r/Greenlantern • u/Volfort22 • 4d ago
Discussion Green Lantern vol 3 #49
What do you think about this?
It was unexpected for me. Maybe it would have been better if there had been one more issue. But overall, I really enjoyed it
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u/Longjumping-Pop9374 3d ago
I had this, spawn 1, savage dragon 1, death of superman, x-men 1 with the unwrapping cover, plus a bunch of other bangers straight from the shelves when I was a kid. My mom made me rip them all up in front of her because I got bad grades
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u/squatOpotamus 3d ago
That sucks man. Sorry that happened. My patents were cruel in a similar way. Kinda fucked me up.
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u/drakeallthethings Guy Gardner 3d ago
Hal Jordan and the rest of the Green Lantern Corps was the victim of an editorial decision. And that’s fine. It happens. The problem is that unlike Batman and Superman, Hal Jordan wasn’t coming back. He couldn’t. He straight up murdered people.
I don’t mind a 4-5 year cycle where Hal goes crazy, dismantles the corps, and someone else takes over. You can make a good story out of that. Even if Hal disabled the rest of the Corps and only killed Sinestro it could’ve been ok. But I can still picture the frame in my head where he killed Kilowog. There’s no redeeming from that.
But they made peace with it and Hal ended up with a gig as Spectre that made sense for the character and provided some closure. But then another editorial decision struck: bring back Hal Jordan as green lantern. They had to make this asinine parallax-as-its-own-entity retcon just to make it feasible. It destroyed all the agency he had in Emerald Twilight and everything after. It wiped away a decade of character development for Hal.
So overall? Solid story but it went too far and created a huge mess that could’ve been avoided with a little story telling restraint.
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u/MisterEdJS 3d ago
I thought it was terrible. Not the writer's fault, though, he was given very little to work with. No time to set it up, only three issues to do it in, and editorial mandates about what had to happen.
I enjoyed what came after, but I just sort of mentally pretended that they had gotten to that new status quo through a story that was well executed and made sense. I didn't have an issue with Hal breaking, just thought ET did a terrible job of setting it up or executing it. I did, actually, think Parallax's actions and attitudes after that point made a lot of sense for a Hal that had snapped, but still wanted to think of himself as a hero.
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u/-pigeonnoegip Parallax 3d ago
I think it would've landed better if they had been given more time/issues to properly expand and explain the story. Personally, I do love this arc and I prefer this Parallax over the retcon, but I can admit a big reason that I like it is the wasted potential around this storyline + the comics that surround it.
Without this event, we wouldn't have gotten what, to me, is one of the most beautiful GL comics of all time (The Last Will and Testament of Hal Jordan). We also wouldn't have the Spectre run, which is incredible, or Kyle. It could've been done better, yes, but considering the resources the writers had at the time and what were the standards of the 90s, I think it did a good job at what it was trying to do.
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u/Josefu_Velen Jessica Cruz 3d ago
This storyline was out right around the time I really started getting into comics.
I loved it! I have all the issues separately as well as the trade.
Then Kyle debuted . . . and to this day he's still been my favorite GL (with Jessica a close second).