indigo light. As Hal goes to find Sinestro, he is sent back to Oa to meet with the Guardians. The Guardians try removing the Blue ring from Hal's finger but they are unable to do so. Hal tries to explain to them that Ganthet and Sayd are not enemies and their real enemies were the Red Lanterns. John then interrupts the Guardians as another colour Lantern has been encountered. Larfleeze then appeared as he and a message for the Guardians. They took something from him and he says that he will descend his Corps on their Green Lanterns. The Guardians then say that it is about time they joined the war themselves.
In Oa, The Guardians added a fourth law to the Book of Oa. That rule was that the Vega System was no longer outside the Green Lantern Corps' jurisdiction. Meanwhile, Gretti decides that he must return home to sector 2828. Hal, along with the Guardians and the Green Lanterns then go on their way to arrest those criminals in the Vega System. Hal explains that the Guardians couldn't remove the blue ring from his hand and that they wanted to see the power of the ring in battle. Thousands of felons were currently present in the Vega System. However, their main target wasn't the felons, but Larfleeze. Hal, the Lanterns and the Guardians then land on Sector 2828 where they see Gretti. The Guardians then try connecting to Larfleeze who is currently in Gretti's homeworld. Controllers then spawn around them and a battle begins. During the fight, Gretti is killed and then becomes an Orange Lantern, serving Agent Orange. Hal then gets dragged underground by an orange light. Underground, he sees none other than Larfleeze who was waiting for Hal. He sees the blue ring of Hal and tells Hal that he wants it.
Hal is still trapped underground. He can smell Larfleeze and he knows that he's there, but he can't see him. Hal Jordan was still spared as it was still feeding time for Larfleeze at that moment. He talks to Hal and tells him about him being the owner of the Orange Lanterns. He says that he was tasted a green ring already before, but he has never tasted one as sweet as the blue ring Hal wields on his finger. The ring asks Larfleeze what he hopes for and he says that he hopes for many desirables and one is a blue ring of his own.
Hal then attacks Larfleeze once the blue light had blinded him. Meanwhile, the Guardians and other Green Lanterns fight against other Orange Lantern constructs. John Stewart holds his own against several but is taken down by one of them. When it seems as if he's about to be defeated, Fatality, a Violet Lantern, comes in and helps him. Larfleeze and Hal keep fighting until Larfleeze finally apprehends him. Hal offers him a deal. He said he'd trade his blue ring in exchange for words. Hal wanted to know how Larfleeze became Agent Orange and how he met the Guardians.
Larfleeze then started telling Hal about his origins story. Now, he wants to take the blue ring from Hal to complete the deal. However, Hal can't take it off and Larfleeze takes action. He forms a giant sword from his constructs and chops off Hal's arm. He then takes the ring and puts it on his finger. The ring then welcomed Larfleeze to the Blue Lantern Corps.
Larfleeze sees that now he's a member of the Blue Lanterns. However, it was all just an illusion created by Hal's ring in order to defend itself. Larfleeze gets angered and attacks Hal again. This time though, Hal uses the same strategy that Larfleeze has been using and Hal creates constructs of the members of the Green Lantern Corps. Another illusion is made as John Stewart and Fatality reunite during the battle. John later realizes that it was all just an illusion. Hal and Larfleeze continue fighting when the Guardians come in and interrupt. Hal gets an idea that he can separate the Orange Battery from Larfleeze so that he could beat him. Hal manages to get hold of it as the Guardians distracted Larfleeze.
Hal then started to glow an orange light as he was about to join the Orange Lantern Corps. Before he truly became a part of the corps, Larfleeze attacked him and took back his battery. Larfleeze just gets pissed off and his power levels were at a very high level. He attacked the Lanterns and Hal. The blue ring asked Hal what he hoped for and Hal said that he hoped for the ring to stop asking him that. The ring sensed sincerity and decided to listen to Hal. His power levels started to drop and eventually the ring left him and went off to find a new replacement. The Guardians then decide to talk to Larfleeze and set a deal with him. Hal and the rest of the Lanterns get sent outside to let them talk. They agreed that Larfleeze would no longer cause them conflict but the Guardians also told Larfleeze where he could get a blue ring of his own. In Odym, Ganthet, Sayd and the rest of the Blue Lanterns see an orange light coming their way, headed by Larfleeze.
