You know, I never made the connection until the folks over on Dave's Long Box (a fun comics blog, by the way) were talking about it as part of "Guy Gardner Week."

But this is a really funny scene - it's a dig, but it doesn't go overboard into being cruel.

Someone also noted that the way the oil is dripping on Starbrand, er, Sunspot's face resembles the mask worn by Nightmask, another New Universe character.