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If you are looking for any Bronze Age recommendations, you can't go wrong with Marv Wolfman's run, followed by the Mike W. Barr Exile in Space years, Len Wein & Dave Gibbons Return to Earth, culminating in Steve Englehart & Joe Statons Green Lantern Corps run that climaxes in Crisis on Infinite Earths (which began during Wolfman's GL run and was edited by Len Wein) and features the reintroductions of John Stewart and Guy Gardner.
Venditti gets a bad rap, and in a lot of ways he deserves some licks for some crappy stories, but it was clear a lot of his run was compromised by editorial idiocy. An endless string of crossovers and events that forgot that Geoff Johns' run lost steam when it became a series of crossovers and events. Aping a format that had already run its course was a bad idea.
When Hal Jordan & the GLCorps Rebirth hit, Venditti clearly had something to prove and delivered a lot of fun stuff, but it was again plagued by event after event without enough focus on these guys as actual people instead of awesome action heroes.
Anyway, enjoy your Bronze Age GL deep dive!
I'm so excited for TGL! The solicit sounds great and the new logo is great. Also really cool to see DC actually promoting this book
I still think there's a chance the title refers to the actual lantern rather than Hal himself. It looks like he's holding the lantern that the dying GL gives him from the preview pages rather than the one we've seen Hal use for decades. Wonder if there's anything to that or just a stylistic choice.
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Favorite Heroes - 1-Flash/Wally West, 2-Superman, 3-Green Lantern/Hal Jordan, 4-Nightwing, 5-Hawkman, 6-Firestorm, 7-Supergirl/Linda Danvers, 8-Zatanna, 9-Robin/Tim Drake
If we were talking about Silver Age GL, I would agree with you, but Gil Kane had largely moved on from GL during the Bronze Age. I also didn’t care for Joe Staton when I was younger, but I understand just how good a storyteller he was now. As for Gibbons, we’ll have to agree to disagree there
To be more accurate Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps tended to do big cosmic threat level storylines. The battle to be the galactic law enforcers (the Sinestro Corps and the Darkstars), the potential restoration of a Lantern Corps, the fates of the New Gods and the Guardians etc. The remarkable thing is how Venditti was often able to balance out the huge scale and stakes by focusing on a relationship within the conflict. Sinestro's Law boiled down to the complicated relationship between Hal and Sinestro. Quest for Hope detoured to the start of Guy and Arkillo's whatever you call it. Kyle and Soranik's rekindling relationship was key to Prism of Time and Fractures. Fathers and sons are a recurring theme, especially in the second half. These things go a long way to making the storylines more relatable to readers, just in a more fantastic setting. Being a team book isn't the easiest place to show it, but it does come through.
The good news is that Morrison appears to be moving away from the big cosmic threat level storylines that have been happening on a regular basis since the start of the Geoff Johns era really.
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To be fair, Venditti certainly did a better job balancing the giant cosmic space wars with actual human emotion post-Rebirth than he did during the worst days of the New 52, when the book was a non-stop series of events that had virtually no character depth that I could recognize.
That said, I am also happy that Morrison is pumping the breaks on the never-ending Armageddons to let Hal be a space cop for a few months.
The Green lantern solicitation seemed interesting I'm looking forward to Hal upcoming Green lantern book.
And Frank Quitely is doing alternate covers!? Brilliant.
Never been a fan of Quitely to be honest. At least for me, the variants would likely be a huge step down from what Tyler Kirkham was doing with the Hal Jordan variant covers.