Bean Lanterns
May. 5th, 2009 02:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
You were warned.

THE BLACKEST NIGHT "DRINKING" GAME IS UNDERWAY.

So as you can see, I've had to go with team affiliations rather than strictly adhering to color. Trying to find beans to correspond to the Blue Lanterns, Indigo Tribe, and Star Sapphires were tricky. Thankfully, the great
nymphgalatea stepped up to the plate, suggesting I use light and strictly blue-blues for the Blues, dark blues and purples for the Indigo, and pink the HELL out of the Star Sapphires.
My local candy store also lacked a comprehensive selection of Jelly Bellies (they had most, but it would have been nice to get, say, "Grape Crush"), but I dare say I made do.
So what do we have here, you ask?

Well, as you know, DC is about to unleash their epic comic saga, THE BLACKEST NIGHT, featuring the war between the Color Corps. So to make things even more fun, we've come up with this "drinking" game!
Here's the goal: for every Lantern member who shows up, you eat a corresponding bean!
In case you don't know the various Corps, here they are:








And so what beans do we have to go with each Corps?
WILLBEANS
Green Apple, Kiwi, Margarita, Watermelon, Sour Apple, Sour Watermelon, Mango, Lemon Lime, Juicy Pear (all three of which really flirted with being Fearbeans, but that's the risk of all Green Lanterns, is it not?).
HOPEBEANS
Blueberry, Berry Blue, Sour Blueberry, Sour Raspberry
FEELBEANS
Island Punch, Plum, Sour Grape
LOVEBEANS
Bubble Gum, Cotton Candy, Strawberry Cheesecake, Strawberry Daiquiri, Candy Cane, Tutti-Fruitti, Sour Strawberry
RAGEBEANS
Sizzling Cinnamon, Very Cherry, Pomegranate, Raspberry, Red Apple
GREEDBEANS
Cantaloupe, Sunkist Orange, Sunkist Tangerine, Orange Sherbert, Sour Orange
FEARBEANS
Crushed Pineapple, Sunkist Lemon, Lemon Drop, Pina Colada, Top Banana
DEATHBEANS
Wild Blackberry, Grape Jelly, and a smattering of Licorice. Because much as I hate licorice in anything not-absinthe, it just had to be this way.

And if we do eventually see the rise of one or more White Lanterns, thankfully there are plenty of options for LIFEBEANS: A&W Cream Soda, Cafe Latte, Coconut, and French Vanilla. Mmm.
Oh hell, let's see this one again, but bigger!

That's the stuff.
Now, if I were truly bold and wanted to give this a serious Russian Roulette flavor, I'd have bought a pack of these and sprinkled them in with the appropriate colors. But no, alas. I want to have a good time. And really, that really requires someone else to laugh at you when you end up eating a Rotten Egg jelly bean. Besides, only about half of them are comparable with the ones listed above.
Regardless. Bring it on, DC. Bring. It. ON.

THE BLACKEST NIGHT "DRINKING" GAME IS UNDERWAY.

So as you can see, I've had to go with team affiliations rather than strictly adhering to color. Trying to find beans to correspond to the Blue Lanterns, Indigo Tribe, and Star Sapphires were tricky. Thankfully, the great
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My local candy store also lacked a comprehensive selection of Jelly Bellies (they had most, but it would have been nice to get, say, "Grape Crush"), but I dare say I made do.
So what do we have here, you ask?

Well, as you know, DC is about to unleash their epic comic saga, THE BLACKEST NIGHT, featuring the war between the Color Corps. So to make things even more fun, we've come up with this "drinking" game!
Here's the goal: for every Lantern member who shows up, you eat a corresponding bean!
In case you don't know the various Corps, here they are:








And so what beans do we have to go with each Corps?
WILLBEANS
Green Apple, Kiwi, Margarita, Watermelon, Sour Apple, Sour Watermelon, Mango, Lemon Lime, Juicy Pear (all three of which really flirted with being Fearbeans, but that's the risk of all Green Lanterns, is it not?).
HOPEBEANS
Blueberry, Berry Blue, Sour Blueberry, Sour Raspberry
FEELBEANS
Island Punch, Plum, Sour Grape
LOVEBEANS
Bubble Gum, Cotton Candy, Strawberry Cheesecake, Strawberry Daiquiri, Candy Cane, Tutti-Fruitti, Sour Strawberry
RAGEBEANS
Sizzling Cinnamon, Very Cherry, Pomegranate, Raspberry, Red Apple
GREEDBEANS
Cantaloupe, Sunkist Orange, Sunkist Tangerine, Orange Sherbert, Sour Orange
FEARBEANS
Crushed Pineapple, Sunkist Lemon, Lemon Drop, Pina Colada, Top Banana
DEATHBEANS
Wild Blackberry, Grape Jelly, and a smattering of Licorice. Because much as I hate licorice in anything not-absinthe, it just had to be this way.

