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To main sedhe apne store par aata ho. Main ek handsome ladka ho mere age 25 yeas hai. ISS ki story read karne se mujhse bhi apne behan ki chudai ko dil karta tha . main job k liye apne buaa k ghar delhi gya tha . to wa 3 din baad kuch family program tha . dhre dere ghar me mehman log aane lage jiski wajah se hum log ok sone k liye jada gha nhi tha . sabhi log jamen per becha kar sone lage. To mere buaa ki ladki jiska name suman tha.w uski age 23 year thi wo mujhse 2 saal choti thi . hum age hone k karn hum log frnd jise the. Wo sada sundar to nhi thi magar uske figer bhut zaberzast the kisi k bhi land dekh kar khad ho jaye use chodne k liye . kya mast size the uske 34d 26 32. mera pass so ne lige . pehle to mere man me kuch nhi tha .

Magar jab se main ISS ka store read kane laga mano mere nazariya badal gya mujhe har ladki ko chodne ko dil karta tha . 2-3 din tak to normal rat me kuch nhi hua . agar mere ek din raat me need khul gai . suman mere bagal me soi thi tb mera maan me na jane kya huaa ki maine uski legs per legs rakh diya ur halka halka ragne lga ki kahi wo jag to nhi rahi hai. Jb udar se koi reply nhi mela to maine apna hath uske pet par rah kar usk tarf muh rah kar so gya . kuch der aise rahne k baad mene haath thoda sa sar ka kar usk boobs par rakh diya ur halka halka use dabane laga . kya bataao yar kitna soft tha usk boobs mano makkhan ho. Par mujhse dar bhi lag raha tha ki kahi koi jab na jaye . usne rat me tshirt aur salwar pehn rakha tha to main usk tshart me hemmat kar k dal diya aur use dabane laga wo kuch nhi rly de rahi thi .par main v jada himmat nhi kar parah tha . fir maine use apne tarf ghuma liya aur wo aasani se mere taraf ghum gai.

Maine usek muh k pass apna muh lega yam agar main se se kiss karne se dar rah tha ki kahi wo jag na jaye. Sayad wo jag chuki thi aur garram v ho chuki thi par wo bhi chahti thi ki suruwat main he karo. Ant mai usne he mere lips par apne lips rah diya aur chusne ne lagi. Mere to kushi ka thikan hi nahi raha aur hum dono ek dusre ko kiss karne lage 1o min . tak kiss karne k baad maine usk boob ko zor zor se dabane laga . wo cahh kar bhi aawaz nhi nikal pa rahe thi.

Maine usk peeche hath dal kar uski bra ka huk kho diya. Aur maine thoda ne che sarak kar usk boob ko kiss kate kate choosene laggaa aur halka halka us k nipple ko data se katne laga wo pagal se ho gai aur mere seer pakar kar apne boobs apr dabane laagi . maino kahane lagi ki pee jaoo iska sara ras nikal lo iska milk aur main tezi k sath uski boobs ko chush rah tha . fir maine uski salawr ka nada kho diya aur uski uski chut ko ragadne laga. Uski sase tez hone lagi . uski chut par halke halke baal tha .u pagal ho gai maine uski choot me 2 finger dal diya ur andar bahar karne laga usk uha se siskarya niklne lage to maine uske muh par apna muh rah diya.

Fir na jane use kya huaa usne finger karne se mana kane lage . to mujhe gussa aagya per maine uske sath zabarzasti nhi kar sakta tha kyo ki aur log bhi waha soye the .to maine naraz ho kar dusre tarf muh kar k so gya . wo puri tarah se gar mho chuki thi aur mere muh pakar kar apne taraf karne lage jab usne dekha ki maine uski taraf muh nhi kar rah ho to wo khud uth kar mere lips par apne lips rakh diya aur use chusne lagi to mujhse rah nhai gya aur mane bhi uska sath dene laga au rusk lips ko tez se chusne laga. Usne mera lowar nich kiya aur mera land nikal kar hilane lage . aur apne chut par ragdne lagi aur uske muh se siskariya niklne lagi aaah aaaah aaah uuuuf uuuff aaha aaaah uuuuf mera land ek dum tite ho gya use chodne k liye . aue maine usk choot par apne land se dabaw dalne laga to wo mana karne lage . ki sab jaag jayege to maine use chaat k upper aane ko bola aur main chaat par chal gaya.


