Wed May 21, 2008 11:14AM6 comments ›
Wed May 21, 2008 — by Karl Cramer
Comic Book Cameo: Green Lantern on 'Bones'
Comic book makes a hilarious cameo on TV's hit show 'Bones'
In the season finale episode of Bones, "The Pain in the Heart," an upset Doctor Brennan burst into her FBI partner's bathroom and made a startling discovery. Special Agent Seeley Booth likes to relax in a hot tub with a beer helmet and comic book. In this case, Green Lantern. Booth is played by David Boreanaz, who previously played the brooding vampire Angel in Joss Whedon's celebrated TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and his solo spin-off series, Angel.
Macho tough guy, and ex-Marine Corps sniper, who would've guessed Booth is a closet geek. But there you have it:
Of course, that wasn't just any comic book he was reading, either. It was Green Lantern #33, a Silver Age comic of Hal Jordan fighting Doctor Light. The issue featured a Gil Kane cover and a story titled "Wizard of the Light-Wave Weapons."
Booth explained the hat by saying, "Cold beer plus hot tub equals warm beer." But no defense was offered for the comic -- or for the unreported crime of exposing that old comic to steam. That's a definite no-no.
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Comments (6)
MARK WHEATLEY (11:27 AM on Wed May 21, 2008)
I wouldn't worry about the steam. Because that is not really GREEN LANTERN #33. The real issue #33 has an ad on the back cover for AURORA model kits featuring SUPERMAN, SUPERBOY and KRYPTO his dog, and BATMAN - all for just 98ยข each.
Rick Marshall (11:32 AM on Wed May 21, 2008)
Your powers of deduction never cease to impress me, Mr. Wheatley.
Impressive, indeed.
MARK WHEATLEY (12:37 PM on Wed May 21, 2008)
Elementary, my dear Rick. Or more to the point - I've had that comic book since elementary school. And I could even tell you exactly what it would look like if it got wet - unfortunately!
Mike Nielsen (11:14 AM on Tue May 27, 2008)
I wonder though, what that exact book is, as it isn't the original. Could anybody id the back cover? I couldn't figure out what it was advertising, except that it's another comic apparently and said something along the lines of "subscribe now and get additional issues" (Doing that from memory, would have to pull the image up again on my TV for exact wording).
Can't imagine they'd mock one up and then put an ad like that on the back cover, so what exactly is it. As far as I know that particular issue has never been reprinted.
Russ Rogers (3:53 PM on Tue May 27, 2008)
It seems to me that the TV producers might have to mock up a back cover, just to avoid product placement issues. It may also be why the producers used a comic is decades old. Nobody would take a decades old comic into the bath with them. There may be comics readers (not collectors) who don't mind reading their comics in the bath. But only a comics collector would have an issue that is decades old.
Keith (11:31 AM on Wed May 21, 2008)
You forgot to mention the significance of Booth reading a Green Lantern comic specifically. David Boreanaz provided the voice for Hal Jordan in Justice League: The New Frontier movie.