I'm going to have to go with the Greatest Green Lantern of all time.

I'll add Salaak and Tomar-Re to my discussion -- the list is growing of which I've no problem doing so.

Ch'p!

First of all -- I'm doing both of these Green Lanterns together as a pair and right now today, I'm focusing on Simon Baz and how he came to existence and remember I'm not a fan of this character and I'll reveal my final grade of this character at the end of this discussion that will requires me -- potentially a week or 10 days to cover it. Beware, that I'm not planning on writing a whole lot and I don't want a lengthy discussion on these two characters and yet -- I find that Jessica Cruz is something that I'm more attune to her and that will be discussed when the time is right.


Simon Baz came in during the dreaded New 52 DC Reboot back in the year (September) 2011 and to me, that reboot to my opinion is a disaster in the making and I didn't care for that reboot at all. I've bought about 80 to 100 issues during the life of the New 52 and kept those issues until -- I decided to sell all of them including Earth 2 that focus on JSA and other heroes as well and I kept on buying all of those issues and kept an unbroken strings of them until I sold every issues during the course of the year around 2014-15 and used that monies to buy DC Archives and Marvel Masterworks of which -- I moved all of my issues to a very dear friend of mine that had his basement converted into a giant reading room and transported 110 DC Archives and Marvel Masterworks and between the two of us -- we have all DC Archives and Marvel Masterworks together.


I have a key to his Basement and I can come in anytime from Monday to Friday -- 9am to 4pm daily to read any of them with no problems at all. He and I worked out a great deal and I was happy to spend about 10 hours a week reading them. His house is a mere 10 minutes driving time and he has ample parking for my car.


Anyway, that's out of the way -- and now a short introduction to Simon Baz.


 My first reaction to this character -- It is Mexican Green Lantern having possess both a ring and a shiny Gun in his disposal! -- It's took me six years to finally realized that this Green Lantern is truly a Muslim -- despite members of my LCS telling me so and I did not connect that all -- I think that DC Comics owes me an apology for deceiving me and that's alone bothers me so much!






This is the closest Mexican Wrestling Mask that's somewhat resembles -- Simon Baz!


More on Simon Baz in a couple of days -- Stay Tuned Members and Guests!!

Hal Jordan. Its all been said before, but its worth repeating: his Silver Age / space age pedigree made him a compelling hero for a new age, and unlike Alan Scott--a character I always found as dry as toast left out in the sun for a week--Jordan was one of the earliest post-pulp era heroes that was suited to believably exist in the "real world" of DC's earth and the space opera side, and not just because he was placed there. He had the explorer's kind of character to pull it off.

His being so much the "Stalwart American" as Jordan was a unique addition to the aliens, scientists, rich boys and other he worked with, as (arguably) the most grounded of late 50s/early 60s superheroes alter egos. Being almost the picture of the Eisenhower/Kennedy era image of what a heroic American was, it was GL who--more than any other character--was the perfect candidate to eventually be challenged as he was with his early 70s partnership with Green Arrow, where his older-generation sensibilities had to take a slowly radicalized change, meaning he would never be the guy seen in the pages of Showcase ever again. He was the "sci-fi guy"-- the ultimate point man for the bigger, otherworldly threats, yet he was still a relatable man.

tarkintino & aquagoat -- thanks for sharing your comments, appreciate it very much!

I get to that in a day or two.