10 mint. Baad wo bhi chaat k upper aagye . uske aate hai maine use lepat gya ur use kiss karne laga aur apne jeeb usk muh ka andar daal diya aur wo use chusne lagi . kabhi wo mere jeebh ko to kabhi mere lips to kabhi maine uski lips ok chuse ja rahe the . mano hum ek dusre me sama jan chahte the .fir mane usk garden per kiss karne laga aur apne jeebh ko chalne laga wo aaah aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah aaaaaaaaaaaaaah uuuuuuuuuuuh uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhh aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh hahhhhhhhhhhhhhh ki waze nikalne lagi . aur uski t shirt k upper se he usk boob ok dabane laga aur apan face us per ragdne laga fir maine usk t shirt nikal diya w00w kya boob k size the mere aakhe ek dam se fati ki fati rah gai . uski pink color ki nipple pucho mat yar dil kar rha tha ki kha jau uski boobs bhut soft the aur maine uski nipple ko chusne laga . aur woo mera sir pakar kar dabaye ja rahi thi aur muh se siskariya nikal rahi thi ……………. Aur fir mane uska salwar ka nada kho diya jisse wo sarka kar niche gir gai mane uske panti per hath ferne laga aur uski panti gili hone lagi.

Tab maien uski panti nikal diya aur uski choot mere nazaro k samne thi . maine 1 st time itne pyari choot dekhi thi.ek dim fuli hui aur chikni aur halka hake baal thi maine appne apne lip uaski choot par rakha diya aur chusne laga . kya batauu yar uski choot bhut garm thi andar se maien uski chut maine apne jeebh danlen laga aur chatne laga wo tadapne lage aur aaaahhhh ahhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh ki uuuuufffffffff ufff uuuuuuuuuuuuufffff aur tezz bhai aur taz chaato apne behan ki chut aur pee jaao sara apne kah kar mere sir apne choot par dabane lagi . usk choot se pani nikalne laga . maine usk sara choot ka pani pee gya aur geebh se chaat chaat kar safa kar diya . wo lane lage plzzzzzz ab mujhse chood do ab mujhse bardash nhi hota .to maine use chaat ka pur lita diya aue uski lage ko dono taraf faila diya aur use samjh diya ki jada chlleye gin hi aur suru aat me thdo dard hoga fir tumko khub maja aay to wo haa kar di .

To main samjha gya ki ye choodane k liye tayar hai aur maine der na kartr huye apne land ko uski chut ki ras se thoda gila kiya aur uske choot rakha kar ek zor dar daka maara woe k dam se saham gai aur uski muh se cheek ha nikal gai main to dar gya ki kahi koi jaag na jaye . wo rone lagi aur bolne lagi ki bhut dara do rah hai plzz nikal lo mujhe nhi kar na mane use bhub samjhya aur suke boob ko dabane laga aur use kiss kane laga jab wo apne dard ok bhut lagi to ek jatka aur mara mera sara land uski chut me sama gya aur wo chatpatane lagi ujhe chor do mujhe chor aur main eek na sune ur choodta rah kuch der baad wo bhi maze lane lagi aue siskariya nikalne lagi aaaaaaahhh aaaaaahhhh aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah auffffffffffffffff bahut maza aar rah hai bhai aur choodo mujhe I love u I lve u plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz aur tezz fuke me fuke me kahane lage

Maine apne choodai chalo rakhi aur usne bhi apne kar mar hilane lagi…………….. aaaahhhhhhhhhhhh ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh aaaaaaaaah ufffffffffffffffffffffff uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuffffffffffffff
Aur hamare chudai ki aawaz chaat ka upper sunai dene lagi puch puch ki aaawazzzzzzzzzzz 20 mint tak chudai chalti rahi tan aur usne mujhe tezz se pakar liya aur kahne lagi plzzzz aur tez choodo mujhe faada to mere is chutt ko ab main temare huuu aur choodo aur wo jar gai magar main use choodta rah uar 5 mint baad mere bhi chtne wala tha to amine kahi maine apna land bahar nikal leta ho to usne kah nhi mere andar hi dal to kyoi te hamari pehle chudai hai aur shagrat hai………….

Tab maine bhi ask nadir hi apna maal nikal diya aur ek dusre se lipte rahe . aur ek dusre ko kiss karte rahe . fir haume apne apne kapde pahne kar nikal niche so ne chale gaye .

