Books : Green Lantern: Rebirth

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- Graphic SF Reader
I really didn't think that the restart of Green Lantern would be any good. I was wrong. The artwork is also really, really, good, so that doesn't hurt.

Hal Jordan, after his many bouts of ultrapowerful entityness is back, and gets to go around and interact or biff various hero types, and villains, and even have a Green Lantern Corps again. This is probably the coolest part.

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- super
Just excellent! Geoff does an amazing job of making the first Green Lantern cool! If nothing else get it to see Hal punch Batman's lights out!

In blackness day. In blackness night. No EVIL, shall escape MY might; Green Lantern's light! Those words will truly come alive after reading this.

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- yadda yadda
Green lantern Rebith is one of the best stories i have read. I have been reading comics for the last 12 years. The art is over the the top and the story does not leave you hanging over past events. It get to the the point of the story and yet takes the past and mixes it the present. Most stories would have killed off Kyle Rayner. I loved the part where Hal knocks Batman on his rear. Only he would dare to do that! this book is wrth every penny.

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- Hal Jordan Comes Back Strong Thanks To Geoff Johns
Excellent! Geoff Johns has done an amazing job at delivering Hal Jordan from the mess of the past few decades. He's also enhanced the entire Green Lantern mythology along the way.

This a complex story that wraps up years worth of continuity problems, and yet it is made relatively simple here. In and off itself, that's a huge achievement. That this story also rocks is almost too good to be true. But it is true. This is a great book.

Many questions are answered in truly satisfying ways, the origin of the yellow weakness is revealed, and Hal Jordan is reborn in a manner that serves to make Green Lantern fans of every kind happy. And that includes Kyle Rayner fans too.

Some say this book is just for the devoted fanboys, but I think there is an exceptional story here for even the new-comers and casual readers.

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- The Greatest Green Lantern Story Ever Told?
To tell the truth, I didn't think they should do this. After the continually evolving changes of the past decade - the turning of Hal Jordan, the fall of Oa and the Corps, the introduction and progression of Kyle Rayner as Green Lantern, the return of Hal as Parrallax, the events of the 'Final Night' epic, the new incarnation of the Spectre in 'Day Of Judgment'.....to return Hal Jordan to the role of Green Lantern I thought would be, at best, clumsy; and at worst, a thinly-veiled scratching out of ten years of good stories to try and go back to square one. Happily, I couldn't have been more wrong. "Rebirth" is perhaps The defining event of the GL mythos, strengthening rather than weakening all that had come before it, while opening up exciting new paths to the future not just for Hal but a whole host of characters. Not least of all The Spectre, who obviously went on to different territory outside the GL books again once no longer bonded with Jordan.

The beginning of the story - the spirit Of Hal Jordan attempts to attend a ball game with old friend John Stewart and old not-so-friend Guy Gardener, but is unable to stay because the power of the Spectre draws people to him in droves to confess their sins; Kyle Rayner crash-lands a badly damaged spacecraft onto Earth, bringing a green coffin and a dire warning imparted to the backpackers who find him: 'IT has a name'; Carol Ferris is re-opening the Ferris airfield and comes across Jordan's old plane; Green Arrow and Mia encounter The Spectre on a day when he's in a particularly ominous - and rather confused - mood. This all starts up an epic that brings in many of the important GL figures from over the decades (and at least references many of those that it doesn't); that fully ignites one of the greatest threats the DC Universe has ever seen; that involves a heavy dose of the DCU's other champions - from Superman and Batman to the JSA and Zatanna - and does it all with outstanding art and storytelling. Its epic battles more than live up to the grandeur demanded of them by taking place in a storyline so pivotal. It handles the core GL characters so well that it actually turned me into a major Guy Gardener fan, of all things. And it winds up being not just The pivotal GL story of recent years (and quite possibly of all time) but one of the very cornerstone events of the DC Universe itself. Essential.

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