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  • There have been many Green Lanterns ovet the years and in the 90s that meant Kyle Rayner. This lantern was the last of the corps and filled the shoes of Hal Jordan. See DC comics artist lantern here om Casually Comics.
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  • @GenerationWest
    @GenerationWest Před 3 lety +409

    Kyle Rayner, the lantern to be forever associated with refrigerators.

  • @stevesunn2564
    @stevesunn2564 Před 3 lety +275

    I was a fan of Kyle. Actually he's my favorite GL. He is underrated. Not only did he learn how to do it himself, but he also rebuilt the GL Corp. He grew as a person and you got to watch him grow. Not to mention that he was Ion, and the White Lantern.

    • @JennySparkz
      @JennySparkz Před 3 lety +14

      PREACH BROTHER!!!

    • @coolusernameftw7055
      @coolusernameftw7055 Před 3 lety +4

      💯👌

    • @xxxvvvxxx4736
      @xxxvvvxxx4736 Před 3 lety +2

      Hal Jordan sucks
      Kyle Rayner is awesome

    • @ericmiller93
      @ericmiller93 Před rokem +3

      And one of the Omega Men.

    • @Solitaire001
      @Solitaire001 Před 4 měsíci +3

      I have a theory that Ganthet's choice of Kyle to be a Green Lantern was not just the decision that he would have to do. In "Infinite Crisis" they revealed that had "Crisis on Infinite Earths" not happened Kyle would have been the Green Lantern of Earth-Eight. Since the Guardians have multiversal awareness it is likely that Ganthet was aware of Kyle as the Earth-Eight Green Lantern, it is likely that is the reason that he chose Kyle to receive the ring.

  • @kingofthebis1068
    @kingofthebis1068 Před 3 lety +224

    Kyle Rayner uses an icebox to store his food now for obvious reasons.

    • @daelen.cclark
      @daelen.cclark Před 3 lety +8

      Linguini
      Is that canon?

    • @Nerdyshitaddict
      @Nerdyshitaddict Před 2 lety +1

      Linguiniiiiii!!!!!!!

    • @valletas
      @valletas Před rokem +7

      I like to think he just orders food to avoid anything ice related

  • @emanym
    @emanym Před 3 lety +53

    Now, I know why Gail Simon was so angry about the fridge. They killed a perfectly good love interest character.

    • @KittSpiken
      @KittSpiken Před rokem +6

      Yeah, she was a good character.
      That's why Gail's grievance mongering is particularly unjust.

  • @stevegeorge6880
    @stevegeorge6880 Před 3 lety +108

    Randomly in any given situation, I may jump up and ask why Hal Jordan did this.

  • @manis1551
    @manis1551 Před 3 lety +188

    I'm a huge Kyle Rayner fan. I love how imaginative his constructs was as he was an talented artist which meant he had an artistic mind. Kyle was the reason why I became so interested in the GL mythology and most of Kyle Ryner stories in the 90's were fun to read (I've only read like 60% of his run so far). He's my favourite GL.

    • @jpboursaw4469
      @jpboursaw4469 Před 3 lety +14

      I don't recall it exactly, but if you get the chance, there is a story where he meets a younger version of Hal (who was stuck in the future for a bit) for the first time, and they end up in a life-swap montage of some kind. I just remember it being really good as there were several interesting conflicts. The decisions made highlighted how mature Kyle had to become in a short time.

    • @manis1551
      @manis1551 Před 3 lety +1

      @@jpboursaw4469 I've heard about that story but I haven't read it yet. I will defintely check it out, thanks for the recommendation.

    • @tigerbread78
      @tigerbread78 Před 3 lety +2

      @@manis1551 I THINK it starts in Green Lantern #100 (1998) the arc really made the reader miss the old days when the corps was around, now that's good story telling

    • @Zothos3
      @Zothos3 Před 3 lety +2

      @@tigerbread78 yes. First Kyle went to the future and they wanted to send him back (issue 98, read it to know who "they" are) but he "overshoot" and ended up meeting Hal while he was fighting the "renegade Lantern" Sinestro. Then he was sent back to his time by the Guardians. But because of Sinestro, Hal was travelling with Kyle.
      Very good stories (except of the Kalibak part). Nice to see how Kyle, who was constant fighting Hal alias Parallax, was enjoying the Corps and the young version of Hal Jordan. And then he had to show some balls and be a man while fighting all kinds of enemies and problems. Later of, at the end, we fans enjoyed a story with a strong Hal and and enthusiastic but "maning Up" Kyle, who become Friends. And Kyle, again, seems to get to know Hal Jordan a lot better. Up to a point when he almost could understand how Hal could snap and kill the Corps. But honestly, who could understand that?
      🙂

    • @akitoakito
      @akitoakito Před 3 lety +1

      A good story is the origin of the white lantern.

