There's a chapter in a Wonder Woman story arc that had the title : Total Eclipso: The Heart (I also just posted a comment about it, only with more info)
How could Hal not have been listening to Bruce; did he not hear the heartbreaking music that was going on in the background that totally set the mood? No, instead he left poor Bruce to monologue on without anyone listening to him. How could Hal Jordan do this!
Wow I can’t believe he would ignore Bruce’s feelings for him that he’s been trying so hard to figure out how to put into words. This soap opera really is holding us at the edge of our seats
Is it bad that I totally love Hal? I mean, I understand the salt and all, but there's just something about him that I love. Even when he's being his clutsy self (especially). I think I really love that one time that Jason was redhead (I have a thing) and he just went and poisoned the entire Blackgate criminals that were jailed. And he's just reading damn it! Yeah, dunno if that is a bad reason to love it but I can't, for the life of me, think of anything else at the top of my head.
This was done really well in in Justice League Unlimited : Flash and Substance, where he just talks down the trickster in a bar, its something that really sets the flash apart from other heroes, how he actually cares and wants to help people. Also, fuck yeah, Mark Hamil reprising his role from the 90's live action series.
Poor Hal Jordan is a mess. When you really sit down and read a bunch of his stories, you can see how manic depressive he is. One minute he's talking smack and yelling about how brave he is. The next he's falling apart and on the verge of being suicidal. If anyone should have been at the ranch in Heroes in Crisis, it probably should have been Hal. That dude needs to see a psychiatrist. Who isn't a super-villain. Eclipso is probably more well-adjusted than Hal. And they say Guy Gardener is nuts. At least Guy embraces his quirks. Hal has to start over and reinvent himself about every four or five years. Only to end up in a bigger mess.
Hal was always a mess. I wouldn't be surprised that this story was retconned to being possessed by Parallax, though this was in the 80's so everyone at DC probably forgot the story. GL have so much power, only limited by the storage (which seems to change when needed) and imagination, and Hal still seems to underwhelm.
Didn't Barry also slip and knock himself out one time? I think it was due to a mirror on the floor and caused him to miss a date with Iris. Slipping and knocking oneself out, the #1 nemesis of superheroes.
Holy shit! I recognize Eclipso from that one episode of Justice League where the body-jumping evil force took over that general. And somebody jokingly told him that if he wanted the Justice League to show up he should put on a ridiculous costume and start tearing shit up. So many Easter eggs they'd drop into that show. I suppose with all the decades of forgotten characters to draw from, it's easy enough to just reach into the grab-bag, pull one out and blow the dust off for a 5-minute segment like that. Still, the effort is appreciated.
Bruce Gordon was also the name of an actor in the early 60s TV series, The Untouchables. He played Frank Nitti. Ask your parents. Or maybe your grandparents.
Loved me some Green Lantern as a kid. Was so happy to see GL Corps represented in the animated TimmVerse. If only for a few seconds in "The Once And Future Thing," it was cool to see Hal.
There's a chapter in the Wonder Woman story arc Amazons Attack (in which the Amazons invade and take over America (long story short: Hippolyta is under the influence of "Circe" (really, the villainess Eclipso, in disguise)), called : " Total Eclipso: The Heart " Yes, seriously.
They seem to be kind of writing Hal here as kind of a Peter Parker type of character. Nothing ever seems to go his way, his loved ones are constantly being put in danger because his actions. And as a result, he's constantly wallowing in self pity to the point of.ignoring other people's problems and making himself seem like kind of a jerk. I'm reminded of an issue of Spider-Man from the late 60's or early 70's where Peter grumbles to himself about having to walk thru a protest going on in the ESU campus, saying that the students are probably only doing this because they're bored and have nothing better to do, and he, with his relationship issues, has real problems. He even yells at one of the protesters for bothering him, trying to tell him what's going on.
Love this video. Glad to see you back. I didn't know Hal was such a dork. I'd like to hear your take on that time Hal turned evil? That would be great.
"Tom falls into the catagory for emotional pathos..." Oh god, I have a rift track for this I swear. Please lets make jokes about Tom being put in a refrigerator because an Eskimo Pie would melt otherwise
"Tells villain to go home and be good." Sounds like the CW Flash these days then. He thinks saying "Don't do this" will cause criminals to instantly reform.
I've recently been watching, and yeah enjoying, the new Super Hero Girls cartoons where Hal is an egomaniacal Invincibro. It's almost painfully easy to plug that interpretation of the character into this story.
I know this is four years later, but I just watched an episode of 'Murdoch Mysteries' were they called one of the police man (who was off duty at the time) a "dobie pie faced man" and he's a white man so maybe they did use pie face in more then just a slur... I don't know, wasn't alive back in the 60s either, but I was shocked to hear it used in a current TV show (even though it is a 1900s period based show)
At the very least, being known as a disaster human is much better than only being known for that one time you went crazy and tried to kill all the things.
