Just read green lantern thought it was very good looking forward to next issue I’m glad Hal back to having solo green lantern book again.
I loved Morrison's take on Hal so far. Grant's interviews even flesh out his thinking on Hal.
Hal this loner drifter (unreconstructed man) on the relatively boring earth who is not beaten down, because he's a confident and direct intergalactic space cop.
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Grant Morrison: “Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real.”
Hal being portrayed as just bored and not depressed or traumatized was one of the biggest highlights of the issue from me. Morrison is right, that's not who Hal Jordan is.
Makes me even more curious what exactly he was talking about when he said that after reading the first few issues people would say Hal wouldn't do that and then in time they would realize where the story is actually going. Perhaps the so-called "traitor" initially turning out to be him, only to then turn out that he was presenting himself as a traitor to uncover a bigger conspiracy? The Guardian's line to him was:"We already know who it will be. Now do you understand, Jordan?"
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Would be fun to see how all of this translate saleswise a few months from now.
I am gonna wait and give Morrison's Hal a chance however the one trope I am tired of that he is using as well is the, "Hal's personal life is a total disaster" one. Sure he isn't a billionaire playboy like Bruce but in a majority of comics Superman notwithstanding the characters everyday real life is rarely if ever featured and discussed, yet none of the other characters that I can think of are depicted as losers because of it. Either the Guardians should provide a stipend or, go back to the John's he works for the government so they forgive the absences thing. I just don't like Hal portrayed as a dufus for doing what all the other characters do as well. What other heroes can or do hold down an everyday job, pay rent, ect and if they do how do they do it?