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

[thehefner]

I'm really annoyed at how Emerald Dawn I and II are both ignored by Geoff Johns (and thus unknown to most modern readers) and shunned by older comic fans. These were great books, and some of the best takes on Hal that I've ever seen. He was actually flawed and human.

That said, I think Sinestro has been absolutely brilliant under Johns, but this mini-series was the only other time before Sinestro Corps War that the character was anything other than a Snidely Whiplash villain.

[ex_trafalgar217]

Johns hasn't covered Sinestro's fall, other than bits and pieces mentioned here and there. The parts that have been mentioned do keep Sinestro's whole going nuts over ruling Korugar and trial the same, as far as I can tell. Hal's whole dui/crippled-dead friend/prison thing is gone though. Which personally makes me pretty happy, since I didn't really enjoy the whole prison stint, other than Sinestro popping in and being hilarious.

(OT: John Constantine's time in prison for Lucky's suicide is probably the only comic prison story I really enjoyed. Oh Stanley you horrible man you~~~)

Although I really did enjoy Hal calling Sinestro "Sin" lmao. Adorable. Also looking at this again totally gets me excited about Secret Origins II...whenever it comes out. :D

[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?

[aeolos_sakya]

Oh, yeah. I remember when I first read this. A spanish version. It was fun to read. Wonder how this will go under Johns' pen.

[ar_feiniel]

I love Emerald Dawn II -- one of the best Sinestro appearances IMHO.