10 Things DC Comics Wants You To Forget About Green Lantern
9. The Green Loontern
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This isn't a moment to forget so much as it is one we don't see nearly enough of anymore, and given the fact DC is owned by Warner Bros., it's downright surprising we haven't.
2003's Duck Dodgers cartoon is one of WB. Animation's most overlooked and under-appreciated gems. Developed by Batman: The Animated Series alum Paul Dini along with Spike Brandt, Tony Cervone and Tom Minton, the show riffed on one of Merry Melodies' most popular episodes and placed Daffy Duck in the 241/2th Century. Tom Jones even sang the theme song, and went on to cameo in an episode later down the line. It was crazy, and by far the most intelligent use of the Looney Tunes license in recent years.
One episode, called 'The Green Loontern', featured Daffy (voiced by the late, great Joe Alaskey), swapping suits with Hal Jordan and joining the Green Lantern Corps. Kevin Smith even got in on the act as Hal, marking the first DC-Looney Tunes crossover with a raft of cameos right across the board.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
