Tomar-Re is the Green Lantern of Krypton's sector. He actually considered it his greatest failure that he failed to save the planet. He was told while retiring to take solace in the fact that Krypton's destruction allowed Kal-El to become one of the Universe's greatest heroes.
Just wanted to let you guys know, I think you guys have one of the most underrated channels on TH-cam. I never miss anything; this channel is the only one I check daily for updates. Thank you for always putting out A+ videos. You guys are awesome.
Interesting choice to do Emerald Dawn over Secret Origins. Secret Origins is really great, though I havent read Emerald Dawn so Im pretty hyped for this episode.
After a stressful, work-filled day, nothing feels better than curling up an watching a Green Lantern Back Issues episode. Thank you guys so much! I love it when you do Green Lantern.
I got to say the 80s post crisis reboots of Superman (Man of Steel), Batman (year one), Wonder Woman (George Prez run), and Emerald Dawn are all really good
Do more Green Lantern stories like the one where the guardians leave to go off to meet some pretty aliens and the power battery is destroyed and the Green Lantern Corps is just disbanded and all there is now is the earth Green Lanterns after that do The Road Back which is about old Hal with white streaks in his hair coming out of being a loner to going back to being a Green Lantern.
I've had a rough week. I've been sick with the flu and burning with fever, my grandpa passed away, and my computer died, causing me to have to Frankenstein one together from parts I had lying around. And what do you know, an episode of back issues comes right when I needed it. Thanks for doing what you do, guys.
I TOTALLY remember reading this when I was younger, and pissing my pants at "THE SIGN" segment, so awesome to be reminded of this again!!! I gotta go find these again!! Thanks for the nostalgia, Love you guys!!!!
Thank you to everyone at Comic pop. You guys share amazing Stories and Im so happy to get to listen to some of my favorite Hero's and Villains. I FREAKING LOVE LANTERNS! I wish I was a Shaphire Lantern. Love Conqures All!
Alright, here's a fucking doozy for you- The Origins of Donna Troy. You might want to get a whiteboard for this one to keep track like PCP University explaining Kingdom Hearts.
Johns did write his own Green Lantern origin book called “Green Lantern: Secret Origin” which in my personal opinion is a better story. It’s basically a buddy cop story with Hal and Sinestro.
In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight. Let all who worship evils might, BEWARE MY POWER GREEN LANTERN'S LIGHT!!! All right now I'm ready for some hilarious back issues.
@@nerdking1019 Right ! So he screwed up lost an entire civilization on his watch and he's still on the job !? God the guardian administration kinda sucks.
@@geoffreykandolo973 They suck more than you know. Tomar Rey tried his best to delay the destruction of Krypton but the laws of the Green Lanterns wouldn't let him directly save them because it was a natural event. It doesn't help that the hopeful and best replacements for him were Lara and Jor-El, Superman's biological mother and father.
I prefer the much later on _"Green Lantern: Secret Origin",_ but only because of the additional plot points of weaving in Atrocitus causing Abin's crash, the War of Light/Blackest Night stuff, and Sinestro and Hal's blossoming friendship/rivalry... The rest is borrowed from this in a major way, and that's because it's not a bad story in need of major rework- which for the era is saying a lot.
Personally, my favorite GL origin is "Earth One", but this one, by far, is the funniest one. Or at least, the POPCrew made it funny. I think this is the most I've heard the trio continuously laugh in a long time.
I think Johns changed it to be Atrocitus that killed / made Abin Sur's ship crash, havent read Johns' run in a while but i know he changed some stuff about the origin
"I saw the sign"I opened up my eyes and saw the sign"Life is demandingWithout understanding"Had to get that out. I'm pretty sure this is where the Reynolds movie came from.
Technally can't the green lantern ring do basically anything? It's basically a supercomputer and can recreate medical machines an such and would ha e a data base of alien stuff.
I can't believe none you guys thought to make a King Solomon reference. DC saying: We want to publish The Wizard of Oz. Marvel saying: No we should publish it. King Solomon decreeing: All right, the rights to The Wizard of Oz shall be cut in half and divided between the both of you. Then one of them says: No no no we can't do this, we can't cut the rights in half like that. Never mind. You know what, we insist you take our share of the rights. The King Solomon says: Oh yes YOU are truly worthy to publish The Wizard of Oz". Oh well, missed opportunities. LOL 😆😂😄😅😉
We actually were referencing King Solomon it was just very oblique. We reference it fairly often on the show for some reason, so we're not always gonna delve into it in great detail.