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Looking at this funny story from The Kilroys #28 (1950) I was struck by Solid Jackson's dog, Boris. He looks like Scooby-Doo to me, drawn almost twenty years before Scooby-Doo made his debut in 1969. Wickersham, who sometimes signed his name Wick, was a moonlighting animator who drew their teenage comic, The Kilroys, which had a nice run from 1947 to 1955. I've shown a couple of Kilroys stories at various times, including New Year's Day of this year, in Pappy's #1080 and a couple of music-themed stories in Pappy's #831.

Wickersham, born in 1911, worked for most of the major animation studios. I'm a comic book fan, so I don't know a lot about animation, but I do know comic books. To me it's enough that he did such a wonderful job for years on this funny comic. Wickersham died in 1962 at the age of fifty.











[Guest reviewer Zach King blogs about movies as The Cinema King]

After a less than positive experience with Green Lantern, let's charge into Flash: The Greatest Stories Ever Told and see how the Scarlet Speedster fares.

On a quick thumb-through of the book, it looks like my complaints about the preceding trade were rectified; I see Jay Garrick, Barry Allen, and Wally West, which gives me hope for a fair shake for all (no Bart Allen, which is worth debating, although this volume was published before Bart's tenure as The Flash). More enthusiastic already, I'm eager to see if this volume makes the case for Barry Allen's return that Geoff Johns never really did; I'm also expecting fewer Johnsian echoes, since Flash: Rebirth and its subsequent run was less about solving canonical problems than introducing new ones.

The sum of the parts being more than the whole in this series, let's take a look at what's inside this volume.

"Stone Age Menace" (Flash Comics #86, August 1947): The decision to open the volume with an appearance other than Jay Garrick's first appearance is surprising, but it's hard to be upset about a story that features Jay as the Flash battling a giant dinosaur while attempting to cover for his jailed alter ego. The story by Robert Kanigher (who, you'll recall, was hit or miss in his entries in Wonder Woman: The Greatest Stories Ever Told) never quite ties up at the end -- there's a one-panel wrap-up that doesn't resolve every plot thread satisfactorily -- but there's tremendous fun to be had at seeing Flash zip back and forth between crime-fighting and maintaining his secret as the unjustly imprisoned Jay Garrick. Other than that, I've always been a big fan of the mercury-helmet costume, particularly in what I've fondly dubbed the "stubby style" of the Golden Age.

"The Rival Flash" (Flash Comics #104, February 1949): This story seems included for two reasons -- its succinct retelling of The Flash's origin, and its introduction of Jay's opposite number, The Rival (who's also a college professor, like Barry's foe Professor Zoom). For modern readers, "The Rival Flash" offers two treats -- early Carmine Infantino work and unintentionally hilarious plotting, as when Joan recalls blowing the Flash's secret identity to a classmate but quickly shrugs it off as inconsequential. The end of the story is also hysterical, when someone believes that The Flash must secretly be someone who entered the lab after Jay Garrick inhaled the "hard water" fumes that we know gave him his powers. While The Rival doesn't live up to either incarnation of Zoom, the sequence where The Flash loses, then regains, his powers, is surprisingly exciting, considering we all know that Jay was running around as recently as August 2011.

"Flash of Two Worlds" (Flash #123, September 1961): Not much to say here. This story is iconic and classic, and its exclusion would have undermined the entire "Greatest Stories" project. "Flash of Two Worlds" is the story that started it all -- the crossovers, the Multiverse, the legitimation of the legacy hero. While modern readers will be scratching their heads about The Shade's characterization or the continuity of this Multiverse as opposed to the ones we've known since, what's important to note is that this story has aged remarkably well and has lost none of the appeal of two characters meeting for the first time, and mercifully not fighting on first sight. As great as this story is, it reveals a major flaw of the "Greatest Stories" series -- full covers are not reprinted, and the "Flash of Two Worlds" cover is one of the most quintessential Flash images (although the panel of two Flashes rushing toward a falling construction beam is included as a panel within the story).

"The Gauntlet of Super-Villains" (Flash #155, September 1965): The Barry Allen Flash has perhaps the second best pantheon of villains in the DC Universe (second only to Batman, in my estimations), and this story sees The Rogues teaming up against their common foe. And while this story doesn't have a lot of depth to it, it's a fantastic primer on all of Flash's best enemies (save Zoom, who appears in the following story). The Rogues mysteriously escape from prison and band together to disintegrate The Flash; little do they know, however, that Flash has merely vibrated through the floor and is well on his way to uncovering the real ringleader of The Rogues . . . Two things stand out here -- one, the Silver Age-y introduction of The Rogues' tailor, an unnecessary but whimsical in-canon hanging-lantern who must have been the prototype for Paul Dini's Milton "The Broker" Fine; and two, in spite of the fact that the plot doesn't quite matter, the whirlwind tour of Flash's Rogues more than entertains.

