Green Lantern 90's/early 2000's 181 issue run

[REVOLUTION]

Hello again everyone-
Based on the great community feedback I received from the request I sought for the '84 & '89 LOSH runs I thought I'd seek opinions on this series. Is this run worth reading? I believe Ron Marz wrote the majority of it. Once again, thanks in advance!👍🏻

[Refrax5]

Hello again everyone-
Based on the great community feedback I received from the request I sought for the '84 & '89 LOSH runs I thought I'd seek opinions on this series. Is this run worth reading? I believe Ron Marz wrote the majority of it. Once again, thanks in advance!����

Marz begins writing at #48, I believe, when the series begins the shift from Hal Jordan to Kyle Rayner. Kyle is very much a 90s "hip, young everyman" archetype in a lot of ways, but he's a very likable one and the series is a lot of fun. I didn't love the latter part of the series written by Judd Winnick as much, but I still enjoyed it. It's certainly worth your while, in my opinion.

[j9ac9k]

I would say it's worth reading - if only for the fact that you'll learn pretty much everything you need to know about the main Lanterns who are still relevant. As mentioned, this era covers the shift from Hal to Kyle, which is one of the most important things to happen in the GL franchise.

That said, I don't know if I'd call any of it "stellar" or "must reads." For me the quality overall ranges from bleh to pretty good. (with "Emerald Twilight" being just poorly conceived and executed, imo) It's relevant for the lore, and enjoyable at times.

[SturdyMike89]

Ron Marz run starts off rough thanks to good old executive meddling. He had no say over the Hal/Parallax story. But Kyle is a great character and the art by Daryl Banks is pretty good though there were way too many fill-in artist for my taste. The stories are also so etched in the 90s that it hurts sometimes, but really great stories that are worth reading.

[Zero Hunter]

The first two years of the book it switched back and forth between Hal, John, and Guy. After issue 25 it shifted to Hal most of the time. I really enjoyed the series overall. It had some really good stuff in it and some clunkers, but that is par for almost any book that ran that many issues. This series was coming out of the recently ended Green Lantern Corps series which saw most of the Corps depowered so there was only a handfull of Lanterns around at the start.

[Zero Hunter]

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[andersonh1]

The opening story arc in issues #1-8, "The Road Back", is still one of my favorite Green Lantern stories. This is the series that made me a Green Lantern fan. I had never read the character prior to picking up this book back in 1990. The first 25 issues are pretty strong, then #26-47 vary in quality quite a bit (and I'm not a fan of M.D. Bright's artwork, which is a problem since he's the main artist for that stretch). A number of the Green Lanterns introduced here and over in GLC Quarterly get a lot more development once Geoff Johns starts writing the book. Emerald Twilight is about as editorially mandated a storyline as you'll find and it has to mangle Hal and the Guardians to get the story to work, but we do get Kyle Rayner's introduction out of it and the idea of Hal as Parallax, which Geoff Johns will also take and run with years later. I've only read portions of Kyle's run as GL, and while I like him as a character, a lot of the book just doesn't feel like Green Lantern to me without the Corps and a focus on outer space, but it's not bad, just different. There's a Kyle Rayner compendium that's just been published recently that includes all the crossover issues as well as the main GL issues, and back issues aren't hard to find.

[K7P5V]

As far as I'm concerned, Darryl Banks nailed it. Nobody could quite draw that goofy mask like he could (IMHO):