more about Green Lantern

[ratcreature]

So this morning I browsed a couple of sites about Green Lantern (Hal Jordan not Kyle Rayner), and wow, when DC decides to go for character assassination they don't do it halfway. I mean, I've read Zero Hour so I had been vaguely aware that GL had become Parallax and tried to reset the universe in the aftermath of Coast City being wiped out, and that he's now, after Parallax died saving the sun, become The Spectre to atone or something like that. But I didn't know anything about him, and I didn't realize that he went on an insane rampage, killing and injuring several of his former friends and colleagues, and wiped out the GL Corps as well as the Guardians.

I browsed around these sites and my reaction was pretty much **boggle**. It's not that I'm a Hal Jordan fan, so it wasn't much of a gut reaction to the character assassination, but I kept thinking, what if they'd do that to a character I really like? Like, what if they were to turn Nightwing into an insane serial killer just for kicks because the sales of his book were falling or something?

Comments

[cereta.livejournal.com]

I've seen that comment more than a few times. I was never that invested in Hal Jordan, but I think I'd pitch a fairly royal fit if it happened to a character I loved.

Incidentally, if you've enjoyed the GL/GA stuff, yet another thing to add to your list might be Quiver, the GA storyline by Kevin Smith. It's very...Smithian (the characters sound like character in a Kevin Smith movie, although never quite to the point that they're OOC), so if you don't like his work, you might give it a miss, but it's a good coda to the GA/GL storyline.

[ratcreature]

I think the only comics by Kevin Smith I've read were his Daredevil issues, and I wasn't too happy with those. And I'm not really familiar with his other stuff. (He made movies, right?)

[greenygal.livejournal.com]

*shrugs* Quiver has its moments--and some decent Ollie/Hal--but as story I think it falls well below Guardian Devil, so if you didn't like the one...

What I will recommend without reservation, if you should ever be in a position to acquire them, is #19 and #20 of the first Green Arrow series. Take a look. (http://greenarrowfansite.com/reviews/images/GAno20c.JPG)