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[AllWillBeWell Fatality's Blacksmith Find all posts View Profile Close AllWillBeWell]

It's embarassing to say but I know almost nothing about Kyle. I've read tid-bits of his era here and there. As a newcomer to Kyle Rayner what exactly should I read to kind of understand him to an extent.

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[Showens Star Sapphire's Love Slave Find all posts View Profile Close Showens]

Go back and find the Ron Marz written stuff. He created Kyle and in my opinion it was the best GL stuff out there

[Levy Fatality's Blacksmith Find all posts View Profile Close Levy]

IMHO a key reading for getting to know Kyle is the graphic novel Fear Itself. He is a lready GL there though. The best part of his arc is the segment GL V.3 57-93 and also later on... don't mind me I suck at selecting. Anyway, Judd Winnick takes over the writing in GL V.3 #129 and although there's cute things in his run too, the best part is the previous one.

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Just try to pick up trades that feature him.

[Michael Heide Heide Finition Find all posts View Profile Close Michael Heide]

Just try to pick up trades that feature him.

No shit? Trades that feature him? I never would have guessed.

You know what, I'm sick of your oddly pointless oneliners bordering on outright spam that have been creeping up in every other thread. They never add anything to the discussion, they make you sound like a retarded C-3PO*, and they annoy the hell out of everyone. I mean, what the fuck? AllWillBeWell wanted to know which exact stories he should read, and you give him the least useful answer you could think of! OF COURSE he should pick up trades that feature Kyle when he wants to read stories that feature Kyle. HE WANTS TO KNOW WHICH ONES!!! Look. If you don't want to help, or if your time is too precious to name just a single storyline to point him to, THEN WHY BOTHER WITH REPLYING IN THE FIRST PLACE?! It makes no sense whatsoever! Seriously...

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Huh? That? Oh, that was the Nostalgia Critic's rant against the Angry Video Game Nerd for reviewing the movie The Wizard back in 2008. No idea how that snuck in here. I'm sure it has nothing at all to do with the most pathetic forum user on the whole internet. Nothing at all with my feelings towards Mr. Weirdo.

With that being said, here are my Top 5 Kyle stories to actually add something useful to this discussion (a concept strange to Mr. Weirdo, I know, but knowing is half the battle, so...):

5 JLA: A Midsummer's Nightmare #1-3
Word of warning: The artwork really hasn't aged well. Pencilled by Jeff Johnson (who has done lots of fill-in art in Green Lantern volume 3) and Darick Robertson (Transmetropolitan, The Boys), it should look better than it does. I guess both artists just had a bad day. Or... months, since this was a three-issue miniseries. Odd.
Anyway, the premise is that in a world without Superman, Batman, Green Lantern or the other heroes of the Justice League, some people randomly get superpowers. And it's more and more every day. Some of these so-called "Sparks" are good, some are bad, some are just confused, and some continue with their daily routine. When Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne start remembering a world in which they fought crime, they start to assemble the Justice League again. Because the world needs a Justice League.
Collected in trade paperback, and followed by the books W.West recommended above.

4 Zero Hour (Zero Hour #4, 3, 2, 1, 0, Green Lantern vol. 3, #55 & 0)
This starts immediately after the infamous issue that coined the phrase "Women in Refrigerators". Kyle is battling Major Force and talks to Alan Scott for the first time. Before he knows it, he gets dragged into a conflict of cosmic proportions. The supervillain Extant is messing with the timeline, but he might not be working alone...
This is where Kyle first meets most of the DCU, including Guy Gardner and Hal Jordan.
Zero Hour got collected in one trade paperback. Green Lantern #55 is part of A New Dawn (which has gone out of print as part of DC's pathetic campaign against Kyle, prices for the original print run are astronomically high), and I'm not sure if #0 ever was collected at all.

3 Emerald Knights (Green Lantern vol. 3, #97-105)
After a fight with Darkseid's son Grayven, Kyle ends up in the 30th century. He fights a group of evil Green Lanterns alongside the Legion of Superheroes. When they try to send him back to his own time, they overshoot the mark and Kyle ends up during Hal Jordan's rookie years. He helps Hal and the Green Lantern Corps against Sinestro. The Guardians send him back to 1998. All of that is an awesome storyline already. But the icing on the cake? Rookie Hal is coming with him.
#100 to 105 were collected in a trade paperback, but sadly, they left the prologue issues out.

2 One Million (DC: One Million #1-4, Green Lantern #1'000'000, Martian Manhunter #1'000'000 an)
The Justice Legion of the far, far future goes back to 1998 to send Superman and his teammates to the 853rd century to celebrate the return of that era's Kal-El. Two immortal supervillains, namely Vandal Savage and the tyrant sun Solaris, try to sabotage the festivities. Epicness ensues. And without giving away any details, it's Kyle who ends up saving the day and overcomes his rookie fever, finally maturing and believing in himself. A fact which continues to get ignored by asshats in the Anti-Kyle camp.
One Million #1-4 were collected in a trade paperback. The Green Lanternd Martian Manhunter tie-in issues are missing, but the story works without them.

1 Hero Quest (Green Lantern volume 3, #71-74)
After Donna Troy broke up with Kyle, he travelled the USA to meet up with several heroes like Batman (before they ended up on the Justice League together), Alan Scott (back when he was called Sentinel) or Wonder Woman (again, before the JLA), learning important lessons from all of them. I mentioned that a lot of bungholes treat Kyle like he's still an insecure rookie even if that clearly isn't true. But I've got to say, back when he still was an insecure rookie, he was in some great stories. Oh, and the art? Beautiful. Seriously, I have no idea why Paul Pelletier never hit superstar status.
To my knowledge, these issues have never been collected in tpb form (I might be wrong though), but they tend to show up in bargain bins here and there every now and then. It's also possible to get all three issues on ebay for less than $10.

And that's how you add to a discussion on an internet message board.

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*My apologies for using the politically incorrect phrase "retarded 3-CPO". I didn't want to hurt the feelings of any mentally handicapped protocol droids.

[AllWillBeWell Fatality's Blacksmith Find all posts View Profile Close AllWillBeWell]

Thank you Heide, West, Levy, and Show. I will try to pick up all of them if I can. Oh and Heide nice rant