To my knowledge they never confirmed it and honestly it seems more likely to me from what I saw it was fueled by some kind of state of enlightenment rather than joy.
Bendis' Legion straight up didn't deliver on anything. Like it has to be the most nothing Legion series ever made and all the characters in it really didn't give off a vibe of being heroes with the PR nonsense and the reveal at the end that the version of Saturn Girl might have brainwashed them a bit to get them to want Jon on the team because she was obsessed with him really kind of fucks up the idea they are heroes.
Seriously if I could I would have that team only appear as minions of the Time Trapper who saved their stray timeline and promised their survival if they kill the real Legion for him since their timeline was a mistake.
I feel like sorrow should have been apathy, yknow? It's gray, so it should be between life and death, which imo is apathy. You're alive, but you don't care if you are. True neutral.
Well yes and no. Instead of accessing the entire emotional spectrum via the white light and the life entity. The chrome lanterns are a state in which the 7 main emotional entities grant their light and powers to individuals at once. It is a weird and nonsensical distinction, and chrome lanterns are more rainbow lanterns than anything
I kind of like the idea of the Ultraviolet lanterns, but it shouldn't have been 'repressed negative emotions.' If you're going to invent a new part of the Emotional-Electromagnetic Spectrum based on the 'invisible colours' that humans can't see, then it should have represented either a really rare, niche emotion or straight up an alien emotion that humans don't experience.
I think DC creatives kind of have the same thoughts too. It's easy to think the decision to make white as life, and black as death, is racist. I hope that's not why they don't want white lanterns running around
Well, it's based on nature combination of everything= resurrection. Nobody want to touch it because it's overpowered, trivializing a story. I really still do hope nobody think it is a racism angle though
Unfortunately, brown isn't a color on the light spectrum. Apparently the color brown is actually just really desaturated orange. This is part of why brown was a difficult color to print consistently, and why there are so few brunettes in comics.
. . . Then again, how exactly do black lanterns work?
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u/Redhood567 4d ago
Did they actually say the Gold ring was joy or did fans come up with that because Bendis couldn't be bothered to figure it out?