Ethan Marsh _that's more than fair, LOL. I'm just so used to it, I was just surprised that's all; but your right nobody's going make the same joke every time. I'm really sorry I can kind of come off as kind of jerk sometimes. I'm trying to fix that, but it's slow goings. It's a process, LOL. Oh I watch the Star Trek Elseworld's Exchange yesterday, and I loved it you and Sal had me rolling in the isles. I even gave my less then brief history with Star Trek, hahaha.
I mean like, Legion's okay. Sinestro's alright. Parallax is meh. Nekron's fine. I'm just saying, Hal's _never_ beaten that Yellow Sign.
I saw you mention Nekron and now I really want a GL/Warhammer 40k crossover
Ha yeah the sign is 1-0
have you seen the yellow sign?
Goddamn yellow sign
@@galvatron3323 I think you mean 2-0
"He does a care bear stare on a Lovecraftian monster." Oh my gosh, I love this show 😀😄
Hearing Sal say "Kawai Commander" gave me life LMAO
Nice.
Tomar-Re is the Green Lantern of Krypton's sector. He actually considered it his greatest failure that he failed to save the planet. He was told while retiring to take solace in the fact that Krypton's destruction allowed Kal-El to become one of the Universe's greatest heroes.
Am I the only one who shuffles the entire Back Issues playlist for hours after every new episode?
(who am I kidding, I do that every day)
ASIYDAH. Top 5 episodes
@@UnrealGemini Are you asking me what my top 5 Back Issues episodes are? Because if so I honestly can't choose. What about you?
Geoff Johns did a revised origin when he took the book over after GL: rebirth.
This is the back issues that convinced me that Sal should NEVER work in HR. "You're getting fired because you're an asshole and a moron."
So Hal's very first mortal enemy is The Sign... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thank you Ben for that parallax pun! And Sal connecting the dots FTW!
Oh my god there are two Supermen on the couch!
Man they should've torn their shirts open in the opening.
Oh no, where are the other two?!?
I love when others shit on the guardians as much as I do
Just wanted to let you guys know, I think you guys have one of the most underrated channels on TH-cam. I never miss anything; this channel is the only one I check daily for updates. Thank you for always putting out A+ videos. You guys are awesome.
21:32 the clippy reference was gold jajajaja
Interesting choice to do Emerald Dawn over Secret Origins. Secret Origins is really great, though I havent read Emerald Dawn so Im pretty hyped for this episode.
Power drunk Hal > Alcohol drunk Hal
After a stressful, work-filled day, nothing feels better than curling up an watching a Green Lantern Back Issues episode. Thank you guys so much! I love it when you do Green Lantern.
Idea for Comic Line
DC Lore vs Marvel Lore
I got to say the 80s post crisis reboots of Superman (Man of Steel), Batman (year one), Wonder Woman (George Prez run), and Emerald Dawn are all really good
I was ironically just wondering if you guys would ever cover this story. My personal favorite Green Lantern origin tale.
I love the silence after suggesting to bring in Guy Gardner.
Do more Green Lantern stories like the one where the guardians leave to go off to meet some pretty aliens and the power battery is destroyed and the Green Lantern Corps is just disbanded and all there is now is the earth Green Lanterns after that do The Road Back which is about old Hal with white streaks in his hair coming out of being a loner to going back to being a Green Lantern.
I shit you not while i was watching this a commercial about Halloween came on with a girl dressed like dorthy...
Green Holographic funeral attendance is literally a Green Lantern power move.
Coming home from work to an episode of back issues is like finding a sizzling steak waiting for you at the dinner table
Holy Shit! I was a bout to hit the sack early! Nope. Back Issues! And A GL one! Hype! 😃
Also, ain't it coincidence that Sal and Ben have the same clothing style, including a Superman undershirt???
Ethan, you've been left out... hahahaha
4:46 yellow sign: the first yellow lantern
@Wet Cloth r/woooosh
Ben at 6:50, making those big connections: paralyzed...he becomes paralax!