Blackest Night
William Hand starts hearing the voices of the dead calling his name. He sees his life flash back to when he first became the Black Hand. It also showed how he got the rod when Hal Jordan and Sinestro, who was still a Green Lantern, were on earth to arrest Atrocitus. He's possessed and ends up killing his family and himself as well with the rod he found when he first became the Black Hand. William is dead and Scar appears over his dead body. She says that William is ready and she gives his body a black ring. William rises with the power of the black ring and the dead which officially begins the Blackest Night.
It's memorial day for all the dead heroes on earth. The people, heroes, and even the villains visit the graves of those who have passed away. Hal, with the rest of the Green Lanterns of Sector 2814, flies to the memorial and are cheered on by the crowd. They remember their loved ones who have passed away. The different heroes who have passed are all being honored around the world. Alfred also visits the grave of Bruce Wayne but is shocked as someone dug up his grave and took his skull. He contacts Hal who at the time was in the headquarters of the Justice League of America along with Barry Allen. Hal shows the Barry where they kept the remains of those who have also passed away. Barry asks Hal to show him more and to show him everyone else who has died while he was gone.
Throughout all the sectors, the different corps wage war on each other which fulfills the War of Light. The Guardians watch over the war from Oa. They decide to tell all Green Lanterns to retreat. Scar says however, that they will not receive the call for retreat and she attacks her fellow Guardians. She bites and rips off the heart of one of the Guardians and traps the rest of the Guardians where they are. Meanwhile, the black rings have been released and fly to the graves of those who have passed away. All the remains and bodies of the dead are then told to rise and they did, but this time, as Black Lanterns.
Hal and Barry go to Gotham to check the grave site of Bruce. They try thinking who could have dug up the grave and who could have known that Bruce was Batman. As they talk to each other, a dark image flies their way. It was the Martian Manhunter who now is a Black Lantern. He says that Hal and Barry should both be dead and that they shouldn't be back. J'onn attacks the two heroes and forces them to retreat. They escape for the moment but J'onn continues his rage and destroys a building. Hal and Barry still continue to run but Barry sees J'onn and attacks him. He beats on J'onn but as it turns out, Barry was just seeing things and it was actually Hal he was attacking.
Commissioner Gordon sets off the bat-signal in order to get some help in Gotham. Hal, however, comes crashing through the signal. Hal talks to him and to Barbara for a bit while Barry fights J'onn. He traps J'onn in a sewer mixed with different flammable chemicals. Hal comes flying in and drops a police car on the chemicals which causes a huge explosion. Barry keeps the flame from spreading around by running around J'onn and he creates somewhat a giant furnace. The two heroes think that J'onn is now defeated as fire was his weakness. They plan on moving his body back to Mars to let him rest in peace. However, J'onn comes out of the rubble along with several other Black Lanterns. Ex-Green Lantern on Sector 2814 and the man who gave Hal his ring, Abin Sur, also rises as a Black Lantern.
Meanwhile, more rings go across the universe and raise more Black Lanterns. Sinestro also gets freed from his "cell" in Zamaron during a fight between the Star Sapphires and the Sinestro Corps. Sinestro confronts Carrol and questions her on why she became a Star Sapphire and she says that she's there for Hal. Carrol gets captured by the Sinestro Corps but her captors are immediately killed by a group of Black Lanterns, lead by Abin Sur, who confront Carrol and Sinestro.
Hal and Barry continue to fend off a group of Black Lanterns. Hal is targeted by both Hawkman and Hawkgirl. Hal and Barry try everything they can to stop this since their enemies couldn't be killed. They tried running away and Barry even tries removing the ring of Firestorm. As Hal and Hawkman continue to fight, Ray Palmer emerges from inside his black ring. He tells Hal that their ring is nothing like the ring he carries on his finger. They continue to try escaping until they are finally caught by the group of Black Lanterns. But before anything could happen, they are save by two Indigo Lanterns and are brought to the JLA base. One of them reveals that she is Indigo-1, leader of the Indigo tribe.
