The Trial of Sinestro

[starwolf_oakley]

From EMERALD DAWN II: 90 Days. Some of the details of how Sinestro got kicked out of the Green Lantern Corps. I don't know to what degree Geoff Johns' "Secret Origin" changed it, although I know Hal Jordan didn't serve 90 Days for drunk driving anymore.













I think Sinestro is genuinely surprised by how much Katma Tui hates him.





So, for a while there, Sinestro's motivation was "If you think me evil, I might as well BE evil!"
Is Sinestro flipping off the Guardians?

Katma Tui is given the Green Lantern ring to take over for Sinestro. It doesn't end too well for her.

Comments

[baxter2814]

Damn, Emerald Dawn was great. They were some of the first views I ever got of Hal Jordan, and they're a major reason I still twitch in irritation whenever someone calls Hal boring. Yeah he's boring now. He wasn't then. Same with Supes — you want to retcon out all the things that rub the wrong way and make your characters flat and boring? Fine see if I care — this is still personal canon for me. Anyway, my pull list has dwindled alarmingly and will stay that way until the fallout of Blackest Night and Brightest Day has passed, and I'm perfectly happy living in obliviousness while collecting what feels like every mainstream non-sucky DC superhero Dark Age comic in existence.

Speaking of the Dark Age — another thing that has always confused me is the vitriol people spew at the Dark Age. Because really, while independent comics were horrific then, and Marvel got slammed really hard, and pretty much all new characters introduced were made of fail, a lot of the mainstream superhero comics, at least at DC and especially fairly early post-Crisis, were actually usually damn good as long as you hammered a certain measure of cognitive dissonance into your head to factor out the variable of random intrusions of '90s excess. They were often on par with Bronze Age Marvel in depth, and didn't have the random idiocy of modern comics — even their godawful screwups *cough* Hal Jordan *cough* were whole-hog and deliberate and thought-out. Come on, am I being crazy here or is there anyone who agrees?

[domino_blue]

I actually agree I would even argue that not all of Marvel's stuff was all dreck during that age either. I mean it gave us the Death of Harry Osborn, Chase,Thunderbolts,and plenty of other good comics.I love Captain Atom and hell even Green Lantern.

[baxter2814]

Well, Marvel IMHO was far, far better than DC until the Dark Age, whereas the Dark Age was in a lot of ways DC's peak in terms of quality. Of course, that doesn't mean Marvel was complete crap — I just think the '90s stereotypes got integrated a lot farther into their mainstream titles, especially with the X Men spin offs and everything to do with the Clone Saga, whereas DC avoided a lot of it, and actually did a lot of beating up on the anti-hero hype with Knightfall and the Reign of the Supermen.

[thehefner]

Damn, Emerald Dawn was great. They were some of the first views I ever got of Hal Jordan, and they're a major reason I still twitch in irritation whenever someone calls Hal boring. Yeah he's boring now. He wasn't then. Same with Supes — you want to retcon out all the things that rub the wrong way and make your characters flat and boring? Fine see if I care — this is still personal canon for me.

Motto, motto, three times a motto.

[aeolos_sakya]

I agree. While my first Lantern was Kyle Rayner, I got to read Emerald Dawn. I really liked that Hal. He wasn't the "such amazing and perfect guy" Johns keeps trying to show us. While I enjoy the recent Green Lantern's stories, if we could have this Hal back, I'd probably enjoy them a bit more.

[starwolf_oakley]

Well, it's hard to tell if Hal Jordan is "such amazing and perfect guy" as a Green Lantern, or because he gets all the ladies.

Of course, a lot of superheroes get all the ladies. Even an "everyman" like Peter Parker gets stuck in love triangles. I wonder if "Flashpoint" will end with Barry Allen not being married to Iris anymore, allowing Barry to be "such amazing and perfect guy."

[baxter2814]

Dude, you are tearing me apart! I am trying to live in denial here! Spidey =/= BND!Spidey! GAH!

[starwolf_oakley]

I was thinking more of the 1960s-1980s Spider-Man. Even in the Ditko years, Peter was in a love triangle with Betty Brant and Liz Allen. The Michelle/Carlie triangle we don't have to worry about.

[baxter2814]

Ah okay. Well, I don't mind that kind of love triangle...as long it, you know, happens organically instead of being retconned back in.