Eclipso went on to become a much more significant villain, whose main power was actually possession. As for Total Eclipse of the Heart. challenge accepted, although I see someone else got one line before I even saw this :D (Turn around, bright eyes) Every now and then Hal falls apart (Turn around, bright eyes) Every now and then Hal falls apart And Bruce needs him now tonight And Bruce needs him more than ever And if he only gets the right light He'll be ruling all, forever And he'll only be making it right 'Though he'll often be wrong Together they can take it to the end of the line Hal's help is like a shadow on him all of the time (All of the time) He does not know what to do, he doesn't know the way He's powered by eclipses and Hal keeps throwing shade He really needs Hal tonight Forever's gonna start tonight Forever's gonna start tonight Once upon a time, he thought he had control Now he's only falling apart There's nothing he can do A total Eclipse 'o the heart Once upon a time there was light in his life But whenever shade puts him in the dark Nothing he can say A total Eclipse 'o the heart
You are one of my favorite on YT. i grew up in 1960 . GL was rhe bomb and Eclipso of course rhymes with calypso . So i picture him with steel drums and yelling da oh before making an attack
It's a total eclipse o' the heart! (I couldn't remember if the apostrophe went before or after the o when abbreviating like you see in poetry and song, I opted for after.)
eh its fine to read things that arent recent Sasha, im here reading the mid 2000s superman and batman series and other mid to late 2000s comics instead of like catching up to recent comics myself XD also walking disaster Hal is the only true Hal, this is just the truth, thats the only characterization that works for himXD
Could you do a video on Ultimate Jessica Drew? I could be wrong, but she always seemed like Marvel's first and often forgot trans character to me. I'd love to hear your thoughts on her.
the chad flash : villains enjoy him, hang out with him and even work with him. Also they don't kill. the virgin green lantern: villains hate him, He doesn't listen to them and they always try to kill him. Also there all pychopaths.
When darkness falls Sasha blesses us with disaster Hal! A comic I love for the wrong reasons is the silver age Lois Lane comics even though they're the worst.
Wish they never regressed Green Lantern back from Kyle Raynar to Hal, it would be like if halfway through the 70s GL run they brought Alan Scott back permanently as a replacement
01:20 Don't forget he proposed to one of his best friend's girlfriend while the former was in a coma and his girlfriend killed his other best friend's fiance and I'm not sure if any of them ever dealt with that.
was hoping you'd at some point cover the eclipso event from the late 80s; or also the bloodlines one w/ the obviously ripped off xenomorph character design since it came back about a year ago
Oh man, I have that Eclipso comic as well. I came up with the Green Lantern Axiom at one point, which basically details that the ability to sustain disbelief becomes more difficult the more fantastical elements you create. So, superheroes? One level. Aliens? Second level. Magical ring? Third level. The more you go, the harder it is to relate and understand.
Hall Jordan is the one, true greatest Green Lantern of them all! I've been reading comics since I bought Amazing Fantasy 15 off the corner drugstore spinner rack so I know.
Please woman. Hal can mess up a steel ball. Back in the wood days, every branch was a potential game changer, and didn't miss many of them. It's not "if" Hal is going to harelip the whole deal, but "how".
Okay but only because you asked PLEASE Review Batman #66. If you don't instantly recognize the story I won't tell you as it will be the salt for your review! But I lost it when you were describing Hal's only half listening skills!! Thanks!!
asking his fiance to co-sign is bad? if he has bad credit and needs to recover she could help him. normally the guy co-signs, or outright pays, for important things for their significant woman. if she is the bread winner then that would be her role in the relationship. in the end if she dumped him over it then he dodged a bullet.
No Eclipso calypso? Ah, darn! They were really trying to do something good with Green Lantern during this period, but they never quite hit the mark. But Eclipso was an interesting, if confusing, villain. I liked his brief appearance in Adventure Comics #457-458, although the Superboy lead stories didn't do much for me. As for Adam Strange, it was good to see him again, as he didn't have a regular feature during this time, but like Eclipso, only appeared sporadically in different places.
Yeah... DC was calling GL's sidekick a racial slur. It went on for a long time before they admitted it and stopped doing it. Then they had to rebrand him so they used his full name to impress it in the readers' minds.
8:14 I find it weird that you say a youtuber problem reading stuff out of order only getting 1,3, and 5 of a series is how I experienced comics. Is Michielle carter (i.e., booster gold sister) alive I don't know I skipped 7 issues and she is never brought up.
I was always a little disappointed that they never told the whole backstory of Sinestro. I mean, sure, he was already evil by the time we were introduced to him, but at some point he must have seemed to the all-knowing Guardians on Oa to be hero material, or they wouldn't have given him his ring in the first place.
What about the time Wally West Flash was shot in the chest by Vandal Savage, in front of his friends and family? I'd be interested in your take on that weird scenario.