She tells them about the beginning of the universe. The time when the universe was still ruled by darkness. Until there was light which fought the darkness. Out of the fight came the different groups of the emotional spectrum. She tells them about all the different colors in the emotional spectrum and their purposes. She tells Hal that they have come to him in order to replicate the white light of creation by merging with the other corps to put a stop to the Blackest Night. She knows that Hal has strong connections to the most powerful members of the other five remaining corps. Hall and Barry talk again about what they should do. But then, they are attacked again by the same group of Black Lanterns. The Indigo Lanterns then transport themselves and Hal away from the danger, leaving the others behind.
Hal and the two Indigo Lanterns are transported to Zamaron. They meet both Sinestro and Carol Ferris there during their own fight against Black Lanterns. Hal and Carol talk about her decision to become a Star Sapphire once again while they continue to fend off Black Lanterns. Hal also teaches them how to destroy a Black Lantern by sanitizing their rings with their light. Indigo-1 then transports Hal, Carol, and Sinestro out of Zamaron and to Korugar.
Sinestro quickly attacks Indigo-1 as they left the other members of his corps behind. She tells him why she transported them there, for Sinestro to confront and defeat Mongul. Sinestro has a tough time and it seems like he's about to be beaten by Mongul until he takes control of his yellow rings, which he created himself. He traps Mongul without killing him so that he would not reincarnate as a Black Lantern, but he tells him that once the war is over, he will kill Mongul personally. Sinestro is in control of his corps once again and they start to give praise to him. Suddenly, a black ship crashes and Abin and Arin Sur both emerge from it as Black Lanterns.
On Ysmault, Atrocitus is attacked as well and has his heart ripped out by a Black Lantern. Hal and Sinestro defend themselves against the two new Black Lanterns. Sinestro and Arin continue to fight as they talk about the love they once had. Hal and Abin are left to fight each other and Abin continues to insult Hal. Hal seemingly kills Abin, but he heals himself instantly. Indigo-1 and Carrol Ferris come to aid Sienstro and Hal. Together, the four lanterns use their combined mights and they defeat the two Black Lanterns.
They start to talk about who to go to next. Hal wants to go to Saint Walker first because they know that he can be trusted. Atrocitus seems to be the one the rest want to go after, though. They decide to go to Odym and talk to Saint Walker instead. When they arrived in Odym, they were caught in the war between the lanterns of blue and orange. Suddenly, the Orange Lanterns just disappear. Meanwhile, on Okaara, Larfleeze is shown running for his life and pleading for help as he is chased by a group of Black Lanterns. The Black Lanterns are slaughtered by none other than Atrocitus, who remains as a Red Lantern, whose heart was replaced by his rage. Atrocitus tells Larfleeze that he wants his power battery.
As Atrocitus and Larfleeze fight, they also get attacked by the slaves of Larfleeze's corps who are now Black Lanterns. They fend off the lanterns while fighting each other until Hal Jordan and the rest of the lanterns from the different spectrum of light come to aid them. They ask Atrocitus and Larfleeze to join them in order to put an end to the Blackest Night. Larfleeze agrees to join as long as he gets a Guardian of his own when it's all done and Sayd agrees to be his Guardian. Atrocitus also agrees to join after fighting them and talking to Saint Walker. They go to Space Sector 666, the planet Ryut, home of Atrocitus, after the power levels of the Black Lantern Corps reached 100%. The Black Battery was nowhere to be found and they all set-off to where it has been moved, Earth.
