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When I talk about superheroes who really mean something to me, I always come back to Batman, Daredevil, and Green Lantern. Batman and Daredevil may seem redundant at first glance but I assure you that they are not. These aren't necessarily my favorite superheroes, but they're ones who've inspired me to carry on through hard times.

I'm not taking about Alan Scott. I don't care about Alan Scott at all. He'd a neat character, but he's never once mattered to me.

A lot of people tend to latch onto the versions of characters that are published while they grow up. Hal Jordan has been the main Green Lantern in recent years, but my problem with Hal is that he has no personality whatsoever. Scratch that--his personality is actually that of an impatient, closed-minded, uncreative doofus. For some strange reason, everybody seems to agree that Hal Jordan is the greatest Green Lantern. I do not agree at all.

I personally think that Kyle Rayner is the greatest human Green Lantern, the actual objective greatest being Thaal Sinestro. I like Kyle because he's an artist, someone whose passion for pop culture actually matches that of the readership. As a teenaged artist who gobbled down comic books and sci-fi myself, I projected a lot of myself into him. I'd felt like, if GLs existed IRL, I would be one of them. Like my anger and righteous indignation at the world would let me make things easier on other people.

There's something else about that era of Green Lantern that stands out, too. He was the only Green Lantern for the whole universe. It's a heavy burden, and a lonely office to occupy. I felt like a shoe-in. There were never a lot of people around me, growing up, who I felt I could relate to. I felt like digging in my heels as a nerd was a great way to rebel against my peers. I was always scheming at how to take my revenge on the world, to let everyone else see the injustices that I see. I wanted to be a Green Lantern, more than I ever wanted to be a Robin. The creative passion that can be channeled into a Green Lantern's fighting style is so personal. How could an artist and aspiring superhero not want to be a Green Lantern?

Planet Size X-Men #1

Every day, hatred and terror strike against misunderstood minorities like lightning cast by the closed-minded gods. But ne'er was a minority more misunderstood than mutantkind. Mutants emerged from the womb with biology distinct from their immediate ancestors, their genes subtly remixed by their progenitors encounters with radiation.

Mutant shaming, murder, and mob lynchings were a'plenty whenever possible. What was wrong with this people? Why did they hate and fear mutantkind? Xavier, with all his wisdom, concluded that the people were prejudiced only because they had been taught to be. Mutants had been shown to be an unrighteous and calamity-craving people. Xavier vowed to show the world otherwise.

So Xavier, a true master of modesty, founded the Xavier Institute for Gifted Youngsters, which would be both home and headquarters for his teenage paramilitary revolutionaries--The X-MEN! Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Iceman, Angel, The Beast, and sometimes Havok, Polaris, Banshee or Mimic.

Now, Cyclops needs your help to rescue the remaining X-Men from Krakoa--The Island That Walks Like A Man! Krakoa, whose flora and fauna have the children of the atom imprisoned like corpses in the dirt, hungers for more mutants, thirsting for their bio-energy.

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