Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
I'm going to have to see him do those things in a fight more than once to give them an credence as a relevant tactic.As for GL skill at absorbing energy Hal has absorbed the battery before.
As for making massive constructs:
http://img19.photobucket.com/albums/v58/Desaad/Hal%20Jordan/Hal%20Jordan2/e3a97a34.jpgIf they have to GLs can mess with time too. The truth is they almost certainly won't but neither will Surfer.
http://img19.photobucket.com/albums/v58/Desaad/Hal%20Jordan/Hal%20Jordan2/c1772a9d.jpgGLs don't have to concentrate very much. Here Hal makes a half dozen scanning probes while facing down AlanScott
Effortlessly makes a number of constructs:
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c379/Doggydogg/GLsearchprobes3GL16.jpgHuge construct:
http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t105/DC_CaptainComet/LEGION-46-09.jpgSurfer doesn't have a speed advantage. Hal catches Zoom (the one that made Wally look slow) in the middle of a blitz:
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/HaltagsZoom.jpgAutoshields raise instantly:
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Green%20Lantern/glautoshields.jpgAutomatic defensive systems extend well beyond that:
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Green%20Lantern/glpoisonresistance.jpgIn freefall while under attack a GL makes a large construct and then shrinks it:
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Green%20Lantern/glmineclearingandplanetfixing.jpgCosmic Awareness is nice but as long as a GL knows there's something to look for the ring can find it and pinpoint the target to an obscene degree. Even if the request it somewhat vague. Here Hal finds subatomic aliens.
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/EndlessMike9/Green%20Lantern/glsenses.jpg
you missed my point with the tactics I listed above. they're to buy Surfer time to clone himself (which is just to demonstrate that he can do that, whereas the GLs cannot), not to win the fight in and of themselves.
as for what your scans demonstrate and what you say, there are quite a few disparities I have to say.
1. the "automatic defensive system" didn't actually automatically defend in the scan you show. the GL's ring was counter-acting the poison darts fired by the dominators. it says so in the scan.
2. that right there takes out the vaunted "auto shields"
3. detecting sub-atomic creatures is nothing that Surfer has not trumped. he's traced energy signatures across light years. and again, it took the ring time to find the source of the frequencies - time that Surfer would not permit a GL - oh and again, they actually managed to hit the GL because his ring was too slow in detecting the threat, yet again countering the efficacy of the "auto shields". furthermore, the ring detected their frequencies rather than the targets first. Surfer can disguise such things pretty easily.
4. I said nothing about "massive constructs", I was addressing the hyperbole about GLs creating Surfers to fight against Surfer with.
5. most of the above examples speak to the fact that GLs cannot process information at anything like the speeds Surfer does, therefore they cannot possibly have parity (or anything approaching) with Surfer in general reaction time and speed.