Barry Allen fends off the risen dead in Coast City, where the battery has been moved. Before Black Hand could lay his hands on him, Wally West and a group of the heroes of Earth arrive to help them. They tell Barry about how Dove produces the White Light that fends off the Black Lanterns. Wally, Barry, and Bart see the Guardians being held captive. They try to free them all, but Scar gets in their way. The team of lanterns then arrive just in time to stop Scar's attack. After Scar is destroyed by their combined might, they go after the black battery. They attack it, but their attacks don't do anything to the battery. A ring then flies to the skull that Black Hand was holding and Bruce Wayne rises as a Black Lantern. Everyone sees Bruce in his new form and more rings come flying towards the heroes. Nekron then orders several of the heroes to die and become Black Lanterns as well. Nekron says that Bruce has now served his purpose and he destroys him and puts him back to rest. Superman, Wonder Woman, Ice, Bart Allen, Animal Man, Super-boy, Donna Troy and Green Arrow all have become Black Lanterns and Nekron makes one more order, and that is for Barry Allen and Hal Jordan to die.
The Black Rings continue to chase after the two heroes. They figure out that the rings can also turn those who have died. but are now alive, into Black Lanterns as well. Hal holds on to Barry as he outruns the Black Rings chasing them. Barry runs two seconds into the future to get the rings to stop chasing them. john Stewart warns them that all the Black Lanterns are heading to the Earth. Ganthet then reveals a secret of the power rings. He duplicates Hal's ring and wears it on his finger. He does the same to the rings of the other members that were there. The ring duplicates can only last for a day, however. The rings get new recruits to aid the team of Lanterns in the war of Light. A Blue Ring latches on Barry Allen's finger, an Orange ring on Lex Luthor's finger, a Yellow Ring on the Scarecrow's finger, an Indigo Ring on Ray Palmer's finger, a Red Ring on Mera's finger and a Violet Ring on Wonder Woman's finger which destroys the Black Ring she had on her.
While defending Coast City, the Lanterns encountered a Black Lantern Spectre and are overwhelmed by the powerful foe, threatening Hal into almost becoming a Black Lantern himself. Remembering when he was possessed by the Spectre, Hal remembered Parallax is the one thing that the Spirit of Retribution fears most and allows himself to be possessed by the fear entity once more in order to stop him. Soon after, the fear entity is taken from Hal by an unknown force. During the fight against Nekron, the Entity is summoned and attacked by Nekron. Hal soon realizes that the Entity is like Parallax and Ion and goes toward the Entity but is stopped by Sinestro. Sinestro then dives into the Entity and emerges as a white lantern.
Sinestro's ego proved to be his downfall, as he could not fully command the Entity's power and Nekron forcibly separated them. Hal realized that even though Nekron allowed his resurrection along with the other heroes transformed into Black Lanterns, it was they who made the choice to live again. This enabled Hal to join with the Entity and transform himself and the other heroes converted by Nekron into the White Lantern Corps. They then used their collective power to restore Black Hand to life, severing his connection to Nekron, leading to his defeat.
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
Secret Identity: Hal Jordan
Publisher: DC
First appearance: Showcase #22 (September–October 1959)
Created by: John Broome (Writer)
Gil Kane (Artist)
First appearance cover:
Excerpt from the plaque:
Matthew Crawley
An unexpected heir to Downton Abbey, Matthew enters the Crawley’s lives as an outsider with middle-class sensibilities. His romance with Lady Mary becomes a central storyline, with many bumps along the way. A dedicated lawyer and soldier, Matthew’s untimely death leaves a profound impact on the family, but his legacy endures through his son, George, and the love he shared with Mary.
In wartime, Downton is transformed into a convalescent home for wounded officers. Matthew, using any chance he can to see the Crawley family, returns to Downton in his officer’s attire to show his superiors around the estate and hospital. Featured florals include ti leaves, statice, Limonium, and eucalypts.
