February 28, 2010 

Typo’s Best: In The Future, There is No Human Resources Department.

Howdy, y’all. Site Admin Matt behind the keyboard again. Typo’s letting me continue the Best Of series on a weekly basis, so every Sunday morning you’ll be finding an awesome post from the past.

This week I pulled one from October 2008. I’ve never actually read a Pol Manning issue of Green Lantern (the closest I got was a page in Zero Hour, which has NOT aged well, by the way), and it sounds like a cool idea. I may have to hunt some down.

In the 58th century, there arose a trouble so great that the people of Earth felt the need to use time travel to recruit the famous Hal Jordan to be their “Solar Director”. Basically, every time there was a crisis, they’d pull Hal from the past, then brain-wash him and have him be Pol Manning, intrepid explorer, hero, and puppet dictator.

It was a brilliant plan, really.

So what’s the flaw, you ask?

That’s right Iona, just close your eyes and think of Earth.

Footnote: In the 80′s, the Green Lantern Salakk was yanked to be Pol Manning instead of Hal Jordan. As Salakk was quite alien, they decided to brainwash Iona so she’d continue playing her role.

The future. Such a bright place to be!


  • J'onn D'oh

    I wouldn't relish being the girlfriend of a man “who has spent years among the asteroids and who has just been summoned back to Earth.”

  • Dierna

    Beware of Stan Lee's really big head!

  • http://Slayerlit.us Shiai

    Pol Manning, discoverer of the Martian Moon.

  • Wizard

    Yeah, with that giant dome you'd think he'd have enough brains to solve their problems without hijacking Hal.

  • http://Slayerlit.us Shiai

    Or leave it up to their secretary to cook up the actual details of their “plan”. I'll bet after this, all of the executives gave themselves big cash bonuses for being such geniuses…and poor Iona had to take yet another pay freeze due to the ongoing economic downturn, toxic assets, and whatever else they use as an excuse.

  • Dr. Novakaine

    Yes, Hal Jordan MUST have a love interest, and a female love interest at that, because no man could ever be happy without one.

    But really, when they think their best shot at success is pulling Hal Jordan from the distant past, where he's already a dickish buffoon, to a future where he'll be a dickish buffoon who's also exceptionally famous, you can already tell that they're a few cards short of a full deck.

  • http://sezaarsez.wordpress.com/ sezaar

    let's just hope trees went extinct in the future or Hall would be of little use (a joke for the regulars).

  • http://sezaarsez.wordpress.com/ sezaar

    let’s just hope trees went extinct in the future or Hal would be of little use (a joke for the regulars).nnOh and I’m sure Lona will change her mind once she sees Hal that is if the guy in the red his ass is an indicaction of how men of the future look in theights.

  • Naryldor

    Indeed.

    In fact, I daresay they'll also be in trouble if kids play with RC flying saucers.

  • Naryldor

    Indeed.rnrnIn fact, I daresay they’ll also be in trouble if kids play with RC flying saucers.

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