  • @kcaz1984
    @kcaz1984 Před 3 lety +166

    I like Kyle because he had creative constructs.

  • @eversuperman
    @eversuperman Před 3 lety +204

    I love how Sasha goes over topics that aren't "mainstream" right now, like Kyle Rayner. My favorite Lantern who, like Wally West, gets screwed over because Geoff Johns wants to bring back the silver age.

    • @Bolsonaro_em_Haia
      @Bolsonaro_em_Haia Před 3 lety +2

      Oh, believe me, there are readers that will never accept Kyle. I should know. His first few years of stories seemed to be specifically written to piss off readers.

    • @chilliciouspatrioticmeatlover
      @chilliciouspatrioticmeatlover Před 3 lety +11

      He's an okay Green Lantern. I love GUY GARDNER. Best green lantern EVER

    • @stevesunn2564
      @stevesunn2564 Před 3 lety +11

      I agree! Wally was also amazballs!

    • @JennySparkz
      @JennySparkz Před 3 lety +1

      @@chilliciouspatrioticmeatlover Love Guy too!!. His Costume under John Byrne was awesome!

    • @oldmangeek3007
      @oldmangeek3007 Před 3 lety +1

      I agree 👍

  • @timogul
    @timogul Před 3 lety +88

    Kyle will always be the best GL. He wasn't great in that issue, he was like early Peter Parker, before "the Ben incident." He really came into his own under Morrison in JLA, where he was the everyman out of his depth. Robbie Reyes is playing that role in Jason Aaron's current JLA run over at Marvel.

    • @JennySparkz
      @JennySparkz Před 3 lety +12

      Also his rivalry with Wally West was pure fun.

    • @PatrickDunning
      @PatrickDunning Před 3 lety +13

      @@JennySparkz I always liked when Kyle, Wally, and Conner got to bounce off each other. Such a different dynamic than Half, Barry, and Ollie. Shame that they all got pushed aside to bring back the Silver Age again.

    • @zemox2534
      @zemox2534 Před 3 lety +8

      I know what you mean. Connor Hawk is barely mentioned in the comics and in Arrow tv show he is not the son of Oliver but instead, he is the son of Diggle.

    • @77gregorymoey
      @77gregorymoey Před 3 lety +3

      I mean, Hal, Barry and Ollie had their time, should move forward with Kyle, Wally and Connor..so as with Damian and Jon now. Comics should have a timeline just like real life. Let our grandparents and parents have Bruce, Clark, Alan - Hal, Jay- Barry, Ollie. Let us have Damian, Jon, Kyle, Wally, Connor. Let the generation after us have new names.

  • @archer1949
    @archer1949 Před 3 lety +24

    Kyle was my GL growing up.
    I miss Jade, too.
    An entire video could be done on Kyle’s doomed romances.

    • @Junya01
      @Junya01 Před 3 lety +1

      Lew Archer 1949 Imagine absorbing your ex in the middle of a space war with her DAD also being there... talk about awkward :\

  • @TheUncannyCthulhu
    @TheUncannyCthulhu Před 3 lety +61

    I love Kyle, I started reading him when I went to art school, so I related, and god damn, that costume....

  • @Alefiend
    @Alefiend Před 3 lety +97

    Freelance artist and CrossFit enthusiast. If he was also a vegan, he'd be too busy talking about this stuff to have time to be GL.

  • @mr.honeycomb
    @mr.honeycomb Před 3 lety +16

    When you're a freelance artist, you really have to self-promote as much as possible.

  • @LordDarque
    @LordDarque Před 3 lety +49

    You need to cover the fridging. The event that started the phrase.

    • @JennySparkz
      @JennySparkz Před 3 lety +17

      That whole "fridging" thing was the defining moment that showed me that even "professionals" can be idiots in their own fields. The really sad thing was I remember being able to right off the bat name 10 male charachters that had died to further the plot of the the story or motivate the protagonist.

    • @arseniczirconium9098
      @arseniczirconium9098 Před 3 lety +5

      @@JennySparkz Exactly what I wanted to say! Here, take a like.

