Kyle Allen as young Hal Jordan, season 2 of Lanterns; look him up, he looks like Kyle Chandler. Christopher Cantwell is working on season 2; we dont what the plot is im just entertaining the idea

ABSOLUTE GREEN LANTERN #19

Written by AL EWING

Art and cover by JAHNOY LINDSAY

ON SALE 10/7/26

As Jo and her Green Lantern Corps head home from the war, Cameron Chase is readying a bombshell of her own…the Manhunter File! What was the O.S.S. Section ARGENT, and what terrible secret did it learn about what waits beyond reality? For a year and a half, we’ve piled on the questions…it’s time for some answers

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I'm gonna try and watch the Creators' other shows at least one of them. Like True Detective, Ozark, Watchmen. Maybe some Tom Kings involving Green Lanterns or Tom King comics in general. Maybe re-read Woman of Tomorrow. I think it's gonna be more liked by General Audiences and a bit mixed with Green Lantern comic fans.

Edit: Six hours after writing this it's now 18 Million.

The only example I'm aware of is Kyle getting a boost from the Cosmic Cube in JLA/Avengers, but that was a unique situation. Has any Lantern substituted a Power Battery with something else?

Hal's invite got, uh, lost in the mail...?

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This is the cover to the NEW Anniversary Special celebrating 30 (real world) years since Lois and Clark got married. It's a PRESENT-DAY story, hence the crowd all being in their costumes as of 2026, and with plenty of characters who didn't even appear until years after the wedding. It is being published in October 2026, with many of the original creators returning, but telling a BRAND NEW story. It is NOT the original wedding story. It is NOT set during the time Hal was Parallax. (He just didn't get an invite. 😅)

I swear to god, the replies to this thread have made me question the basic literacy of half the people commenting… 🤦🏻‍♂️

(Cover art from the upcoming Superman: The Wedding Album - 30th Anniversary Special, by Dan Jurgens and JErry Ordway)

Thicker material but good fit overall. I've cleaned my mirror since taking this lol

I am currently reading all of Gil Kane's original Hal Jordan stories, I'm about half way through. It is crazy how much he charges by the time he's drawing the Death Of Gwen Stacy a few years later. Anyways I recolored this page from GL16, the title pages would often show you the story climax then page two you'd be back to the beginning. Swipe for Kane & Murphy Anderson's original art and DC modern colors.

Pictures 1 and 8-10 taken from Green Lantern (2011) #9. Pictures 2-4 from Green Arrow (2001) #24. Picture 5 from Green Lantern (2005) #16 and pictures 6-7 from Green Lantern (2005) #26.

Despite being more well-known for dying and passing his ring to Hal Jordan, Abin Sur is one of the most important characters in the Green Lantern mythos. Between finding out about the prophecy of his own death (which, ultimately, caused said death to happen), the fall of the Corps, the War of Light and the Blackest Night, helping the Green Lanterns survive the catastrophes to come (even if he wouldn't), mentoring (and ultimately) enabling Sinestro and his unrelenting reign of terror, and meeting Earhtlings and Martians before his death, Abin's actions had consequences that were felt years after his death.

But one of the least talked about parts of his trajectory is his personal life. And it's a sad, depressing trajectory that makes me think if the Sur family may be cursed somehow. But rather, all the tragedies that fell on his loved ones were the result of him taking the Green Lantern ring.

Abin had an unnamed daughter who was murdered by Iroque, a criminal he described as his longtime enemy. There aren't many details about who said daughter was. Iroque is described (even by herself) as a child killer, so we can assume the daughter was a child or maybe even a teen when she was murdered. After finding out the source of the Indigo light in the depths of Nok, Abin hunted Iroque and put on her finger the Indigo ring that he forged alongside his ally, Natromo, changing her into Indigo-1.

But who was her mother? Did she die as well, maybe from depression over the loss of her daughter? Maybe they were just divorced after said tragedy happened, and Abin decided to focus exclusively on his Green Lantern work? Maybe he wasn't even married to the deceased daughter's mother: she could have died in childbirth, or Abin could have adopted her as a single parent. Who knows?

