Random Reaction to A Certain OYL matter:

I admit it: I don't understand it. I don't know the reason behind it. I'm sure other people could find incongruencies with plenty of past source material. But I just have one thing to say:

Alan Scott's eyepatch is sexy.

I don't care why or how he has it. Or even if he's physically capable of losing his eye considering. I don't care if he *has* lost his eye or he's just playing at being Pete Wisdom for a while. It just works for me.

Whenever I read Alan, I always get the impression of a lead pipe wrapped in velvet. He's not very subtle, but he's formidable, implicable, and more of a bludgeoner than a stabber, shall we say. But it's always beneath this exterior of class and dignity that doesn't exactly soften the bludgeony weaponness, but it does mask it a little.

That patch changes everything. It's piraty, uncivilized, savage, barbaric... It's intense. Alan got himself into something that's so intense that while he must have triumphed, he left something of himself behind. No more velvet or kid gloves.

Alan's playing for keeps now and he is going to (pardon my french) fuck your shit *up*!

So anyway, the eye patch thing? Totally works for me.