    • @tykross
      @tykross Před 3 lety +9

      ​@Robin Gilliver Basically, when you "fridge" a character, it means killing them for the sake of advancing another character's story arc, wich it's generally considered as lazy writing (and sexists i guess? Love interests in particular are recurring victims of this trope) . Kyle Rayner's girlfriend was LITERALLY put on a fridge after she was murdered, hence the term "Fridging" gaining popularity to describe the trope .

  • @steveqhanson6835
    @steveqhanson6835 Před 3 lety +20

    I miss Jade too. Favorite legacy character.

  • @hurdyb1
    @hurdyb1 Před 3 lety +41

    Still my Green Lantern. I never cared for the charcater until Kyle came into the picture. Kyle is the reason I love Green Lantern comics. My fav!

  • @pascalcwilson
    @pascalcwilson Před 3 lety +48

    My Green Lantern is John Stewart he’s an architect so he knows constructs and art and was a vet. He’s got the best portfolio and personality out of all the Lanterns.

    • @JS-hw8ve
      @JS-hw8ve Před 2 lety +2

      I like John. He's amazing... but DC keeps screwing him over. They've been doing it since the Cosmic Odyssey story back in the 80s.
      I like Kyle better, but only because I hated him and got to see him grow and develop... I missed the part where DC screwed him over too, just like John.

    • @foldabotZ
      @foldabotZ Před 2 lety

      That’s an aspect of John everyone seems to forget, that he was also an architect aside from being a marine(?) I also never knew he was one because the DCAU(my first exposure to him) never made mention and emphasized more his military background.

    • @geneksenzakovic6091
      @geneksenzakovic6091 Před rokem

      Loved John, also loved Kyle, they were allowed to make mistakes. With few exceptions Hal rarely had faults. Cosmic Odyssey is a story of a man who failed though his own hubris. Mosaic was the beginning of his redemption.

  • @ster9k
    @ster9k Před 3 lety +20

    It’s been a long time since I read GL #51. Looking back on it now, the “fridging” of Alex 5 issues later is so tragic as she is what makes Kyle a hero in those first few stories. Despite what certain former publishers may think, not every hero needs a tragic backstory.
    Guy Gardner was and always will be my GL but I appreciated each Lantern for what they bring to the table. I’m so glad that the DCAU fleshed out John Stewart and made him a much more rounded character.

  • @mookieman71
    @mookieman71 Před 3 lety +18

    I really did like Kyle Rayner as an up and coming Green Lantern. Just hope they don't make him turn insane for a short story arc.

  • @MagillanicaLouM
    @MagillanicaLouM Před 3 lety +78

    I will never not hear this man without a valley girl accent, thanks Sasha

  • @bobbretz5052
    @bobbretz5052 Před 3 lety +46

    F.Y.I.: Kyle was in the Superman: The Animate Series episode "In Brightest Day..."

    • @ShadowWingTronix
      @ShadowWingTronix Před 3 lety +6

      He was also with a series of Green Lanterns in the Justice League Unlimited episode "The Return" as a GL in training. And I just checked: he also showed up or was mentioned in the regular Justice League show.

  • @batman369able
    @batman369able Před 2 lety +4

    Kyle Rayner was actually the original choice for the DCAU GL and debuted in Superman TAS. He had a brief appearance and was referenced a few times in the JL series.

  • @kingdomcomesuperman3669
    @kingdomcomesuperman3669 Před 3 lety +41

    Yes my 2nd favourite Green Lantern, he has some of the best constructs and I missed his old costume from the 90s. Wish him and Jade were still a thing.
    Funnily enough those aviator glasses are pretty popular now and are known as the vintage design.

    • @tkillcoin
      @tkillcoin Před 3 lety

      I think it's the subtle green tint on the "gold" rims that is particularly of interest.

    • @trowa9960
      @trowa9960 Před 3 lety +9

      I miss the Kyle/Jade days. Jade was someone who got screwed over by the New 52

    • @Awestefeld6612
      @Awestefeld6612 Před 3 lety +3

      @@trowa9960 Jade was retconned out of existence to make Alan Scott gay.

  • @katherinealvarez9216
    @katherinealvarez9216 Před 3 lety +19

    Oh yeah, Kyle is the one who likes to use the ring to fight villains with teddy bears wailing on them.

    • @thomaswagner9875
      @thomaswagner9875 Před 3 lety

      Reminds me of Beebo in Legends of Tomorrow

    • @wolfgang6442
      @wolfgang6442 Před 3 lety

      @@thomaswagner9875 That godamn teddy monster is what fucked up part 5 of crisis smfh😡

    • @Solitaire001
      @Solitaire001 Před 4 měsíci +2

      Kyle once said (paraphrased IIRC) that he was the most dangerous guy in the Universe: A manga nut with a power ring.

