The Green Lantern Reader's Challenge

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I pulled these from my longboxes and put on my nightstand to read:




And for a Hal Jordan teamup I picked the 1st appearance of Dalor:

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I'm not an expert on issues like you, but I could not miss this issue lol :
first appearance krona :
GREEN LANTERN VOL 2 # 40
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I remembered most of dazzler, it's really interesting! These are distant memories.

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^Yeah, GL #40 is on my list this week. I gotta read some other things first.

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Okay, so I may still do another Hal team-up but for the first part, I picked Green Lantern (Series 2) #40, which is the first time Hal and Alan teamed up (though not the first time they met, which I assume was in one of the JLA/JSA crossovers).


"Impossible, Lantrin! Yer power beam has no effect on anything made o' wood--and dat's a fack!"

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Actually, this issue is important to GLU anyway, besides the team-up because it is also the first appearance and origin of Krona as well as the origin of the GotU. And yes, the Guardians are very powerful and very good here. In fact, their force for good is so strong that they automatically counteract the force of Krona's evil (which had caused natural disasters) on earth!

Krona's plot is pretty convoluted here. Having been trapped for billions of years in an energy beam (that seems cruel, no? for just being curious?), the beam happens to pass Earth Two (Alan's planet, pre-Crisis). With his great mind powers, Krona basically figures everything out and decides to eliminate Alan's ring's weakness to wood because he's sure he'll go into the proper universe to tell Hal and then he'll be able to hijack the GotU! And he does. This eventually leads to Hal battling the Krona-possessed body of Alan, but teaming up to defeat him and free the GotU.

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Decided to do the second part of the challenge (Hal team-up) separately. So, I picked Volume's 3's issue #100 and the Hal-Kyle team-up.


"...because I happened to be in the right place when the last guardian needed to give it away. Not like Hal. He was chosen by a dying Green Lantern because he was honest and fearless."

So, this was pretty much as good as I remember it. In this first (of what I think was an eight-part bi-weekly story line) part, Kyle is accidentally sent to a time when Hal is new to the GLC and fighting Sinestro on and near Oa. The two team up and use the advantages of their rings to defeat him before the GotU send Kyle back. But at the last second, Sinestro ring pushes Hal into the field sending him to Kyle's post-Twilight time.



They have a lot of fun here with Kyle being a tad annoyed at the GotU, but appropriately in awe of Hal, Oa, and the GLC.

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Reader's Challenge Week Three






(1) A comic where Hal Jordan hits his head, is knocked on the head, or is otherwise rendered unconscious.



(2) A comic where Kyle Rayner suffers girlfriend problems.




Okay, so this one is "tougher" in that you can't pick it from covers alone. On the other hand, #1 happened to about every other issue for the first three years of Hal's comic life and #2, well ...

Suffice it to say, I've already picked mine and it only took about two minutes between double checking online and going through my boxes. So, have fun, if anyone chooses to play.

Oh, and for the record, I did not mention a refrigerator.

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Hm, lots of issues to choose from on this one. Have to think about it.

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Hm, lots of issues to choose from on this one. Have to think about it.

Yeah, these could be a drinking game for people reading through series 2 and 3.

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(1) A comic where Hal Jordan hits his head, is knocked on the head, or is otherwise rendered unconscious.

So my first selection is Green Lantern (Series 2) #16, which is the premier of Star Sapphire.


". . . men are a distinctly inferior species."

This comic qualifies when SS attacks Hal and he hits his head on a building ledge.



Fortunately for us, Hal doesn't end up with a tombstone reading "bumped his head and didn't get up in the morning" because in the split second between impact and unconsciousness he formed a safety net.

Interestingly, in the letter column, Ira Ross actually complains about GL's propensity for head injuries!



As to the story, SS here shows her key traits of being mind controlled and the queen of the Zamarons (though they reject Carol when she's beat by GL).

She's a little more tame than later iterations. Her sole bad trait is to beat GL in order to prove men are inferior. The comic even goes out of its way to show that the robberies she uses to get his attention are faked.

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Ron "The Refrigerator" Marz. I remember calling him that during a flame war with the Kyle Trolls.

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(2) A comic where Kyle Rayner suffers girlfriend problems.

"I'm supposed to be your girlfriend, not your mother."

So, I picked this one, where Donna dumps Kyle, because nearly 20 years later I still remember her being pissed when she brings John Stewart over to formally meet Kyle and "catches" him sketching a nude model neighbor. Hilarity ensues. Although that sparks the argument, the split is because she basically accuses him of being a man child and he resents her bringing up Alice and being too demanding. This is undoubtedly the perspective of someone who was already a die-hard Hal fan when Kyle first showed up, but this is how I think of Kyle, constantly balancing being a rookie GL with domestic angst and not necessarily well.

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Reader's Challenge Week Four




Time to honor Alan and the origin of those who kept the flame alive. So,


(1) A comic featuring the origin of Alan Scott.




(2) A comic with an origin for any other of the main earth Green Lanterns (Hal, John, Guy, Kyle, or even Baz).



You don't have to read the first origin stories. If you want to read a retcon origin of Guy and the Earth 2 debut of Alan, have at it.

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(2) A comic with an origin for any other of the main earth Green Lanterns (Hal, John, Guy, Kyle, or even Baz).

For this, I picked Hal Jordan (natch) and specifically all six issues of Emerald Dawn (which I read in my old $5 trade collection!):


"Opinionated, intuitive, volatile ... but such potential."

This was fun to re-read for the first time in years. I forgot how a lot Hal's intro to Tomar, Kilowog, and Oa in the movie was taken from here including some direct quotes like "can I train, em? . . ."

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This was fun to re-read for the first time in years. I forgot how a lot Hal's intro to Tomar, Kilowog, and Oa in the movie was taken from here including some direct quotes like "can I train, em? . . ."

Of course that quote makes so much more sense in the comic, since Kilowog actually DOES train Hal, instead of just tossing him around for a couple minutes.

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Of course that quote makes so much more sense in the comic, since Kilowog actually DOES train Hal, instead of just tossing him around for a couple minutes.

Yeah, I know. How hard would it have been to do a training montage or even just to show what they did and add a bit suggesting it was days later that Sinestro tests him?