So, with Clone Wars arriving on DVD this week, and the discussion about comics characters in other media, I started to wonder how Superman, might interact in the Republic. But then something else occurred to me.
I am struck the Hal Jordan saga is artistically, and in quality terms, the mirror of Star Wars as Lucas has made it now:
In Star Wars we enter the story with the galactic police force already destroyed by its greatest ever member Anakin Skywalker who changes his name to Darth Vader, dies redeeming himself and comes back as a ghostly presence. And then Lucas adds a couple decades of real time later, a bunch of crap about how when the police force was in full power, it's greatest hope destroyed it.
In GL we see the galactic police force in full flower a couple decades real time before the shining member Hal Jordan destroys them all,changes his name to Parallax, dies redeeming himself, and comes back as a ghostly presence. Of course, I was right with Parallax on the whole restoring the multiverse thing.
(I'm probably completely full of crap on this, but I'm trying to scrape up a post every couple days. I used to have an elegant four word sentence for indicating when I thought I was full of crap, but I am informed it sounds needlessly hostile and defensive, and if I use it, I'll be killed by flying monkeys or something...)
Posted by Mike Chary at March 24, 2005 8:24 PM