![]() ![]() What seems like a mismatch turns out to be a pretty good fight, according to Bedard: Fern has Swamp Thing-y powers and she comes with a military contingent armed with lightning cannons. ![]() While Lady Quark and Lord Volt appear in this week's Convergence: Supergirl: Matrix tie-in, their daughter Princess Fern battles Hal and Kyle. "I've always looked at it as an important moment for that character and something that I thought was an honest moment of drama and not just a cheap shock-value type thing."īoth heroes face a new threat in Convergence when the dome comes down and they're forced to face Electropolis, a city from an alternate Earth seen briefly in Crisis back in the day where England won the Revolutionary War and the monarchy is ruled by superpowered royalty. "It got very real for Kyle suddenly and that worked in the right way for me - I actually was surprised that it rubbed people the wrong way that it did," Bedard says. (The incident became infamous in comic circles later as the first instance of the "Women in Refrigerators" trope, where a female character's death is used to further the plot of a male hero.) "Some of them felt like it really violated the character, others felt like it made him interesting for the first time in a long time."Īt the same time, Kyle was still hurting from the murder of his girlfriend Alex DeWitt, brutally killed by Major Force and stuffed in a refrigerator. Hal's Parallax transformation split the fan base, Bedard recalls. I remember as an editor on JLA (in the late '90s), we struggled with that, getting him past that moment and letting him shine on his own merits."Ĭonvergence also revisits these characters at two controversial moments in their lives in '94 when Ron Marz was writing Green Lantern. "For a long time, Kyle was basically just defined by feeling like he couldn't fill Hal's shoes. "It's a different setup for their friendship," Bedard says. ![]()
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