"One Bridegroom Too Many" (Flash #165, November 1966): With the Barry Allen/Iris West marriage annulled by the onset of the New 52, this story seems both inevitable as a collectible and irrelevant as far as continuity goes. John Broome's story translates Barry's wedding-day angst well, but the Professor Zoom plot often feels too convenient by half; while Zoom is clearly a force to be reckoned with, the story plays fast and loose with his abilities and his history. The art by Carmine Infantino is strong as always, solidifying his stance as a DC creative legend, although there are moments when Barry's lips are distractingly large like something out of a Dick Tracy strip. The story is unquestionably in here as a Zoom feature, although the wedding angle helps emphasize the fact that Barry Allen was once the most well-adjusted superhero in the DC Universe (that is, until Professor Zoom "pulled a Johns" and retconned his life).

"The Flash - Fact or Fiction?" (Flash #179, May 1968): To my memory, The Flash was one of the only DC heroes to know he existed in a comic book (over at Marvel, Dr. Doom once met Stan Lee and Jack Kirby), and this story is clearly in the volume as a testament to that. Here, The Flash is transported to our earth and enlists the help of Julius Schwartz in building a new cosmic treadmill to return home. Unfortunately, it's also a return to a much less compelling main story, in which The Flash has to battle some kind of renegade dream monster called Nok. A hit or miss entry by Cary Bates and Ross Andry, "Fact or Fiction?" is probably not the best metafictional entry the editors could have chosen. (That reminds me, does the Earth where Superboy-Prime met Dan Didio still exist in the New 52? [I believe the rule is nothing exists until we see that it does. Or everything exists until we see that it doesn't. Or something -- ed.])

"Beyond the Super-Speed Barrier" (DC Special Series #11, 1978): The longest story in this volume (and possibly in the entire "Greatest Stories" series, at 63 pages), this Bates-penned epic tale finds the three Flahes of 1978 -- Jay Garrick, Barry Allen, and Wally West -- in three interconnected stories drawing them together for a confrontation with a "silent simian" after the execution of Gorilla Grodd.

While I definitely appreciate this volume's overall attitude to the Flash legacy, parts of this story go on a little too long -- especially (and perhaps appropriately) the Barry Allen chapter with The Turtle. Jay's segment feels quicker, perhaps because Johnny Quick also appears to double the speedster quotient, and the Wally chapter is great, capturing the "teenage hero" mentality without delving too deeply into soap opera angst. Ultimately, the story isn't terrible, but it's mostly forgettable, although modern readers won't help but remember the Combo-Flash formed by the three vibrating to inhabit the same space, or the hilariously memorable image of Barry Allen's ring ejecting its costume while he's in bed with Iris- - tell me Bates didn't have something a little naughtier in mind! (Iris's actual reaction: "Barry! You can't be serious!")

"Out of Time" (Flash #91, June 1994): In the final story of this volume, Wally takes center stage and dons the red tights in this Mark Waid piece. Here, Wally boosts his own speed with Johnny Quick's formula (3X2(9YZ)4A!) and freezes time like something out of a Twilight Zone episode. Max Mercury comes along to dole out some zen wisdom about the speed force, and Wally's left excited about the future. In one way, it's a great way to end the volume, musing optimistically about what's next (Wally's current nonexistence in the New 52 notwithstanding). But it's more frustrating than anything else -- if Wally's now moving faster than light, why does he complain about being powerless to save a helicopter crash directly in front of him? Why doesn't Max Mercury help Wally instead of complaining that Wally isn't fast enough? Moreover, aren't there Wally stories that don't fall into the "Hero can't do everything" trope of the 1990s? Maybe I'm overthinking it, but "Out of Time" is too restless for its own good.

Overall, Flash: The Greatest Stories Ever Told is a strong volume, imperfect like the others but with enough of an overall survey to give a holistic sense of what the Flash legacy means. I'm surprised that there's nary a Geoff Johns story in here, especially considering how highly praised his Flash run was. I also would have liked to see more of the traditional Rogues, but I suppose I'll have to read The Flash vs. The Rogues for that.

Next time around, I'll cover the world's greatest superheroes in JLA: The Greatest Stories Ever Told. See you then!

