If Blue Jays were Superheroes: Ricky Romero

Toronto's half-assed answer to San Diego Comic Con is coming soon. The end of summer means sweaty cosplaying nerds from all around the Golden Horseshoe will soon gather to celebrate their pathetic, virginal-dork-ridden culture (I AM KIDDING. I'm going. I'll be the guy dressed up as Cloud Strife).

So in honor of "Fan Expo" lets look at the Blue Jays, if they were comic book characters.

Ricky Romero is The Green Lantern.



With the luck the Jays have had this year, this is the closest anyone will get to a World Series ring

If you asked me last year what comic book character best exemplifies Ricky Romero, I probably would have gone a different route.

I would’ve picked someone intense and focused: Batman, maybe the Punisher.

It’d have to be a character with a dark, nasty side… a character that embodies “the tough kid from East L.A.”  persona that John Farrell has been desperately trying to get Romero to embrace.

I’d never have chosen Green Lantern (nothing against him), because Hal Jordan is not a bad-ass. He’s a lantern-jawed, mystical space-cop.

But a couple of things have happened in the last year:

1.      Romero could not live up to the expectations placed upon him, becoming one of the worst starting pitchers in baseball

2.      The Green Lantern movie could not live up to the expectations placed upon it, becoming one of the poorest-received comic book movies of all time.

So is Ricky Romero the Green Lantern of baseball ONLY because of the crushing sense of disappointment associated with his 2012 season? Review the below chart and let me know what you think:

The Green Lantern…	Ricky Romero…
...is "something of a ladies man, romancing with many women throughout his life, including Carol Ferris, Arisia Rrab and Jillian Pearlman"	...is something of a ladies man himself
…"more than once he has let his emotions cloud his better judgment, something the Guardians berate him for. Also, Hal is especially hard on himself for allowing Parallax take control of him, which resulted in the destruction of the Green Lantern Corps"	…was involved in the most awkward post-game interview ever. I wish I could find video of this.
…can only be defeated by the colour yellow.	SEE BELOW PICTURE

In the words of Stan Lee: ‘nuff said.