The Return of…The Greatest Green Lantern Ever
Green Lantern #25, the concluding issue of The Sinestro Corps War, surprised me by bringing back a character I never expected to see again: Leezle Pon.
Before this, Leezle Pon — a super intelligent smallpox virus and Green Lantern — had only appeared only once — well, not really appeared so much as is mentioned in passing by Tomar Re in a throw-away line in Green Lantern #188 (Second Series), the Alan Moore penned story that introduced Mogo. This time, not only does Leezle actually appear, but he takes down one of the nastiest members of the Sinestro Corps as well.
Personally, I think you all have me to thank for this because I asked for Leezle to be brought back into continuity in a post that I made a year and a half ago. Now that I know the power of my suggestions, it’s time to turn my attention to other overlooked DC characters and get them back into mainstream stories as well. I think I’ll start with Turbeau, the redneck cyborg.
Leezle Pon’s first mention, and then his actual first appearance — 22 years later
December 14th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
Well, normally I’d wonder how a smallpox virus can be superintelligent what with them not having any formal life cycle of their own, but if even an abstract mathematical progression can be a Green Lantern, I guess any semblance of consistency with the real world will not likely be found.
What the heck does Dkrtzy Rrr do, anyway?
December 14th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
*Second* greatest GL ever. Rrr is team player enough to attend meetings.
(Dkrtzy is obviously the GL for Ideaspace. Which of course makes him even cooler than a mere physical germ.)
December 14th, 2007 at 5:19 pm
Official Comment
They just think Leezle isn’t at the meetings, but he really is. That Khund green lantern in the corner with the rash and cough? That’s where he is.
December 15th, 2007 at 1:37 am
I just love the image of a tiny cell… with a green lantern logo.
December 15th, 2007 at 10:53 am
Wasn’t it a fabulous concept? This is one of the reasons why I like Geoff Johns so much, he remembered a character from a one-panel bit of dialogue from YEARS ago, and made it into an important plot point.
I’ll bet that Guy Gardner thinks that Leezle Pon is also swell.
December 15th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
I guess if any virus were to be intelligent, it would be a pox virus.
December 15th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
I’m echoing the votes for Rrr. He’s math, after all.
But there’s one Green Lantern we all should respect: Good Old G’Nort.
December 17th, 2007 at 8:49 am
If GG was attacked from within by a Sinestro Corp supervirus, why didn’t it just zap him with it’s yellow power ring? Why bother to just make Gardner sick?
Also, I doubt one viral frament could make anyone sick.
January 2nd, 2008 at 2:21 pm
ahem, doesn’t that “virus” look more like bacteria, especially when you have a look at the very obviously Nucleoid-formed DNA?
November 13th, 2008 at 12:03 am
I was about to make the same observation as Dr. X, but instead I’ll counter-propose that Leezle Pon is in fact the little Lantern-logo shaped object, and the green blob is either a shield of Lantern energy, or a blood-borne bacterium that Pon has opportunistically infected…
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