DC: Green Lantern: Rebirth #1
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Green Lantern: Rebirth #1 makes a critical mistake. The whole purpose of the miniseries is to put things back the way the old fans loved them: Hal Jordan as hero Green Lantern, not the vengeful Spectre or the villainous Parallax.
Instead of focusing on that future, this issue dwells on the past, delving into all the things that the old fans didn’t like and never accepted. And that history, a history where Hal Jordan was responsible for his teammates’ deaths, is always going to be back there. Batman’s right (as always) — anyone who knows that knows Hal can’t be trusted. So why emphasize it, rubbing salt into fan wounds?
You can’t have back a world where Hal Jordan never did those things. The comics are printed and out there, and so those old fans will never truly be satisfied. If what you want is to foster the shared delusion that Hal can be back, just as he was before, then better to look forward and just start telling those stories. We ignored Mopee, we can ignore Parallax. We don’t have to have every little bit explained, because that way lies dissatisfaction.
Not everything can, or should, be explained away. Some things are better just forgotten. In my world, that includes miniseries like this one, with no purpose but continuity tweaking. I’d rather read a comic driven by good story, whichever Green Lantern it stars.