More Greatest Stories reviews: Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman.

[Thanks Zach! Next week, come back here for the DC New 52 debut of the Legion of Super-Heroes. Excelsior!]
[Guest review by Doug Glassman.]

Continuing directly from Silver Surfer: Rebirth of Thanos, Jim Starlin and Ron Lim’s Infinity Gauntlet is the last of what I call the “Marvel Epics.” From 1980 to 1993, a string of Marvel stories defined the characters for years to come. Starting with the Dark Phoenix Saga and going through Captain America: The Captain, Armor Wars and Avengers Under Siege (among others), Infinity Gauntlet finishes the chain with the greatest single battle in Marvel history. I say this having read the major Marvel crossovers, and my opinion still stands. The scope of the war in this volume is absolutely astonishing.

Authors have different strategies to convey the threat of a villain. Some use staggering amounts of violence, like Superboy-Prime’s slaughter of the Teen Titans in Infinite Crisis or the Stamford explosion in Civil War. Some use world-shattering disasters, such as Krona’s war on reality in JLA/Avengers or the Sun extinguishing in The Final Night. Some keep ratcheting up the scope of the participants, such as the numerous Supermen in Final Crisis or the Skyfathers in Secret Invasion. Starlin decides to go with all three of these tactics with Thanos -- appropriate, as Thanos is the most powerful being in the universe.

The book starts out with Thanos having aged Nebula, his crazed granddaughter, into a shambling near-corpse (staggering violence). He then commits one of the most infamous acts in the Marvel universe: the death of half of the universe’s population. This is done with a snap of his fingers. It sends every facet of the universe into chaos, represented by brief vignettes from the Avengers, Namor, Asgard, and many others. Starlin jumps from vignette to vignette as a way to keep the scope from overwhelming the story. When Thanos throws a temper tantrum, the Gauntlet creates a wave of destruction which rips through the universe, knocking the Earth out of orbit and destroying Japan and the entire West Coast of the United States (world-shattering disasters).

At this point, Starlin resurrects the character of Adam Warlock, and the recruiting of Marvel’s most powerful players begins (ratcheting scope). Warlock is a “perfected human” who defeated Thanos before; commanding the forces against Thanos, he plays a complex strategy game. Dr. Strange and the Silver Surfer are on hand to question him about it, while Doctor Doom injects himself into the proceedings as a way to advance his own agenda. They start small, getting together the remaining superheroes. This is not as big of an army as you might think. The entire Fantastic Four, most of X-Factor and the New Warriors, and many Avengers were taken in the culling of the universe.

From this point on, more and more powerful participants are brought in. The heroes gather the Skyfathers -- the heads of all the pantheons of the Marvel Universe --  which only happens when the situation is truly dire, similar to DC’s Quintessence. Galactus is one of the weaker combatants compared to the embodiments of Chaos, Order, Love and Hate; a pair of life-seeding Celestials; the Living Tribunal, the final arbiter of the universe; and Eternity, the sentience of the universe itself. Their eventual fight with Thanos takes place mostly off-panel, mostly because it would have been nearly impossible to draw. Even the parts we do see are limited by the confines of the written and drawn page, and the combatants eventually destroy many of the universe’s fundamental tenets and scientific laws. Thanos keeps winning ... and it’s all part of Warlock’s plans.

Even with all of these characters in play, Starlin is able to capture their characterization and use it to drive the story. The various cosmic forces are hard to marshal and are driven by their own self-interests and egos. Galactus, for instance, is only involved because the aforementioned Earth-wrecking temper tantrum robbed him of potential planets as food. The humans have their own issues, with very few trusting Warlock, and Doctor Doom being a divisive presence. A key scene features Wolverine and the Hulk (who was sentient at the time) calmly discussing their turbulent past, only for Warlock to explain that they’re part of the mission because they’re willing to kill. Captain America has used Wolverine in this capacity before, and even he knows that sending the Hulk into a situation can result in such damage. It’s a refreshing realization of Marvel’s own issues with vigilantism.

Thanos’ greatest downfall is his own self-loathing and his feelings of unworthiness to hold his power. As Warlock points out, this is the third time Thanos has had omnipotence. It also becomes the third time he lets it slip away due to carelessness and easily-avoidable flaws. Helping the heroes in his own way is Mephisto. While One More Day may have tarnished many characters, Mephisto is one of the few to come out with a good reputation. All he did was manipulate Spider-Man’s emotions, and he does the same here with Thanos, pushing just the right buttons to cause astonishing chaos while keeping him from destroying existence (and Mephisto himself) entirely.