  • @karridian
    @karridian Před 3 lety +23

    Kyle is my favourite Green Lantern. Even as a kid I could never get into ace test pilot Hal Jordan. Kyle was introduced when I was in university and I could relate much more to him as a character than I ever could to Hal (or John or Guy for that matter). I never liked the clamshell mask though, I much preferred his post-Ion outfit that had a more traditional-style GL mask.

  • @ShockWithoutFear
    @ShockWithoutFear Před 2 lety +5

    I REALLY love Kyle, started reading through the Green Lantern mythos a year or so ago and didn't know about him or the refrigerator stuff until reading it but his genuine growth as a character up until the Geoff Johns run is some of my favourite storytelling ever honestly!

  • @josedarocha2949
    @josedarocha2949 Před 3 lety +14

    My favorite Green Lantern, always having fun while saving the day making space ships and dinosaurs, sad today people are too critical for to keep him using sumo fighters and other cartoony forms...

  • @tigerbread78
    @tigerbread78 Před 3 lety +16

    Kyle is my Green Lantern, and is totally underrated

  • @El_Keck
    @El_Keck Před 3 lety +7

    Kyle was my first green lantern, I have a soft spot for him in my heart

  • @jmguinn7029
    @jmguinn7029 Před 3 lety +22

    I loved Kyle because he wasn't Hal. I didn't hate Hal but, everyone was up Hals ass at the time. I enjoyed Kyle's storylines and Darryl Banks art. I loved Hals descent into madness killing all lanterns after Mongul and Cyborg Superman blew Hals city to smithereens.... Good stuff..goodstuff

  • @kwydjebo
    @kwydjebo Před 3 lety +5

    I was just finishing High School when Kyle showed up, and was never a really big Lantern fan before (I was mainly Marvel since my high school income required me to make hard choices on where my limited cash went)but I really enjoyed his early run (minus the fridge) as he starts off so cocky, and had a certain amount of "Peter Parker woes" and comes to realize how difficult being a hero is, and the legacy he has to uphold (particularly affter he meets up with Guy Gardner and Alan Scott), including the arc where he seeks out other heroes to learn how to become the best he can (I've always enjoyed the "Learning how to be hero arcs in comic characters).
    So yeah, Kyle is "My" green lantern (Although Stewart got the Dini-verse love, but Kyle did get a few cameos).

  • @Luke-fu5co
    @Luke-fu5co Před 3 lety +30

    Not gonna lie... I look at Kyles outfit and my brain is like "Ben 10?"
    So, which lantern is next?!
    Place your bets folks

    • @cosmoniums5990
      @cosmoniums5990 Před 3 lety +1

      I had that same exact thought upon seeing him

    • @starsiegeplayer
      @starsiegeplayer Před rokem

      Interesting. I wonder if Ben 10 creator was a fan of the design.

  • @ChaosMechanica
    @ChaosMechanica Před 2 lety +5

    Despite being in my thirties now and being really young for Hal, I was actually quite attached to Hal because of Superfriends reruns and skimming through my uncle's comics. But Kyle quickly took over that place in my heart (same with Wally and Barry). Read most of Kyle's run growing up, saw all of his appearances in JLA and crossovers, and then his entire run as an adult. I loved Kyle. Perfect GL for me, a burgeoning artist who loved seeing what imaginative stuff Kyle would create. He also really grew up and went through numerous arcs that matured him and made him think about the good he could do with his ring beyond punching bad guys.
    I think post-Ion it made sense to past the torch because he had run through some major character development and power creep. But going back to Hal felt like it was just to satiate the nostalgic people, including Geoff Johns, instead of doing something new and exciting. It's added to the continued arrested development of Silver Age characters who aren't allowed to leave their status quo for too long (how many times has Hal grown just to go back to being a womanizer rebel leader in a Corps run by continously authoritarian Guardians who also start to mature and then reset to vaguely evil with a new story arc?).

  • @bsabruzzo
    @bsabruzzo Před 3 lety +21

    I think I figured out why the Green Lantern movie with Ryan Reynolds didn't work. They kept trying to make a Hal Jordan character with Kyle Rayner's personality. Instead of being the straight-edged, confident pilot that was a social misfit, they made him the wise-cracking jerk who didn't care about the rules. Maybe they wanted a Hal Jordan who pushed the limit and had an issue for authority, but that could work either way.

  • @SammyKitty92
    @SammyKitty92 Před 3 lety +8

    UGH this made me really like Alex until I realized.... the fridge.

