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by Matt Goldberg Posted:January 27th, 2010 at 10:31 am
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Cosmic Book News has landed some Green Lantern concept art for fellow Green Lantern Corps member Kilowog. Since I’ve never read a Green Lantern comic book, I turned to Wikipedia and learned that Kilowog’s primary job is to train new recruits to the GLC. I look forward to seeing the class: “Yellow Is Your Enemy 101″ (just because I’ve never read an issue of Green Lantern, doesn’t mean I don’t know the jokes). I’m sure that Kilowog’s appearance will offer plenty of room for the wise-ass comments that have become trademarks of Ryan Reynolds’ comedic repertoire. I probably should read some Lantern comics before the film comes out so I have a better idea of the characters. If you have any recommendations for trade paperbacks of the characters’ adventures, sound off in the comments section.
Hit the jump to check out the full images of the concept art. Directed by Martin Campbell, the film stars Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, and Peter Sarsgaard. Green Lantern is slated to hit theaters on June 17, 2011. Click on the image to embiggen.
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I too didnt know much about green lantern, aside from a few details, and some avengers clips in cartoon form. Last year i rented the Animated film, GREEN LANTERN- First flight.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1384590/
Which answered many of my questions, Not read the comics, but this film was basically probably what were gonna see on the big screen in live action. I recomend it, especially if you dont wanna try catch up on years of comics lore.
I also highly recomend the animated Wonder Woman film too, which was better, and took me by surprise as how violent and based in ancient times ala 300. Never thought id say this, but a Wonder Woman film, done like this toon, could be awesome.
(I also checked out animateds of Iron-Man/Avengers/Dr Strange) as i didnt know much about those before neither. )
Cheating i know, but I only read Batman stories and Judge Dredd.
Pick up: Green Lantern: Rebirth, Green Lantern: Secret Origin, and Sinestro Corps. War vo.1 & vol. 2. If you're new to green lantern pick up these four trades and you'll be pretty much caught up on everything GL. There are other great reads but the four mentioned above are essentials.
The “powers-don't-work-on-yellow” gimmick was more or less written out of the comic book storyline in 1994, so the jokes are dated. Scott's recommendations are good ones, though I'm a creaky old-timer and prefer the early Green Lantern from the 1960s. Those stories are collected (in black-and-white) in the “Showcase Presents: Green Lantern” paperback series.
Yeah, the yellow weakness is only for rookies now. I agree Bob there is some good stuff in those old collections but Johns' new stuff is tailor made for a new fan. For someone that has never read a GL story before, the trades I mentioned are a perfect jumping on point that lays out who everyone is and what their role in the GL universe is. After reading the four trades, a love of the Green Lantern Corps will likely be sparked and translate to picking up those old school stories because they are also a great deal of fun.
do this. corps war is aaawesome.
I was going to say this. Also Wikipedia can pretty much cover your ass on what all took place before this.
Awesome concept art in my opinion, hope it turns out to look similar to that.
That's alright, I was never a fan of the Marvel Universe. Probably since I grew up in a time when Image comics and other breakout comic publishers were changing the market. I grew up on titles like Spawn, Ghost Rider, Witchblade, Fathom, The Darkness and Hellboy.
So from the Marvel universe all I read was Ghost Rider, and a few X-Men series. As far as DC I don't think I've picked up anything from them, with the exception of a few mini-series from their subsidiary Wildstorm (one of which could be turned into a pretty sick action/adventure film).
Comic books have a great wealth of screen adaptation potential, when you think about it they are half-way there. They already have some pretty detailed storyboards to work off of. (if only it worked that way).
Pick up: Green Lantern: Rebirth, Green Lantern: Secret Origin, and Sinestro Corps. War vo.1 & vol. 2. If you're new to green lantern pick up these four trades and you'll be pretty much caught up on everything GL. There are other great reads but the four mentioned above are essentials.
The “powers-don't-work-on-yellow” gimmick was more or less written out of the comic book storyline in 1994, so the jokes are dated. Scott's recommendations are good ones, though I'm a creaky old-timer and prefer the early Green Lantern from the 1960s. Those stories are collected (in black-and-white) in the “Showcase Presents: Green Lantern” paperback series.
Yeah, the yellow weakness is only for rookies now. I agree Bob there is some good stuff in those old collections but Johns' new stuff is tailor made for a new fan. For someone that has never read a GL story before, the trades I mentioned are a perfect jumping on point that lays out who everyone is and what their role in the GL universe is. After reading the four trades, a love of the Green Lantern Corps will likely be sparked and translate to picking up those old school stories because they are also a great deal of fun.
do this. corps war is aaawesome.
I was going to say this. Also Wikipedia can pretty much cover your ass on what all took place before this.
Awesome concept art in my opinion, hope it turns out to look similar to that.
That's alright, I was never a fan of the Marvel Universe. Probably since I grew up in a time when Image comics and other breakout comic publishers were changing the market. I grew up on titles like Spawn, Ghost Rider, Witchblade, Fathom, The Darkness and Hellboy.
So from the Marvel universe all I read was Ghost Rider, and a few X-Men series. As far as DC I don't think I've picked up anything from them, with the exception of a few mini-series from their subsidiary Wildstorm (one of which could be turned into a pretty sick action/adventure film).
Comic books have a great wealth of screen adaptation potential, when you think about it they are half-way there. They already have some pretty detailed storyboards to work off of. (if only it worked that way).