Guy Week Continues

I do love having a theme, it makes it so much easier to come up with an idea for a blog posting. And I'll do my very best to assure that Hal stays out of the picture. He can be so pushy sometimes.



This week is all about Guy. And today, I must touch upon one of his most noted characteristics, at least back in the day. No, it wasn't his temper, immaturity, brashness, crudity or obnoxiousness. It was...his hair.

I do believe that it was John Byrne who gave him that infamous haircut in the Legends mini-series, that eventually led into the JLI. Prior to that, over in the Green Lantern Corps books, he'd been shown with a reasonable short haircut, nothing too fancy, but nothing outrageous either. But somehow, he ended up with that ridiculous bowl or mushroom cut. It certainly did make him stand out in a crowd, as there wasn't anyone ELSE who had their hair cut that way, except possibly Moe from the Three Stooges.

Perhaps without that insane mop of hair, he wouldn't have made such an impression on people. That,along with his...unusual personality traits, made him stand out in a crowd, that was for certain.

Sometimes the hair didn't look too bad. Adam Hughes always made it look pretty good.



Others...not so much.



Then after he lost the ring, and got his Vuldarian powers, he seemed to come to his senses and cut the hair. Once when he was roaming around in outer space, he even had it all long, and rockstar looking.



He decided it wasn't for him, and whacked it off himself, without a mirror. There is a simply charming scene in a subsequent issue of Warrior, where he's returned and Rita decides to give him a real haircut. There are some hilarious scenes of some of her versions, with a 70's porn mustache and Elvis hair, but fortunately, sanity wins out, and he comes out of it with a nice short, but attractive hairstyle.

Then he became a Green Lantern again, and changed it a bit, cutting it very short on the sides, but with a bit of a brushcut on the top.



I have to say that I like this one. It seems to suit him.

I find it rather interesting that ALL of the Green Lanterns, seem to experiment with their hair a bit, Kyle changes his everytime he changes his underwear, it seems, Guy has tried different things, John has gone from an afro to the shorter cut, even Hal grew it out for a while, although he does seem to cling to that casual lock on his forehead. Other superheroes seem to be fairly stagnant when it comes to changing their look, although everyone seemed to go through the "mullet" stage there for a while. Thank goodness THAT'S over.

So...favorite hair for Guy?