Hal Jordan: The Green Lantern Appreciation 2022

[Frontier]

I'm all for a good psychoanalysis, but I feel like King would just tear Hal down, if given a full run at him. He tends to leave characters broken and pitiable (at best) or broken and unlikable (at worst) by the time he's finished with them.

Ymmv of course.

It's hard for me to imagine King writing a space hero and not have them commit war crimes at this point.

[Johnny]

The observable universe, from one end to the other, is around 46 billion light years wide. It's estimated that the entire universe is at least 250 times as big, or about 11 trillion light years from end to end.

That's about how far I want Tom King from Hal Jordan.

[silly]

Looking at King's twitter it does look like many people would like more of that.

What was in King's twitter?

[HsssH]

He announced that he is starting to write new series for DC and some people in replies started writing about his Darkseid War one-shot.

[ducklord]

Don't get me wrong - Tom King is a talented guy (Heroes in Crisis excepted). But he does have a knack for breaking his toys, smearing feces all over them, and leaving them in a flaming dumpster for someone else to repair/clean up. And Hal's already been there/seen that/bought the commemorative floaty-pen as far as "character tear-downs" go.

[Johnny]

Yeah, I've really soured on King lately so I get your take on him. It would likely be interesting to see him work on this character but at the same time he can't be trusted to do right by him. And I hate being prejudicial, but his recent track record speaks for itself.

[ducklord]

Yeah, I've really soured on King lately so I get your take on him. It would likely be interesting to see him work on this character but at the same time he can't be trusted to do right by him. And I hate being prejudicial, but his recent track record speaks for itself.

I'd really like to see him write a long-form story in which:

1) The lead hero is tested to the breaking point, but...
2) Comes out the other side as strong as ever, with his core convictions intact and reinforced by his harrowing experience.

Even Batman kind of came out of his run more of a mess than usual.

[j9ac9k]

Has anyone picked up the Justice League Annual? Hal's on the cover, but does anyone know if he does anything in the story?

[Frontier]

[Johnny]

Of all the "legacy GL" images they could use, they chose one of my least favorite ones(yes it's mostly because of his hair). But it was the cover image of the first issue of the GL book at the time so I guess it makes sense.

[Johnny]

Has anyone picked up the Justice League Annual? Hal's on the cover, but does anyone know if he does anything in the story?

[j9ac9k]

^^ Looks like I can save some money then...

[Johnny]

^^ Looks like I can save some money then...

Seems like a wise choice. They didn't even bother to draw the right costume.

[Frontier]

Sanford Greene has some weird faces...

[SiegePerilous02]

It's hard for me to imagine King writing a space hero and not have them commit war crimes at this point.

Oh god, what did he do to Adam Strange?

I haven't been keeping tabs.