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[thehefner]

Hal Jordan is returning as Green Lantern this October. We won, bitches!

And hey, all you Jordan haters out there: if you don't like it... get over it.
I've been waiting ten years to say that ;)

Comments

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

I agree completely.

The weirdest thing is, though, I got interested in Hal once he was already Parallax. My very first intro to GL was the GL/Silver Surfer crossover. I was so intrigued by this villain who wasn't really a bad guy, just a hero who fell from grace. Then, not long after Final Night, I started to read more and more old Hal stuff, until, crap, I realized I liked his GL even better! While I opposed Ron Marz and Kevin Dooley's direction with Hal, I never would have gotten interested in him if it weren't for them. Go figure, huh?

Lots of people are complaining about this, saying it's a step backwards. Yet no one complains about everyone reversing the Spider-Man clone saga or the "fogies" in the JSA, do they? GL is the comics' equivalent of the abortion debate, with two vehemently passionate sides.

And while Marz's Kyle only bugged me, Morrison and Winnick got me to warm to the character as more than just a Image-era Peter Parker-knockoff. Especially with the new costume. I don't know about you, but I hated the old Kyle costume. Everything silly about mid-90's style with a crab mask. At least in Jim Lee's costume he *looks* like a GL.