Green Lantern: Rebirth (New Edition)

I'll be honest....i dont keep up with whats going on within the Green Lantern universe. i do know there exists a Green Lantern Corps, encompassing many green lanterns. but the only green lantern that matters to me is the one from the Superfriends' cartoon i used to watch as a kid. the OG Green Lantern. Hal Jordan. according to my local comic book store owner (who recommended the book), things have gotten a little rough since i last heard from Hal. apparently he'd gone insane, murdered fellow green lanterns, destroyed the Central Power Battery, and was stripped of his power and rank. oh, and on top of all that, he sacrificed himself to save the earth's dying sun. This is a great book for people who want to jump into reading the Green Lantern but don't have much knowledge on the character. Johns crafts a story that brings Hal Jordan back from the dead in a believable manner and also reminded me why the Green Lantern is one of the baddest superheroes around. not only does he have the coolest mask, but he weilds the most powerful weapon in the universe, Green Lantern's Power Ring. Sciver's art here is a pleasure to look at. neither flashy nor over the top, the pencils deliver the story beautifully, and the battle between Sinestro and Green Lantern is worth the purchase alone.

Excellent! Geoff Johns has done an amazing job at delivering Hal Jordan from the mess of the past few decades. He's also enhanced the entire Green Lantern mythology along the way. This a complex story that wraps up years worth of continuity problems, and yet it is made relatively simple here. In and off itself, that's a huge achievement. That this story also rocks is almost too good to be true. But it is true. This is a great book. Many questions are answered in truly satisfying ways, the origin of the yellow weakness is revealed, and Hal Jordan is reborn in a manner that serves to make Green Lantern fans of every kind happy. And that includes Kyle Rayner fans too. Some say this book is just for the devoted fanboys, but I think there is an exceptional story here for even the new-comers and casual readers.

Can Geoff Johns do any comic wrong? He writes the most amazing stories. This one is so big, involving so many characters and so much continuity, but it is SOOOO fun! This collects the 6-issue mini. #1-#2. Everyone knows that Hal Jordan is being brought back as GL, but it's not easy - Batman remembers all too well that Jordan is responsible for horrible chaos in the past, and is very reluctant to trust him. Really, can you blame him? #3. We get the works here: drama that keeps you on the edge of your seat, big action, the JLA, the secrets behind Spectre/Parallax/Jordan, and one mischievous lover of yellow. I couldn't be more pumped for the new start of the ongoing Green Lantern series. #4. The last page of this book will send shivers down your spine. It is that good. The whole series has been building up to this point, and it pays off. #5. Hal Jordan vs. Sinestro in an AMAZING battle! The art was spectacular, and the layout very good. So many great splash pages that maximized the action scenes. In the final scene, Batman holds Jordan back from fighting against Parallax. Bats still doesn't trust him, given his murderous past while under the influence of other beings. #6. The 5 lanterns take on Parallax together, and we get resolution for the JLA-Jordan conflict. Big action, nice character moments.

I've hated Kyle Rayner for twelve years now. I don't appologize for that. Hal Jordan was my Green Lantern and he was my father's Green Lantern. He was disgraced and replaced in a terrible and disrespectful way. I can't express enough how happy I was when I learned that DC had found an editor (Dan Didio) who had the balls to correct one of their worst decisions. Geoff Johns wrote one hell of a story that cleverly explains that the events of Emerald Twilight were NOT Hal Jordan's fault. The artwork by Ethan Van Sciver (New X-men) is very top notch. I can't recommend this collection highly enough.

Green Lantern: Rebirth ties up loose plot lines and reveals answers to questions that have plagued Green Lantern fans for decades, such as what really is the story behind the power ring's impurity and its vulnerability to yellow, as well as some startling new information about GL's arch-enemy Sinestro. No one re-tools their major characters like DC, due in part to their own lack of confidence in the character often times. And no one has had a bumpier ride in recent years than poor Hal Jordan. Seeing Coast City destroyed Hal tries to recreate it leading to a conflict with the Guardians, and Hal's usurping the power of the central battery to become Parallax, destroying most of the Guardians and other Green Lanterns, before finally sacrificing himself to save Earth's sun. Hal would then become bonded with the Spectre as the new Spirit of Vengeance. All of the surviving Green Lanterns play a role in the book including Kyle Rayner, John Stewart, Killowog, and yes, even Guy Gardner. While off at the edges of space Kyle learns finds an alien race living in terror. His ring translates the name "Parallax". Kyle returns to Earth as he and the other Green Lanterns soon come under the influence of a menacing influence. Guy Gardner even has his body turned inside out as he's taken for treatment to the JLA and Mr. Terrific. Meanwhile Hal is having his own problems controlling the Spectre's thirst for vengeance which is growing more and more aggressive, literally turning the hand of the villain "Black Hand" to coal. The Justice League is growing suspicious of Hal as well, particularly Batman who has never had a great affinity for Jordan to begin with. Soon the appearance of Ganthet, the last of the original Guardians, brings some startling revelations about the history of the Guardians, Parallax, the power rings, Sinestro, and the source of the impurity. I won't play spoiler and reveal and of this, but the words astonishing and shocking come to mind right off the bat. You know of course that Hal returns as Green Lantern and has his first formal introduction to the man who replaced him, Kyle Rayner. He also has a long overdue confrontation with Batman who still doesn't trust him. In many ways, this is Kyle Rayner's finest hour as he provides the first warnings about Parallax, and takes on a supped-up Sinestro on his own...just in time for Hal to return, not to mention Guy Gardner. Long time Green Lantern fans are sure to be ecstatic about the return of one of the original Silver Age icons as they never really took to Rayner or Stewart and Gardner was generally only good for a few laughs. How DC handles Hal (not to mention the Spectre) from here on out becomes the new question. The story wraps up nicely and for a change we have a story that doesn't leave issues dangling. The Story was written by Geoff Johns, one of the most stalwart and reliable scribes in comics today. The art by Art by Ethan Van Sciver and Prentis Rollins was very solid wit