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Improve Green Lantern? Former Congressman Grayson has some suggestions
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| Contributor | Craverguy |
| Last Edited | Craverguy Jun 24, 2011 05:42pm |
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| Author | Andy |
| News Date | Friday, June 24, 2011 11:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | I’ve heard a lot of suggestions on ways the Green Lantern movie could’ve been improved. I thought I had heard them all. Then, an email from former Congressman Alan Grayson suggested the film could’ve been improved by including an exchange from Green Lantern #76. A (poor) African-American man approaches Green Lantern and Green Arrow and asks them why, if they spend so much time fighting for people with orange, purple, and blue skins why he doesn’t do anything for people like him.
This exchange obviously rubbed off on the young Alan Grayson, who told us he wrote this particular email blast himself. “That particular issue was a real breakthrough. . . connecting what teenagers like me were experiencing in the world.” Grayson also has taste. Green Lantern #76 was awarded the comics equivalent of an Oscar or Emmy for the best story that year.
Grayson admitted he read this run on Green Lantern for several years, one which included Green Lantern and the Robin-Hood-esque Green Arrow fighting slumlords, drug dealers, and your typical aliens and Nazis. In fact, writers Dennis O’Neil and Neal Adams are credited with bringing a new social conscience to comics, and saving a title (Green Lantern) from cancellation due to lackluster sales, revitalizing it with new, fresh storylines and relevance.
When I contacted Denny O’Neil about whether he expected his story to inspire so many, or even a future Congressman, he was completely modest. “No, I wasn’t anticipating anyone being inspired. I might have hoped for that, but it seemed a lot to really expect. I mean…it was just a comic book, As to how I feel…A little amazed.” Adding to Congressman Grayson specifically, “I hope our stuff does you some good.” |
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