Green Lantern VS Spider-Man !

[BlackKnight]

Green Lantern
DC
Cosmic Powers
Fly's
Air Craft Pilot
Womenizer
Has is Own Place
High Ranking Officer of the Corps
Member of the JLA

List of Copy Cat Super Hero's ...
Gardner
Rayner
KiloWog
Stewart
& about 100+ Members of the Corps

Foes

Cosmic Power Beings & the Dead ...


Spider-MAN
Marvel
Shoots Webs/ Sticks to Stuff
Swings
Photograhper
Has His Balls in Some Chicks Purse
Lives with His Aunt
No Rank
Member of Some Lame-O Avengers Team

List of Copy Cats

Spider-Woman
Spider Girl
Ben Riley

Foes

Psychotic Loons that Dress Up in Cheap Halloween Costumes

WINNER !!!
Green Lantern.

[thunderbolt]

Oh, brother. Comparing GL to Spidey is apples and oranges. GL's enemies list didn't get de-lame-ified until recently. Before that it was idiots like the Shark, Sonar, Goldface and a certain yellow ringed doppleganger.

[Marvelmania]

Ironman would be a better match up. Maybe even Wonder Man.

[The Toyroom]

Like T-bolt said, it's comparing apples and oranges....

As far as modern reading, Green Lantern is currently much more interesting. Spider-Man just isn't SPIDER-MAN to me anymore.....One More Day/Brand New Day was the last straw.

But a few years ago, when Hal Jordan became a crazy bastiche as Parallax and then became a lame-o as The Spectre, who would have thought the character would have had such a turnaround?

Everything in comics is cyclical....I'm sure Spider-Man will be SPIDER-MAN once again....just not at the moment.

[BlackKnight]

Oh, brother. Comparing GL to Spidey is apples and oranges. GL's enemies list didn't get de-lame-ified until recently. Before that it was idiots like the Shark, Sonar, Goldface and a certain yellow ringed doppleganger.

Ohhh,.. I know... But the Arguement of the Aledgid Awesomeness of Spider-Man over Green Lantern,.. Has come to me Now Twice,.. By 2 Different People. Given everything I know About Green Lantern,.. & Everything I know About Spider-man..., Hands down,.. GL IS King. .. I just wanted to Write it down for those people.

[Earth 2 Chris]

I'm a DC guy, and love GL. Love Alan Scott. Love Hal. Love the Corps concept. Big Gil Kane fan. But Spidey is right behind Superman and Batman for greatest and most influential comic character ever, and nowadays, I'd say he is just as popular in the general public as Supes and Bats (maybe even more than Supes).

Chris

[BlackKnight]

^^^^ I agree.
But that in NOOOOOOO Way Means he is/was/now a better comicbook character Idea...., He was just Marketed Better.

[thunderbolt]

Spidey has been treated better by his publisher. GL has been canned and restarted how many times? Not to mention replaced at least twice(at one point so lame, DC killed him) that I can think of.

[huedell]

It's hard to overcome just the overall popularity of any given character
and just to stand on it's own merits as a character ALONE.

The legacies of BATMAN, SPIDER-MAN etc. are so strong...well...you know...

Anyways, Hal Jordan has a real Tony Stark/Bruce Wayne
"cool guy" thing going for him---except Hal doesn't have the dough---
and in my eyes that makes him even more "cool" in many respects
than Stark/Wayne.

Between Hal's dense history (which isn't as "big-time" as the top guys
but still "strong") and his overall character/powers---there's a real
good chance that a live action feature featuring "Hal" GL could really
hit a home run.

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

Green Lantern: Rendered powerless by yellow paint. Runs on batteries.
Spider Man: Always super strong and agile.

Doesn't seem so cut and dry.

Don C.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Green Lantern: Rendered powerless by yellow paint. Runs on batteries.

HA! My favorite "powerless against yellow" scene of all time was in New Teen Titans #4. The Titans are forced to attack the JLA, and Robin puts his yellow cape over GL's ring hand and kicks him right in the face!

Again, I love GL, but that was priceless!!!

I think Spider-Man's one weakeness is Marvel's inability to publish a good Spidey story in the past 17 or so years.

Chris

[bobbait]

hal GL is just a copy of Alan GL

Spidys an original

[JediJaida]

Something just occurred to me: Since the ring runs on the battery, and needs recharging every 24 hours, why not transform the battery into a ring?

That way, it's ALWAYS charged up!

Or does that make too much sense?

I never understood that weakness for ALL yellow objects; to me that's just a cop-out.

[ctc]

>I never understood that weakness for ALL yellow objects

Super powers work a lot like voodoo. Voodoo is "sympathetic" magic. That is, I can cause an effect on a target by causing a SIMILAR effect on a SIMILAR target. Super powers are based on something that's sort of like something somewhat related. To wit:

-Spiderman gets bit by a radioactive spider, so he gets powers like a spider.
-Green lantern's power is based on green, yellow is a component of green, so it has special power over his abilities.

Ultimately there's no REAL reason to any of it. The theme just kinda pulls it together. Sort of. (Considering how many I've squished over the years, I don't think real spiders have precognitive abilities.)

Don C.

[JPkempo]

Spiderman
3 Block buster films making Millions of $$$

Green Lantern
Strait to DVD cartoon

Win Spiderman