Green Lantern: The Animated Series

After so many decades of DC cartoons that focused on either Batman, Superman, or some incarnation of the Justice League, WB finally branched out and gave us Green Lantern: The Animated Series. And the timing seemed ideal, with the live-action Green Lantern movie having hit theaters in 2011. Sadly, that movie may have been the Animated Series’ worst enemy. Between the lackluster box office performance and the fact that the movie action figures were clogging up toy aisles and preventing the release of an Animated Series toy line, this show was probably just doomed from the start. We only got one season of Green Lantern before Cartoon Network quietly shuttered it. But what a season it was.Green Lantern: The Animated Series Season 1 Download.

The opening two-part episode, “Beware My Power,” set the the tone for the show very well. It established the basic concept that would guide the series through its first 13-episode storyline. Rookie Green Lanterns were being murdered in frontier space, and so veteran Lanterns Hal Jordan and Kilowog “borrowed” an experimental space craft called the Interceptor and ventured into unknown territory to find the culprit. There they discovered that a new group of Red Lanterns had arisen and were plotting revenge against the Green Lanterns. This two-parter immediately showed just how dark the writers and producers were willing to go with the series.

But even though the pilot set a darker precedent for the series, the writers were never afraid to offset the drama with ample doses of humor. A number of smaller characters were inserted into various episodes as comedic relief, including fellow Green Lanterns like Guy Gardener, Ch’p, and Chaselon and Red Lanterns like Zilius Zox. In any medium, it’s always nice to see a superhero story that isn’t afraid to poke fun at itself.