Re: Most powerful uses of a power ring?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Glenn Simpson) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Dan McEwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > "M.O.R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: 
> > 
> > > Hasn't the yellow weakness been done away with as of Kyle.  I mean
> > > Kyle's ring was created without having the yellow weakness and his
> > > only limitation is that he has to recharge it every 24 hours.
> > 
> > Yes, which is further proof that the weakness to yellow was _not_ a
> > necessary impurity, but instead of way of keeping GL's from believing
> > they were invincible.  
> 
> I guess it was "necessary" for a different reason than we thought...
> 
I vaguely recall reading a Hal Jordan story when I was a kid, where
Hal and the GL corps discover a prototype ring without the yellow
weakness that the Guardians were keeping from them. Angered that their
comrades were dying needlessly because of this, they stole the rings,
and went on a tyrannous rampage. I don't remember how it all ended,
but it wasn't happy.

As I recall, it turned out to be a virtual reality training program by
the Oans to explain why the rings had a weakness: to keep the GLs
power from going to their heads. I *think* Hal asks the Guardians if
there really was a perfect ring, but doesn't get a real answer.

So I *always* thought that the rings were deliberately flawed, based
on that story...Anyone know what issues this was in?

Dex