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[odditycollector]

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



I know, by all objective reasoning, that I should hate it. Indeed, when that image first graced my field of vision, my expression probably wasn't far from Jay Garrick's look of horror. Or that of any of the other characters in that picture, who I assume are seeing that getup for the first time. (Or possibly have been aware of it for a while, and still *cannot adjust*.)

But after considering for a moment, I realized that actually I LOVE it, because it is 100% in character! Something like this happens EVERY TIME he makes fashion decisions.

caiusmajor: Oh ALAN, why do they let you dress yourself?

Somewhere in the DCU, Molly is facepalming, and she's not going to know why until the news comes on.

(Disclaimer: I am aware of the context in which this ensemble came to be. It is still the ugliest of all options.)

Comments

[petra]

Is it supposed to look like a Tony Stark Original?

[rydra_wong]

Because I do not know the character or context, and I have to ask:

Is there a disc or orb of light on his chest, or is the light shining from behind him through a circular hole cut in his chest?

From this picture, I cannot tell.

0.o

[willow]

Is he an Alpha Lantern now or something?

[brownbetty]

I thin the best part is everyone else's looks of horror, like they've just caught a glimpse of Shoggoth.

[thefourthvine]

...Are there joints in that thing I just can't see? Because as far as I can tell, he cannot rotate or bend his spine above the waist. At all. No neck movement! No thoracic spine movement! This is not going to make fighting easy.

Although maybe I'm being too picky. I mean, he seems to have borrowed that reactor thingy from Iron Man, maybe because he had a giant hole punched through him and was like, "Dude, what do I PUT in there? Wait, I know - Stark has that shiny thing!" If I had to choose between having a giant hole punched through my torso and not being able to move my spine above the waist, I'd go with the latter, since you can live through that. Whereas obvious this dude has managed to survive having both problems and he's still found a way to make an anti-gravity device just for his cape. That's heroic, all right.

[count-fenring.livejournal.com]

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!

[poisonivory.livejournal.com]

WHAT.

[lovelyzelda.livejournal.com]

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.

[droolfangrrl.livejournal.com]

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/