To make him insecure. But that is irrelevant, it was EXTREMELY stupid.
Did you like Parallax?
Aaron Morales
Liam Martin
t. Heatfag Johnsfag
Lucas Cook
pls spoonfeed me
Landon Myers
Seething
Xavier Morgan
I don't think the sales were even that bad considering we had 3 main GL books coming out with Mosaic doing pretty well from what the last letters page said. I think Dooley (editor at the time) just wanted his own Death/Return of Superman or Knightfall so he decided that Hal breaking down was the best bet. Ironically, that change lasted much longer than other similar events from the 90's.
You can probably get away with reading just the Death/Return of Superman to get the gist of Coast City blowing up, GL vol 3 from 48 onwards which is Emerald Twilight then Kyle's run where he shows up every once in a while. Zero Hour for his master plan and Final Night for his eventual death. He stays gone for a few years until Day of Judgement when he becomes the Spectre and has his own run on that with Spectre vol 4. This lasts until Gl Rebirth (2004).
Also, here's some SOUL from the 90's.
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Samuel Bailey
Hal was not insecure about his gray hair. It says here he didn’t really give it any thought.
Zachary Nelson
>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
What a hilarious character asssassination, how the fuck can anyone miss, let alone defend this crap? Cosmic possession is easily less retarded than that. This is almost as bad as the whole King Thor fiasco.
Cameron Edwards
The original fall is hamfisted/retarded due to being AT LEAST a 6 issue story crammed into 3 issues to meet the 50 issue milestone, but what Marz and other writers did with him afterwards was actually very good. His and Kyle's interactions throughout Kyle's run were some of my favorite moments.
Jack Lewis
Thanks for the rundown, my question now is about the lanterns he kills, does he do it in any kind of accident/going overboard during a fight sort of way or just he just straight up decide to murder them?
Asher Butler
No one says that Emerald Twilight isn’t contrived as hell. It is. Personally my least favorite part of Space Bug Parallax is that it sorta ruins Hal’s spectacular redemption arc in Final Night and Spectre.