Post by Max the comics guy who does comics about comics / Redsky

The Green Oath sucks. They should replace it with “fuck you, evil, it’s Green Lanterning time!”

aug 31, 2025, 6:34 pm • 74 7

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I have vague memories of someone saying that the oath itself didn’t matter, it just takes as long to say as it takes the ring to charge up.

aug 31, 2025, 6:36 pm • 29 0 • view

I just hum the Final Jeopardy song in my head for as long as it takes.

aug 31, 2025, 6:38 pm • 4 0 • view

I think you could infer that the oath matters in as much as your state of mind matters. You could say anything, but you need to feel the right feels.

aug 31, 2025, 6:41 pm • 2 0 • view

I recall Aya gave Razer an alternative chant that had the same meter but it didn't work.

aug 31, 2025, 6:47 pm • 2 0 • view

Originally it was just a thing Hal made up and every Lantern had their own, but it has very much transformed into a Pledge of Allegiance type thing for space cops.

aug 31, 2025, 6:43 pm • 3 0 • view

One variant isn't that far from it, though it throws in a "yowza".

aug 31, 2025, 7:30 pm • 1 0 • view

Sounds like a literal Guy Gardner proposal

aug 31, 2025, 6:35 pm • 1 0 • view

"No evil will win; I'll break you in a fight" would've sounded way better tbh

aug 31, 2025, 7:04 pm • 2 0 • view

I prefer the Green Loontern version.

aug 31, 2025, 6:38 pm • 3 0 • view

I think you would like the absurd, frontier lantern: Jack T Chance.

A montage of Jack T. Chance,green lantern. Jack is blue skinned and wears s long red coat with scaly elbow patches . I one image he is deflecting lasers and missiles from a spaceship and shooting back. in another he is decapitating a man with a green blast while eating a drumstick. in the center he is reading his oath with maniacal glee. “You who are wicked, evil and mean—i’m the nastiest creep you’ve EVER seen! Come one, come all; put up a fight; I’ll pound your butts with green lantern’s light. Yowsa!” the caption reads “ and so the law came to hellhole. hellhole didn’t take kindly to the law. the law didn’t care. the law was whomping the hell out if hellhole and it was having a good time doing it.

sep 1, 2025, 4:40 pm • 0 0 • view

two panels from a comic. Jack t chance, a blue alien in a long coat dressed like a cowboy lights his cigarette while the Guardians—short blue aliens in robes— look down from their pedestal in judgment. he says “ Look, Blue Boys—You made a basic mistake. You sent a good nan to clean up a bad sector. Goos men are going to get killed there. What you need is a good BAD man. someone as mean and nasty as the people he’s going up against. Hey liok—you may know order and all that frap—but you don’t know the gutter. I do. “ next panel he blows out a swirling pattern of smoke in a close up of his face. “So here’s my deal—I take the ring, I clean up my sector, and you don’t give me any static. Otherwise, just send me back to Hellhole and we’ll say it was fun and call it a day. Whattaya say?”

sep 1, 2025, 4:49 pm • 0 0 • view

He’s like the green lantern’s version of Lobo if he was a deranged cowboy.

sep 1, 2025, 4:52 pm • 0 0 • view

“Do da do da doot doot doot. Da doot da doot da do do. Da da da dat da da da. POP! Goes the Evil!”

aug 31, 2025, 7:10 pm • 2 0 • view

They used to all have their own. It had to fit the same cadence but the words were a personal oath so anything was fine.

aug 31, 2025, 7:22 pm • 2 0 • view

Larfleeze still has the best of the new oaths though. "What's mine is mine and mine and mine. And mine and mine and mine! Not yours!" He even stole some of the syllables because they were things he could take.

aug 31, 2025, 7:26 pm • 0 0 • view

"May those who worship evil's might suck my whole dick through a bendy straw" then they hit them with a green shovel

aug 31, 2025, 6:48 pm • 8 0 • view