  • @kemmdog4444
    @kemmdog4444 Před 3 lety +8

    I started reading Green Lantern with Emerald Twilight.When i first picked it I thought “Oh let’s see how Hal is doing.”
    “Oh dear”.So I have been with Kyle from the beginning and have enjoyed him since.

  • @jazzmyn5804
    @jazzmyn5804 Před 3 lety +7

    Just when I was getting used to her Kyle voice she comes in with the Ohm voice 😂

  • @Satyr000
    @Satyr000 Před 3 lety +17

    He should have went total 90's and warn jncos with his costume.

  • @SpinbringerTarmane
    @SpinbringerTarmane Před 3 lety +16

    Totally missed that "Will yourself out of the situation" there. Maybe that should've been Kyle's first mission. The Search for Puns.
    Also, it's always time for Booster Gold. And we need a follow up to figure out how he got his rep for being a disaster whenever someone else enters the picture.

  • @andrebrynkus2055
    @andrebrynkus2055 Před 3 lety +5

    After seeing those glasses I can't help but think of him recreating the I'm Still Standing music video to show that he's still around in the DCU.
    But seriously I'm a Kyle fan. In high school I had a friend that lent me most of his run from his first issue (like this one here) to some point years later. At the beginning he didn't know that he had to be a hero but he tried and got better. If he was self serving he could have just become a criminal immediately so he clearly was a good guy. Too bad he's never gotten as much of a spotlight again - always supporting or a duo.

  • @billyadesola3995
    @billyadesola3995 Před 3 lety +3

    I have a really soft spot for Kyle. I'm definitely a part of the "he's super underappreciated" squad. He's a favourite of mine.

  • @needhamcomics6370
    @needhamcomics6370 Před 3 lety +1

    I grew up with Kyle as my GL. I liked that he was an artist like me, bet you didn't know he was. And he had the coolest constructs like mecha armor, making giant construction workers to catch a falling thing, bubbles, jack in the boxes, stare cases, etc. I also liked that he seemed like a person and that he had this monumental task of protecting everyone since the other GLs were dead.

  • @DCMarvelMultiverse
    @DCMarvelMultiverse Před 3 lety +6

    My top favorite GL suits are Alan's and Kyle's. Kyle is a true Emerald Gladiator.

  • @CreativaArtly
    @CreativaArtly Před 3 lety +9

    I grew up on John Stewart’s John Lantern too. Him and Hawkgirl were so cute.

  • @ericcorbin7807
    @ericcorbin7807 Před 3 lety +1

    I was born in 1993, so Kyle Rayner was THE Green Lantern for me growing up. And as an artist, I really relate to him. I also miss Jade...

  • @nightcrawler195
    @nightcrawler195 Před 2 lety +1

    Kyle Rayner is the best Lantern imo. I've loved Kyle since the beginning, he was my first Lantern to read and he has stayed in my heart since his introduction. Kyle deserves better than he receives. Even Elseworlds and AUs kill him off most the time.

  • @djfanboyLIVE
    @djfanboyLIVE Před 3 lety

    Some endearing humor in this vid homie. Keep up the good work.

  • @jermaineseamon8380
    @jermaineseamon8380 Před 3 lety

    I love this! keep up the good work!!!

  • @StatusClick
    @StatusClick Před 3 lety +2

    "I like the Green Lantern Mythos" That's when I instantly hit the like button.
    Kyle Rayner is my GL. He is my Fav, always has been, always will be. So much so, Almost all of my MMO characters have Rayner as their name when it's available.
    I would like to see your take on more GL stuff, like Oa, the Corp, The Guardians. ooo... Parallax, you can then go into the other Entities like Ion and the like.

  • @dmisfit79
    @dmisfit79 Před 3 lety +2

    Kyle was my favorite GL, I followed his entire run through the 90s!

  • @davidlugo1903
    @davidlugo1903 Před 3 lety

    Great commitment to the voice hahah I love how she describes comics - perfect balance of excitement and sarcasm

  • @horriblegelatinousblob2196

    Kyle’s costume is my favorite. Recently started this run of GL the other day cuz I haven’t read a lot of Kyle. He immediately became my favorite.

  • @leon501
    @leon501 Před 3 lety +1

    Kyle is by far my fav Green Lantern, I like the fact that for a while they managed to do justice to all 4 but they've generally screwed them all for the sake of Hal

  • @rorylumley4727
    @rorylumley4727 Před 3 lety +7

    Kyle rayner's coustume doesn't have enough green for me.

