Secret Origin or Emerald Dawn? Which Is The Superior Hal Jordan Origin Story?

[Timothy Hunter]

I read Secret Origin a decade ago. I don't remember much, but I felt how Johns interwove plot threads currently happening in his run such as Atrocitus and the Blackest Night prophecy, and connected them to Jordan's origin was very contrived.

I have yet to read Emerald Dawn, but I'm a fan of the pre-Parallax 90s Green Lantern comics, so I'm excited to check it out.

[Hypestyle]

I liked the C. Priest contributions.

[exile001]

Emerald Dawn makes its mistakes but Secret origin isn't great outside the story Johns was already telling. It retcons a bunch of stuff in/out (including earlier parts of his own run!) and largely exists to build towards Blackest Night, but doesn't stand out as an definitive origin for runs prior or after.

As Green Lantern wasn't rebooted after Crisis, Emerald Dawn does a decent job of serving both an introduction for new fans and an updated origin for the existing cannon (again, with a few tweaks).

[Johnny]

Secret Origin. Not the best thing Johns could've done, but I'd never support a superhero origin story where the main character is driving under the influence. Miss me with that.

Or was that in Emerald Dawn II? Whatever, it was a crappy thing to do.

[silly]

Secret Origin. Not the best thing Johns could've done, but I'd never support a superhero origin story where the main character is driving under the influence. Miss me with that.

Or was that in Emerald Dawn II? Whatever, it was a crappy thing to do.

I think that was Emerald Dawn II.

[Frontier]

Secret Origin, hands down.

[j9ac9k]

Secret Origin. Not the best thing Johns could've done, but I'd never support a superhero origin story where the main character is driving under the influence. Miss me with that.

Or was that in Emerald Dawn II? Whatever, it was a crappy thing to do.

It was ED 1. ED 2 starts with Hal serving time for that incident.

[Quinlan58]

Secret Origin, without a doubt.