Inspired by Andrea Bocelli & Ed Sheeran - Perfect Symphony
I found a love for me
Oh darling, just dive right in and follow my lead
Well, I found a girl, beautiful and sweet
Oh, I never knew you were the someone waiting for me
'Cause we were just kids when we fell in love
Not knowing what it was, I will not give you up this time
But darling, just kiss me slow, your heart is all I own
And in your eyes, you're holding mine
Baby, I'm dancing in the dark with you between my arms
Barefoot on the grass, listening to our favourite song
When you said you looked a mess, I whispered underneath my breath
But you heard it, darling, you look perfect tonight
Sei la mia donna, la forza delle onde del mare
Cogli i miei sogni e i miei segreti e molto di più
Spero che un giorno, l'amore che ci ha accompagnato
Diventi casa, la mia famiglia, diventi noi
E siamo sempre bambini ma nulla è impossibile
Stavolta non ti lascerò
Mi baci piano ed io torno ad esistere
E nel tuo sguardo crescerò
Ballo con te, nell'oscurità, stretti forte poi
A piedi nudi noi, dentro la nostra musica
Ti ho guardato ridere e sussurrando ho detto:
"Tu stasera, vedi, sei perfetta per me"
Ballo con te, nell'oscurità, stretti forte poi
A piedi nudi noi, dentro la nostra musica
Ho creduto sempre in noi
Perché sei un angelo e io ti ho aspettato
Quanto ti ho aspettato
Perché tu stasera sei perfetta per me
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On display at the Norwegian National Museum, Oslo
Property of the Museum of Cultural History of the University of Oslo.
Wood, carved and incised
This panel, carved in high relief with nested medallions, is one of the few surviving fragments from the Vegusdal stave church in Agder. It depicts scenes from the Völsung legend—specifically, the hero Sigurd killing the dwarf-smith Regin. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%B6lsunga_saga
What We Know:
The panel dates to the early 13th century. It is one of a pair that framed the main portal of the church, greeting worshipers as they entered.
The circular medallion at the top of the panel illustrates the episode where Sigurd, having slain the dragon Fafnir, turns on Regin. In most literary versions, Sigurd beheads Regin, but the carving instead shows a violent abdominal thrust.
Below Regin’s mouth is a carved stream or ribbon-like motif, long interpreted as blood.
From a forensic standpoint, a gut wound would not typically cause blood to gush from the mouth. That symptom is more plausibly linked to trauma to the lungs or throat. If symbolic, the motif may reflect the soul’s departure or a stylized convention to mark death.
Sigurd appears to brace himself against the rim of the medallion in order to thrust his blade with more force, while Regin’s impalement causes his puppet-like feet slip from the opposite edge—making the physical frame part of the drama.
What Remains Unclear:
Why such a stark deviation from the canonical beheading narrative? Was the artist drawing on oral variants?
What did medieval viewers make of this moment? Did they interpret it as symbolic, literal, or theological? Did they perceive the narrative as a holdover from the pagan world? Was it viewed as a cautionary tale, a moral allegory, or a decorative flourish?
Did 13th-century parishioners understand this as a sacred threshold charged with meaning—or simply as narrative art?
The Question of Meaning:
Narrative Ambiguity: Even the literal storyline is unstable. The carving appears to show Sigurd stabbing Regin in the abdomen, with some material—likely blood—gushing from his mouth. This contradicts saga sources in which Sigurd decapitates Regin. Is this an error, a reinterpretation, or a local variant? The dissonance between text and image resists resolution.
Contemporary Reception:
Thirteenth-century viewers were mostly illiterate and dependent on local oral traditions, visual fluency, and possibly clerical guidance. The scene could have been interpreted as heroic, cautionary, or moral, but the lack of contemporary records leaves all such interpretations speculative.
Patronal Intent:
Who chose this scene—and why? Was it a community decision, an individual patron, or the carver’s initiative? Perhaps the Völsung theme was used not for its theological coherence but for its cultural cachet, drawing on admired tales in a flexible, prestigious, and symbolic way. There is no way to know.
Why It Matters:
This carving is more than an illustration—it is a reflection on storytelling itself. Sigurd and Regin interact not just with each other, but with the frame that contains them. Sigurd leverages the circular boundary; Regin slides off it. The scene breaks the fourth wall of medieval art, making the medallion both stage and structure.
The drama is intensified by its placement at the church's entrance. Whether didactic, mnemonic, or mythic, it served to provoke thought—perhaps even when the sermon inside failed to do so.
In the panel below, a rearing horse appears to strike a human figure with its foreleg—an anatomically implausible blow, yet one rendered with comic violence. The emotional register here is complex: darkly humorous, unsettling, and immediate.
