I should've put a smiley behind the Ted Kord statement hahahahaha.

So is Lex Luthor gonna be the orange lantern?

But that's what "Final Crisis" is all about. It'll simplify everything again, only better then before.



Well, they've not explored all of the 52 earths, so, who knows? Afterall, they've shown (over the last few years) a pre-crisis like Supergirl, and not just once. There may be a Silver-age like earth out there.

Nah, he's just gonna wear day-glo orange pants from now on.

I think this is a cool point, and probably pretty close to being true. The other 'lanterns' we've seen is Star Saphire's branch, which i believe became the Indigo lantern's. Them, being on the far side of the spectrum, are obsessed with the concept of love and pursue it at all costs. Such as it were, the Red end would be similar.

I'm really liking this. I know it's cheesy and kinda tacky, but it's being really well done.

Who do you guys think would be some cool representations for Earth sector new/lanterns? I liked the idea of Luthor/Orange, but whatabout some others?

No, the kiss of death for Kyle would be if Dan Didio ever realized that he has another character from the 90s to kill.

That would imply that Dan Didio reads ...

Killing characters only serves to incite fanboys into a furor. The best way to eliminate a character is to let it slowly fade into the background.

Otherwise, a million people will come out of the woodwork saying how they would have bought a series for Dead Character X, that the replacement for Dead Character X is lame and they're going to ban it, so the publisher darn well better do what they say.

Never mind how well written the story is or anything like that. Or the fact that the character has had one or more series that were published and failed. Or anything else resembling logic.

But, suffice to say: No, killing a character seems pretty much the guaranteed way to get the character a revamp.

Dying was the best thing that happened to both Hal Jordan and Jason Todd.

I agree with you .. but that doesn't explain Dan Didio:
Conner Kent
Conner Hawke
Bart Allen
Ted Kord
Stephanie Brown
Jennie-Lynn Hayden (Jade)
Pied Piper
Kal-L
The Question
Ronnie Raymond

All of the new gods ...

Remember to be prepared:
http://cissie-king.livejournal.com/9092.html

What? Steph may be back now. This is why writers invented Lazurus Pits.
And, if the deaths have meaning, I'm all for them being forever. Like, Conner Kent. I hated the bugger, but, he died a good death, saved a lot of people. Same thing with Kal-L, Ted Kord and most of the rest you mentioned (I haven't read of the Piper's death yet). Death is a part of life and so, characters should die from time to time. And if they die like heroes, then all the better.






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Piper did not die. Trickster did.

about Final Crisis I don't think it will be a new one Universe Earth again because is too soon. they have to really mess up with all the Multiverse to really need a BIG Crisis again.

No idea of what will be about Final Crisis. I don't know why I don't have a lot of faith on that. I hope be wrong.

This is partially due to legal troubles, partially because he was pushed out of the way to turn Clark back into Superboy.

He died how many months ago?

Six months, tops?

He's better remembered now than he ever was before getting shot.

Possibly just showed up in Gotham Underground. Also possibly slated for something with Robin in the future - solicits about someone "spoiling" things for Robin.

Unlike Kyle, she was never popular or particularly well known. I'd put her level of popularity about on par with Ice - who came back just this year.

All right. This is getting tiresome. You're listing characters that have died not within even a year, not necessarily even months, but quite possibly over the past week or three.

That's patently ridiculous. How long did it take Hal Jordan to come back to life? Something around like 10 years? And he's one of DC's most popular characters short of the big three.

And while he was dead, people cried up a storm. They're still doing it about Ronnie Raymond. Or the Question. Spoiler. Stephanie Brown. Some of these characters were obscure, unnotable little nobodies who are pretty much only known because they died - Spoiler, I'm looking at you. Their deaths have, if anything, only popularized them.

Dying is the best thing that happened to a good chunk of those characters. Way better than if Spoiler survived her encounter with Black Mask and decided "Golly, superheroing's dangerous! I'm out!" She'd have faded into the background and way fewer people would care.

Ice, Jade, Ted, whomever - they're known a good deal, in part, because they died.

And bringing up characters that have been dead for two years or less doesn't help your point. At all.

Obviously people liked her beforehand.

But on the obscure character scale, she's way down there - and she'd be even further down that scale if she hadn't died.