Green Lantern: Emerald Twilight

    (DC, 2004)
™ and © 2004 DC Comics, Inc.

In what at the time was intended to be an ending for the Silver Age Green Lantern mythos and the beginning of a new era, Ron Marz was only partially successful in crafting this transition, capably rendered by several artists, mainly ongoing penciller Darryl Banks. Marz was most successful in establishing the new GL, Kyle Rayner, a 20-something freelance artist whose imagination comes in handy when, by random luck, he receives the last remaining power ring. Marz’ character development of Kyle and, especially, his girlfriend Alex, makes her brutal (and too soon) murder at the hands of Major Force all the more tragic. Marz quickly establishes the new GL in the DC universe with appearances by Superman (with whom he faces Mongul) and Alan Scott, who brings him up to speed on GL history.

A decade later, Hal Jordan’s descent into madness—manifested in his maiming and murder of several fellow GLs, and the effective destruction of the Corps itself—still comes off as out of character, forced more by the demands of the story to clear the decks for what was to come.

— George Nelson
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January, 2003
Cover Price: $5.95
2 copies available from $20.00 		Ron MarzDarryl Banks, Bill Willingham, Fred Haynes