The Fate of the Church and Its Panels:
Stave churches were timber-framed Christian buildings found across medieval Norway, named for the "staves" (upright posts) that formed their structural core. Their heyday was the 12th to 14th centuries, with over a thousand built across the country. Today, fewer than thirty survive, and of those, very few retain narrative carvings like the Vegusdal panels.
The Vegusdal church, located in southern Norway, stood for centuries before it was dismantled in about 1720. Its figural panels—likely once discarded or repurposed—survived thanks to antiquarian interest in the 19th century, when a nascent preservation movement began to see value in what had once been dismissed as outmoded or papist.
The broader losses are staggering. Most stave churches were demolished or "modernized" beyond recognition after the Reformation. Lutheran reformers, Enlightenment-era renovators, and later architectural purists often showed little concern for the carved legends and monsters at their doors. Some panels were burned, others planed down or whitewashed; still others were discarded when churches were replaced with larger, plainer structures.
This wasn't always iconoclastic rage—it was often indifference. Panels rich in mythic or theological symbolism became illegible to later generations and thus expendable. As a result, what survives is not representative but exceptional: fragments like the Vegusdal portal that narrowly escaped destruction.
Each panel lost represents not just a work of art, but a worldview, a narrative gesture, a set of meanings that will never again be fully understood.
Thresholds of Meaning:
The essential paradox of medieval doorway sculpture is that its richest images are placed where people spend the least time. The Vegusdal panels—like many narrative portals in Romanesque and Gothic churches—present complex, layered iconography at a threshold rather than in a space meant for contemplation. And yet, that’s precisely the point.
The doorway as liminal space:
Crossing the threshold into the sanctuary was not a casual act—it symbolized a passage from the worldly to the sacred. The imagery at the portal condensed spiritual or moral lessons into a kind of visual incantation. You weren’t expected to study it then and there; rather, it set a tone, planted a question, or created a mnemonic impression.
Communal familiarity:
In small, closely knit communities, repeated exposure across years or decades could foster shared knowledge of these images. Local clergy or elders may have used them in catechesis or storytelling. So even brief encounters at the door might have drawn from, and contributed to, a deeper cultural reservoir.
Oral culture and storytelling:
Unlike modern viewers, medieval congregants lived in a world where visual art, spoken narrative, and communal ritual were deeply intertwined. Stories like that of Sigurd were known beyond the church; seeing them rendered in wood—at the door to God’s house—invited reflection on what they meant in a Christian moral framework.
Mental stimulation? Yes, and more: These carvings could offer visual escape or engagement—even humor or horror. But their location suggests something ritualistic: they were meant to frame the act of entering, not to be passively admired. You saw them again and again, each time perhaps noticing a new detail or feeling a new association.
Few labels in modern museums do justice to the philosophical richness of such works. To honor these carvings is to accept that their meanings resist easy resolution—that their power lies in ambiguity, embodiment, and emotional immediacy. They remain charged, even now, with a mythic force that exceeds the frame.
This text is a collaboration with Chat GPT
Now that I've got Hugo and the good Doctor Phosphorus, I finally have all the major players from one of my all-time favorite Batman runs: Strange Apparitions.
For those of you unfamiliar, Strange Apparitions is a run in Detective Comics back in the 70s by Steve Englehart and Marshall Rogers, that sees the return of Hugo Strange, who learns of Batman's identity as Bruce Wayne, destroys his relationship with Silver St. Cloud, steals his wealth, then attempts to sell Wayne's identity as Batman in an auction to the highest bidder. Rupert Thorne gets wind of this, and, wishing to learn the identity himself, has Strange tortured and beaten for the information. Strange is murdered by Thorne's henchmen, but takes Batman's secret to the grave. Thorne, the head of city council, declares Batman an outlaw, and sends waves of Henchmen to bring him down, all while hallucinating the ghost of Hugo Strange.
It's a bloody classic, and not only is the main storyline great, but all the misadventures that happen in between are fantastic as well: Doc Phosphorus makes his first appearance, as does Deadshot's new costume, Deadshot himself making his first appearance since the 1950's. Bruce's relationship with Silver St. Cloud I think is one of the better-written relationships in Batman comics, Thorne's conflict with Strange and his own psyche is gripping, and, of course, the run is the home to the greatest Joker story ever told: Laughing Fish.
