Now Officially Out Of Fingers
ENTRY #47
1005.05
This week (today, as a matter of fact) saw the release of the first issue of Brightest Day, the follow up to DC's series Blackest Night. And DC Comics was bringing out one more promotional ring in conjunction with Brightest Day #1 -- the White Lantern power ring.
Now, based on a few comments that I have read on DC's official blog, the promotional rings have been very popular with the fans. No, make that very popular. As I mentioned once before, I suspect that DC didn't realize just how popular they would be until after Blackest Night #1 hit the stands. I really think that if DC had known how popular the rings would be, they would have released a different ring with each of the eight issues of Blackest Night, instead of the month-long event in November.
And based on some of those same comments, there have been a few detractors of the rings. Apparently, some of the people at Marvel Comics have derided the rings as being mere "Cracker Jack prizes." I think that has to be sour grapes on Marvel's part. They don't have anything similar, no character that uses rings for his/her superpowers. Wait, I take that back. There is one character that obtains various superpowers through the use of rings -- of 10 different rings, as a matter of fact. Unfortunately for Marvel, the Mandarin is a supervillain, and I don't know if they would be able to generate as much interest in a set of Mandarin's rings, even if they tried to do them as a tie-in with an Iron Man movie.
I'm kind of getting away from the original point of this entry, aren't I?
Anyway . . . as I mentioned, Brightest Day #1 was one of this week's new releases, and a stop by The Great Escape was on the agenda for today. (Since it's also my day off, I didn't have to worry about that always annoying matter about coordinating things so I could get to work on time.) From what I can tell, The Great Escape had ordered plenty of copies, so that wasn't a worry. I made my selections, and I received the ring at the register when I paid for them.
I think the white ring may be the best one yet. It gleams with a mother of pearl-like shimmer. Simply put, they picked the right color of plastic for the ring. And like I did with all of the rings since I discovered the yellow ring with the Blue Lantern symbol, I took a close look at the symbol on the face of the ring. It has the right symbol.
I even put on all of the rings so I could admire them for a few minutes. It might make for a good photo, but I really can't do anything while wearing all 10 of them, because they are just a little bit bulky. As I discovered back in November, it's difficult to type while wearing more than one on each hand. Here's how I was wearing them:
Black -- Left pinky
Red -- Left ring
Orange -- Left middle
Yellow -- Left index
Flash -- Left thumb
Green -- Right thumb
Blue -- Right index
Indigo -- Right middle
Violet -- Right ring
White -- Right pinky
I mentioned that it might be really cool if DC released a replica of the Legion flight ring for the new Legion Of Super-Heroes series that will be starting in a couple of weeks. There is just one little problem, though.
If DC does release a promotional LSH ring, where am I going to wear it? I've run out of fingers!
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1005.05
This week (today, as a matter of fact) saw the release of the first issue of Brightest Day, the follow up to DC's series Blackest Night. And DC Comics was bringing out one more promotional ring in conjunction with Brightest Day #1 -- the White Lantern power ring.
Now, based on a few comments that I have read on DC's official blog, the promotional rings have been very popular with the fans. No, make that very popular. As I mentioned once before, I suspect that DC didn't realize just how popular they would be until after Blackest Night #1 hit the stands. I really think that if DC had known how popular the rings would be, they would have released a different ring with each of the eight issues of Blackest Night, instead of the month-long event in November.
And based on some of those same comments, there have been a few detractors of the rings. Apparently, some of the people at Marvel Comics have derided the rings as being mere "Cracker Jack prizes." I think that has to be sour grapes on Marvel's part. They don't have anything similar, no character that uses rings for his/her superpowers. Wait, I take that back. There is one character that obtains various superpowers through the use of rings -- of 10 different rings, as a matter of fact. Unfortunately for Marvel, the Mandarin is a supervillain, and I don't know if they would be able to generate as much interest in a set of Mandarin's rings, even if they tried to do them as a tie-in with an Iron Man movie.
I'm kind of getting away from the original point of this entry, aren't I?
Anyway . . . as I mentioned, Brightest Day #1 was one of this week's new releases, and a stop by The Great Escape was on the agenda for today. (Since it's also my day off, I didn't have to worry about that always annoying matter about coordinating things so I could get to work on time.) From what I can tell, The Great Escape had ordered plenty of copies, so that wasn't a worry. I made my selections, and I received the ring at the register when I paid for them.
I think the white ring may be the best one yet. It gleams with a mother of pearl-like shimmer. Simply put, they picked the right color of plastic for the ring. And like I did with all of the rings since I discovered the yellow ring with the Blue Lantern symbol, I took a close look at the symbol on the face of the ring. It has the right symbol.
I even put on all of the rings so I could admire them for a few minutes. It might make for a good photo, but I really can't do anything while wearing all 10 of them, because they are just a little bit bulky. As I discovered back in November, it's difficult to type while wearing more than one on each hand. Here's how I was wearing them:
Black -- Left pinky
Red -- Left ring
Orange -- Left middle
Yellow -- Left index
Flash -- Left thumb
Green -- Right thumb
Blue -- Right index
Indigo -- Right middle
Violet -- Right ring
White -- Right pinky
I mentioned that it might be really cool if DC released a replica of the Legion flight ring for the new Legion Of Super-Heroes series that will be starting in a couple of weeks. There is just one little problem, though.
If DC does release a promotional LSH ring, where am I going to wear it? I've run out of fingers!
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