2006-09-22 04:14:41 · 6 answers · asked by nathaniel b 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Comics & Animation
Yeah, Hal is a great GL, and I would have said the best or the greatest if he hadn't lost it and gone berserk. Now... I don't know. It's like finding out that the hero you admired had feet of clay. He was only human after all. Have you ever gone to the glcorps.org website...? They have this great section of fan fiction. Like, what if it was really the crazy Guardian Appa ali apsa who intended to destroy the corps, and impersonated Hal to do it...? That would be so much better, in a way, than to take a character that we had emotional involvement with and turn him evil. At least then we would not have had to see it happen. I think some of these writers and editors are losing their perspective, their grip on the difference between good and evil, if they do things like this and expect us, the readers to just sit there and take it.
2006-09-22 14:55:54 · answer #1 · answered by cdf-rom 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, Hal is the best Green Lantern. I think for me it has to do with him being the main GL when I was a kid. I like all the other GL's too except for Guy Gardner. Guy has always been a jerk.
2006-09-22 20:41:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Alan Scott not withstanding, you can't beat the classics.
modify): "somber_pieces", in the late '80s (I think), HJ had a relationship with Ariel, I believe her name was. And in the '60s, I always thought there was chemistry between him & Katma Tui, the gal GL who replaced Sinestro. Nothing ever came of it, of course, if only because they had separate sector responsibilities, and of course, Carol Ferris.
"brancomicguy", thanks for the e-mail. Perhaps I should have been more precise: I meant that Alan Scott is more classic than Hal Jordan because his character is older. He is also Earth-2. I don't regard 'unable to affect wood' as more lame than 'unable to affect yellow', but you're welcome to your opinion. It was the '40s, it's comics history & we just have to deal with it or ignore it. By the time HJ was created, Julius Schwartz had not only the benefit of hindsight, but also E.E. "Doc" Smith's 'Lensman' series for an example. (Check out these novels, in sequence...talk about Cosmic!)
2006-09-22 16:59:02 · answer #3 · answered by comicards 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hal is the "Best" GL. He's fearless, knows what he's doing, and exudes leadership. However, I like Kyle Rayner more because for most of his career as GL he was a neophyte trying to live up to someone else's (Hal's) legacy, and that makes him more human to me.
2006-09-22 12:20:42 · answer #4 · answered by Justanotherloser 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, he is the best Green Lantern, as Lanter's go, but he's not the coolest. That title goes to Guy Gardner....
2006-09-22 11:30:33 · answer #5 · answered by skullosvibe 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
nope he's perv, he never dates any chicks.
2006-09-22 11:30:40 · answer #6 · answered by somber_pieces 6 · 1⤊ 5⤋