The Green Lantern: Season Two #6 - "Assault on Sector General"

[laughing_tree]

Well, it's kind of like with Superman -- he's expansive and he's a good character. Batman is a more devious and more Machiavellian type of character who can really bring you down if he wants. But with Green Lantern and Hal Jordan, it's really fun to put yourself in that headspace, this is a guy who doesn't break. You know, so many heroes have been made fallible as an attempt to make them relatable and, I think with Jordan, the less fallible you make him, the more fun -- and honestly, the more relatable -- I think we know guys like him, guys who get their heads down and just do the job, that would get their arms blown off and just be like "It's just a scratch!" -- Grant Morrison

Comments

[icon_uk]

Given James White's classic series about the alien hospital "Sector General" I confess I'm very surprised to see quite such an obvious riff on it in another sci-fi title like this. (Even in a series with the historical DNA of EE Doc Smith's "Lensman" running series through it like Green Lantern)

[bruinsfan]

Well, it is a Grant Morrison sci-fi title.

[dr_archeville]

I LOOOOVE the Sector General series! Very happy to see it homaged/referenced here.

[capnduckman]

Does he look like the cowardly lion to anyone else?

[lizard_of_aus]

That was the first comparison that came to mind, followed by Snagglepuss

[silicondream]

...and Looney Leo...

[tcampbell1000]

I feel like the Hal I grew up with was mostly a boring mope still clinging to the last shreds of DC's 1960s template for personality-free super-heroes. You know, the reason they lost all that market share to Marvel. And after he got turned into Parallax and the Spectre, he was chiefly memorialized as that. The kickassery seems to be a 21st-century thing, and the space-cop who's just a little bit of a bastard seems to be a very recent thing.

Which is to say, I know Morrison's having fun mining little details from the past like Hal's checkered employment history, but I don't think I'd say he's been too faithful to the character's past characterization. But I don't really mind much, either! It's a lot better than those days when we flip-flopped between "Guy Gardner's square straight man" and "test pilot, and therefore adrenaline junkie, but somehow still square."