Well, you're going to be seeing a lot of Green Lantern posts over the next couple of weeks because I've been doing some comic book reading. After I finished reading Green Lantern: Secret Origins and actually really enjoyed it, I did some research to figure out what is the best order to read Geoff Johns Green Lanterns in. In this story Hal Jordan is brought back into the Green Lantern Universe. (After all in superhero comics, no one ever really dies) The information I didn't know that I had to go find out was that in 1994 DC comics decided to kill off Hal Jordan. Hal Jordan had gone insane, murdered his fellow Green Lanterns because he was infected by and became the all-powerful villain Parallax (the pure embodiment of fear), and then finally being transformed into the latest embodiment of the spirit of vengeance, the Spectre. In this book, all the surviving Green Lanterns play a role including Kyle Rayner, John Steward, Killowog (slowly becoming one of my favorite Green Lanterns) and even Guy Gardner. Hal's return isn't exactly smooth or easy. Batman, from the Justice League of America, remembers too well that Jordan is responsible for the horrible chaos in the past, and is very reluctant to trust him as are many others are. This book helps flush out some of the secrets behind Spectre/Parallax/Jordan, and even has some startling revelations about the history of the Guardians, the power rings, Sinestro, and the source of the impurity. There are a lot of new characters introduced to me here. Some of them I had to do a quick google search to see how they fit into the Green Lantern Universe, but still I enjoyed this. I know many other Green Lantern fans absolutely loved this, mainly because they have a history with the Green Lantern, and I did too, just maybe not to the extent that they did.
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