Camaro Count / Lantern Rings

So I have a hobby.
Whenever I go out somewhere, I count how many 2010 Camaros I see.

Yesterday, I went out to the bookstore, and saw this amazing one:

Yellow with black stripes. Totally going for the Bumblebee look, though the yellow isn't anywhere close to the right color. (They don't sell the car in Bumblebee yellow. =( )

And, no less than 500 feet from that car, I saw another Camaro! (this time in red!)

I saw another Bumblebee Camaro on the street later, but I couldn't snag a picture of it, so here's another picture of the first one.

Sooooo pretty.....


On a totally different note...

Have you ever heard of Green Lantern?  The superhero?
Lemme give you a quick crash-course in Green Lantern lore...

These are the Guardians.  They're dwarf-sized alien beings with almost unlimited power.  They're nearly immortal, having lived for thousands of years, and have appointed themselves the Guardians of the Universe.
The Guardians created the Green Lantern Corps, a kind of "Space Police."

There's 1-4 Green Lanterns for every one of the 3600 sectors of space (so nearly every Lantern is a different type of alien), but they all have the same powers.

A Green Lantern's power comes from his or her Power Ring, a super-advanced (yet tiny) piece of technology that's directly fueled by its wielder's willpower. With the ring, a Lantern can fly, breathe in space, and create any sort of "energy construct" that he/she imagines.



Pretty cool stuff, huh?

So lately, in the Green Lantern comics, there's been this new storyline: Blackest Night.  The basic gist of it is that there are more Lantern Corps than just the GLC, each powered by a different type of emotion.

Red Lantern Corps - Rage

Agent Orange - Greed

Sinestro Corps - Fear

Green Lantern Corps - Willpower

Blue Lantern Corps - Hope

Indigo Tribe - Compassion

Star Sapphires - Love

And they're all at war.

It's really cool, because each of the corps' powers work completely differently.  For instance, Blue Lanterns don't have the ability to use their rings to fire lasers, but they can do things that directly relate to the concept of hope, such as revive a dying sun or soothe a heart filled with rage.  Also, the presence of a Blue Lantern negates the powers of Yellow and Red Lanterns, because Fear and Rage cannot stand in the presence of Hope.  However, a Blue Lantern has no power if there is no Green Lantern nearby, because Hope has no power without the Will to carry it through.  A Blue Lantern's ring supercharges a Green Lantern's ring, however, so when a Blue and Green Lantern team up, they're very, very powerful.
Does that make sense?  Okay.

It's a lot of fun, because comics fans are choosing sides, and showing it by wearing all sorts of apparel emblazoned with their Corps' color and symbol.

All this to say that when I went by my local comic book shop today, they had Lantern rings.
I bought one.

=D

I also grabbed blue and yellow ones.

YAY. :D