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Summary: Good Final Hal Jordan Story
Review: Hal Jordan is the Green Lantern that we all remember from our childhood as he was THE Green Lantern from the 60s to the mid 90s. Hal had been the greatest of the Green Lanterns but when his home town was destroyed he went over the edge seeking revenge. In the Final Night the rogue Hal Jordan storyline comes to an end. The story is about a great cosmic entity that devours Stars and has come for Earth's Sun. All of Earth's greatest champions unite to help the sun fight off the entity to no avail. Several attempts are made with no progress being made against the Sun Devourer. Many believe that this will be the end of the world as Earth enters its Final Night. Could a fallen champion return and save the day? That is where Hal Jordan comes in. This book is hurt as this was a major storyline that ran through the individual titles of the DC super heroes and therefore a lot of the story within the trade is lost to the titles that are not reprinted here. The story does not really pick up until Hal Jordan makes his appearance towards the end. So while the story may be somewaht lacking in completeness it is a very dramatic piece as many of the characters realize that for all of their powers and abilities they are helpless against this cosmic threat. Get this if you are a Hal Jordan fan and want to see his return to being the hero he was always meant to be.
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Summary: Hal Jordan Dies!
Review: He Dies saving us! Wonderful stuff
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Summary: Final Night? More like Good Night, zzzzzzzz...
Review: There are 2 vastly different aspect of Final Night. The part written by Karl Kessel is one and the part written by Ron Marz is the other. Kessel writes most of it & it is a snoozer. It apparently looks like the world will end and Kessel does an attrocious job of finding the emotion in it. You don't feel the despair of those who are scared or the hope in those who are resolute. It's just a whole lot of blah. Those who are scared to death & those fighting to the end are all just "blah." I never knew the death of civilization could be done with such shallowness. Then Ron Marz comes in w/ the Parallax/Hal Jordan segment & he does a great job getting in Jordan's head. He also writes the best action scene in the book. You're really just reading the book to get to this part. He does the original Green Lantern right. Marz almost makes it worth the price of admission until... Kessel comes back to blow the "climactic" finale. One of the most important chapters in DC history & we DC puts in a less than mediocre performance. Thanks Ted Turner. They should've had Ron Marz write the whole thing. There's also a gratuitous knock on the religious right (that's almost becoming a DC trademark). When you think you're gonna read a comic book just to unwind, they have to irk you needlessly. Thanks Ted Turner.
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Summary: Goodbye Hal
Review: This is the story where DC finally destroyed Hal Jordan and basically wiped the lastthree decades of GL stories starring Hal down the drain.Patheic.
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Summary: In Brightest Day, In Blackest Night......
Review: Those word will forever inspire all who reads this to give it all they got with no fear of personal consequences.
A being so powerful to block out the sun and starts to consumes it. None of earth (on eath, off, and even from different time)greatest superheroes could stop it. (Yes even Superman failed) Every means to stop or devert it falls to failure. And in the end, a once hero, now labeled by his peers, a supervillan is called by his succesor: Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner)to help.
This so-called supervillan is Hal Jordan going by the name of Parallax.
Bacially blacked balled by the world for the "Zero Hour" incident, he is face with the decision that would decide the future of not only earth but the entire galaxy if the Sun-Eater prevails. The story give you early hints his fate but it still hold you to every word. At the end he proves that he's still a hero, still the greatest Green Lantern as he recites that famous oath;
In Brightest Day, In Blackest Night..No evil shall escape my sight. Let those who worship evil's might. Beware my power.... Green Lantern Light!!!!!
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Summary: Final Night: Best DC crossover since Crisis.
Review: To disclose my bias, I love crossovers. I think Final Night is worth a look even for those who don't. The story was one of the best post-Zero Hour events involving a great sneak-up-on-you surprise (Ferro). We all know who the Sun-eater was, right? A 30th Century menace it took Ferro Lad's sacrifice to destroy. In the post-Zero world, the Sun-eater shows up in the 20th, and there's no superbomb to blow it away. Ferro, a 20th century character, makes a genuinely dramatic entrance into the story. Everyone must know by now that it's Hal Jordan/Parallax, and not "Ferro Lad," who takes the bullet. That occurs in simultaneously dramatic and sentimental style. Surprisingly, even Jordan's subsequent re-emergence as the Spectre does not diminsh the meaningful conclusion of the Final Night story. You have to have this one if you're a DC or Hal Jordan fan.
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