I've had a rough week. I've been sick with the flu and burning with fever, my grandpa passed away, and my computer died, causing me to have to Frankenstein one together from parts I had lying around. And what do you know, an episode of back issues comes right when I needed it. Thanks for doing what you do, guys.
I TOTALLY remember reading this when I was younger, and pissing my pants at "THE SIGN" segment, so awesome to be reminded of this again!!! I gotta go find these again!! Thanks for the nostalgia, Love you guys!!!!
Thank you to everyone at Comic pop. You guys share amazing Stories and Im so happy to get to listen to some of my favorite Hero's and Villains. I FREAKING LOVE LANTERNS! I wish I was a Shaphire Lantern. Love Conqures All!
I was hoping for an “Ace of Base-the sign” reference 😞 hahaha
You can see the moment Ben came up with the Parallax joke
6:39
That quote bit was golden. Great to Cover the origin of the 2nd Best Green Lantern. #JohnStewartisbetter
Alright, here's a fucking doozy for you- The Origins of Donna Troy. You might want to get a whiteboard for this one to keep track like PCP University explaining Kingdom Hearts.
First time I've heard Kawaii pronounced like that.
Geoff Johns actually retconned this with Green Lantern: Secret Origin
DC: The New Frontier is Hal Jordan's one true origin in my mind. But, this is alright I guess.
FINALLY. After a long day today ComicPOP never fails me. Love the content please more. Nj Represents
My boy Hal getting smacked around by signs and roasted by guys named "Biff". Emerald Dawn was not kind to this man.
Heard about this story from Jason on Geek History Lesson and haven't had a chance to read it yet, glad that you guys did it
Just a chick passing by... I am loving the content! Back Issues are my favourite videos from this channel. 🇨🇦❤😂
Johns did write his own Green Lantern origin book called “Green Lantern: Secret Origin” which in my personal opinion is a better story. It’s basically a buddy cop story with Hal and Sinestro.
This was really fun :)
“In true guardian fashion”🤣
R.I.P Keith Giffen
That back-cover review from Ben at the end 😂😂😂
In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight. Let all who worship evils might, BEWARE MY POWER GREEN LANTERN'S LIGHT!!! All right now I'm ready for some hilarious back issues.
At what point did Ferris Air suddenly stop blaming things on Hal for things that he couldn't control?
Never. I would love for Hal to canonically be the least liked man at Ferris Air. Lol
It wouldn't be unheard of. This is Hal we're talking about here
Hal couldn’t discover 3 o’clock at 2:59
Wait a minute i just remembered; wasn't Tomar Rey in charge of the sector where krypton was ?
Geoffrey Kandolo I’m pretty sure he was!
@@nerdking1019 Right ! So he screwed up lost an entire civilization on his watch and he's still on the job !? God the guardian administration kinda sucks.
@@geoffreykandolo973 They suck more than you know. Tomar Rey tried his best to delay the destruction of Krypton but the laws of the Green Lanterns wouldn't let him directly save them because it was a natural event. It doesn't help that the hopeful and best replacements for him were Lara and Jor-El, Superman's biological mother and father.
I prefer the much later on _"Green Lantern: Secret Origin",_ but only because of the additional plot points of weaving in Atrocitus causing Abin's crash, the War of Light/Blackest Night stuff, and Sinestro and Hal's blossoming friendship/rivalry... The rest is borrowed from this in a major way, and that's because it's not a bad story in need of major rework- which for the era is saying a lot.
Personally, my favorite GL origin is "Earth One", but this one, by far, is the funniest one. Or at least, the POPCrew made it funny. I think this is the most I've heard the trio continuously laugh in a long time.
today was hard day. thank you comicpop for this hilarious episode
This was a funny one. Thanks for the recommendation Ben. Lol.
So does Hal get PTSD whenever the song "I saw the sign" comes on the radio?
The Guardians out here being Guardians, doing Guardian things. By that I mean being utterly useless.
The Guardians have tried nothing and their all out of ideas
I think Johns changed it to be Atrocitus that killed / made Abin Sur's ship crash, havent read Johns' run in a while but i know he changed some stuff about the origin
Owlsley??? Missed out on an Ethan “Hoot hoo-hoo hoo-HOOT!!!” reference....
