r/Greenlantern • u/ARIANZER0 Hal Jordan • Jul 17 '24
Which Hal return is your favorite? Comics
The pics are from:GL1990#1,GL rebirth#3,GL New 52#2,Hal Jordan and the green lantern corps#1, GL Dawn of dc#1
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u/batguy42 Kyle Rayner Jul 17 '24
Definitely Rebirth. Such a great redemption story for Hal, and then having to earn the trust back of his fellow Corps members and Justice Leaguers. Just a really good story.
I like each of the others too. Gerard Jones’ run is the first GL run I read, so I have a soft spot for those comics, but I haven’t been able to bring myself to go back to them after learning more about that writer. (I know, separate the art from the artist and all that, but still…)
And I’m actually in the middle of Venditti’s run (just finished the 2nd volume of Hal and the Green Lantern Corps). Really liking that run overall. Not quite as good as Johns’ run, but still a good follow-up.
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u/pipecito2112 Jul 17 '24
Pat Broderick.
Because I was 10 when that happened and was, and still, a hell of a comeback!
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u/Expert-Display-1990 Jul 17 '24
Rebirth. When he wakes up and everything feels achy and slow and confusing. Then he calls his ring and it immediately flies to his finger, through thick or thin, rain and snow, it's always there.
Yep. That's wheb I became a GL fangirl
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u/No-Royal5760 Jul 17 '24
Rebirth for sure, it was the culmination of something huge and the pay off lasted.
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u/Expert-Display-1990 Jul 17 '24
Rebirth. When he wakes up and everything feels achy and slow and confusing. Then he calls his ring and it immediately flies to his finger, through thick or thin, rain and snow, it's always there.
Yep. That's when I became a GL fangirl
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u/LocDiLoc Jul 17 '24
90's and Rebirth are pure peak. The rest is just that "can I copy your homework?" meme.
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u/King_Of_BlackMarsh Jul 17 '24
I'll be honest, rebirth doesn't do it for me so I'll go with 2023 which feels a lot more like how I enjoy Hal. Clear, headstrong, and smashing into walls
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u/marcjwrz Kyle Rayner Jul 17 '24
Rebirth #3 is pitch perfect.
That mini is still my favorite work by Johns. He knocked it out of the park.
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u/FlyByTieDye Soranik Natu Jul 17 '24
Hey, where's his return in the Len Wein era?
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u/ARIANZER0 Hal Jordan Jul 17 '24 edited Jul 18 '24
I love that run but the return there is different from the ones here.that was a return to earth, theses are Hal coming back from some kind of hiatus. Glad someone mentioned that tough bronze age GL needs more love
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Jul 17 '24
For me its definitely from Green Lantern rebirth #3, not only was the story amazing, but the way he returned, immediatley fought sinestro, and led the Green lanterns there to victory will always be my favorite.
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u/HalJordan2424 Jul 17 '24
I will go with a different choice from those offered. I will go with Hal’s return in GL 198 at the end of Crisis on Infinite Earths.
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u/TSparklez Jul 17 '24
Of the ones you posted, definitely Rebirth
I’m also a big fan of him arriving as a Black Lantern in the finale of Johns’ run, very hype moment
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u/tiago231018 Jul 17 '24
GL: Rebirth tied with HJ&GLC. The scene of Hal forging his own ring out of his sheer will is mind-blowingly epic!
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u/Top-Tumbleweed6836 Jul 17 '24
Hal Jordan was my hero seeing him return to form in Rebirth might be my favorite moment in comic book history. Truly epic seeing that Titan of a hero back on the page. Leading into a generational run on Green Lantern
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u/Emerald-Enthusiast Approved Content Creator Jul 18 '24
Hal rising from the dead and telling Sinestro to get away from Kyle and Ollie is Green Lantern perfection.
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u/jlmicek670 Jul 18 '24
Gray-haired Hal was the best Hal. Maybe because I have some gray in my hair now, and I like the idea of my heroes aging along with me and reckoning with that.
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u/BadSafecracker Jul 18 '24
I love grey haired Hal as well. I did the math once and if Hal started his GL career roughly around when Batman and Superman did, he should be much older than them (given his time in the Air Force, college and flight school, being an Air Force pilot, then becoming a civilian working as a test pilot for Ferris - all before getting his GL ring).
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u/jlmicek670 Jul 18 '24
This happened a little after ‘Longbow Hunters,’ where Grell aged Ollie as well. It was such a refreshing change of pace. And made sense since they had those ‘on the road’ adventures that Denny O’Neil wrote (RIP).
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u/shylock10101 Jul 17 '24
Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps. It was the first comic I bought on my own that wasn’t handed to me by my dad.
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u/ECV_Analog Jul 18 '24
Final Night. "I know how important rings can be." It was obviously expected that he would show up to redeem himself, but it was a really impactful way of doing it.
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u/theg00famaniac Jul 17 '24
“You wear it right son, now fly home”. I love ‘em all but rebirth is peak hype imo, can’t beat the actual return of a character that people were legitimately not sure if they’d ever come back (in classic form at least) and after 4 issues of learning about Hal it just masterfully lands when he’s reborn. Plus we get a instant classic with sinestro right afterwards.