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[greenygal]

Oh...my. Finally got around to those '90s JLI issues I picked up at Dexcon (you know, Smitty, the ones I snatched out of your hands? :) and this plot is hysterical...

The bad guy has decided to stop the Justice League from interfering with him by going back in time and stopping their origins from ever happening. Cue a couple pages of Hal Jordan and Wally West going "Uh, do I know you?" "No, but you do look awfully familiar..." (No, there's no reason why they should feel that way, except to get the plot going. Anyway.)

But there's still a Green Lantern, because when Hal's origin was aborted, the job just went to Guy instead. Who, what with all his brain damage and other trauma being forestalled, is a noble, heroic man.

I'll pause while you all take that in.

So what we've got, once everybody has been filled in, is Hal Jordan horrified at the idea of taking his hero Guy Gardner's place, and Guy selflessly insisting that the proper course of history must be restored, no matter what happens to him in the process.

Hal: And if this does turn me into Green Lantern...I can only pray that I'll have half the courage and nobility of Guy Gardner!

Yes. Well. Excuse me, I'll be over here in the corner with a completely BROKEN BRAIN...

(Easter egg: In the alter-timeline, Wally's a car mechanic. Did Geoff Johns read this story?)

Comments

[miss-porcupine.livejournal.com]

Waitasec. So Guy wasn't naturally like... Guy? We have someone to blame for a knock on the head that turned him into the bowl-cut blowhard we knew and cheered when Dinah socked him?

[illmantrim.livejournal.com]

Yeah Guy was originally a good man. He had been established as having a few anger management problems but he wasnt insane like the current Guy has been.

[greenygal.livejournal.com]

It's complicated--I think the present party line is that the physical damage helped to bring out his repressed rage--but yes, basically. He was a nice guy and Hal's occasional backup until *checks* 1979, when he was put in a coma by an exploding power battery. He remained that way for years, and when he woke up, he was That Jerk Guy Gardner. The personality-altering knocks on the head he received in JLI probably didn't help any, either.

(This is the enormously simplified version. A fuller guide to Guy's history and stressed psyche is here (http://www.glcorps.org/guy_gar.html).)

[miss-porcupine.livejournal.com]

... Actually, yeah. I remembered Emerald Dawn after I hit {return} -- and my brains getting taken offline by prisoner Hal's concerned advocate, Guy Gardner.

[illmantrim.livejournal.com]

lmao

yeah the JLI stories did have a lot of emmmm weird shit in em eh?

[greenygal.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah.

[marag.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, I *died* when I read that one :) I can't remember if I own it or borrowed it, but it completely cracked me up. And yes, that line of Hal's was the killer.

[greenygal.livejournal.com]

I almost feel guilty for laughing so hard--after all, from Guy's point of view it's a tragedy.

Almost. :)

[caia-comica.livejournal.com]

Oh my GOD. Which issue was that?

[greenygal.livejournal.com]

#59 and #60 of JLI-formerly-JLE. (I think the setup's in #58, but I was so bored I skipped straight through that part.) Written by--who else?--Gerard Jones.