>DC needed their own magneto
Magneto is just a rip off of the Brain
Did you like Parallax?
Levi Smith
Jace Rodriguez
It was pretty good, Parallax expanded DC cosmology and felt really fresh when compared to almost anything else DC and Marvel had as cosmic beings.
Ian Ortiz
>Emerald Twilight
Fucking retarded complete heel-turn and out of nowhere
>Zero-Hour
Still kinda dumb but at least he was being competent and getting shit done
>Post Zero-Hour GL Appearances
Getting much better because he was being used as a foil to Kyle to show what happens if you let power corrupt you despite noble goals and eventually realizing that maybe he went a little too far
>Final Night
A good completion of the character arc for Hal and he stops being a villain
>Day of Judgement
Fantastic direction for Parallax/Hal to get back into the limelight, but not let him get away with everything he did
>GL: Rebirth
Back to being retarded.
At least in Convergence we got to see a little of the old Parallax show up, but then was swiftly shown to be the same fear bug version when he showed up in Hobo Hal. He's still out there too and I'm really surprised no one has used him since.
Jose Collins
Typical literally who DC character
Nolan Russell
>Fucking retarded complete heel-turn and out of nowhere
it was a mental breakdown so it had to be out of nowhere, but the story was rushed as fuck and needed at least 6 more issues to make sense
David Brown
I'm a Marvelfag but I have a base knowledge of Green Lantern, as I understand it Parallax is some evil alien god entity that controls Hal for a storyline? What was the retcon and why is it (apparently) shit?
Jace Gomez
No, after his city got destroyed Hal is broken, tries to bring back the people from his city using his ring for "selfish" reasons, the guy is devastated and the green jews try to punish him and tell him he is a retard, Hal has a mental breakdown, wants the power of the central battery, gets into fights with other lanters, takes their rings to get more power, eventually fights what he believes is sinestro, and gets drunk with power, he fails at everything, ends up killing the lanterns that were marooned on space, he takes the identity of parallax and fucks out to space to deal with his shame and guilt and cope with it by being a villian, he uses his power to try to mess with the timelime and "fix everything", his time as a bad guy is defined by seeking more power to "fix" the universe and save everyone, he eventually sacrifies himself to save earth after the sun starts to die.
The retcon is that it was never really hal, Geoff Johns tells us Hal was insecure about his hair greying, so that insecurity allowed the fear bug that (trapped) in the central battery to enter inside him, and everything bad he did was the fear bug's fault, hal was just an innocent victim.
Owen Perez
Hal was not insecure about his gray hair. The gray hair was a result of Parallax.
Carter Sullivan
I like everything Mahke draws and inks.
Camden Perry
Covered kind of here Think of it like the Dark Phoenix Saga for DC but with editorial meddling to make it happen in the first place.
Hal's city gets blown up by a villain originally he takes it in stride and isn't really bothered by it but...
>Failing sales editorial wants to get rid of him and launch a replacement hero
That leads to retconning/making Hal obsessed with rebuilding the city (and resurrecting the people that died which is way beyond his power to do) he exhausts his rings power and the Guardians tell him he's broken the rules. He snaps at them and goes rogue planning to drain the central battery for more power the guardians send other lanterns to stop him but he starts killing them and taking their rings. In the end he wins... and gets to the central battery and drains it. The guardians eek out one last ring that they end up giving to Kyle Rayner
From this point on he's a villain until
>Final Night
Gives him a well-handled redemption death. in-spite of how everything else was handled people latch on to it because of how good this was.
>Rebirth
Parallax is made into a cosmic entity that possessed Hal which explains the contrast between his initial reaction and his complete delusion at the start of emerald twilight.
Ultimately it's one of those "but the iconic moment!" things where people like Final Night's ending more than they care for the context of Hals character