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We go back now to GL Vol. 2, #224 (final issue of the volume).
Here Hal enters the Central Power Battery, immediately after Sinestro is executed on Oa and the CPB is about to implode.
Hal nears the core inside the Central Power Battery.
Hal reaches the core and sees the actual Yellow Impurity. We learned in Rebirth that this is, in fact, Parallax itself.
We see that Sinestro's seperated consciousness has grafted itself onto the Yellow Impurity/Parallax here, or at least is controlling it directly. An early foreshadowing of the Master/Pet relationship that Sinestro and Parallax seem to have later on.
Hal, no, stop!
Oops... looks like Hal Jordan himself has just released, or at least certainly awakened the Yellow Impurity/Parallax.
Rebirth would have us believe that this is the point where Parallax begins to influence Hal. When you see Hal next in GL Vol. 3, #1 (the ACW comics notwithstanding) he has the white sideburns.
Here Hal enters the Central Power Battery, immediately after Sinestro is executed on Oa and the CPB is about to implode.
Hal nears the core inside the Central Power Battery.
Hal reaches the core and sees the actual Yellow Impurity. We learned in Rebirth that this is, in fact, Parallax itself.
We see that Sinestro's seperated consciousness has grafted itself onto the Yellow Impurity/Parallax here, or at least is controlling it directly. An early foreshadowing of the Master/Pet relationship that Sinestro and Parallax seem to have later on.
Hal, no, stop!
Oops... looks like Hal Jordan himself has just released, or at least certainly awakened the Yellow Impurity/Parallax.
Rebirth would have us believe that this is the point where Parallax begins to influence Hal. When you see Hal next in GL Vol. 3, #1 (the ACW comics notwithstanding) he has the white sideburns.
. Funny you posted this as I was just thinking when all the Sinestro "first time executed threads" started popping up, I thought back to this issue. It certainly does seem like they took some plot from a living yellow impurity that bonded with Sinestro's soul. Where it starts to differ dramatically, pretty much up until Kyle got the ring, was that it was always told that the yellow impurity was a NECESSARY component of the green power, but as we know now, its just collected willpower juju from living things, and it doesn't need to have a yellow impurity. For some reason I prefer explanations like the willpower/fear than the "green plasma made by the little blue dudes and/or the planet" story, only because its fleshed out and definitive. But that's just me 
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