Hal Jordan sucks. Yes, you read that twice. He blows. He's boring. Ryan Reynolds should not have played him. He should've been Kyle Rayner. Somebody ho-hum, like Josh Brolin, should've played Hal.
Hal was always sort of bland. His comic was good because Gil Kane and Neal Adams drew it, and not to mention Green Arrow showed up for a while. Quite a dynamic there! All the cool Green Lanterns were there too: Guy Gardner, John freakin' Stewart, Kyle. They were definitely better than death-dealer Hal Jordan.
Forgot about that didn't you? Hal's little "issue". Let me recap:
"Hi, I'm Hal Jordan, well respected super hero. I'm sad because my home city got wiped out by a mega-powerful villain with a bad name (Mongul). So what I'm gonna do, what I am going to do is KILL all my friends and steal their rings so I can undo the deaths of millions of Coast City residents, including my girlfriend. That's right, KILL.
"See ya, Kilowog. Then I'm going to go crazy:
"Yes, loony, and become arch-villain #1 (Parallax). I will lose to Oliver Queen, who puts an arrow in my mighty chest, and disappear for awhile before I return to tackle a big black star-eating cloud (Sun-Eater). I have redeemed myself by dying! And then I become The Spectre, you know, the living embodiment of GOD'S Wrath.
"Later, I will return to life as good ol' Hal, and everyone will love me again! Even Kilowog. See, it wasn't really me, it was the one-armed man. Oops, wrong guy! It was the real Parallax, that evil yellow entity. It possessed me and made me do bad stuff."
Yeah, good one, DC. That's why nobody reads comics, because they're stupid.
Anyway, Hal is still boring in my mind. I haven't read the new 52, for the above reason. But come on, Hal should have stayed evil or dead. This "ret-con" junk is a dumb word for a dumb idea.
Bye Hal. I never liked you.
Give me John Stewart instead.
Hal was always sort of bland. His comic was good because Gil Kane and Neal Adams drew it, and not to mention Green Arrow showed up for a while. Quite a dynamic there! All the cool Green Lanterns were there too: Guy Gardner, John freakin' Stewart, Kyle. They were definitely better than death-dealer Hal Jordan.
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"Hi, I'm Hal Jordan, well respected super hero. I'm sad because my home city got wiped out by a mega-powerful villain with a bad name (Mongul). So what I'm gonna do, what I am going to do is KILL all my friends and steal their rings so I can undo the deaths of millions of Coast City residents, including my girlfriend. That's right, KILL.
"See ya, Kilowog. Then I'm going to go crazy:
"Yes, loony, and become arch-villain #1 (Parallax). I will lose to Oliver Queen, who puts an arrow in my mighty chest, and disappear for awhile before I return to tackle a big black star-eating cloud (Sun-Eater). I have redeemed myself by dying! And then I become The Spectre, you know, the living embodiment of GOD'S Wrath.
"Later, I will return to life as good ol' Hal, and everyone will love me again! Even Kilowog. See, it wasn't really me, it was the one-armed man. Oops, wrong guy! It was the real Parallax, that evil yellow entity. It possessed me and made me do bad stuff."
Yeah, good one, DC. That's why nobody reads comics, because they're stupid.
Anyway, Hal is still boring in my mind. I haven't read the new 52, for the above reason. But come on, Hal should have stayed evil or dead. This "ret-con" junk is a dumb word for a dumb idea.
Bye Hal. I never liked you.
Give me John Stewart instead.