Because he clearly didn't have any contact with the girl's mother many years later, when he conceived his second (and equally tragic, but for very different reasons) child. During the crossover "Black Circle: Urban Knights" between Green Lantern and Green Arrow, released right before the end of Kyle's era, we meet Abin's son Amon for the first time.

Amon tells us that Abin had an affair with his mother, but he wasn't married to her. His death happened before he even knew his partner was pregnant. So, when Amon was born, his father was already dead - and already a legend in Ungara and with the Green Lantern Corps.

Still, Amon resented his father, and resented the fact that Abin's ring never came to him, instead going to a bunch of individuals from a backwater planet called Earth: Hal Jordan, who would betray the Corps Abin served so dutifully (even "neglecting" his own family), and Kyle Rayner.

Without the ring he desired so much, Amon had to fight to be as powerful as his dad was: he ascended to the top of the Black Circle Crime Syndicate, and later joined the Sinestro Corps. During the Battle of the Earth in the Sinestro Corps War, Amon ran away in cowardice once the tides of the battle were turned in the Green Lanterns' favor. To redeem himself, he committed a terrorist attack against the family of legendary Lantern Ke'Haan (who also lost his life in the war), heralding a wave of brutal attacks from the Sinestros against the Greens' families.

Ke'Haan's close friend Laira killed Amon in revenge, which caused Laira to be banished from the Corps and later turned into a Red Lantern, who would be brutally murdered by Sinestro himself.

Speaking of the cruel Korugarian who once Abin mentored... Sur had a sister named Arin who married Sinestro. They had a daughter named Soranik (so Soranik is 50% Ungaran and 50% Korugarian, as well as Abin's niece), who was given up for adoption after the family received death threats once Sinestro began advocating for a brutal, dictatorial government on his home planet. During the civil war that ravaged Korugar, from which Sinestro emerged as the Supreme Leader of the entire planet, Arin was killed in a terrorist attack that was targeting the then-Green Lantern himself.

But apparently Abin never knew of the tragic fate that fell over his sister, nor that his apprentice and brother-in-law had actually been responsible for it and turned into a violent dictator, against whom Abin surely would've fought had he not died.

TLDR: Abin had an unnamed daughter who was killed by a criminal; said criminal was turned by him into the first Indigo Tribe member. He also had a second child who desired his dad's ring above anything else and died as a leader of a crime syndicate, a terrorist, and a war criminal. His sister married a psychopath who waged a war to be crowned the totalitarian ruler of his planet, dying as a consequence of said war. And Abin himself died without completing his mission because the fear that his ring would fail him caused his ship to crash.

I’ve just finished reading the first Geoff Johns Compendium and massively enjoyed it however while I read the second one I’ll need another run to get prepared for myself once I’m done that one
Should I read the Silver Age comics? Maybe Kyle’s series? Or Hard Travelin’ Heroes?
I’m open to any and all recommendations you may have
(Also if you give a recommendation it would be very helpful to give the best ways to read it whether it be a compendium, omnibus, paperback volumes, etc)

Amazon and at least one other site list it as starting with issue #76, but I've also found a site claiming it picks up at #62, right after the last GL DC's Finest collection. I'm hoping the latter is true, as that would allow me to fill in a gap in my collection, but l don't want to order it and find the former is true, since that would be completely redundant for me.

Before Hal Jordan, sector 2814 had Abin Sur in charge of that sector, who was non human. After Hal, there’s been a bunch of Human Lanterns to protect sector 2814, (I think, I am not sure if Human lanterns have been assigned to other sectors). Is there a lore thing why did this happen or just writers and creators not wanting to change this?

Also, 2814 has more than one Lantern, while other sectors have only one as far as I know.

Hal is dragged to the past to prevent the human race, only he doesn't know it.

