(Still, from what I understand, even the Parallax thing was a retcon, a desperate attempt to make Hal not responsible-by-way-of-possession for the terrible acts he'd done, sort of DC's attempt at 'Dark Phoenixing' the whole previous arc and salvaging the hero by shunting the blame on a possessing-entity.)
Ugh. Replied to self instead of Edited self. Used to be able to delete these and fix it, but, welcome to the future, where stuff I used to be able to do, I can't now, because of either senility or 'software improvements.' I don't even know.