This is why Thanos remains one of Marvel’s best villains. He yearns for greatness and achieves it, but can’t keep it. When the universe has a massive reset near the end of Infinity Gauntlet, it doesn’t feel cheap because the events still remain in Thanos’ mind. The reset isn’t even his fault; it’s part of Nebula’s justified revenge. I normally dislike resets like this—for instance, I thought that Paris’s destruction during Fear Itself should have remained as a way to greatly change the Marvel Universe. But this time, the knowledge that such a reset needed to happen just for publishing purposes is abated by the circumstances.

If you need artists who can draw numerous characters effectively, Ron Lim and George Perez are two of the best, and they collaborate wonderfully. The changeover is nearly impossible to notice until you look at some of the faces. Perez has his trademark “circular face,” while Lim uses a more ovular style. Both draw some of the best star-fields in comics, taking their time to create extensive detail in an age before computer coloring could do it in half the time. The reality-bending Gauntlet’s powers require some extensive art effects, and these sometimes make the story a bit difficult to follow. A few sequences with a white-outline-drawing Doctor Strange on top of yellow energy may not have been the best color combination. The Gauntlet itself is also an excellent and memorable design -- enough so that viewers immediately noticed it when it appeared very briefly in Thor.

In retrospect, Infinity Gauntlet marked the end of the old Marvel. Lee, Liefeld, and the other founders of Image Comics were on the rise, and within a few years, the Heroes Reborn event and its reversal would change it entirely. Like post-Final Crisis DC, post-Gauntlet Marvel may never attain its former glory, but the last Marvel Epic is a testament to what came before. It deserves to be put on film, and it seems that Hollywood has answered the call to do so.
I showed “The Flower of Death,” a few years ago. I’m re-presenting it with new scans. What I said about it then was that it was a story I chased for years without knowing what it was. I’d seen it when I was very young, maybe six-years-old, at a friend’s house. Despite being surrounded by two very cool Wood and Orlando Captain Science stories, what I remembered about the comic book was the transition of flower to ape. People write me sometimes and ask if I can help them identify a story they remember, and without fail I can't. I can't even help myself. This was a story stuck in my memory for many years that I couldn't find, and then one day opened up Captain Science #5 and there it was. Eureka!

Except...it's not much of a story. Artwork is serviceable, credited by the Grand Comics Database in their question mark fashion as being by Bill Fraccio? and Vince Napoli? So they're not sure. I wondered about the clumsy transition panels (which look like photostats), flower to ape and ape to flower, and then I found the origin of it in a gasoline ad from a 1950 issue of Life. This is another of my discoveries in Life that later turned up in comic books.


I've also included a Captain Science story from the issue because I love this Joe Orlando-Wally Wood science fiction and so do you. These are my scans from the original comic, but the story is also included in the book Wally Wood: Strange Worlds of Science Fiction, edited by J. David Spurlock. It's a trade paperback available from Amazon.com, among other bookselling sites, and if you're fortunate, at your favorite local comic book shop.

From Captain Science #5, 1951:















[Guest reviewer Zach King blogs about movies as The Cinema King]

In brightest day, in blackest night, what Green Lantern stories are greatest in the editors' sight?

For better or for worse, the spectre (pun intended) of Geoff Johns looms large over Green Lantern: The Greatest Stories Ever Told. Maybe it's because he gets the last word with "Flight," maybe it's because many of the stories in here have been retconned or reappropriated by him, or maybe it's just because this volume might as well have been called Hal Jordan: The Greatest Stories Ever Told. Indeed, while all the other major Earth-based Lanterns appear, Hal is the undisputed star (hey, it's his mug -- courtesy of Alex Ross -- that adorns the cover). Already on this cursory preview, we have a major flaw in the volume, but let's hold our opinions until we've bent the spine.

The sum of the parts being more than the whole in this series, let's take a look at what's inside this volume.

"S.O.S. Green Lantern" (Showcase #22, September/October 1959): After we saw a fresh take on Wonder Woman's origin, we're back to the obligatory original origin story to open up our look at Green Lantern, and there's not much to say about this story except the usual: iconic, classic, holds up well, hasn't changed much (although a plethora of retcons surround the essential Hal-meets-Abin scene). In fact, thanks to a whole host of writers since, one can't help but ask why Abin Sur needed that spaceship anyway. But while I always long for Alex Ross, I can't complain about one more exposure to the original "first" story, especially when it's this good.