Now to watch all the other green lantern back issues again, in chronological order
There is a part two to this origin. Which is also great.
The whole episode is fantastic.the last minute of the episode is funny as hell.
4:03-4:50 This is the Hal Jordan that I know, I can’t believe what he does in DC vs Vampires….
I was about to go to sleep but then I open TH-cam and then boom a new back issue 😹
YAS, more Green Lantern!!
My question is if Abin Sur can fly through space without a need to breathe why is he in a ship in the first place
If you can run to work, why drive?
Comfort. And maybe having a pre-made ship allows him to save some ring energy.
In later stories it’s explained that the ship was for holding prisoners
I thought Geoff Johns retconned the origin in like 2006 as the new "post-crisis" origin, making it the New 52 origin too.
What a great episode..so funny, so obsessed with the sign..
The created a new origin called Green Lantern: Secret Origin by Geoff Johns.
"I saw the sign"I opened up my eyes and saw the sign"Life is demandingWithout understanding"Had to get that out. I'm pretty sure this is where the Reynolds movie came from.
KawiiComander, I will cosplay at this one day
5:25 That's some Eric O'Grady shit right there
A stellar recommendation, Ben
I think him of a Halo mask with kitty ears... This is what fornite has done to us hahah
Now they real question is: why does Abin Sur need a spaceship if Green Lanterns can just fly through space?
Alan Moore covered this 30 years ago
Paralyzed Parallax now there's a story
🎶 Hal into the Danger Zone 🎶
They did reboot the origin Geoff Johns wrote Green Lantern Secret Origin after he wrote the Sinestro Corps War.
Doesn't Secret Origin kind of serve as John's retelling of the origin?
Loved you guys going over emerald dawn. Will you do the second one?
YES!
Oh shit. You guys have mics! Getting high tech.
Almost two years running now!
@@comicpop guess I need to pay for attention
Can they put this and emerald twilight in a trade and call it: the rise and fall of hal jordan
paralax was the best thing ever
He are Legion... the best and worst way to describe him.
Awesome.
Watchmean sal!!!!!!!!! I been a fan since TV little house bro!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’ll pay you $20 to do it on back issues
pretty cool
If the hbo max show or the movie is this story line like the original movie and they need to fallow the hole story line than people will love it $$$
Need to review the New Frontier
why does parallax look like an old man?
Maybe I’m just a jerk but Hal is a relatable dude in this book
Technally can't the green lantern ring do basically anything? It's basically a supercomputer and can recreate medical machines an such and would ha e a data base of alien stuff.
I'm not really a green lantern fan. I'm more of a ComicPOP critique of the Green Lantern and Oa law fan.
#KawaiiCommander
Please do flash war!!
See they are called the chickchickie because they are yellow, the color of a coward and sometimes cowards are called yellow bellies or chicken.
It's R O U G H
I can't believe none you guys thought to make a King Solomon reference. DC saying: We want to publish The Wizard of Oz. Marvel saying: No we should publish it. King Solomon decreeing: All right, the rights to The Wizard of Oz shall be cut in half and divided between the both of you. Then one of them says: No no no we can't do this, we can't cut the rights in half like that. Never mind. You know what, we insist you take our share of the rights. The King Solomon says: Oh yes YOU are truly worthy to publish The Wizard of Oz". Oh well, missed opportunities. LOL 😆😂😄😅😉
We actually were referencing King Solomon it was just very oblique. We reference it fairly often on the show for some reason, so we're not always gonna delve into it in great detail.
Ethan Marsh _that's more than fair, LOL. I'm just so used to it, I was just surprised that's all; but your right nobody's going make the same joke every time. I'm really sorry I can kind of come off as kind of jerk sometimes. I'm trying to fix that, but it's slow goings. It's a process, LOL. Oh I watch the Star Trek Elseworld's Exchange yesterday, and I loved it you and Sal had me rolling in the isles. I even gave my less then brief history with Star Trek, hahaha.
Hot take: Guy is the superior Green Lantern.
Guys definitly my favorite.
Loved me some 80's Guy Gardner.
@@peteypopsGazeIntoTheAbyss And some New 52 Guy. Or Injustice Guy.