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One last Blackest Night nugget
Re: the Blackest Night #5 cover and revelations, just two words: called it.
And I went off about one aspect of the myriad chromatic corps in a comment to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
daethkow that bears repeating, but in short: I hate the oaths --
There is nothing magical, profound, evocative or even moderately interesting about the AABBCCDD rhyme scheme anymore, Geoff. If I'm making my own Corduroy Lantern Corps and I would like it to not be a watered-down ditto-mark version of the GLC, I dare say I would (a) eschew having an oath at all (b) probably just make an oath a random garble of obscenities (c) just scream (d) at the very least I would not use the same goddamned rhyme scheme every time. I'm going to go out on a huge limb here and say that, yes, the idea of the blood-spewing, hate-saturated Red Lanterns having an oath at all beyond WHARRGARBL is insipid. The GLC oath is tolerated because it's tradition and it's corny but we forgive the things that endure. I suffer enough abysmal poetry in the real world, I don't need to see Ragecat and Ranx the Sentient City suffering from antiquated rhymes unless they're writing for the Jonas Brothers (which would explain a great deal).
Revelation: Oh, God, there already is a Corduroy Lantern Corps: the FFA. Suddenly zombies aren't quite as scary as they used to be.
And I went off about one aspect of the myriad chromatic corps in a comment to
daethkow that bears repeating, but in short: I hate the oaths --There is nothing magical, profound, evocative or even moderately interesting about the AABBCCDD rhyme scheme anymore, Geoff. If I'm making my own Corduroy Lantern Corps and I would like it to not be a watered-down ditto-mark version of the GLC, I dare say I would (a) eschew having an oath at all (b) probably just make an oath a random garble of obscenities (c) just scream (d) at the very least I would not use the same goddamned rhyme scheme every time. I'm going to go out on a huge limb here and say that, yes, the idea of the blood-spewing, hate-saturated Red Lanterns having an oath at all beyond WHARRGARBL is insipid. The GLC oath is tolerated because it's tradition and it's corny but we forgive the things that endure. I suffer enough abysmal poetry in the real world, I don't need to see Ragecat and Ranx the Sentient City suffering from antiquated rhymes unless they're writing for the Jonas Brothers (which would explain a great deal).
Revelation: Oh, God, there already is a Corduroy Lantern Corps: the FFA. Suddenly zombies aren't quite as scary as they used to be.
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I read that the first time as a little ABBA.
And then my nervous system shut down.
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Lanterns Green
Strong and fast
With our power rings
Lanterns Green
See us fight
Forces that are mean -- yeah!
We can fly
We can shine
Punish our foes for their crimes -- woo oo oo
Evil ones
Flee the scene
We are the Lanterns Green
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Bravo. Truth be told, I like the limerick better, but bra-vo. As in the vernacular, you win an Internet.