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  • Do you miss Grant Morrison's "The Green Lantern"?

    Or are you glad that it's over?
    7
    Yeah, I miss it.
    42.86%
    3
    No, don't miss it.
    57.14%
    4

  • #2
    So glad it's over. I could stomach the "new" Guardians, but the art is 50% of the appeal to me, and the artist thought high-school watercolors could make a comic book. The Blackstar plot was over-the-top, and the deus ex machina was the fact it took place in an alternative DC universe! Hyper-Man and Woman and Son were a nice nod to the 1970s, but still overblown. Reverse-Hal Jordan from the Antimatter Universe? Bleah. And the last two issues of Year Two - ugh.

    Writers know how to use Hal Jordan in a summer-blockbuster Crisis. Day-to-day monthly issues? Not so much. The hot/cold relationship with Carol Ferris, or just dump her the moment something else comes up for Hal. The never-changing "Frenemy" relationship with Sinestro. Is Hal Jordan the Ultimate GL? (Well, no, there are other GLs better than Hal - Sodam Yat, Kyle-as-Ion, Sinestro, etc.) So Morrison tried to make every The Green Lantern a mini-crisis. Didn't work out so well.

    I count Morrison as a two-year bad dream. The only legacy items are Hal's "special" ring, as well as the "new" GL battery from the "new" Guardians.

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    • #3
      Don't miss it at all. I doubt I will ever reread it.

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      • #4
        I enjoyed the first couple of issues, but the series quickly became an unreadable, UNentertaining MESS. It was a chore to get through most of those issues. Morrison in retrospect was a HORRIBLE fit for Green Lantern.

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        • #5
          It's too bad... he could have been great. It just seemed like he was only writing it for himself, though.

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          • #6
            I don't miss it in the sense that I wanted it to continue, but that doesn't mean that I'm not a fan. Liam Sharp is one of my favorite artists, and I liked the bizarre direction that Morrison took Hal's story. However, after reading the two seasons, I felt like Morrison had said all that he wanted to say for the time being.

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            • #7
              I read the first three issues as they came out then fell off. Maybe I'll revisit it on DCU Infinite.

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              • #8
                I picked up the LCSD 1/500 Foil Cover of The Green Lantern #1:

                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5rTx6E2a9E
                Emerald Enthusiast
                Sinestro's Sparring Partner
                Last edited by Emerald Enthusiast; 04-28-2022, 03:46 AM.

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                • #9
                  Voting yes because it's better than what's out now

                  It was far from perfect, and man was it confusing to read, but it did aliens right and introduced some awesome non-human GLs

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by sundrop View Post
                    Voting yes because it's better than what's out now

                    It was far from perfect, and man was it confusing to read, but it did aliens right and introduced some awesome non-human GLs
                    That's pretty fair.

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                    • #11
                      Morrison just has SO many ideas, and even if it's sometimes too over my head or esoteric, it's always interesting and I love his portrayal of how Hal deals with these insane scenarios. It can get a bit too talky at times, but t's so much better than him fighting generic sci-fi bad guy aliens.

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