  • @crazylegs5k
    @crazylegs5k Před 3 lety +1

    I too randomly think of Green Lantern on the couch almost daily lol. Kyle has always been my favorite. Read every issue of his original run

  • @ultimate_lance
    @ultimate_lance Před 3 lety +2

    Kyle had the best costumes

  • @Konaruhi
    @Konaruhi Před 3 lety +2

    Sasha, Kyle's sunglasses look like those flip-up sunglasses that were popular in the 90's. You can find a pair nearly identical to Kyle's by googling "FLIP-CO Green/Gold Flip-Up Sunglasses by Giant Vintage".
    Please like so Sasha can see this and get herself a pair of those rad sunglasses! Also congrats on the baby Sasha!

  • @mcbatmaniac2291
    @mcbatmaniac2291 Před 3 lety +5

    The best GL of them all :’) (Even tho they are all amazing in my opinion)

  • @YTLawnGnome
    @YTLawnGnome Před 3 lety +1

    Kyle is my favorite and I think Ron Marz did a fantastic job developing him. I really enjoy Circle of Fire.

  • @SuperRus9000
    @SuperRus9000 Před 3 lety +1

    When i started collecting comic's back in 93 Kyle was just coming in so for a while he was the only GL i knew so i loved the character and the costume! It was years later before i went back to read Hal Jordan and John Stewart stories which i also loved but Kyle as GL holds the most nostalgia for me!

  • @sonicguyver7445
    @sonicguyver7445 Před 4 měsíci

    I liked Kyle. He felt more real in a way. He suddenly had this amazing power foisted on him and while he wants to be a hero, he gets a big head over it. And with no Guardians or Corps to oversee him, he has free reign. It also helped that being a *free-lance artist* gave him the imagination to do so much with his constructs. Half the fun was seeing what insane stuff he would come up with. Making the Justice League into the seven dwarves because he resented being stuck with digging to expand the moon base. He found fun ways to use his constructs, way more than green boxing gloves and giant tweezers.
    And I liked the costume update, at least the parts he made look metallic.

  • @MendoFilm
    @MendoFilm Před 3 lety

    Yes i love that kyle is an artist and got creative with his power!

  • @Slutforbutt
    @Slutforbutt Před 3 lety

    I LOVE THIS CHANNEL! A glimmer of light though the gloom!

  • @crow5401
    @crow5401 Před 3 lety

    I’m reading 90s Young Justice right now which has some cameos from Kyle so it’s nice to know where he came from, thanks for this vid Sasha!

  • @derektitov6667
    @derektitov6667 Před 3 lety +1

    I'm a huge GL and have most of the comics from Silver Age to present. Kyle is my favourite DC Universe character period. He got me back into comics as a teenager when I picked up Issue #151 (In Brightest Day - Jim Lee Cover) and I've collected nearly every appearance of his since. He's the most relatable for me and I really liked the camaraderie he brought to the GL characters in his run. Guy, John, and Alan all hanging out at Warrior's. Very cool. Also, he never gets the credit he deserves. The man singlehandedly re-ignited the central power battery and re-created the Guardians. Not to mention resurrecting Hal's dead dusty butt. Greatest GL. (in my opinion of course, they all have their strengths and bring something to the table)

  • @hana-a-cha
    @hana-a-cha Před 3 lety

    OMG what a coincidence, I started reading the tpb earlier today! Enjoyed your video as always do anyways.
    Kyle is my favorite Lantern tbh… He's awesome imo.

  • @geneksenzakovic6091
    @geneksenzakovic6091 Před rokem +1

    One of my favorite scenes ever is when Kyle creates a pirate ship complete with crew to fight an alien armada. Hal would have made a boxing glove.

  • @Emarldknight2
    @Emarldknight2 Před 3 lety +1

    Kyle Rayner is hands down my favorite Green Lantern and the voice you used for him is fitting, to a point, but after his on-again/off-again girlfriend is stuffed into a fridge he changes becoming a real hero. I'd like to see you use that in one of his later comics, like when Superman tells him he's too damn powerful.

  • @ianfinrir8724
    @ianfinrir8724 Před 9 měsíci +1

    Kyle actually does show up in Superman TAS, but he's given Hal's backstory.

  • @paultapner2769
    @paultapner2769 Před 3 lety

    In the same way your Doctor Who is the one you start with, Kyle is my GL. I got into DC 1995 and was so pleased to find this issue in Jan 97 at a long gone but nice little shop called Floppy Tongue comics, in Salisbury, England. Being English I wouldn't know American accents, so I never imagined him with one. But your voice for him does make sense.
    I'd honestly forgotten how he behaved in this issue. It was the start of a heroic journey though.
    I thought that Hals Emerald Attack Team, the campaign to bring him back, was something I read about in wizard magazine, and that all involved had long since gotten over it. Then in 2003 I got onto the internet....
    I dropped the Geoff Johns Hal run after ten issues, because I was so sore it wasn't Kyle in the lead anymore. His Ion series got scaled back to a twelve parter and then he was left in limbo for a bit.
    The Kyle story legacy, in the green lantern 80th anniversary special, is a great reminder of his times. When it was just him. doing the best he could. Mind you ever since Jessica Cruz she's become my favourite, as someone who has to go through what she does to be brave is more interesting than those to whom it comes naturally. But I'll always have those days when it was just Kyle...
    Never mind Jade though, I liked him with Soranik Natu. Wonder if they'll ever get back to that?

  • @frozenlightfilms
    @frozenlightfilms Před 3 lety +1

    Though I am much older than you and grew up devouring comics, I must say, you are really well informed or do some seriously solid research. Your comics chats are always fun and informative. Yay Sasha!!

    • @JennySparkz
      @JennySparkz Před 3 lety

      Silver Age or Golden? Also, Yay Sasha indeed :)

    • @frozenlightfilms
      @frozenlightfilms Před 3 lety

      @@JennySparkz Silver and bronze age, Though I did get to read some golden age comics reprints thanks to the "100 page spectaculars" DC published in the 70s.

  • @HankChinaski27
    @HankChinaski27 Před 2 lety

    Kyle's glasses are like the glasses of a guy who has solely entertained himself with Reality Bites and Mallrats for the last 20 years.
    I loved Kyle, but I also came into his story just as Hal was transitioning back in. I wasn't a DC guy until the mid 2000s. I am completely on board for all of it. Even Ion. I felt him evolving into the white lantern allowed Hal to move into that space while not decreasing his relevance or importance in the DCU. I've dropped the Green Lantern books in recent years so I have no clue where Kyle is now, but the part I read I enjoyed. It was certainly a wild ride.

  • @masteroftheassassins
    @masteroftheassassins Před 2 lety

    Kyle was my first Green Lantern so he holds a very special place in my heart and I think he deserves more love and recognition.

  • @amylutece8533
    @amylutece8533 Před 2 lety

    I like Kyle, He is actually my green lantern I connect with him and his stories the most. For a short time Hal was my favorite but as soon as I started to dive deeper I connected with Kyle more. I'm relatively young compared to comic history so I came into comics long after all the major green lantern lines had been done. The comic that actually pulled me into the whole medium was blackest knight issue 0 on free comic book day when I was like 10 years old or something, then once I discovered all the stuff with Hal being parallax and such it changed the way I saw him, then the whole Kyle Rainbow lantern thing happened and I thought it was really cool the way his arc turned out now he's my favorite.

  • @tykirk2572
    @tykirk2572 Před rokem

    Watching this made me think of the Green Arrow 90’s Connor Hawke. would love to see a video on him like you did with this one!

  • @jimhaverlock9784
    @jimhaverlock9784 Před 3 lety

    I am LIVING for your Kyle Rayner voice.

  • @RightHereAndNowDLife
    @RightHereAndNowDLife Před 3 lety +1

    Kyle was the first green lantern I got to read and loved him. Also loved his costume and the way he us the ring.

  • @cdswint
    @cdswint Před 2 lety +1

    Kyle’s always been my favorite Green Lantern, though I do like all of them. I wish they would give him his own title again. They just don’t seem to know what to do with him these days

  • @WillowRedDog
    @WillowRedDog Před 3 lety +2

    Technically, my Green Lantern is Alan Scott, but Kyle was a close second. He was introduced just as I started getting back into comics after a long absence, and very much me back into being a GL fan. While I liked him with Jade, you forgot to mention his time with Donna Troy (who was a Darkstar at the time), which being a fan of her, also worked quite well for me. I also liked Kyle’s friendship with Wally West.

  • @raphaelrodrigues2461
    @raphaelrodrigues2461 Před 3 lety

    Lol Kyle´s voice is just perfect. I love it !!!

  • @athenahitchin7738
    @athenahitchin7738 Před 3 lety +1

    The way Kyle started out his comic as a "artist barely able to pay rent" make me think we are starting the Green Lantern take on Rent.

