The second story in this issue of Green Lantern is entitled "Wings of Destiny", which sounds like a cool title for a story. A great, awe inspiring tale about how a character has to over come oppression and save the world from destruction! Right? Right?

No, I'm afraid not.

This is one of DC Comics staples where they have the title super hero using their abilities in stupid and ridiculous ways. This story is no different, allow us to begin. Get ready, because it's a ham dinger of a tale.

It all starts off with Hal Jordon asleep in bed, he is dreaming about having a conversation with Pieface. Apparently, Green Lantern is such a conceited jerk that he dreams about himself bragging about his responsibilities to Pieface. In this dream he's trying to tell Pieface that he won't use his power ring for "trivial purposes" and to "stop bothering" him.

With no time to waste, Hal dawns his Green Lantern costume and flies to the airport. So much for not using your ring for trivial matters, huh Hal? Well while GL is flying to the airport he is found by Pieface, who tries to get his attention, but of course can't talk because he's a seagull. Green Lantern thinks the gull has gone nuts and flies away from it without giving it a second thought.

At the airport, Green Lantern finds a secluded area where he summons his civilian clothing from the aircraft plant. Why didn't he just carry it with him? Or use his ring to change his Green Lantern costume into civilian clothes? What sort of practicality was there in leaving your civvies at home when you were just going to have to "summon" them with your power ring? Wouldn't it have been smarter (not to mention less time consuming) to not change and fly there in your normal clothes? I mean, he can make himself invisible with that ring if he really wanted. God, Green Lantern is so stupid.

When in his civilian clothing, Hal goes out onto the runway to wait for Terga to exit the airplane, when she doesn't exit he decides to waltz right on in like he owns the damn thing. Inside he hears Terga tell the pilot that she won't leave the plane until her boyfriend shows up. something I'd like to point out is that Terga hardly knows any English, because once again, the Eskimo's that live in Alaska will obviously not know how to speak English according to the writer.

And well if you think this who scenario is getting stupider by the

Now, instead of walking down the isle way from the rear of the plane to the cockpit, Green Lantern decides to fly across. When the plane hits an "unexpected" air pocket, it causes the craft to lurch and throws GL off course and makes him fly right into one of the airplanes seats. And apparently the soft yielding seats of an aircraft are enough to knock out the Green Lantern.

Now if this isn't humiliating or impossible enough to believe that something like this can happen, something even more ridiculous happens. Apparently, a seagull is capable of flying as fast as an airplane, because Pieface manages to catch up with the craft. And if you don't find that impossible, he some how manages to smash through one of the port windows. Now if a seagull did have the strength to smash through the window of an airplane, I somehow doubt that it would be able to fly, or be able to break through the glass without horribly cutting itself.

Yeah, it's going to be a while before he lives this one down.

This line of logic doesn't stop Pieface from pulling it off, nor does it stop him from being able to grab the hijackers only gun (oh yeah, apparently a seagull can hold a gun that probably weighs more than the bird does in it's beak)

All this is enough for Green Lantern to wake up and use his ring to create emerald handcuffs to bind the crooks. After the plane is landed and the bad guys are locked up Green Lantern takes Terga back to the airport where she is seemingly attacked by the seagull.

Green Lantern finally puts two and two together and realizes what's going on and captures the bird in an energy cage (great way to treat your best friend) he tells (well actually the letterer made a mistake and put a thought bubble instead of a speech bubble so it looks like GL is thinking) Terga to wait here for him to come back. GL then goes around back and turns Pieface back into a human.

Later, Hal, Carol Ferris (somehow Hal managed to talk her into a date), Pieface and Terga go out for dinner together The two white people of course have to marvel at how even though Terga can't speak English very well, the two of them can express themselves. Yeah, because apparently something like people from a different culture expressing emotion to each other is such a hard concept to come by.

God this story pisses me off.