My goodness what a long comment I left! I kind of got into a really long train of thought...
I said this over on scans_daily, but what I think the main GL book needed at this point was not "Hal's Secret Origin", but "Sinestro: Year One". I think many fans would have enjoyed that more.
Mr Johns is a highly capable writer, but as you said he's sometimes *too* invested in Hal. Since he rebooted the series we've already had so many flashback scenes and whatnot that I feel having a 6-issue origin story was redundant at this point. And they could quite easily have fitted in the Blackest Night stuff into a Sinestro story. I dunno. It just isn't working for me and I'll be glad when we get back to Modern-Day Hal and whatever adventure comes next.
And yeah, I too am actually having problems relating to Johns' Hal. But I don't find that gets in the way of a good story, necessarily
Eh. For me it does, a little bit. I like to be able to get inside a characters' head. For example, Superboy Prime: a character that most people don't seem to *get*. However he is essentially a male superpowered version of my slightly psychopathic younger sister, so I understand the character perfectly.
Yeah, I get where you're coming from, Kyle, which is all the more reason I wanna smack you sometimes.
Heh. Oh, bless. He's not a *bad* character to be able to relate to. He's just a little...superficial, sometimes.
Not having read any of Ron Marzs' stuff -save for the highly forgettable Ion miniseries- I only know Kyle through JLA. And my god, they did right by him in that book. His progression from "empty-headed rookie" to "Valued teammate" to "Holy Fuck, He Saved The Planet!" was awesome.
(Oh yes. Speaking of Mister Dent and your quest to read *everything* published that features him, did you read this weeks' Batman Confidential. He gets a couple pages in that, in which he goes up against Batgirl and proves once again that it sucks to be Harvey. No doubt it'll show on scans_daily soon enough)
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I said this over on scans_daily, but what I think the main GL book needed at this point was not "Hal's Secret Origin", but "Sinestro: Year One". I think many fans would have enjoyed that more.
Mr Johns is a highly capable writer, but as you said he's sometimes *too* invested in Hal. Since he rebooted the series we've already had so many flashback scenes and whatnot that I feel having a 6-issue origin story was redundant at this point. And they could quite easily have fitted in the Blackest Night stuff into a Sinestro story. I dunno. It just isn't working for me and I'll be glad when we get back to Modern-Day Hal and whatever adventure comes next.
And yeah, I too am actually having problems relating to Johns' Hal. But I don't find that gets in the way of a good story, necessarily
Eh. For me it does, a little bit. I like to be able to get inside a characters' head. For example, Superboy Prime: a character that most people don't seem to *get*. However he is essentially a male superpowered version of my slightly psychopathic younger sister, so I understand the character perfectly.
Yeah, I get where you're coming from, Kyle, which is all the more reason I wanna smack you sometimes.
Heh. Oh, bless. He's not a *bad* character to be able to relate to. He's just a little...superficial, sometimes.
Not having read any of Ron Marzs' stuff -save for the highly forgettable Ion miniseries- I only know Kyle through JLA. And my god, they did right by him in that book. His progression from "empty-headed rookie" to "Valued teammate" to "Holy Fuck, He Saved The Planet!" was awesome.
(Oh yes. Speaking of Mister Dent and your quest to read *everything* published that features him, did you read this weeks' Batman Confidential. He gets a couple pages in that, in which he goes up against Batgirl and proves once again that it sucks to be Harvey. No doubt it'll show on scans_daily soon enough)