One of the characters featured in last year's DC Hispanic Heritage Month variant covers was Lorena Marquez, a.k.a. Aquagirl.
Her last speaking role in a comic was 15 years ago, having a grand total of 3 silent cameos and 2 mentions since 2011.
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![Black text on a white background. It reads:
Wheeler-Nicholson’s shooting is more fully explained later in the article.
“One of the officers who knows him well stated that Major Wheeler-Nicholson entered the home of a friend during the latter’s absence, was mistaken by the caretaker for a burglar and was shot. He was seriously hurt.”
“He arrived at Camp Dix from Washington in the middle of the night last August [1921]. His quarters had been given up and he went to the Officer’s Club to sleep. It was locked and after vainly attempting to get in,he went to the home of an officer whom he knew very well. This officer [Major Francis T. Colby] was away, although Major Wheeler-Nicholson did not know of his absence.”
“He rang the bell and pounded on the door, but received no response. Then he went around to a rear window.”
“’He was foolish, perhaps,’” said the officer who told the story, ‘but of course there was absolutely nothing wrong in what he did. He crawled through the window, seeking a place to sleep.”
“A soldier who was on guard in the house, awakened by the noise, fired, and the bullet struck the Major in the head, inflicting a serious scalp wound.”
“Officers at Camp Dix said that Major Wheeler-Nicholson had been likely to ‘fly off at at tangent,’ and was inclined to find army discipline irksome. This made it hard for him to get along under some of his commanding officers.” [Ibid.]
Reportedly, the bullet entered near his temple, leaving a scar he would bear the rest of his life.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rck4trbgodrpsxtotp32qvzg/bafkreibfj6lvl3wijh2exhodnmkr3xb5dsahvol4b2tcnbbqacm5kkpl4q)
![Interviewer: Diggle got a green box from space and he’s moving to Metropolis.
David Ramsey: DAVID RAMSEY: Yes, he is. Yeah, he did get a green box, and it was very exciting. I don’t know what that means, but he does go to Metropolis and he got a green box, and we’ll see. We’ll still see, believe it or not. We’ll find out.
Marc Guggenheim: We’re just gonna continue to tease you guys. I feel like a little bit like how, in Rocky 4, when Rocky did the press conference for his Ivan Drago fight and he said, “It’s gonna be Christmas in Russia.” And people were like, “Why?” And he was like, “That’s what I was told.” So, every time David and I field questions about, “What was in the box?,” basically it’s like, “That’s what I was told.” What I mean by that is, this was something that was worked out, over a year ahead, with DC entertainment. We very specifically negotiated and discussed the parameters, and I feel like, to say anything beyond what we have shown you, would violate our agreement with DC.
Interviewer: How important was it for you to pay off that fan theory?
Ramsey: That was very important. I’m also just amazed that we compared Arrow and Green Lantern to Rocky 4, which was a very good movie.
Guggenheim:
A long -running inside joke between me and Greg [Berlanti] is how you can learn almost everything about story from Rocky 3. It’s true, by the way. In a separate venue, I could give you a whole song and dance about it.
Ramsey: It’s exciting. This whole thing has been exciting. Yes, the tease has had a bit of a pay-off, but we’ll see what all that means. I’m with Marc. Anything beyond that is violating these parameters that we’ve been given by DC, that we have to honor. But I think we’ve done some justice to the six-year tease that we’ve given.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rck4trbgodrpsxtotp32qvzg/bafkreifl63s2rz6bpwndd7zah3nzz3vlebnxwhqfcoscuf7oxo4hewjlyq)
![An excerpt from a Wizard Magazine article. It reads:
Facing criticism from both Hal and Kyle fans, H.E.A.T. has, in recent months, backed off its more militant goals. The group's stopped calling for Marz and Dooley's heads, began to include pro-Kyle fans in its ranks, and even changed the "A" in its name from "Attack" to "Advancement." Pro-active H.E.A.T.ers have put their money where their mouths are through dona- tions, the group has raised and spent a few thousand dollars on a Website petition (www.glcorps.org) and a full-page ad in Wizard #77 seeking the return of Hal and the Corps. The petition has garnered close to 2,000 names, in part because H.E.A.T. calmed its anti-Kyle rhetoric.
"We are not asking for Kyle Rayner's replacement or his departure," says H.E.A.T.er Jack Grimes, who helped create glcorps.org and placed the Wizard ad. "That would be unfair to his fans and to his potential as a character. We believe that Hal and the Corps can easily coexist with Kyle in a universe as big as the DCU. We just want to be able to read about our own Green Lantern."
Reaction from DC to the petition's demands has been decidedly mixed. "I'm not going to say, 'Get a life,' because I love Green Lantern, and they love Green Lantern," Dooley says. "I admire them for being this sincere of fans. I do question how they went about it, though."
"To me, the fans have the same role as they do when you're watching TV, or a movie or sporting events," Marz says. "They're the audience. As a creator, I have to do what I think is right with the book. I can't be dictated to by the audience."
And if there's one spot an audience does have a say, it's with their wallets, which is just where Kyle's fans are speaking from. "Sales on the book went up bym 300 percent [after "Emerald Twilight"], and there's an awful lot of Kyle fans now," Dooley says. "Green Lantern is consistently the most popular DC book that doesn't feature Batman or Superman."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rck4trbgodrpsxtotp32qvzg/bafkreigno4olr7t5l6j7bjxssufbbge4njczvkfe2gng2d7rutgj7otaam)
