March 2012 ~ The Blog of OA

3/31/12

Animated Series Episode 5 "Heir Apparent" Review

3/31/2012

A few episodes into the animated series and with every one I end up saying to myself that this is the best of the series only to have that trumped the following Saturday. It's a wonderful problem to have and this week's installment, "Heir Apparent', continues the trend. With a script by Jennifer Keene that pulls from the rich history found in the Green Lantern comics the audience is treated to the origin of a fan favorite character and more great character moments that continues to define the traits of our main cast.

On Betrassus, a world where feudal society meets futuristic technology, the crew of the Interceptor arrives with hopes to recruit the Green Lantern of the sector, Dulock [sp], and when he goes missing before taking the hand of Queen Iolande it's up to Hal to prevent a Betrassian warrior from getting the crown while he and the crew solve the mystery of the missing Green Lantern.

3/31/2012

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Green Lantern: New Guardians has had a wonderful buildup in terms of bringing together characters which should be at each others' throats and slowly melding them together into a unique team. While they certainly aren't friends (yet), the alliance being built between the various Corps of the emotional spectrum is compelling and it's what motivates me to look forward to this title each and every month. Tony Bedard's solid writing and Tyler Kirkham's great artwork doesn't hurt, either. This week's seventh issue of the series provides some more great character moments and a compelling back story for Invictus - and perhaps a little bit more in terms of DC's cosmic history.

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Saint Walker remains the last New Guardian standing from the assault of Invictus in issue six and the Blue Lantern's attempt to heal Invictus' pain is rewarded with getting a glimpse at the distant past when Invictus was one of many beings from the Vegan star system who brought peace and prosperity to the planets in the system such as Okaara, Tamaran and, surprisingly, Maltus.

Clips for Green Lantern Animated Series "Heir Apparent"

3/30/2012

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The Cartoon Network has provided clips from the March 31st episode of Green Lantern: The Animated Series, "Heir Apparent". In the fifth episode of the series the crew of the Interceptor travels to Betrassus, a world steeped in a medieval culture with high tech trimmings, where they become embroiled in a murder investigation that could bring down Queen Iolande's kingdom before it even begins. The clips shows glimpses of the growing relationship between Razer and Aya as well as some fun action sequences.

Green Lantern: The Animated Series airs on the Cartoon Network Saturday mornings at 10am and is available for digital download from Amazon on Demand, iTunes, PSN and the Zune Marketplace on the Xbox 360.

3/30/2012

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The McDonald's Happy Meal promotion for Green Lantern: The Animated Series starts today. Along with the Green Lantern themed toys kids can also find Green Lantern related items in the McDonald's online virtual world, the suitably titled McWorld. The Green Lantern presence in McWorld includes getting a power battery by reciting the oath and constructs awarded by entered "mcodes" from Happy Meals.

The Happy Meal toys include light up figures of Hal and Razer, push button activated action Hal and Kilowog, a disk launching Interceptor and a light up ring and mask.

The Happy Meal toy lineup

Your reward for reciting the oath in McWorld

April Episode Schedule for Green Lantern Animated Series

3/28/2012

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The Cartoon Network has released a schedule of the upcoming episodes of Green Lantern: The Animated Series for April and the beginning of May, including a brief synopsis of some of the upcoming shows that contains some spoilers.

April 7th, 2012 at 10:00am (ET/PT) "Lost Planet"
Hal and his team follow an errant Green Lantern ring to a mysterious planet, looking for a new Green Lantern. The debut of Saint Walker!

April 14th, 2012 at 10:00am (ET/PT) - "Reckoning"
Razer goes to the Red Lantern home world Shard in an attempt to kill Atrocitus!

April 21st, 2012 at 10:00am (ET/PT) - "Fear Itself"
Hal and Kilowog visit an alien planet in search of food, but encounter two warring races of aliens.

Saturday, April 28th, 2012 at 10:00am (ET/PT) - "In Love and War"
Introducing the Star Sapphires!

Saturday, May 5th, 2012 at 10:00am (ET/PT) - "Regime Change"
No details available

3/28/2012

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USA Today recently published an article on the Green Lantern animated series with comments from one of the show's producers, Giancarlo Volpe, discussing the tone of the new show. Online the feature includes a video that includes comments from Josh Keaton (Hal Jordan), Kevin Michael Richardson (Kilowog) and Grey DeLisle (Aya).

Source: USA Today

Animated Series Episode 4 "Into the Abyss" Review

3/25/2012

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With each new episode of Green Lantern: The Animated Series I find myself truly reconnecting with my inner child, and I wholly mean that in the best possible way. As I sit and watch each episode I catch myself smiling a lot, not just from the humor that the writer's have put in each episode but because the team behind this show has really captured the elements of the Green Lantern mythology that made me latch onto it in first place. From the goals and mission of the Corps to the imagination stirring science fiction concepts to the characterization of Hal Jordan, a man who will go to any length to do the right thing no matter what. And that leaves me feeling so positive about the notion that out there somewhere kids are getting exposed to this and feeling the same thing and hopefully illustrating some important life lessons along the way.

Podcast of Oa Episode 18

3/23/2012

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In this episode of the Podcast of Oa hosts Bill Giancoli and Myron Rumsey talk about the latest episode of the new Green Lantern animated series, “Razer’s Edge”. Things pickup with the seventh issue of Red Lanterns with Bleez leading the team while Atrocitus confronts some of the demons from his past and Rankorr makes his entrance on Ysmault.

