Comments | odditycollector: Beating out Zaphod Beeblebrox since 1940

odditycollector

Beating out Zaphod Beeblebrox since 1940

Jan 14, 2011 03:01

So! Who has seen the pic of Alan Scott's upcoming new costume? You?

( Now you have! )

Comments 9

count_fenring January 14 2011, 14:00:37 UTC

Logic chain of creating that costume:

Alan: Hmmm.... My name is Green Lantern, yet the RING is still the focus. What can I do to de-emphasize the RING, and emphasize the LANTERN...

I know! I'll dress up like a Lantern! It'll be like last halloween, when I made Molly dress up as a lantern, and we had a good laugh when I recited the oath while poking her tummy! And then the separation. But that's all over now, and a lantern IS I!

odditycollector January 14 2011, 18:00:17 UTC

*shakes head in his direction* This is like the plaid ties all over again, except since he's creating it out of green energy, Molly can't sneak it from the laundry and throw it away.

poisonivory January 14 2011, 22:43:09 UTC

WHAT.

odditycollector January 15 2011, 02:43:12 UTC

I think the stares of utter horror by everyone else in the pic basically sum up everything.

lovelyzelda January 14 2011, 23:49:37 UTC

Poor Alan. At least Dick Grayson had the rest of the Bat Family to stage an intervention after they saw the first few Nightwing costumes. In fact, I have decided that most of Dick's Bat-Hate phase was because Batman disapproved of his popped collar.

odditycollector January 15 2011, 02:40:12 UTC

There is no "Poor Alan" when it comes to fashion choices. He does it to himself.

Jay and Molly have probably tried to stage many an intervention over the years, but Alan is not renown for his LACK of stubbornness.

PS. Is the bit about the Bat Family disapproving of Dick's Nightwing costume collar canon? Because <3

lovelyzelda January 15 2011, 21:28:02 UTC

PS. Is the bit about the Bat Family disapproving of Dick's Nightwing costume collar canon? Because <3

I wish. As far as I can tell, Batman and Nightwing's angry phase was due to the early stages of Bat-Jerk and Nightwing's characterization as "Diet Batman". But given how every other Dick Grayson costume is a technicolor nightmare, I refuse to accept that he created the current Nightwing look on his own.

droolfangrrl January 15 2011, 01:12:47 UTC

looks like he has a light filled hole in his chest. Makes me think of Absence http://comicbookjesus.com/2010/11/30/una-nemo-in-batman-and-robin/

odditycollector January 15 2011, 07:53:44 UTC

Lol'ing. I am too familiar with the character, I guess, as I didn't notice the hole-punch effect on my own.