"The Planet of Doomed Men" (Green Lantern #1, July/August 1960): Here I'm confused. The first half of Green Lantern's first outing in his own title is essentially a retelling of "S.O.S. Green Lantern." So why reprint both stories here? This story does introduce the Guardians, but the almost word-for-word origin scenario presented in this story doesn't work as well as the original did, nor is the main GL mission -- in which Hal ring-slings against a 60-foot gorilla-like beast on an alien world -- as compelling. I really like Gil Kane's art here and elsewhere in the volume, but an odd detail: the alien people GL helps are yellow, yet it's not a plot point for a guy whose one weakness at the time was the color yellow? Perhaps if this story didn't double up on the origin, it'd feel stronger, but it's a detriment to the collection to retell the same story twice, only once not as well.

"Power Rings for Sale" (Green Lantern #31, September 1964): This is another mostly forgettable story. It's the requisite "brainwash" story that seems to be a recurring feature in the "Greatest Stories" series, but it's not a particularly strong one, especially once we find out that (spoiler warning) Hal was faking it the whole time. The idea of multiplying rings is a great one (one that Geoff Johns has used again and again, in Blackest Night and in the New 52's Sinestro), but it doesn't get used particularly here. It's a story with potential, but somehow the "evil Hal" we get here seems unsettling, particularly considering the fate we all know Hal finds after Coast City's destruction.

"Lost in Space" (Green Lantern #74, January 1970): Here we get our first major rogues story, with a team-up between Sinestro and Star Sapphire. These characters are very different from the ones we know today, and this story being here makes me wish we'd instead gotten the first time Hal learns that Sinestro has turned Korugar into a fascist dictatorship. Not to sound like a broken record as far as this series goes, but the story's biggest weakness is that Green Lantern doesn't do terribly much here. The dynamic between Sinestro and Star Sapphire is fascinating, especially in light of the relationship they've acquired under the aegis of Geoff Johns, but Green Lantern spends most of the story struggling to maintain consciousness while crawling to his battery. Gil Kane's pencils are great, especially on Sinestro (although the earring is a little distracting).

"Beware My Power" (Green Lantern #87, January 1972): The introduction of John Stewart into the GL continuity, courtesy of Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams (mercifully unretouched), truly is one of the greatest Green Lantern stories ever told. After Guy Gardner's only selfless act ever benches him as Hal's alternate, the Guardians induct John Stewart, whose African American heritage leads to an ideological clash with Hal. Coming about a year and a half after the landmark O'Neil/Adams "skins you never bothered with" confrontation, DC's treatment of race relations in the seventies comes off as a bit dated, but what's more surprising is how forcefully Hal comes off as arrogant and ignorant. (There's also a great moment where John asks to be called "Black Lantern" -- a claim I doubt he'll revisit any time since Nekron's visit.) The story remains compelling, the art is effective and stylish,

"Judgment Day" (Green Lantern #172, January 1984): "Judgment Day" is a mostly forgettable story in which Hal overestimates his own importance and rushes to the conclusion that he, the apparent center of Carol Ferris's world, has been betrayed by her after the Guardians exile him from Earth for a year. While Green Lantern's first heroic exploits on Earth are exciting and classic, the rest of Len Wein's script is overwrought with entirely too much emotion and an ending that doesn't quite ring true with the earlier scene it attempts to whitewash over. The Dave Gibbons art is a treat as always, but it's an inconsistent story about an entirely unlikeable Hal Jordan. Usually I can tell what makes a story "great" in an editor's eyes (even if the story isn't especially to my liking), but on this one I'm stumped.

"Sound and Fury" (Green Lantern #3, August 1990): Take the controversial Straczynski story Superman: Grounded, add two Green Lanterns, cross-breed with Deliverance, and toss in a dash of Grant Morrison's "settle the moral argument by beating him into the ground" (posited in Animal Man: Deus Ex Machina), and you'll get this lackluster story in which Hal and Guy brawl and promptly have their rings stolen by two joylessly-stereotyped Southern mountain men.

In this story by Gerard Jones (who's done better work on the nonfiction side of comics), Guy is the classic crewcut dimbulb, but Hal is at the apex of his smugness (although the graying temples suggest that his attitude and his willingness to fistfight might just be -- Geoff Johns retcon alert! -- the fear entity Parallax talking). While his willpower is in top form, the venue for its exercise isn't entirely sterling. Also, the '90s-style dot-matrix coloring has not aged well and does not look great in this reprint.

