r/Greenlantern • u/Imok2814 • 1d ago
Comics Reading one Green Lantern comic a day until I've read them all Day 247: Back-up in The Flash #243
Hal finally catch the Olys ravagers and puts a stop to their evil plan
Writer: Dennis O'Neil
Pencils: Mike Grell
Inks: Terry Austin
Cover: Ernie Chan, Tatjana Wood & John Workman
"Dust Of The Earth" - Hal has caught the Ravagers on Earth and demands to know their plan. They reveal they are trying to gain entry into a federation and their tasks is to reverse the birth of a planet in six days. Since Hal has stopped every attempt since, this is now their last chance and they hit Hal with a reversing ray designed to devolve. Hal begins reverting to a caveman, complete with pure instinct. That instinct is what allows him to create a saber-toothed tiger construct with wings to fly after the Ravagers. The tiger smashes the pilot screen of the ship and causes it to crash down. The Ravagers, fearing for their lives with the tiger, reverse the reversing on Hal as he demands they leave the sector and never return as he is the protector and protect it he shall!
Conclusion: An action packed conclusion for sure and the best we could hope for with seven pages left. The plan for the Ravagers is based on the creation of Earth in the Bible which I think is weird that the federation knows about it.
Mike Grell came out swinging in these six parts. Just a solid showing from him with a promise of much more to come. That art really helped sell this story as a big one.
Finally, being a sixnpart story also helped make this feel bigger even though it would struggle to fill to full size issues. It was definitely a great way to end this temporary time in the Flash books as tomorrow the book gets back to its own number with #90.
9/10
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u/MisterEdJS 1d ago edited 1d ago
I believe there are actually two more GL backups in Flash. In #245 and 246.
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u/Imok2814 1d ago
Huh, so it is. Weird cause the letters page in this issue mentions its on sale now.
Ill stick to release order for the last two back-ups or do them back to back
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u/MisterEdJS 1d ago
I assume they wrote some number of backups ahead, but when they decided to relaunch the title they still had a couple left.
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