This is for all things Green Lantern. Of course, I had something specific to start off the discussion, but the title is a bit of a throw-back from around these parts...
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I have read both the Rebirth issue as well as issue #1 of Green Lanterns.
I like how the new Green Lantern (since The Darkseid War, but really since Forever Evil) is a functioning member of society, yet still has mental illness. The anxiety is a struggle for her, but she's working hard to get past it with the help of her friends and family. It's really realistic, and I'm not sure we've seen too much of that from DC. Bravo!
I hadn't thought of it as a mental illness, but I guess it is. Like PTSD, agoraphobia seems in a category of its own. But you're right, and it does make for a different kind of heroism than we normally see.
Here’s topic I’ve been meaning to discuss, using Green Lantern as an example.
It has been several years now since DC stopped releasing Archive editions. They recently started a new reprint line (in both HC and PB, I believe) under a new trade dress. The “omnibus” format (of classic Silver Age material) is the one I’m most interested in. They are going back to the beginnings of both GA and SA series, covering material already reprinted previously in “archive” format. “Omnibus” is the format I would prefer, actually, but I’m not going to duplicate material I already have. I am, however, looking forward to material that has never been reprinted before.
For Green Lantern, that would be issues #58-75. I have only maybe two or three of those original issues. It may be many months before the Silver Age Green Lantern Omnibus series reaches these issues, but when it does I plan to discuss it here.
I would like to see the GL backups from the Flash
Jeff of Earth-J said:
Green Lantern Archive Volume 7 included Hal Jordan's leaving Ferris Aircraft in a hissy fit when Carol Ferris became engaged to another guy. This sends him on the road where he does various jobs. If they had printed a Volume 8 I wasn't planning to buy it.
“I would like to see the GL backups from the Flash”
Those were included in the various O’Neil/Adams “Hard Travelin’ Heroes” collections.
“Green Lantern Archive Volume 7 included Hal Jordan's leaving Ferris Aircraft in a hissy fit when Carol Ferris became engaged to another guy. This sends him on the road where he does various jobs. If they had printed a Volume 8 I wasn't planning to buy it.
I know I’m past the prime period, but I’d still like to read these stories. I’ve heard much about them but have read very few. Similarly, there's a huge gap in my Flash collection beyond #150. Why, I've never even read the "Mopee" story!
Apparently GL Showcase Volume 4 covers issues 60-75. Issues 58 and 59 are, I guess, in Volume 3.
Just started reading Emerald Dawn a few days ago.
I've read many Green Lantern comics but for some reason I always put this one off. I'm just not a fan of the constant re-tellings of origins.
Ok, so with that out of the way. This was easily one of the best GL stories ever. If only the 2011 movie just followed this story closer....
The pacing, the dialogue, the mystery was done so well. Just made me a Hal Jordan fan all over again.
Didn't Gerard Jones write the book at the time?
I think both Emerald Dawn and Emerald Dawn II are long overdue for a trade treatment. I honestly don't remember the content of those books (other than that they were origin stories), because I was very young as a comic book reader when they came out.
Glad you enjoyed them. I suppose there is a possibility that I still own those issues back there somewhere. Might have to dig them out.
TheBastard said:
Emerald Dawn was the beginning of the renaissance of Hal Jordan, after years of abuse (to my mind, going back to the aforementioned hissy fit and subsequent Peter Parkerization of the character).
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