| Title | : | Green Lantern: Emerald Twilight/New Dawn |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | |
| ISBN | : | 156389999X |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781563899997 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 |
| Publication | : | First published October 1, 2003 |
Green Lantern: Emerald Twilight/New Dawn Reviews
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Maybe is a guilty pleasure of mine, but I really enjoyed a lot this tale about the fall from grace of Hal Jordan, the greatest Green Lantern, his turnin'into evil demi-god Parallax and the first career days of Kyle Rayner as the 90s GL.
There are here all themes that inspired the recent blockbuster Geoff Johns' GL run: the corruption of the hero, the (temporary) destruction of Guardians and Corps and much more, in another of DC 90s killing/mauling of one of its main heroes trying to gain more readers.
And Kyle Rayner's part was a real good one too, a youngster becoming the last and only Green Lantern and moving with entusiasm and fun...
A must read for Green Lantern's fans that wanna read about a very important phase of their hero's mythology and lore. -
Pre-review: As soon as I learned in the Emerald Twilight saga, Green Lantern Hal Jordan is gonna , I'm on board!!!!
*runs to listen to the Comicstorian's narration on Youtube*
The narration is perfection!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEb-O...
PS: seriously, I think Parallax is a cool character, though I don't really like his armor all that much, still it has to be so so cool to see him rampaging the DC universe! XD
PSS: Sinestro!!!! Why am I so happy to see him!? XDDD
PSSS: The stories about Kyle are cool too! -
The end of Hal and the start of Kyle. This is a mix-match of the two.
The first half is all about Hal's decent into madness. Before Johns came in and said "No that was a evil demon thingy, Hal would never do that!" we learn that Hal is losing himself. After seeing his city destroyed and many of his loves one killed, he goes a bit fucking crazy. Can you blame him? I mean, he has these rings that can give you almost anything, so he decides to get more. When the corps stand in his way he starts to take them out one by one, or one verse many.
The 2nd half of this collection is the start of Kyle's run. A more innocent and charming individual, he first begins to learn his powers with the ring. Soon in his run one of his villains does something terrible to the woman he loves. This is the famous Women in the Fridge moment. After that he gets a visit for Alan Scott to learn what it means to be a Lantern.
Good: The Hal decent into darkness is actually pretty interesting. Someone pushed to the breaking point with already a arragont personality all makes sense. I love Johns Green Lantern run but I felt it was stupid he blamed Paralax for Hal's turn. I also enjoyed watching all the corps, even Sinestro stand in Hal's way for a final fight. Kyle is introduced in a fun way and I always enjoyed him the most for the male Green Lanterns.
Bad: The art feels dated at point, and some scenes look really odd. On top of that, Hal's decent is a little quick, but the bigger issue is Kyle's girlfriends death. It's not to say you can't have a female character die and it matter, you very much can. But Kyle, within less than 2 issues, seems to be okay with it. Not okay, but basically says "I loved you and will always honor you" Sorry, you don't have that mindset in less than a day's time.
Overall, a interesting collection. I see what they were going for. The sadness of a big character like Hal and the hopeful feel of Kyle. It works well. I think key issues were sadly probably missing so feels a bit disjointed. Overall though, despite dated at times, it was fun. A 3 out of 5. -
Ah, good old 1990s superhero comics. Whenever deadlines, work, or any other real world stressor gets the best of me, it’s great to know that I can always turn to the completely mindless, though thoroughly enjoyable, action romps of my youth to dull my senses. I can’t always turn to 1980s superhero comics for this because, while they laid the groundwork for the angst-fuelled “grim ‘n’ gritty” stories of the ‘90s that I poured over as a child, the decade is too well known for stories like Alan Moore’s ‘Watchmen’ and J.M. DeMatteis’ Spider-Man masterpiece, ‘Kraven’s Last Hunt’ – superhero adventures which explored the inner-core of their characters, creating a level of depth that revolutionised this bastard genre. Nor can I turn to the last decade to satiate my need for entertaining testosterone-fuelled heroics. Because, while the 2000s saw some pretty mindless action, it was largely an appeal back to the glory days of the ‘90s, nothing more than a pale imitation (though, just so I don’t give anyone the wrong impression here, there were indeed some incredible superhero comics produced in the 2000s). But the ‘90s – they really were unique in their own way. And, let it be clear that I say none of this disparagingly. For what they were, I absolutely love 1990s superhero comics. The grimness and violence of these “heroes”, and the sheer absurdities of the stories, are so downright fascinating. It’s a world of entertainment that only a select few of us “get”, and colourful action and over-the-top soap operas don’t come any better.
Out of all the many long running superheroes that were redesigned, rekindled and rejuvenated for the “extreme” image of the 1990s, perhaps none are epitomised quite as perfectly as the Green Lantern. And the two stories collected together in this trade paperback, ‘Emerald Twilight’ and ‘New Dawn’, represent the starting point of that new take, reprinting the “last” story of the second-generation (1960s-1990s) Green Lantern, Hal Jordan, and the first story of the third-generation (1990s-2000s) Lantern, Kyle Rayner.
