After Despero successfully possesses every Lantern except Jordan, the cool-headed Hal relies on a bold act of desperation to save his teammates – one that puts the fate of the Corps and the entire galaxy in the hands of Batman. After an amusing opening sequence starring the Caped Crusader and the mystical Doctor Fate, the episode dives headlong into its main story, which kicks off with a battle between the evil alien telepath Despero and an army of Green Lanterns led by Hal Jordan. If that's not enough to make your inner geek absolutely giddy, then you probably have no inner geek to speak of. Thus we're given a plot that includes such fantastic characters as Guy Gardner, the brash, loud-mouthed Green Lantern Sinestro, the hero who goes on to become the GL Corps' greatest enemy Gnort, the slobbering dog-like Lantern who resembles John Candy's character from Spaceballs in more ways than one Mogo, a sentient planet who is also the Corps' most powerful member and last but not least, Batman in a suit of armor fueled by a GL ring and his own considerable will power.
DeMatteis, is no stranger to the Green Lantern franchise, and wisely infuses the episode with as many of the characters and ideas inherent to the GL Corps that one could possibly include in a twenty-minute story. The episode's writer, veteran comics scribe J.M. To be perfectly clear, this episode's success hinges largely on its incorporation of the Green Lantern Corps, and all the rich sci-fi concepts that come along with that beloved superhero franchise.
0 kommentar(er)
