DC Comics Green Lantern

Awesome story by Geoff Johns and faboulous pencils by Ivan Reis.Got it at an amazing price.Bought it used. The inside is perfect, but the cover looks weary with dust and scratches.Considering it is out of stock, it was a great deal.

Geoff Johns & Ivan Reis sono sempre una garanzia per storie e disegni di qualità. Una nuova aggiornata storia d'origine per Green Lantern. Peccato solo la copertina che non c'entra niente con l'interno e anzi è fuorviante con il poster del (flop) film.

I really liked this origin story. Hal Jordan is a great character with a very well developed back story.This graphic novel is a great start for new commers to the green lantern like me and i highly recommend it!

Green Lantern is undoubtedly one of the most recognized heroes in the DC universe. Especially the Hal Jordan version of Green Jordan. The initial concept of having a fearless jet pilot was fantastic, yet people saw fit to keep jacking around with his origin. Thankfully, Geoff Johns figured out a way to save Hal Jordan from the tangled web of death, Parallax, and the mantle of the Spectre and return him to greatness for the fans in GREEN LANTERN: REBIRTH.Since that time Johns has continued to reboot the Green Lantern universe, adding more layers to the overall concept initially created of a space lawman. Johns has introduced new villains and given dramatic facelifts to old ones. The new Hector Hammond is really creepy, and more powerful than I remember him being before.As one of the top tier heroes at DC, Green Lantern's origin has been constantly told and retold. Every Green Lantern fan on the planet knows how Hal Jordan received his power ring from Abin Sur as that Green Lantern lay dying. Even after years of reading the series and being familiar with the character, I never even once wondered why Abin Sur was in a spaceship when he could have used his ring to simply fly through space. All the Green Lanterns do that.In this latest graphic novel, Johns explains why Abin Sur was in that doomed aircraft, why it crashed, then goes on to embroider even more legend into the Green Lantern tapestry. Jordan's troubled family history is further revealed in this story as well, and readers get the chance to truly understand the motivation that has powered this man through so much. In addition, Sinestro shows up as he was at that time: the greatest Green Lantern that ever lived--until he turned evil later on.This pairing of Sinestro and Green Lantern in his rookie debut offers a lot of speculation about what went on between them and what could have happened if they'd remained friends. When I first found out Johns would be revisiting Green Lantern's origin one more time, I was irritated. He had just set up the idea of the prismatic power batteries and the emotions that fuel them. I think that's one of the coolest ideas that has occurred in the DC universe in many years. But this reimagining of old heroes with new eyes that don't stray too far from the original mold is one of the author's greatest strengths. Johns bends and shapes heirloom heroes into new and thrilling stories, but he never breaks the bones.The story of the Black Lanterns gets advanced in this graphic novel. Due to the nature of the villain involved in Abin Sur's death, and the questions that particular Green Lantern was asking right before his death, readers get a real good feel for what Johns has up his sleeve for the next act. He sows the seeds of that story arc within this one, mashing the two stories perfectly. My appetite is whetted even more now for the threat of Blackest Night.Besides the great story, this graphic novel delivers the fantastic art of Ivan Reis and Oclair Albert. As penciler and inker, they knock this one right out of the park. The two-page spreads they do are breathtaking. Jordan looks like a man at times but definitely as a jet jockey at others, and both sides of his nature as fallible and heroic are fairly presented. When he's in the Green Lantern suit, he's the kind of hero kids want to grow up to be.Be sure to look for the initial meeting between Hal Jordan and John Stewart (the second earth Green Lantern of the Silver Age) in the bar fight. If you're not familiar with the Green Lantern history, that one will slide right under the radar.I wasn't looking forward to this digression in momentum of the story Johns was telling, but this one simply had to be told and it was so much more than I ever expected it to be. At this point I'm really looking forward to another digression, and this time I want to see what happens when Green Lantern goes to visit Sinestro on his homeworld for the first time. I have a feeling that would be an awesome story as well.

Nach dem Sinestro Corps War war ich ja schon sehr begeistert von der momentanen Handlung rund um meinen Jugendhelden Green Lantern. Als ich dann aber las, daß als nächstes mal wieder seine Herkunftsgeschichte erzählt werden würde, dachte ich: Ach komm, das kann ich mir sparen, das hab ich schon so oft gelesen.Nun, zwei Jahre später hab ich mir den Band doch noch gekauft, und meine Herren, lag ich da falsch mit meinem Vorurteil: Geoff Johns hat es geschafft, die gute alte Originstory so dermaßen aufzupeppen, daß es eine wahre Pracht ist! Ich habe das Hardcover förmlich verschlungen, und kann die Story, die viel mehr Tiefe besitzt, als das Original in den 50ern, nur jedem ans Herz legen.Darüberhinaus scheint mir dieser Band der ideale Einstiegspunkt für neugierige Neuleser zu sein. Green Lantern Secret Origin kann man auch lesen, wenn man seit 20 Jahren keine Grüne Leuchte mehr gelesen hat - oder auch noch gar nie!Die Zeichnungen sind obendrein auch noch sehr gut. Ein tolles Gesamtpaket, jedem Superheldenfan sollte diese Story gefallen. Daß man danach unbedingt wissen will, wie es weitergeht, bleibt natürlich dabei nicht aus - diese Gefahr muß man eingehen...