Hal Jordan: The Green Lantern Appreciation 2023

[Hol]

Just saw you guys posted in on YouTube as well. Thanks for doing that!

You are very welcome!

[Vordan]

Waid had an AMA over on League of Comics Geeks and he said that Hal Jordan is one character he would like to do more with. I posted the link to the AMA over in the DC news thread.

[Lucas 35]

Have you seen these images?

Green Lantern #2 preview

https://twitter.com/Sinestros_Myte/s...CzocSu_IYuAAAA

[j9ac9k]

Hal actually owns a helmet?! (looks like Hal and Kil are both going to enjoy an ice cold sody-pop)

[Refrax5]

Waid had an AMA over on League of Comics Geeks and he said that Hal Jordan is one character he would like to do more with. I posted the link to the AMA over in the DC news thread.

That's cool. Waid's JLA: Year One and Flash and GL: Brave and the Bold minis were some of the earliest comics I read that made me a Hal fan. I always thought he wrote the character really well. He was brash but likable and funny. There was also some sadness to the character that came out that made him pretty sympathetic.

[Johnny]

Hal actually owns a helmet?! (looks like Hal and Kil are both going to enjoy an ice cold sody-pop)

Does that mean Hal has a bike. Wait, of course he does.

[j9ac9k]

That's cool. Waid's JLA: Year One and Flash and GL: Brave and the Bold minis were some of the earliest comics I read that made me a Hal fan. I always thought he wrote the character really well. He was brash but likable and funny. There was also some sadness to the character that came out that made him pretty sympathetic.

Didn't Waid also write the Hal/Kara "She's only seventeen.... seventeen.... seventeen" issue of "Brave & the Bold"? That ... wasn't great. While I liked those series, I don't think his depiction of Hal was the best.

[Frontier]

Have you seen these images?

Green Lantern #2 preview

https://twitter.com/Sinestros_Myte/s...CzocSu_IYuAAAA

Looking good!

Didn't Waid also write the Hal/Kara "She's only seventeen.... seventeen.... seventeen" issue of "Brave & the Bold"? That ... wasn't great. While I liked those series, I don't think his depiction of Hal was the best.

The rest of the run and Hal's use in it was still pretty solid in my opinion.

[StarSpangledMan]

Green Lantern and The Silver Surfer by Cully Hamner

[StarSpangledMan]

By Bernard Chang

[Factor]

Mark Waid said there will be a new World’s Finest book announced soon that’s a dream job for him and also that he’s working with Samnee on something.
I have a feeling that it might be a WF: Flash/GL starring Barry and Hal. It would certainly be right in his wheel house, I’m just not sure he’d be willing to do another “Flash” run, but it sure would be cool.

On a side note, in his new ongoing Hal is looking exactly like his Silver Age/WF self.

[Johnny]

Some covers for Knight Terrors GL#2.

[Refrax5]

Didn't Waid also write the Hal/Kara "She's only seventeen.... seventeen.... seventeen" issue of "Brave & the Bold"? That ... wasn't great. While I liked those series, I don't think his depiction of Hal was the best.

That was a different series from like a decade later. I'm not sure we can use that one example to invalidate the otherwise excellent character work he did. Besides, as I recall that was more just Hal having an uncomfortable thought. He didn't try anything with her and in fact rebuffed her when she tried to kiss him. It's an awkward moment that I think was intended to be humorous.

[Johnny]

It appears that, in-universe wise, Martin Jordan died in 1996, which likely means that Hal was born between around 1986 and 1990.

So Hal is a millennial in the current continuity? Ain't that something. lol

[Refrax5]

Mark Waid said there will be a new World’s Finest book announced soon that’s a dream job for him and also that he’s working with Samnee on something.
I have a feeling that it might be a WF: Flash/GL starring Barry and Hal. It would certainly be right in his wheel house, I’m just not sure he’d be willing to do another “Flash” run, but it sure would be cool.

On a side note, in his new ongoing Hal is looking exactly like his Silver Age/WF self.

God, I would love that. It'd be a nice way to get Barry in a regular series while keeping Wally as the lead of the Flash.