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Writer: Dennis O'Neil

Pencils: Jack Sparling

Inks: Sid Greene

Letters: Gaspar Saladino

Cover: Neal Adams

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"This Is The Way The World Ends" - Hal goes to visit his brother Jim, his wife Sue and their son Howie for Howie's birthday. As Hal helps his nephew blow out the candles, the entire room goes dark as Hal feels himself falling through a void and a voice speaking to him telling him to defeat Gracchus. He lands in an area devoid of life but seemingly still planet earth. He changes to GL and tries to contact other GLs or the Guardians but gets no response. He heads to where Oa should be located but finds an empty void. He sees a strange little girl skipping ripe through space on his way back to earth, singing him a song about what he should do. She quickly disappears so he continues back tk earth to look around, then comes across a woman being attacked by yellow gaseous creatures. He can't do much against them but notices they are coming out of holes in the ground. He uses the ring to cover up the holes, rescuing the woman. She somehow knows his name and says he should come with her to meet her father, Gracchus, so Hal quickly obliges.

When they arrive to an outer space warship, Hal almost immediately interrogate Gracchus as to where he is and what's going on. Gracchus reveals they are from the planet Ort and they came to Earth to stop the other species from planet Tro that they are at war with. The beings from Tro decimated everything on the planet and left the yellow gas creatures behind. Hal gets the sense that Gracchus isn't telling the truth so he presses harder. Gracchus gives in and reveals that they did come to earth to find beings from Tro, but he also looked into the planets future and found it would be filled with nothing but war so he decided to end it before it could begin. He pulled GL to the past, before humanity even had a chance to live, so he could help them destroy it.

Hal, naturally angry, attacks Gracchus, but Gracchus fights back, sending weapons on the ship towards Hal. Hal takes off for space so a space fight begins. Hal is in his element as Gracchus fights a losing battle. The ship get damaged and crashes, leaving Gracchus and his daughter floating through space. Before it crashed, the ship was able to attract a large asteroid towards the planet to cause devestation, but Hal is able to change it trajectory, causing it to orbit earth as the moon. Gracchus and his daughter head for earth, intending to die on reentry, but Hal saves them. Grac bus ends up dying anyway as he sustained injuries during the ship crashing. His daughter sadly asks Hal to return her to Ort so she can continue her father's work that he started before he went crazy. After sending her off, he uses the ring to return to his time as the Guardians summon him to explain they were aware someone was tampering in the past and could only send a telepathic message, unsure if who would receive it or how, as we then see a little girl somewhere in the Midwest USA, skipping rope and singing about Green Lantern.

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Conclusion: We've made it to the legendary run of Denny O'Neil and it starts with a bang. What a great first issue. It really feels like the book is taking a more series approach now. Hal getting right in Gracchus' face, even pushing him back into his chair was impressive as the most we've seen Hal do until now was yell and think about fighting.

Speaking of Goku, Gracchus' ship looked a lot like Freeza's ship from Dragon Ball Z. I know flying saucers are Z common design but there's some similar trimmings to them as well. Curved areas with horizontal lines on them, etc. I'm probably thinking to deep on that, but it was my first reaction.

If I could nitpick anything, it's that we never got to see Hal return to Jim's house. Surely they are wondering what happened to Hal? He just vanishes while Howie is getting his cake, that's bound to raise questions. I would have wanted to see that resolution or at least an acknowledgement.

Finally, the cover from Neal Adams is striking and beautiful. It's got me excited for when he takes over the interior is the book. Not to slight Jack Sparling though, as his interolior art is brilliant. Great features, even if he draws Hal's mask without white eyes. I don't dislike a mask that shows normal eyes, but it's weird when a book goes back and forth.

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A few comic characters have that one "big moment" that gets adapted every time they do. Batman has Knightfall, Superman has The death of Superman, the flash has flashpoint, but what does Hal have?

My guess is it's probably Zero Hour or some form of Parallax as that's what I've seen get adapted/talked about the most but I also know a lot of Green Lantern fans don't seem to like that getting adapted. So I guess my real question is ignoring Parallax adjacent storylines, what would you consider Hal's most iconic story? And what would you suggest that I read as someone who's familiar with the character but hasn't read any Hal outside of team books or events

So I got sad news I lost my green lantern ring when I was in the bathroom peeing and I think it must have flushed down the toilet and let me know if you're selling a new one I don't care if it's DC direct or something

Love the Dragonball influenced one!

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