Originally Posted by
Dred
What are you even talking about? There was no lantern in Forever Evil for Hal Jordan to replace. You can't kick someone out who does not exist. Hal left the JL beforehand and was replaced by no one despite there being 4 other GLs who COULD HAVE -- that's actually even worse. Even with a vacancy available no other GL got the limelight. You could have Kyle or John or Guy or Simon, someone without a beef with Diana, replace him but nope. At least when Hal showed up to overshadow Simon and/or Jess for the high visibility event they were in the comic at all beforehand.
Jessica joined the JL title at the end of Forever Evil as Power Ring. The very next event, Darkseid War, had Hal suddenly come back to take back the limelight despite never hashing out the issues of why he left in the first place.
I don't know what TDS is. Those initials do not describe any event I'm familiar with from this timeframe. I assume you mean Darkseid War but I have no idea why you call it TDS.
I bring it up because it is symptomatic of what I'm talking about. If you think it's entirely, and only, because of Morrison then so be it. It is the truth that even in a Lantern free event comic, Hal Jordan showed up in force in the first issue. I can call a spade a spade even if you will strangle yourself trying to justify or undermine a very, very obvious trend. I did not move goalposts. I stated clearly what I was talking about and it's still true. You moved my goalposts for me by, for some reason, bringing up a comic event from before Jessica existed, affecting a comic that did not include Simon, when I'm talking about Hal replacing Jessica and Simon. Whose goalposts were those?