As for the figs? fairly simple affairs.
Thorne is Mandarin's head and a CMF Bagpiper torso.
Strange is Strange with CMF Scientist arms.
Batman is a juniors Batman
Silver is Ariel's head and Lois's body.
Deadshot has a new, smaller scope.
Joker is Joker, and Doc Phos is Doc Phos.
Let me know what you think, and cheers!
Inspired by: Charles Trenet - La mer
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Qu'on voit danser
Le long des golfes clairs
A des reflets d'argent
La mer
Des reflets changeants
Sous la pluie
La mer
Qu'au ciel d'été confond
Ses blancs moutons
Avec les anges si purs
La mer
Bergère d'azur, infinie
Voyez
Près des étangs
Ces grands roseaux mouillés
Voyez
Ces oiseaux blancs
Et ces maisons rouillées
La mer
Les a bercés
Le long des golfes clairs
Et d'une chanson d'amour
La mer
A bercé mon cœur pour la vie
La mer
Qu'on voit danser
Le long des golfes clairs
A des reflets d'argent
La mer
Des reflets changeants
Sous la pluie
La mer
Au ciel d'été confond
Ses blancs moutons
Avec les anges si purs
La mer
Bergère d'azur, infinie
Voyez (voyez)
Près des étangs (près des étangs)
Ces grands roseaux mouillés (voyez ces roseaux)
Voyez (voyez)
Ces oiseaux blancs (ces oiseaux blancs)
Et ces maisons rouillées (la-la-la-la-la-la)
La mer
Les a bercés (les a bercés)
Le long des golfes clairs
Et d'une chanson d'amour
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A bercé mon cœur pour la vie
Finally got this completed! Sure, alot of the parts on this one are already seen on some other custom minifigss, but they don't have as awesome of a head as this one. Painted by billbobful, obviously. Also that BF sword finally gets a good use. I think it works well for Slade here.
And yes, he will be appearing in some storylines.
A couple villains I cooked up - Black Mold and Merge on each end are from volume 6 of the New 52 Flash, and in the middle is Prometheus, a villain who despite being very important in a couple storylines a while back, is now pretty much non-existent in new canon.
I'm also planning on using that visor (which I just got from one of the new Nexo Knights figs) for another fig, so stay tuned for that. Not to mention, I'm on spring break now, so I plan on building some shit, and that's exciting.
Not so long ago at a wonderous time in storybook history, Hope – a wood fairy – decided to go on an adventure. She walked through rolling hills and sun-dappled meadows.
Finally, she came across a village. Lining the colorful cobbled streets were silly crooked cottages that swayed this way and that. Amazed at how they could be built in such a nonsense way, Hope named the town, the Village of Strength.
Hope continued her adventure and found herself in a very old forest. Looming before her was a large, dark, and ominous cave. She gathered her courage and stepped inside. *(She was met by an enormous troll! But this was no ordinary troll. For he was there to guide travelers. He smiled a toothy smile and beckoned Hope to follow him. When she was safely on the other side of the cave, the troll bowed a noble bow and disappeared back into the forest.) Hope decided to name this place, the Cavern of Courage.
Continuing on with her adventure, she found herself upon a beautiful bluff overlooking the forest, the cavern, and the village. Amazed by the beauty she saw there; she made a home for herself amongst the trees. And being a wood fairy, she bestowed upon each place a blessing.
To the village her blessing was for all that walked its cobbled streets to have strength.
To the cavern, her blessing was for all that roamed its darkness to have courage.
For the beautiful bluff, she blessed all who ventured there to be filled with hope.
Many travelers ventured through these lands and each was filled with wonder. And they received strength, courage, and most of all – hope.
~By the late Bee Dumpling~
Hope's Wish was
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So this would have been wild. Long story short, when I was first fleshing out the unnamed universe, I came up with a kinda sub-story about Hawkman. This was way back when Hawkgirl was a main part of the original era Justice league.
