Hal Jordan Appreciation

[AMAZINGTFL]

No its not Mahnke. Definitely Fernando Pasarin.

Bleeding Cool made a mistake.

https://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/06...napul-barrows/
"Hal Jordan & The Green Lantern Corps #49 by Doug Mahnke."

[WallyWestFlash]

Bleeding Cool made a mistake.

https://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/06...napul-barrows/
"Hal Jordan & The Green Lantern Corps #49 by Doug Mahnke."

Yea, that's normal for them. Apparently no one knows how to spell or edit there.

[AMAZINGTFL]

Yea, that's normal for them. Apparently no one knows how to spell or edit there.

Yeah. Well this is not the artist's best work. Hal looks like a turtle.

[silly]

[Johnny]

[Frontier]

Ah yes, the long history of Hal hitting his head on something .

[HAN9000]

^^ It was quite clear that Aaron Gillespie had no clue about what kind of character Hal Jordan is or the current "status" of his ring. The worst part was when he had Jessica start lecturing Hal about not being woke enough. Keep fools like that as far away from this character as possible.

I’m also surprised the editor didn’t advise him against that writing.

[HAN9000]

I think he just meant that he was hoping the book would be successful enough to make it to 12 issues. Then to 20, then to 50, etc.

Yeah… but it’s still strange that they thought about the possibility the book won’t make it to 12 issues, isn’t it? I mean, they never had that kind of thought on Green Lantern of new52.
Reminds me that this book didn’t get many ads or promotions in the beginning. Were they planning to let it drift until its fall? What if the book wasn’t successful? Were they going to change the writer or kill off one or two characters?

[jbmasta]

Yeah, it was and totally deserves a double-Picard.

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One of the main rules of pretty much anything should be never use modern hip slang, unless it's a high school setting that actually reflects how high school works, like Inbetweeners.

[Johnny]

The "progressive millennial" social media verbiage wasn't the only thing that annoyed me, it was how Hal was deliberately mischaracterized in those issues. He wouldn't just listen to the Guardians' orders. no questions asked, and go apprehend Jessica without a second thought. Gillespie not only purposely wrote Hal out of character, but then doubled down on it by having Jessica call him out on not doing the exact thing that you'd always expect of Hal to do in this type of situation. Sabotaging a character by purposely writing him in a nonsensical way and then have another character call him out on it is about as low as a comic writer can get in my book. Imagine if Batman was suddenly portrayed as an idiot detective who missed an obvious clue and then one of the Robins called him out on how stupid he was for missing it.

[AngryComicBookNerd]

The "progressive millennial" social media verbiage wasn't the only thing that annoyed me, it was how Hal was deliberately mischaracterized in those issues. He wouldn't just listen to the Guardians' orders. no questions asked, and go apprehend Jessica without a second thought. Gillespie not only purposely wrote Hal out of character, but then doubled down on it by having Jessica call him out on not doing the exact thing that you'd always expect of Hal to do in this type of situation. Sabotaging a character by purposely writing him in a nonsensical way and then have another character call him out in is about as low as a comic writer can get in my book. Imagine if Batman was suddenly portrayed as an idiot detective who missed an obvious clue and then one of the Robins called him out on how stupid he was for missing it.

100% agree. It's ridiculous.

[Anthony Shaw]

Yeah, it was and totally deserves a double-Picard.

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Was Gillespie trying to channel his inner Denny?

[Anthony Shaw]

As I have said before, yellow is not Hal's weakness...it's bad writing.

[Frontier]

Was Gillespie trying to channel his inner Denny?

Y'know, sometimes I imagine writers bringing this guy back into modern day and just imagining what would happen .

[liwanag]

anybody heard any news if morrison will be writing a hal title?