The animated DoFP was a conflation of the comic version and Bishop's story. Bishop is from an entirely different alternate future in the comics, a future that only barely resembles the cartoon version. Forge's involvement, for example, was pretty much them trying to get his character more screen time on the cartoon show.
Recap time!
In the comics, Bishop's is a future in which there are no surviving X-Men except one, an old man called the Witness, because he was the one who saw it all (he's very clearly an older Gambit). His cryptic remarks to Bishop and a scrambled recording of Jean Grey are all he has to go on. They lead him to suspect that Gambit was himself the traitor.
He doesn't actually go back to prevent the betrayal; he goes back to capture a psycho mutant called Fitzroy who travels back to our present to escape. In the process, he and Fitzroy both get stranded and Bishop's two best friends die. He stays with the X-Men to learn the truth. As said above, the Onslaught arc resolves this.
Good call, because, you know, DD's girlfriends have the life expectancy of a Spinal Tap drummer.
This is why Matt Murdock and Jean Grey should have been a couple. Dying girlfriend problem solved!
Hal's not the Original GL.
Just the best-known and brightest.
I'd take issue with that last. I'm more a fan of Alan Scott than Hal Jordan, though I'll admit that the Denny O'Neil run was the best-written treatment of Green Lantern.
I'd take issue with that last. I'm more a fan of Alan Scott than Hal Jordan, though I'll admit that the Denny O'Neil run was the best-written treatment of Green Lantern.
Well, in the comics, it was always said later on that Hal Jordan was the greatest Green Lantern of them all, unitl he went nuts.
Yeah, what Jeff said.
My personal Green Lantern is John. John rocks. Then it's a toss-up between Alan and Kyle. Then Hal, then Guy. But in the 'verse, Hal's the one that you measure GLs by.
Hee!
Just read my store's preview copy of Astonishing Xmen #2!
Just one very minor spoiler to say about it.
Lockheed rules
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My personal Green Lantern is John. John rocks.
Dude. That's like saying Tim Dalton's the best Bond! (:
Dude. That's like saying Tim Dalton's the best Bond! (:
Nuh-uh!
Though I'd say that saying Guy's the best GL is like saying Moore's the best Bond.
John Stewart rocks. And I'm NOT just saying that because of toon canon conflation.
Question about Identity Crisis #1 of no real importance, but my only familiarity with the Teen Titans is from the cartoon. (Not sure if this even counts as spoilery, but just in case.) I recognized all the other cartoon Titans in the funeral scene, but I didn't see Raven. Is she still around?
John Stewart rocks. And I'm NOT just saying that because of toon canon conflation.
See, this I just don't get. John always strikes me as kind of a vacuum, except when he was an ex-Green Lantern, in which case he became a slightly more nuanced character. In JLA lately, he's been pretty much a blank slate.
Kyle, on the other hand, rocks. Still, love him though I do, I'm big on the classics: Alan Scott is the OTL.
And Kalshane, I.C. probably takes place before the most recent Titans story, where Raven is returning. (Unfortunately, as a pawn of Brother Blood. Otherwise, Raven's been mostly absent for the past few years, poping upin Titans on occassion, but not really involved with them.
See, this I just don't get. John always strikes me as kind of a vacuum, except when he was an ex-Green Lantern, in which case he became a slightly more nuanced character. In JLA lately, he's been pretty much a blank slate.
Is GL one of your regular reads? Because I fell for him in GL, not in JLA.
Not shockingly, I think I fell for him under Winick's run.
