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How To Make a Green Lantern Ring
Malfourmed writes "Step by step instructions for making the ultimate comic book geek jewelery — Green Lantern's power ring. Hal Jordan, Kyle Rayner and Alan Scott variations all included. Now someone find me a Katma Tui or Arisia to go with it, and we might just have ourselves a proposal!" The bigger problem of course is that there's no battery available to charge it, so it's just costume jewelry. Anyone have other good costume ideas?
In brightest day, in blackest night
No evil shall escape my sight
Let those who worship evil's might
Beware my power, Green Lantern's light!
DC will sell you one for $25. The Planet Krypton set of 5 was only $100 and had Hal, Kyle, Alan, Sinestro and Power Ring versions.
It would be cool if we could cast rings from a material that was entirely a battery, then enamel it with an insulator, and mount LEDs on the surface, connected thru the insulator to the battery. Maybe two halves, separated by an inside insulator, and bridged by the LED. Maybe with a small airgap in the insulator, so squeezing the ring closed the circuit.
And how about some chips in there, too? A socketed LED, swapped out for a recharger? Swapped out for a photoreceptor for recharging under bright lights (or Sun + magnifying glass)? Dual-use LED/photoreceptor? Frickin' lasers?
Maybe this is how the Green Lantern's alien outfitters came up with the tech: reading Slashdot. Something about that color scheme looks familiar...
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Anonymous Coward wrote:
I think the lantern on the Alan Scott ring is a replica of the lantern that was used to charge his ring. It is green because that was the color of the metal used to form the ring, and Scott was guided to give the ring that form when he created it. The form of the ring's charger, in turn, was based on a old railroad lantern. Scott wears a logo on his chest of the same type of lantern.
The rings that Jordan and Stewart wear (and Rayner used to wear) are based on the Green Lantern icon worn on the uniform, and reflects the central power battery on Oa. The reason Rayner's ring looks different is that his ring was an improved version with no yellow weakness and no 24 hour time limit on its charge. He is the only Lantern that comes to mind that has a ring of that design, the other Lanterns wear a ring of the Jordan/Stewart design.
Rayner recently evolved as a Green Lantern, becoming The Ion. His ring and power has been internalized and he is much more powerful than the other Green Lanterns. He is the next step in the evolution of the Green Lantern Corps.
On the ring mentioned at the beginning of post, I like the design and think that it is how a green lantern ring would look in real life.
...you've got yourself a nice miniature marijuana pipe on a ring. Gives the name "Green Lantern" entirely new meaning.
The neutrality of this sig is disputed.
When I first read "Now someone find me . . . Arisia to go with it", my first thought was that I'd really like to have a Lens of Arisia, as described in E. E. "Doc" Smith's Lensman novels. The Lensmen are almost certainly the predecessors of the Green Lanterns, if not in actuality, then in philosophy and form.
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Actually Rayner's ring along with Stewart's were just the same old tried-and-true ring technology as the Corps had already had for 10 billion years, but the reason it had no yellow weakness is because the yellow impurity was actually the immortal yellow alien being named Parallax who corrupted Hal Jordan and took over his mind. Parallax was living fear itself in some sense and so the Green Lantern power was corrupted over that spectrum of visible light. So you see in the graphic novel, Green Lantern : Rebirth, that the yellow weakness 'has a name' and that name is Parallax. Jordan/Spectre managed to purge Parallax from Jordan and then Jordan (resurrected), Rayner, Gardner, Stewart and Kilowog with the help of the Guardians cast Parallax back into the Green Lantern battery 'prison cell'.
So the end result is all the power rings (excluding of course Alan Scott's magic-based ring) are once again susceptible to a yellow weakness, but it caused by fear generated by the Parallax Fear Anomoly. So any powerful Green Lantern can overcome the yellow weakness now, but it is considered a mark of a novice Lantern to still have their constructs blocked by yellow.
Phew!
For all I know, the backstory now in place might be incompatible with explicit statements from 30 yrs ago. The whole Crisis on Infinte Worlds / Zero Hour / Infinite Crisis mega-story arcs retconned (altered the history of the DC universe) each time.
The current spin is that Parallax was a super-villain destroying planet after planet with fear, feeding off it, and the Guardians imprisoned him in the Battery and stripped him of his sentience billions of years ago. Since then the Guardians hid the fact that they did this because they didn't want any crazies to try to release Parallax. But recently, they imprisoned the renegade GL turn villain Sinestro inside the Battery, and while in there with his yellow power ring, he awoke Parallax. Then Parallax and Sinestro worked to take over Hal Jordan, and briefly turned Hal Jordan (to the outrage of nearly everyone) into a super-villain who single-handedly killed almost every single active Green Lantern in the universe and then destroyed the Battery, releasing the Fear Anamoly in full-force. He (that is, Parallax, which is how Hal Jordan became known) then tried to recreate the universe in his own image and started the Zero Hour story arc where Parallax kicked hte Justice League's butts time and again. But then Jordan's good side won over at the last minute and he saved the Earth from destruction by restarting the sun which had been "put out" by a Sun Eater intergallactic weapon.
Only two years ago or so, did it emerge that Jordan was possessed by Parallax. To the outrage of everyone, when the story arc was being played out, no mention was made of possession and it appeared that it was Hal Jordan himself of his own free will murdering Green Lanterns left and right.
On which note, perhaps one should make a power battery to go with the ring, and make it into a bong...
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
The Sun Eater wasn't an intergalactic weapon. It was a space-living organism so large and so powerful that it could wipe out entire civilizations simply by going about its everyday life activities. It wasn't clear that the Sun Eater was aware of any beings less powerful than say, the Guardians, or Parallax. There was the food (the Sun), and a bunch of uninteresting rocks (like Earth) in orbit around it. The lifeforms on the rocks were beneath the Sun Eater's notice.
In this sense, it was like the Giant Space Ameoba in the original Star Trek TV series; or to a lesser extent, like Galactus in the Marvel Universe. Galactus IS aware that he destroys intelligent life on a massive scale; but claims (however honestly or dishonestly) that he must consume the life force on living worlds in order to survive.
Now consider that where there is one Sun Eater, there are likely to be more