In blackest day, in darkest night, no evil shall escape my sight

The Apocalypse is upon us. Ain’t It Cool News is reporting that Jack Black has signed on to play the title role in a zany, madcap feature film version of Green Lantern.
 

 
Dear god in heaven. This is simply wrong on so many levels. I'm literally nauseous.

This is going to be the most wretched abomination in the history of wretched abominations. This, my friends, has the unlimited potential of making the forthcoming Catwoman film look like Schindler's List in terms of quality. What a repulsive, wrong-headed, abysmal studio decision. I'd thought the "wacky ring creations" approach with the Bugs Bunnies and falling "Acme" anvils dead and buried a decade ago.

Remember the awful Marvel sell-out films of the 70s and 80s? Where they made the Red Skull Italian and gave Captain America a plastic motorcycle windscreen to act as a shield? Welcome to the new DC, which makes us long for the halcyon days of those quality Marvel adaptations.

It's long been an ambition of mine to script a good long run on Green Lantern, and actually write it as a SCIENCE FICTION title, ala the Lensmen, rather than the "superhero in space" retread it always seems to revert to. I guess I should put those ambitions on hold now, since DC always forces its comics properties to comform to any movie or television project. Witness the Teen Titans or Birds of Prey.  This move is going to kill the title dead faster than you can say Howard the Duck: The Movie.
 
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