So the story behind these characters is this. Hawkman had seemingly disappeared from Earth without a trace. Though this wasn't massively out of character, it was unlike him to not tell Hawkgirl where he was going and why. Cut to Hawkman, battered and bruised, in an alien arena squaring off against alien gladiators. No wings, no mace, just his bare wits and whatever weapons he could scrounge from the arena floor.
So we'd follow Hawkman for a bit, and finally, he'd be pitted against a familiar face, Aquaman. Somehow, word had reached the Justice league that one of their members had been sighted on Warworld, a planet controlled by the tyrant ruler Mongul. It would turn out that Mongul's minions had been going planet to planet kidnapping beings they thought held potential as gladiators. Hawkman had been one of these individuals. So the Justice League caught wind of this and hatched a plan. Being from warrior races, Aquaman and Wonder woman decided they would be best suited to go and retrieve Hawkman.
So the two somehow managed to infiltrate the Grand Championship, the main contest for the gladiators to win Mongul's approval and mercy. They battled their way through the ranks and finally came up against Hawkman, in what was called a group battle, where multiple gladiators would fight each other for a place in the grand finale against the Grand Champion, an unnamed warrior who was said to be the strongest gladiator to ever live. I think you can see where this is going.
So long story short, the three members of the Justice league team up, and start causing trouble in the arena. They beat the other fighters, and the arena falls silent. Then a single person clapping is heard throughout the arena. Surprise surprise, it's Mongul. He goes off on some monologue about how there's no big meaning behind all of this, and he simply did it for his own amusement. He wanted to see who the Justice League of Earth considered to be their champions, their strongest members. So he snatched Hawkman, and allowed images of him in the arena to work their way back to Earth, knowing the Justice league would undoubtably come to free him.
He then offers the trio an ultimatum. If they can beat the Grand Champion in the arena, they will have won their freedom, and will be free to leave Warworld. If not, they will be bound in servitude to Mongul for the rest of their lives. Y'know, classic big fight stakes. The trio agree, and say they will face this Grand Champion in combat. Mongul smirks, and leaps down from the stands into the arena. Surprising exactly nobody (the readers, those in the story are gobsmacked) Mongul reveals he is the mysterious Grand Champion. Naturally, by working together, our trio of heroes turned gladiators beat Mongul, though not without considerable effort, and win their freedom. As Mongul is a man of his world, he lets them leave and return to Earth.
And they all lived happily ever after. Not gonna lie, I had planned exactly one small piece of this, that Hawkman would come up against Aquaman. Everything else I made up on the spot. Kinda wish I'd done something with it now...Well at least it's out there.
So as always, lemme know if you like what you see, and if you'd like more of these abandoned storyline type posts from me :D
Just reread blackest night and felt like doing these figures. I figured I'd post my progress now in case they take a while. Love the blackest night storyline so I might make more but we'll see.
These figures are supposed to look like lego made them in case you wonder about the lack of detail. They're supposed to blend with official figures
He flies with the greatest of ease!
Dumbo is based upon the storyline written by Helen Aberson and illustrated by Harold Pearl.
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Previous build in this storyline is here: flic.kr/p/LwQtRo
Sgt 'Chop' continues his investigation and search for the datadisk.
//Log Entry//
My jedi contact had suggested I seek out a junk trader called Nibb Brallion who operated a small reclamation yard on the outskirts of town. I wasn't expecting trouble but thought it wise to organise back-up, so arranged to link up with two troopers from 43rd recon who were operating in the area. They went by the names of 'Deehk' and 'Threes' and knew the locality well. They reluctantly agreed to escort me to Brallion's yard as it was, to quote Deehk - 'a total plunk-hole'.\\
//Brallion's yard was a reasonable distance from the edge of town, away from prying eyes and far enough that any misdemeanor was likely to be over-looked by local law enforcement. A number of astromechs and other droids saw to odd jobs around the site. Nib's protocol droid greeted me as we arrived. He insisted that Brallion had been away on business for two days, but my senses and Deehk's sensors said otherwise.//