Both. Blue Lantern Rings work best in the presence of a Green Lantern ring, which is such bullshit.

The rings aren't balanced at all.

 

Doctor. Fucking. Strange.

 

I'm not sure I agree, Blue Lantern rings work fine on their own. Sure they're more support but don't forget that they can increase their physical strength to make up their inability to make constructs. Then they also have the power to heal as well as their default energy blasts.

 

What the fuck are you talking about? Context is needed, not a random character that has nothing to do with what I was talking about.

Thomas, please put forth some effort to do the most minimal of research. Google "Blue Power Ring" and read the tiniest bit. You'll find out that Blue rings are much more effective in the presence of a Green. They actually do stuff that is useful. It works in reverse as well; Blue rings supercharge the Greens.

Here's a minor example.

 

Man, Blue Lanterns get a bumb deal.

 

You were talking about magic users in the Marvel-verse and neglected to mention the most powerful magic user in the Marvel-verse. If I must explain it any further, Doctor Strange makes everything better, so having a crossover where Harry meets up with and learns under Doctor Strange would be awesome. Or, if you want to go the Super!Harry route, have him be Doctor Strange.

 

I agree that when they're around Green Rings they're more effective, but they're also useful without them. They have their own tricks up their sleeves. I looked at a wiki and it seemed odd, it said that Blue Lanterns only have two powers when not around a Green Lantern, the basic shielding and flight. Which is wrong.

Seeing as they're capable of shooting ranged blasts of energy.


And healing (Not sure if it's only mental healing or if it can also be the regular healing)


And like I said earlier they can augment their strength a great deal by using Hope.

 

A question about Marvel verse. What do Captain America and Iron Man do? I haven't read their comics, but I can't imagine them going around New York stopping petty crimes like Spiderman, do they?
Or are they only dealing with big shot threats, in conjuction with SHIELD or something? But if they do, why are they called superheroes? Can someone clarify?

 

Going off my passing knowledge of them as characters and all that, they're more icons and leaders. They've got the skill to do what Spidey does, and the chops to take down assholes like Doom, but they're natural-born leaders. I'm sure they do what Spiderman does and more, but you only see when they take on their supervillians because that's exciting. Spidey stopping petty crime has been established, so it's shown on-panel, because not showing it would be weird.

Or at least that's my take.

Oh, and on the subject of superheroes. They are, but at the same time they aren't. Cap is peak human in every way, Tony is just incredibly intelligent with above average (for a human) stats in every other category, as I recall. The suit just enhances him and brings him up to and on par with the rest of the Avengers, barring people like Thor and The Hulk.

(Ironically, Tony made a Hulk Buster suit once in a very Batman-esque moment of being Crazy Prepared. The Hulk still destroyed it.)

 

Captain America stopping petty crime? How? By walking around the city?

 

Captain America and Iron Man don't deal with "normal crime," or at least I've never seen them do it. That's usually reserved for "street-level" heroes like Spider-Man and Daredevil.

 

Actually, I was talking about mutants and the mutant called Magik (Illyana Rasputin sp?) in that line of thought. Perhaps you quoted the wrong post. That's what threw me. I did cover Doc Strange in a much earlier post.

 

Is there not some kind of ultimate creature personifying each color of the spectrum?

Some stories say the energy used by the lanterns is a form of magical energy that they are borrowing from the universe or something else. So the rings are just a special kind of wand.

What would happen if a ring fell into the hands of a wand maker? He used it to make other which allowed wizards to use magic in a similar form to the lanterns but dependent on their own energy reserves and sources, possibly even magical creatures. So it would create a magical arms race and gang warfare between all magic users. We know it is possible to create rings not dependent on the central batteries, as shown by the Green lantern ring used by alan scott.
SO to deal with the chaos and danger, Harry gathered the Hollows again, then bound them to a ring, allowing him to wield the full power of the hollows via that ring.
Such rings would aid mystical endowed or magicly empowered heroes. Say captain marvel recieved such a ring, that was linked to shazam and/or the rock of ages, a way to focus his powers, so use just one of the abilities, or simply be able to have a few extra skills.
Possibly even creating rings for those beings that have energy powers, a way to focus and control what they have more.

 

Indeed. Ion for Green, Predator for Violet, Parallax for Yellow, some kind of Bull/Rhino for Red, some kind of Octopus for Indigo, and I can't remember the rest. of them They all plyed a part in the recent GL comics, in which Krona takes control of them and puts them in the Guardians, who are promptly mind controlled. Then Hal and Co have to fight these insanely strong Guardian/Hosts using Rings they aren't familiar with to reach Krona.

To their credit, Hal did beam the fuck out of Krona later on.


Alan Scott's ring functions completely differently from GL's. I'm not familir with it's mechanics, but don't compare it with the Guardians' rings.

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The Lantern origin story has been tweaked so many times it's hard to know what to hold as canon.

The latest incarnation are that each of those creatures were captured and used as a power souce for the Main Power Battery's. Then the Violet (love) battery went kaboom in Blackest Night. They were low on power but then Carol Ferris tapped into the "ambient power of Lurv" in the universe and was able to power her ring.

The same thing happened to Indigo in the last GL comic.

And Red (rage) is experiencing similar difficulties (I assume until they can tap into the "ambient power of rage")

The magical GL (Alan Scott) uses a piece of the Starheart to power his ring. That's magical. Though don't quote me on that since the new Earth 2 series started which he is the Super Uber Gay Main Character that DC made gay to look inclusive, because they erased all the lame gay characters with the reboot. So, there's probably a mystical Gay Starheart out there that they'll add to the storyline soon enough.

 

How long has it been since I read a Green Lantern comic? Well, green was the *only* color, if that tells you anything. The last new comics I read were early Spawn or Savage Dragon or similar. Pretty crappy in hindsight. I still pull out the Watchmen comics and the first Wolverine miniseries on occasion though.

My point is that I used to like GL (I've always loved the *concept* of the Power Ring) and this thread has made me want to read some self-contained GL story. The last thing I need is to get sucked into an ongoing (and already going) storyline spread over several titles the way DC used to do, forcing you into buying umpteen comics each month just to keep up. It's a big reason I quit comics, actually.


So, is Blackest Night or something similar a story I'd be able to grasp with such antiquated GL knowledge? Other suggestions? I suppose I'd be best served by hitting Amazon for the graphic novels?


Thanks.

ETA: @ Heather: Are you saying that "Starheart" isn't gay enough already?!?

 

Blackest Night has too much going on and is a culmination of many storylines. If I was to suggest something, then start with Green Lantern: Rebirth which is where Johns started writing GL. It explains and retcons how Hal Jordan become power-crazy Parallax and rebuild the Corps after years of not existing. Then you can either start reading Volume 4 from the beginning or skip to Sinestro Corps War where all this many Corps thing starts for good, but is also the best GL story in a decade or more. BN, which was in a way third part of the trilogy (after Rebirth and SCW), wasn't even half as good though it had its moments.

 

Black has Nekron and White has some freaky 'first lifeform', I think.

 

The battle during blackest night, alot of every type of lantern was killed. So what happened to the rings? would be an opportunity to get weapons.

 

"...there was no 'Green' Lantern, he was 'Black & White' Lantern, and he had to rub two rings together to get his power working. Of course, they later retconned that to a single ring that he started with a crank."