The Green Lantern #1 - "Intergalactic Lawman"

[laughing_tree]

Instead of the big, epic, 12-part stories, we’re focusing down on the everyday life of a space cop. Basically, it’s no more apocalypse-ending storylines. The basic concept is that [Hal Jordan] is like a space cop that patrols a sector of the universe where anything can happen. We’ve made it more like a police procedural. -- Grant Morrison

Comments

[agharta75]

AM Lanterns! FM Lanterns! Shortwave Lanterns! Internet Podcast Lanterns!

[thanekos]

Ooh, Anti-Matter Hal.

Looking forward to regular Hal getting dogpiled by a Crime Syndicate in #6. Or #8.

[lordultimus]

Damn it, I wanted to post this.

I did like the scene with Hal and Eve.

EDIT: I don't think Grant would take the Alan Moore comparisons as a compliment.

[tcampbell1000]

This is clearly riffing hard on Alan Moore's Green Lantern stories, but you won't hear any complaints from me about that. And it may represent a new era for the franchise. On what basis do I make this assumption?

How to defeat a Green Lantern in the Golden Age: tree branch.

How to defeat a Green Lantern in the Silver and Bronze Age: can of yellow spray paint.

How to defeat a Green Lantern in the Kyle Rayner age: DISMEMBERMENT.

If the only long-term result of this series is that we stop getting soul-crushingly gory and boring scenes of Lanterns instantly losing all their powers because they lost their finger/hand/arm, it will have been enough.

[zachbeacon]

I love how calm he is about losing a digit.



And yeah, it's nice to see a GL story that feels like Alan Moore rather than just one that constantly references Moore's old work. I haven't enjoyed GL* since before they brought Hal back but this looks like it may do more to redeem him than the stupid Parallax retcon.

*We'll the Corps book by Gibbons was fun for a while but that got derailed by all the Rainbow Spectrum Crossovers.

[silicondream]

Is Chriselon Chaselon's successor or something?

[lordultimus]

Yeah, Chaselon died a while ago.

[mrosa]

Little fact: "ventura" is Portuguese for "luck".