"Lightspeed" (Flash and Green Lantern: The Brave and the Bold #2, November 1999): If the Green Lantern/Flash bromance is to be rekindled in the New 52, this Mark Waid/Tom Peyer story might be the place to look for inspiration. "Lightspeed," riding the wave of one-off Silver Age nostalgia tales that rolled in during the late '90s [kind of -- this is a so-so sequel to the truly stellar JLA: Year One by Waid. -- ed], pits Hal and Barry Allen against a non-Scottish Mirror Master and a cliche-spouting (and decidedly not undead) Black Hand.

While there's no great mystery to be unraveled or continuity trails to be blazed, Waid and Peyer do a great job keeping the focus on the relationships between Hal, Barry, and Wally West, inflecting the story with a Silver Age flavor but never losing sight of the story's central thrust. Moreover, this story might well have been called "Whatever Happened to Barry Kitson?" because I'm reminded how much I really enjoy his artwork here [ditto, again, JLA: Year One -- ed] -- crisp and dignified, yet fun like Kevin Maguire by way of a thinner-inked J. Bone. A late contender for "Best in Volume," "Lightspeed" might not be an immediately apparent choice, but it's a welcome one.

"Tomorrow's Hero" (DC First: Green Lantern/Green Lantern, July 2002): This is a curious inclusion because it at first feels like it's about to be an anthology story -- Alan Scott tells Kyle Rayner about the time he teamed up with Hal Jordan to fight Krona -- but writer Benjamin Webb leaves it there, and poor Kyle Rayner gets extremely short shrift (he's only in costume for three pages in this entire volume, and then not even here) when he's relegated to jokes about his sex life with Alan's daughter Jade.

The main story, though, is good on a surface level, with Pete Woods and Jamal Igle delivering artwork which looks a bit more DCAU than their recent work on New Krypton. The story isn't particularly groundbreaking, and it seems to have been included solely to get Alan Scott into the volume for the sake of the completists. While the story nods toward continuity at every turn (reminding us who Jade's mother is, noting Hal was The Spectre for a time, retelling the origin of the Guardians and of Krona, etc), it's ultimately not terribly memorable and perhaps even a bit unimportant in the grand scheme of things.

"Flight" (Green Lantern Secret Files and Origins 2005, June 2005): We close the volume with a non-spandex tale by Geoff Johns and Darwyn Cooke, arguably the men most responsible for the Hal Jordan revival of the mid-2000s. In this story we get a look at who Hal Jordan is when he's not ring-slinging, but mercifully he doesn't resort to the "Hal as jerk" stereotype. Not to say that Hal's a paragon of integrity; the story is full of little character moments as when Hal asks to borrow $10 from Carol or the shy brave front young Hal puts up when he admits to his father, "I'm scared." Some have complained that Johns's writing is heavy-handed, and while I agree on some counts, "Flight" is one that shows but doesn't tell -- triggering emotions without the Johnsian narration that some have come to deplore. And I've yet to meet a comics fan who didn't love Darwyn Cooke's revisionist-retro pencils, and so my only complaint about "Flight" is that it's one of the most collected and reprinted GL stories around.

In summary, Green Lantern: The Greatest Stories Ever Told is one of the more disappointing entries in this series, dominated by stories that do not do justice to the long legacy of the character. The emphasis on Hal Jordan results in poor selection choices that cast the character as overly self-absorbed and grouchy -- that is, in the stories when he's actually doing something and not lying around unconscious. There are a few good stories in here -- the origin, the introduction of John Stewart, the Waid/Peyer "Lightspeed" -- but fans of Green Lantern might be better off sticking to individual collections of creators they know and trust, particularly if they're looking for more than just Hal Jordan.

While Hal is certainly the mainstream Green Lantern, John Stewart's role in Justice League Unlimited more than earned him his fair share of fans, and perhaps a generational approach might have been better here -- a "best of" tale or two for each Lantern rather than the fairly limited scope we get here. Additionally, how you do a Green Lantern anthology and not include anything by Alan Moore is beyond me; "Mogo Doesn't Socialize," anyone?

Up next, we'll dart on over to Central City and peek in on Hal's brave-and-bold buddy in my review if Flash: The Greatest Stories Ever Told. Stay tuned!

More Greatest Stories reviews: Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman.