• ideonek
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      336 days ago

      Because of his views.

      https://i0.wp.com/50yearoldcomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/gl89-recruit.jpg?ssl=1

      https://i0.wp.com/50yearoldcomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/gl89-vapor.jpg?ssl=1

      From: https://50yearoldcomics.com/2022/02/19/green-lantern-89-april-1972/

      He’s consistently an “old lefty” sometimes more “sustainable-first capitalist” sometimes more “anarchist”, but his views on things like pollution are well established.

      • @skisnow@lemmy.ca
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        56 days ago

        Sure, but we’re really in “exception proving the rule” territory where you have to reach back to 1972 for an environmental plotline.

        • ideonek
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          126 days ago

          Come on, man. You are portraying a scenario when I opened all comics starting now and stopped when I reached a first one with environmental theme? Is this arguing in good faith? The image is old because it’s an important part of his worldview for a long time. One of his enemy from this year is named “Fresh Water Killer”.

          • @skisnow@lemmy.ca
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            06 days ago

            I’m not doubting he’s pro-environment, but my original comment referred to characters defined by their environmentalism, and the fact that you’re pushing him so hard as a candidate off something that’s very much a secondary characteristic proves how thin the field is overall.

            • ideonek
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              26 days ago

              What his primary characteristic in your mind?

              I agree how the filed is overall. He’s a very small represnetiarion. But I stand by that he’s a valid one.

              • @skisnow@lemmy.ca
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                36 days ago

                Put it this way, none of the writers of the Wikipedia article on him have included mentions of environmentalism anywhere close to the opening paragraphs.

                Though ironically enough, given what the thread was originally about, the only reference to a environmental activism I can see in there is one where he infiltrates a gang of eco-terrorists to take them down…

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                  5 days ago

                  I ment Swamp Thing! Swamp Thing!

                  Albo, I think Poison Ivey is anti-hero now. So… progress?

                  Also, Also super heros are by defintion rectionary - it’s a whole thing, there is a book about it. So you may hava a point.

                  • @skisnow@lemmy.ca
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                    15 days ago

                    super heros are by defintion rectionary

                    The other thing that occurs to me is that in most “environmentalist” storylines, the villain’s polluting is done illegally, so the hero already represents the status quo.