Green Lantern VS Spider-Man !

[Megospidey]

there's an old saying:

Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege. Just messing with you BK.

Spiderman is Spiderman. GL is a ring. Without it he's pretty useless. End of argument.

[VintageMike]

Spider-Man is a more intresting character with abetter supporting cast. Hal Jordan may be "cool" but Peter Parker's real-life problems make him easier for a reader to relate too.

[BlackKnight]

Spider-Man is a more intresting character with abetter supporting cast.

You Don't get out Much Huh ?
Maybe When you are 6 reading a comicbook from the 70's,.. I can understand some of the Apeal. ... But we are not talking about that ,.. & Spider-man is Far from a more interesting character,... His story has been told far to much ,.. it has become tiresome.

The Dude lives with his Aunt,.. & runs around life completely consumed by some chick,.... Yeah, more Interesting if your a Psycho ....



& Like I stated Before,..
Don't even get me started on that Far Fetched BS that we are Lead to Believe this guy Just Magically showed up one Day,.. & with no Prior experience Sewed that suit Flawless for the 1st time touching a Needle. Yeah, right... We alllllll Know who customize,.. what our 1st yr of sewing looked like,.. let alone the 1st suit we sewed.

There is Nothing that can be more interesting in Life than Space,.. Aliens & the Unexplained UnKnown & Questioning of it all.

[thunderbolt]

^^ And of course BK knows all about living in space.

[thunderbolt]

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

This one's my fave. One of the very few highlights in All Star Batman

[Timothy2251]

Hell, I like 'em both! Always have! I favor Spidey far more, but in all honesty, both characters have had highs and lows recently.

On a strict power basis, GL would mop the floor with Spidey, likely from a near-Earth orbit if he was so inclined, but that'd be a very dull story. Sort of like knowing that Superman could tear Batman apart in a heartbeat whenever he wanted, but it's more interesting to see Batman get a couple of licks in (I do want to see Superman flex a pinky and send Batman clear across Gotham at least once, just for some payback from all the times he's gotten his keister kicked though).

Besides, the real winner this round is Ryan Reynolds - a new franchise means steady work, lots of cash and likely points on the back-end, and he gets to go home to Scarlet Johansson, whereas we get to argue about which superhero would win in a fight.

Damn you, Reynolds!!!!

[BlackKnight]

All Green Lantern Would Have to do is Create a Giant Fly Swatter outta His Ring & Smack Spider-man once,.. Like he did in the Toon. End of the Wall Crawler... Nuff said.

[BlackKnight]

^^ And of course BK knows all about living in space.

No,.. I don't,.. but Nore does anybody... The Un-Explained is what Makes it More Interesting.

[thunderbolt]

We really don't know about being bit by a radioactive spider either.

[BlackKnight]

^^^ Yeah,.. & He's suppost to still look Human,.. & Not wanna suck everyone from the Inside out ? Nice Idea Stan..... way to go.

[jds1911a1]

I love GL (obvoisly I am patrial to the original) but it's unfair to compare spiderman to GL. The ring is a nearly omnipotent deux ex machinea. It gets changed to meet the desire of the writer to give gl the driver for the story. GL's book has come and gone many times over the years (hence wood weakness became yellow which is now no weakness but rather a weakness in the mind of the wearer - whatever flats the writers boat). GL had lots of lame villians before sinestro became a primary (he used to show up about as often as the JSA did in JLA). I love Hard travelling heroes but that was a taglong after marvel opened the door to address the social issues of the late 60's w xmen and racism

Spiderman was the first superhero to have real problems to correlate his issues with the kids reading it that was genius

[BlackKnight]

Again,...
It was Brought to Me as a Comparison Twice Now.
I didn't bring the Comparison idea to my head,.. it was brought there for me,.. I only posted it here.

Since the 2 Spider-Loons brought the Comparison to me,..
I thought I'd share.

And when you Really Know the Mythos & the Idea of the Green Lantern,.. & then the Idea & Blantent Idiocracy of Stan Lee's Spider-man That is really a Tounge & Cheek Character on Many Levels.... Yes,.. you are right,.. there is No Comparison,... Green Lantern is & really always has had the Ability to be a better comicbook character,... His Marketing was always just put on the back burner,. & Sucked..., next to the Big 2. But Obviously,.. Finally we are seeing what can be done,... If ofcourse, they don't mess up.

[The Sentry]

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

Yeah, as you said BK, Spiderman is the "Mickey Mouse" of comics. I mean you see him EVERYWHERE. Whereas GL is clearly the better character with a better story line and history to match.


I have said for years "Make mine Marvel, but it seems unless Pak, Loeb, Straczynski, Millar, or Bruebaker (With the ecception being "Rebirth" thanks for jacking the story up Joe Q.) is writing I can't seem to enjoy Marvel anymore.


D.C. is bringing out obscure characters both heroic and villian and raising the bar on levels Marvel WISHES it could. The so-called "House of Ideas" has been running out since the 1990's. Hulk has been the only comic I have faithfully kept up with. But if Bendis gets to writing him, oh boy...........

but back to the sub, Johns has really outdid himself with the Blackest Night setup, and Morrison has as well with the Batman and Robin stuff. It's all so fluid now, the time lines match up, and stuff is really getting interresting with GL, Johns sold me on his projects, don't get me started on Spiderman and the follies of what they have done to him...............

Lee Harrah of sector 2814 has spoken.

Hulk and

[The Sentry]

All Green Lantern Would Have to do is Create a Giant Fly Swatter outta His Ring & Smack Spider-man once,.. Like he did in the Toon. End of the Wall Crawler... Nuff said.

God I wished I saw this before I posted what I posted.



Brilliant man, just brilliant!

[Megospidey]

Again,...
It was Brought to Me as a Comparison Twice Now.
I didn't bring the Comparison idea to my head,.. it was brought there for me,.. I only posted it here.

Since the 2 Spider-Loons brought the Comparison to me,..
I thought I'd share.

Um...no that's not how it started. You asked if anyone was reading Green Lantern these days.

I posted, no, I'm not, but I bet you're not reading any 70's Romita Spiderman either are you?

And then you went into the GL vs. Spiderman rant.

THAT....is how it went down.