Guy Gardner Questions For My Friends List...

[calliopes_pen]

I was recently reading a few older trade paperbacks, and now I have a few questions about Guy Gardner. Just so everyone knows, the trade paperbacks are Zero Hour and The Final Night. The only thing I ever knew about him was that he was a Green Lantern. Now, Hal Jordan killed most of the Green Lantern Corps., so I assume that he wasn't a Green Lantern at that point.

In Zero Hour, Guy has a weird suit that, at one point, grows a gun out of his arm. In The Final Night, Guy says something about Vuldarian Physiology keeping him from getting drunk. Is Guy an alien? Or is his suit a weird creature that bonded to him?

The most I really know about Guy, is that in either the late 80's or early 90's, he was part of one of the Justice League groups. (And that Batman knocked him out when he was getting annoying one time.)

(I'll scan these scenes from the trade paperbacks later, if anyone isn't sure what I mean.)

Comments

[ladycat713.livejournal.com]

There was a Guy Gardner comic book that explained something about him being part of a long term alien cross breeding program. It's been more than a few years since I read it and with all the universe shifting that went on for a while there's no telling if this is the same back story. In short, Guy isn't an alien but a human alien hybrid.

[calliopes_pen]

Thank you. I had wondered if his costume might have been alive--like the alien symbiote that became Venom.

[unlovablehands.livejournal.com]

Guy was a Green Lantern from the seventies until 1992, when (in GL v3 #25) Guy and Hal Jordan had a fight, the winner of which would be the only one who would remain a GL. Guy lost.

Guy then went through a number of potential power sources, in most of GUY GARDNER REBORN he uses guns & other weaponry. He then comes into possession of Sinestro's yellow ring, and uses that for the first fifteen-ish issues of GUY GARDNER. Hal takes away his yellow ring (under circumstances I forget, but I believe it was something like "it's eeeevil.") Guy then used one of the power suits Blue Beetle made for Booster Gold after Booster Gold's costume was destroyed in JUSTICE LEAGUE AMERICA v2 #70. The suit had a tendency to malfunction, and only was used for two or three issues. Guy then went on a search for another power source, and there was this whole thing with the water of the Warrior re-awakening his Vuldarian powers, which are, essentially, shapeshifting powers, enabling him to shift his limbs into weaponry. He went by the name Warrior from 1994 to the present. He was dead for a while, but he got better.

As of GREEN LANTERN REBIRTH #2, his human body started to reject the Vuldarian DNA, and he's right now functioning as a Green Lantern again, but I don't know how much of that is permanent.

If you have any questions about Guy Gardner ask either me or caia_comica. We talk about him a lot.

(PS. the Justice League group that Guy was a part of was Justice League International 1-25, and then JLA v2 off and on. He got kicked out a couple times.)

[calliopes_pen]

Thank you. That definitely helps quite a bit. :)

[fair-witness.livejournal.com]

Adding to the Guy trivia, Power Girl's evil yellow cat once kicked his butt but good.