  • @soysaucefool
    @soysaucefool Před rokem

    I ran across this channel a few months back, and at first I was like, ehhh, not my type of comic channel. Slowly it has infiltrated my watching to where it maybe in my top 3 favorite comic channels

  • @CulturePhilter
    @CulturePhilter Před 3 lety

    He was my era of Green Lantern. I got into comics first by borrowing Trade Paperback from local library and some of the first ones I picked up were his debut and also Zero Hour.
    It was a few years before I started buying comics though and then started picking up Green Lantern right at the end of his run, the last Arc before the Hal Jordon rebirth one.

  • @AlSidre
    @AlSidre Před 3 lety

    My first exposure to Kyle was the Green Lantern Audio Book by Graphic Audio and it made me love Kyle he and John are my favorite Lanterns

  • @dragonwatter
    @dragonwatter Před 3 lety +1

    kyle rayners was my first green lantern, Specifically the version in the The New Adventures of Superman cartoon.that version was one of my favorites. i like that he was an artist instead of something that had to do will the military. Sasha not sure if it was your Kyle voice or kyle's dialogue but in his first comic he seamed liked a creao,

  • @antwonejones914
    @antwonejones914 Před 3 lety

    Your Kyle Rayner voice is hilarious for me😂😂

  • @AdamFlores81
    @AdamFlores81 Před 3 lety

    Kyle Rayner was one of the best and will always have a special place in my heart.

  • @juanjosenamnuntavarez7553

    i love Kyle, one of the best green lantern, his time on Jla was wonderful to read.

  • @zachwise476
    @zachwise476 Před 3 lety

    Sasha! Thank you so much for another great video, i adore your channel. I have been doing my own about the story of the books I wrote. Hoping one day I could be just as popular as you and these stories you tell. Thank you for being an inspiration!

  • @TheAmusingOddities
    @TheAmusingOddities Před 3 lety

    I demand more videos from you like now lol

  • @DrPluton
    @DrPluton Před 3 lety

    I didn’t read DC comics until the 2000s. I went backwards and started with 1986’s Man of Steel miniseries. I mostly read Superman comics, but I liked Kyle when I encountered him in JLA. I later read all of his comic book arc and enjoyed it. His character development was good to read.

  • @waynecannon4232
    @waynecannon4232 Před 2 lety

    I love Kyle so much. After Stewart he was my first exposure to Green Lantern, oddly in a novel called Green Lantern: Hero’s Quest by Denny Oneil. Teenage me really related to the way he was portrayed in that book.

  • @brycevincent8874
    @brycevincent8874 Před 29 dny

    I really enjoyed Kyle's more creative constructs in later issues.

  • @ViccVegaa023
    @ViccVegaa023 Před 3 lety +2

    The 90's was an interesting time.
    Because of Image comics sucess and how much self promotion those guys did, at Image's height of popularity, at that point in time, it was now cool (and lucrative) to be a Comics Artist. So now you had all these 20 something guys at Cons and everywhere else in NYC actively trying to get hired by Image, Marvel or DC.
    So I've always seen Kyle as struggling Artist and Manga fan as a self insert for a certain segment of the then current fandom or even the creators themselves.

  • @pedrogomez7683
    @pedrogomez7683 Před 3 lety

    being a kid in the 90s (one that grew up with hal as his favorite hero) i loved kyle

  • @orinrayner
    @orinrayner Před 3 lety

    The first comic I ever read was Marvel vs DC and Kyle was the Green Lantern of that book. That book was my introduction to both comic companies. He was the Green Lantern I first read and kept up with. Even to me, Hal was a "tragic villain" more than a present character. I kept up with Kyle even after he was eventually pushed into the background. He had a pretty cool temporary comeback in Omega Men, but not much else. He's still my favorite.

  • @ericgollinger367
    @ericgollinger367 Před 3 lety

    More cool synth voices. Cool!

  • @timothysatyr6674
    @timothysatyr6674 Před 3 lety +1

    This is my favorite lantern!
    I remember reading his origin comic as a kid. As an aspiring artist I highly identified.
    There is a chance I might still have it.🤔

  • @lindsaycutter2834
    @lindsaycutter2834 Před 3 lety

    Idk why but Sasha’s voice for “Ohm” bounce from earbud to earbud for me, lol! Definitely added to the experience can’t lie.

  • @richardknownasdick
    @richardknownasdick Před 3 lety

    I read the Green Lantern books from 1971 thru 2015, and I for one was happy to see the mythos move on to a new hero. And frankly for those who remember, GL, the Flash, Hawkman and Aquaman all needed a fresh start.