Originally Posted by
Dark Falz
Yeah, I've read it before. I can understand why John Stewart fans wouldn't mention or know much about that era, because John was essentially a supporting character for Kyle Rayner. The biggest development for John Stewart is one that basically everyone knows about, which is the Fatality character. She was technically a foe for Kyle Rayner to fight, but her whole motivation centered around John Stewart. Besides that, he was still living with his girlfriend Merayn, who was a hold over from the Darkstars comic. I kinda' find that somewhat charming (even though I shouldn't at all because that should be the norm), because these days, I highly doubt that continuity would have been acknowledged at all, and Merayn would likely just disappear without explanation.
Probably the silliest thing about that era regarding John was that whoever was writing Final Night (I don't remember, off the top of my head) actually had Hal Jordan cure John, but that didn't sit well with either Ron Marz or Kevin Dooley, or both, and they essentially BS'd a reason for him to go right back in the wheel chair. Apparently, Hal used emerald energy to heal John, and John...uh...tapped into that during a fight with Fatality and blasted her. But in so doing, he lost the energy that had healed him and was paralyzed from the waste down again.
I think those Ron Marz Kyle Rayner comics are okay and can be pretty cool at times. They're by no means brilliant or even especially awesome, but they can certainly be good fun, and they're good fun at a consistent enough level to be pretty solid. In my estimation the book suffers when Judd Winnick took over, and it was all downhill from there.
However! I don't think any of that stuff is worth reading specifically for John Stewart. You'll see him there, but probably not in a large enough or desirable enough capacity to bother.