And if we do eventually see the rise of one or more White Lanterns, thankfully there are plenty of options for LIFEBEANS: A&W Cream Soda, Cafe Latte, Coconut, and French Vanilla. Mmm.
Oh hell, let's see this one again, but bigger!

That's the stuff.
Now, if I were truly bold and wanted to give this a serious Russian Roulette flavor, I'd have bought a pack of these and sprinkled them in with the appropriate colors. But no, alas. I want to have a good time. And really, that really requires someone else to laugh at you when you end up eating a Rotten Egg jelly bean. Besides, only about half of them are comparable with the ones listed above.
Regardless. Bring it on, DC. Bring. It. ON.
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Date: 2009-05-05 06:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-05 06:35 pm (UTC)Oh! And if it's an Orange Lantern, we try to steal each other's Jelly Beans!
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Date: 2009-05-05 06:59 pm (UTC)http://www.passfailstudios.com/index.php?id=61
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Date: 2009-05-05 07:05 pm (UTC)I'll have an extra empty glass ready, should one of them show up.
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Date: 2009-05-05 07:01 pm (UTC)That's some definite dedication there, bucko.
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Date: 2009-05-05 07:30 pm (UTC)So THAT'S Guy Gardner!
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Date: 2009-05-05 07:38 pm (UTC)Yeah, Guy truly is Dave in comic form. It's kind of terrifying, in an awesome way.
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Date: 2009-05-05 07:59 pm (UTC)Also, I want to devour all the Willbeans and Ragebeans, between them they have almost all my favourte flavors.
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Date: 2009-05-05 08:06 pm (UTC)So totally blushing like hell right now.
You think I should post this at s_d and/or link to it on noscans?
By the way, I just discovered that I missed (was locked out at the time) the scans of the Hal funeral issue, and I made the damn fool mistake of reading the comments. Jesus, some of those people will take *any* opportunity to bitch about Johns. And to slam him in favor of even one of Ron Marz less asshattery-filled issues...
... damn it, I just need to drown my fury in Ragebeans. (Remember, if you put the Ragebeans and the Willbeans together, you get the combo for my Harvey Dent as a Lantern costume! Which side will win out?!)
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Date: 2009-05-05 08:07 pm (UTC)Uh, yeah, you don't know me from any other random stranger on t'internet, but I saw this on a friend's flist, can couldn't not say something. I remember this being discussed on NS_D, and am so impressed that you actually went out and bought all those jelly beans. And the photos are so pretty! Go you!
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Date: 2009-05-05 08:11 pm (UTC)Of course, the hard part will actually be sticking to the game. I may give up when we get the inevitable two-page splash of ALL the Black Lanterns, whereupon they find me dead, SEVEN-style, from a distended tummy of licorice and wild blackberry beans.
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Date: 2009-05-05 08:23 pm (UTC)But if you wanna try to work with it, one could say, I suppose, that Death is the absence of all emotions. The blotting out of the spectrum.
And come on, haven't you had days where you've felt like death? I'd hate to face an all-powerful zombie corps of people embodying that!
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Date: 2009-05-05 09:47 pm (UTC)I read somewhere that he died off-panel (lame!) If this is the case he should come back as a black lantern, everyone else seems to be so it's possible. For some strange reason, I'm OK with a zombie G'Nort
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Date: 2009-05-06 02:09 am (UTC)No, he's still alive. Last time we saw him was in a Guy Gardner mini-series written and drawn by Howard Chaykin. G'Nort's face was mostly killed off, and G'Nort was now pissed off, grim, and bitter, but still not very smart (and no, not in a fun way either). Thankfully, it sold for shit so no one noticed.
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Date: 2009-05-06 02:04 am (UTC)That said, I'd love to see that. Along with this icon.
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Date: 2009-05-05 11:38 pm (UTC)"I WANNA PUT IT ON MY SANDWICH!"
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Date: 2009-05-06 12:50 am (UTC)And he really makes a mighty fine jellybean-and-pickle sandwich--
FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH!
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Date: 2009-05-06 12:49 am (UTC)I am disappointed in the lack of male Star Sapphires. I'm going to pretend the lost one is a drag queen. That okay?
Is this part of an ongoing party project that will eventually cumulate in
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Date: 2009-05-06 04:07 am (UTC)..
Also. Your hat makes me squee.
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Date: 2009-05-06 04:16 am (UTC)And thanks! If you're so inclined to see it in action, forgive me for the self-pimpery:
http://thehefner.livejournal.com/540485.html
And if you're interested enough to see the second part, even though it lacks the hat:
http://thehefner.livejournal.com/540765.html
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Date: 2009-05-06 04:20 am (UTC)I would keel over from your drinking bean game just from the fact that I'm not a jelly bean fan.
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