Lantern Corps

Did you know that besides the famous Green Lantern Corps, there are several other intergalactic, ring-bearing, color-coded organizations as well? Each corps' color is drawn from the different colors of the rainbow and has a respective emotion/feeling/choice associated with it.

The seeming most famous besides the Green Lantern Corps is the Yellow Lantern Corps, more frequently called the Sinestro Corps after their leader.

There's also the Star Sapphire Corps (Purple Lantern Corps), who seems to be headed by earth's most famous green lantern's ex-girlfriend. Talk about weird connections.

There are also Red, Orange, Blue, Indigo, Black and White Lantern Corps.

I suppose in comics you can have your cake and eat it too. Now all there needs to be is a Rainbow Lantern Corps. Should make a certain segment of our population happy.

Back From Bolivia!

Hello, dear readers!

Our team returned safely from our mission trip this past Tuesday. I have yet to post anything about it because one of our team is amalgamating all the photos from the trip together using my SD cards, so until he is finished, I have no photos of the trip. Rest assured, I will post a rather lengthy update as soon as I am able.

Stay tuned!

~Tommy

Literary Lists

Since I was on the topic not too long ago, here's a (still admittedly short) list of fantasy books and series that I have started and want to finish, or want to start to see if they are any good.

- Harry Potter: now that all the books have been published and all the movies made, I might actually read/see them now. I told you I wasn't cutting edge!

- Discworld: read the first two and liked what I saw. Looking forward to more

- Inheritance Cycle: I need to read the last book...for old times sake if nothing else

- Wheel of Time: still haven't read the most recent book. I did notice that my local library has the audiobook on a whopping 30 cds. Maybe I'll borrow it and listen to it while I landscape?

- Redwall: I just heard today that Brian Jacques, the beloved author of the beloved Redwall series, passed away this past February. I loved his books when I was younger, and I want to read those I have not yet read. I shall mourn his passing.
- And as I said previously, A Song of Ice and Fire

Hmm...and while I'm at it, how about some other series I have read?

Forgotten Realms - A lot of R.A. Salvatore's stuff. Not really a fan any more. Felt rather uninspired after a while.

The Binding of the Blade - not all allegorical fiction is good. This series is. I recommend.
Stephen Lawhead's The Song of Albion and King Raven trilogies - the first is definitely fantasy. The second is more historical fiction, but it is epic, and it is a good read. I want to read more of his stuff.
Dune - only the first one...not particularly interested in the others. As much as I admire creativity when Worldbuilding, some places and universes are just too weird for me.
The Founding - this is an omnibus of three novels written by Dan Abnett about Gaunt's Ghosts, a fictitious military unit set in the Warhammer 40,000 Universe. It's interesting. Different. It is somewhat reminiscent of Forgotten Realms books in that it follows the general bents and patterns of an established game system, but not quite as constrained.
The Chronicles of Narnia - 'nuff said
Lord of the Rings - ditto...well, not really, since there are books outside the main trilogy. For my part, I have also read the Book of Unfinished Tales, the Children of Hurin, the Hobbit, the Silmarillion, and the first third of the The Book of Lost Tales. I suppose there's another series I need to finish.

I'm sure there are more I haven't thought of. Maybe I should make a permanent page for this list and continue to expand it as I go on? Something to think on...

Still in Bolivia. But I still wrote this before I left. I am a Phantom. Fear me.

~ Tommy