We also discuss the start to the “Secret of the Indigo Tribe” story in the pages of Green Lantern #7 and share some Green Lantern news, plus we get an audio response to our last Kilowog Challenge.

Clips for Green Lantern Animated Series "Into the Abyss"

3/22/2012

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A new episode of Green Lantern: The Animated Series debuts Saturday morning, March 24th, at 10am (EST) on the Cartoon Network and the channel has provides a video clip from the episode titled "Into the Abyss". According to the provided synopsis of the episode Hal and Kilowog are called upon to rescue a ship and its cargo from being pulled into a space anomaly. Tensions arise between Kilowog and Razer when the Green Lantern's trust is challenged.

Green Lantern Corps #7 Review

3/21/2012

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With the battle with the Keepers over all that's left to do is pick up the pieces and honor the dead. This is the focus of issue seven of Green Lantern Corps and the repercussions of John Stewart's decision in issue six to break Kirrt's neck start to emerge as he chooses to deliver the fallen comrade's body to his family.

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On Oa Morro delivers Kirrt's final rites in the crypts of Oa and it quickly becomes clear that John Stewart has witheld the true nature of Kirrt's last moments, painting him as the one who broke them free from their captivity and dying in the process. Guy Gardner is called before the Guardians who begin to take him to task for executing two Sinestro Corps members to gain an advantage against the Keepers but the human relates his actions to those of the United States at the end of World War II and the choice to kill thousands in order to presumably save millions.

Animated Series Episode 3 "Razer's Edge" Review

3/18/2012

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Since the sneak peek two part Green Lantern: The Animated Series debut this past November I've been counting the days until we had a chance to see more of the CG series on the Cartoon Network. The "Beware My Power...." episodes provided us with a great look at what to expect when the new episodes began airing and this week the third episode of the series, "Razer's Edge", provided us with a look at Razer's backstory as well as the first appearance of the Spider Guild.

The episode revolves around Hal and Kilowog dropping the Red Lantern Razer off on a prison planet run by the Spider Guild, who this continuity are not the ancient enemies of the Guardians they are in the comics. The leader of the prison, Myglom takes Razer off to his cell and the Green Lanterns depart on the Interceptor. When an escaped prisoner is discovered hiding out on their ship, Hal and Kilowog recapture him, but when the creature, Goggan, tells them of the torture the prisoners live with Hal calls for an investigation, nobly pointing out that justice is justice for everyone, even the criminals.

Green Lantern Animated Series News from WonderCon

3/17/2012

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Giancarlo Volpe

Yesterday WonderCon kicked off the opening of the convention season in Anaheim, California and today during day two's activities DC Entertainment hosted a special DC Nation panel talking about the new Cartoon Network programming. Green Lantern: The Animated Series producers Giancarlo Volpe and Jim Krieg were on hand to talk about the new show and show off a four and a half minute reel of footage showing off some great things we can expect to see this season.

During the panel the producers hinted at seeing Sinestro at some point down the road and when asked during the Q&A about characters like Guy Gardner and Kyle Rayner Krieg responded that we might see some characters "like them". Volpe also responded to a call for a Blackest Night type of story in the animated series to which he replied that he has an idea of how to do it and whether or not they could do an adaptation would depend on the success of the show.

The following reel was shared with those in attendance and does contain some spoilers about some of the characters we will see in upcoming weeks, so anyone who doesn't want to know should not watch the video.

3/17/2012

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The Secret of the Indigo Tribe is a story arc I've really be looking forward to since Geoff Johns first mentioned it a while ago. Of all the groups making use of the power of the emotional spectrum the enigmatic Indigo Tribe has really sparked my curiosity with their unusual language and the way in which they are chosen and, well, perhaps indoctrinated into the group. Plus there's the intriguing connection between the Tribe and Abin Sur that sparks a bit of creative speculation about how Hal's predecessor might connect to them which fuels me between issues. This week the seventh issue of the post relaunch Green Lantern title kicks off the new story arc and it looks like we are in for another spectacular journey.

3/17/2012

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There have been a lot of plots running through the Red Lanterns series but as many fans will point out there doesn't seem to have been a traditionally defined storyline through the first six issues. That's not to say that the book has been completely scatter-shot as we've started to see some cross between the various plotlines. In issue six most of the pages were dedicated to establishing Rankorr as the second Red Lantern of Earth, but unlike Dex-Starr the human recruit has shown to be a little different than most members of the rage brigade. This issue starts to pull some of these subplots together and it seems that we are on a collision course for a major upheaval in the ranks of the Red Lanterns.

3/17/2012

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People either love Guy Gardner or hate him, but as the second Green Lantern of Earth the outspoken red head has a long and storied history dating back to 1968. Like Hal Jordan, Guy Gardner was created by legendary comic book creators John Broome and Gil Kane, however many fans know very little about the history of the man who could have been chosen over Hal and the history that has shaped him into the character we love and hate today.

Clips for Green Lantern Animated Series "Razer's Edge"

3/14/2012

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A new episode of Green Lantern: The Animated Series debuts this Saturday morning at 10am (EST) on the Cartoon Network and the channel has provide two video clips from the episode titled "Razer's Edge". According to the provided synopsis of the episode Hal and Kilowog are ordered to drop Razer off at a prison asteroid operated by the Spider Guild. When the escaped creature Goggan tells them that the prison is not as it really seems, Hal and Kilowog must return to the prison asteroid to rescue Razer and bring down the Spider Guild.