Solicits for future issues claim this issue will come up again, and I hope Simon has further justification than “sometimes you just gotta shoot bad guys.” Why would someone who can invoke thoughts into reality need a gun? Well, the Green Lantern Corps saw their share of sabotage and failure in their rings and lanterns during the past few adventures, and Simon didn’t want to lose an offensive edge in the heat of battle. Simon packed a sidearm strapped to his leg.
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Combined with his time stealing cars for money, it’s no wonder that he knew how to wield automotive hardware.
Simon used to street race until an accident put his brother-in-law Nazir into a coma. I think we can all agree that the “KONG” was an extremely well-placed sound effect, but why did Simon’s imagination and willpower summon a car battery? One of my favorite things about the light constructs of the various corps is how they reflect their owners, and this moment is no different. Simon wielding a car battery, his history with cars, and his gun (Writer: Sam Humphries, Pencils: Robson Rocha, Inks: Leisten, Colors: Blond, Letters: Dave Sharpe) He flies away, but is later given an offer by Amanda Waller to clear his record in exchange for serving on the Justice League of America. With federal investigators breathing down his neck threatening torture, a green lantern ring bursts through Guantanamo’s walls to bestow itself to Simon. Simon stole cars for money following the economic recession, but had no idea about the car bomb and purposely steered it into the factory to avoid loss of life. Simon was arrested under suspicion of terrorism when he crashed a van containing a bomb into an abandoned car factory. Her story arc of victimhood leading to partial control and triumphant self-actualization was peppered with assists from Batman, Flash, Green Lantern (Hal Jordan), and Cyborg, but her ultimate act of courage was entirely her own. Jessica’s turn toward fear is what attracted the evil ring of Volthoom to take over her body, though she was able to eventually subvert its control and become worthy of induction into the Green Lantern Corps by the end of Justice League: Darkseid War.
Her sister, Sara, invited her out of her shell the entire time. Her friends were chased and killed, and she holed up in her apartment for fear of being killed next. Jessica’s anxiety attacks and agoraphobia stem from an incident in which she and some friends were hunting and happened upon a body disposal. Aquaman is out there saving your bacon, he’s keeping all these undersea creatures from coming up and murdering everybody, he’s doing his darn job, but he’s under-appreciated. In the New 52, Aquaman is aware that everyone thinks he’s dumb, but he’s still going out and saving people’s lives all the time and they’re not, they don’t really fully understand everything that Aquaman does for them cause they’re too busy, “oh Batman, he’s so cool,” whatever. I think they can be best summed up via the words of my friend and librarian colleague Kristin Lalonde, who once said of Aquaman: The original idea was to discuss Jessica and Simon’s respective histories for new readers, but I went through five different drafts and several thousand words trying to pin down my feelings about them. Let’s talk inside baseball for a moment: this was a bizarrely difficult article to write.
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