Tales from the past viewed through rose tinted glasses
Thursday, August 27, 2026
Bring on the back-ups: The last Green Lantern by Neal Adams & Denny O'Neil
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Great Adams art as usual, though I was never much of a fan of Green Lantern. Annoyingly, this post of yours has only just shown up in my bloglist, which says it was published two days ago.
ReplyDeleteI used to really like Green Lantern . I think the characters popularity has increased since the new TV show "Lanterns". I have had issue posting this week as it took a full 2 days for this post to appear on other blogs. I checked blogger it's not unusual as I haven't been posting regular the "crawler" doesn't prioritise the post.
ReplyDeleteI published a 'new' post on my other blog on the 17th and it didn't show in my bloglist for about 9 or ten days. And I notice that even on Mark Evanier's blog that his posts don't always show in my list when first published. As for Green Lantern, never seen the TV show, but I quite like some of the early Lantern stories from before he became 'relevant'.
DeleteI've not seen the Lantern TV show either but the clips look good. The GL movie got panned but I thought it was ok and the cartoon series from a few years ago ( over 10 years I think) was really good ( I'm a big kid) . According to blogger you can't always guarantee same hour/ day posting. When I cleared my cache and reset this thing called "crawler" the post appeared, probably just coincidence but I felt like a tech expert. I'll try post more regularly .
ReplyDeleteI'll have to take a look at this 'crawler' thing you speak of. The only crawler I know is Cyril Swot.
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ReplyDeleteI think Flash #226 was the last time that Neal Adams and Denny O'Neil partnered on any story, which hit the stands 26th Dec 1973 (according to "Mikes"), Their teaming had started with Detective #395 ("Secret of the Waiting Graves"), published 26th Nov 1969. So their partnership only lasted a scant four years, but had a huge impact on the industry and fandom.
ReplyDeleteI detect that there was a certain amount of antipathy between Adams and O'Neil on a personal level. As an avid reader in the early seventies I envisaged them physically working together on these stories, but of course, that was not the way they worked.
I do think that DC missed an huge opportunity to re-unite Adams and O'Neil when they published "DC Retroactive:Green Lantern – The '70s #1" back in 2011 and had a new story penned by O'Neil, but drawn by Mike Grell. Surely DC must have tried to get O'Neil and Adams back together for that issue?
I wasn't aware that there were issues between Adams and O'Neil . I find that a bit sad as they worked so well together so in my head they were pals . I would have loved to have seen them team up again and I agree you would have thought DC would have tried to team them up. As much as I liked Grells art at that time for me he wasn't right for GL
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