The first story, ‘Emerald Twilight’, depicts the downfall of the greatest of all the Green Lanterns, Hal Jordan. The premise is strong, one of the all-time classics of modern superhero comics, in fact. What could possibly push this brilliant superhero over the edge, cause him to turn against his own allies and become “evil”? How about witnessing the destruction of his hometown, the deaths of millions of people, and being “robbed” (in his eyes) the chance to set everything right again by the very people who gave him his great power in the first place? The idea that even a great hero like Hal Jordan would snap is believable but, unfortunately, the execution is anything but. This is mainly because so much is crammed into so little. The book opens up with Jordan kneeling over in the destructed Coast City with a broken arm (which magically seems to heal 15 panels later). A few pages later, and he’s already snapped. A couple more pages later, and he’s taking out other Green Lanterns and craving power, like a true supervillain. I don’t care how angry Jordan is, but there’s no way he can take on all of those Green Lanterns and come out standing. A potentially brilliant storyline wasted, as we’re rushed through fight scene after fight scene, hurrying Hal Jordan’s descent into madness in an entirely unconvincing manner.
The next story, ‘New Dawn’, introduces us to the new Green Lantern, Kyle Rayner. This is probably the better written of the two stories. Kyle is immediately likable, and so it isn’t entirely surprising that he took off, despite the overwhelmingly negative fan response against turning Hal into an evil supervillain. But it requires some serious suspension of disbelief to follow the premise that this handsome, athletic American young man was randomly selected out of everyone in the world to become the new Green Lantern. And though it’s a compelling idea that Kyle, unlike Jordan and every other Green Lantern in history, has to learn the ropes by himself, the appearance of Superman at exactly right place and time to help him in his first major supervillain battle ruins that all. Deus ex machina is a large problem in this story.
A big gripe I have with this collection as a whole is that it’s incredibly disjointed and incomplete. First of all, we never really learn what actually happened in Coast City and why. In order to get that story, you need to read ‘The Return of Superman’, which is actually the final chapter of a trilogy which began with ‘The Death of Superman’. Then, towards the end of the story, Alan Scott (the original Green Lantern) appears out of nowhere, confusingly filling us in on the exploits of Hal Jordan since he went crazy. Wouldn’t it have made more sense for that stuff to have been collected alongside ‘Emerald Twilight’?
This collection presents one of the modern-day staples of DC Comics lore, the transformation of Hal Jordan into Parallax. The writer, Ron Marz, became a beacon of anger for “destroying” Hal Jordan in such an out-of-character fashion, and I can’t really say that that hatred was unjustified. Furthermore, it also lives on in infamy for the fate of Kyle Rayner’s girlfriend, an episode which has since become synonymous with chauvinism in superhero comics (see: “Women in Refrigerators”). I wanted to love this book, but there are just too many problems with it to make it essential. To be honest, this story is so important to the continuity that you can’t really get into DC Comics without hearing everything you actually need to know about it somewhere else (just about every Green Lantern since, for example). I did enjoy it though, so if you must read it for yourself, and you’re not expecting anything challenging in any way, then you probably won’t go wrong. But it is, ultimately, a missed opportunity. -
En este tomo seremos testigos de la locura de Hal Jordan y su enfrentamiento a los green lantern corps y a los guardianes del universo tras la destrucción de coast city, su ciudad de origen. También veremos los inicios de un nuevo green lantern, Kyle Rayner, que está llamado a ser uno de los más grandes green lantern de la historia.
El caso es que es una historia (sobretodo la primera parte de la historia de Hal Jordan) de gran importancia en la continuidad de DC. Pero no se lo recomendaría a cualquiera... es un buen cómic, pero depende demasiado de eventos pasados para entenderlo por completo, y según para quien puede parecer que se nota el paso del tiempo... en todo caso lo recomiendo para los grandes fans de green lantern (aunque esos seguro que ya lo han leído) o para aquellos que después de leer etapas posteriores como la de Geoff Johns quieran profundizar en lo que le sucedió a Hal Jordan para convertirse en Parallax (que eso se explica bastante bien en la etapa de Johns pero siempre es mejor leer los tebeos originales).
Yo personalmente lo he disfrutado bastante, srive para profundizar en dos personajes que me gustan bastante como son Hal Jordan y Kyle Rayner, además tenemos varios momentos históricos en la historia del pijameo -
Collects Green Lantern issues #48-55
These stories from the mid-1990s are actually pretty good. About four years ago, I enjoyed reading "Emerald Dawn" and "Emerald Dawn II" for the first time, and they were good primers for this book (which is both an end and a beginning for the Green Lantern mythos).
SPOILERS:
"Emerald Twilight" tells the story of Hal Jordan's downward spiral towards becoming Parallax (although I don't believe that name is ever used in this book). The story of him taking down the Green Lantern Corps and the Guardians was captivating to me.
"New Dawn" features the debut of the new Green Lantern, Kyle Rayner, and he was just OK, in my mind. I had heard about the fate of his girlfriend, but watching the events unfold was disturbing. Also, I didn't know that Major Force was the culprit. -
If you are a Green Lantern fan at all, this is a must-read. If you're not overly familiar, this is absolutely NOT where I would start. While this story feels incredibly dated and cringe-worthy at times, the place it holds in DC lore and the stage it set for what was to follow makes this resonate with tremendous importance as you read it. It has that BIG feel that so many event comics fail to achieve today.
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English/Spanish review:
Okay,this is the classic moment in history were one of Earth's biggest hero went fucking crazy until he got reconned. Hal Jordan lost his life. So he does what any normal being would: up till the point he gets all the power available to rebuild his life.
This comic is wild. It's barely impossible to see a comic on the main universe nowadays with plot moves as brutal as you get here. I kinda admire that DC sticked with such bold moves on many of their series for such a long time,even if you don't like what they've done,it's impressive.
The other half of the book is composed by a way more light spirited beginning: Kyle Ragner's a lazy guy who just happens to trip on a blue midget that gives him the power to be a/the last Green Lantern.
His part of the book is mostly,his origin and beginnings as a hero where not much occurs until one of the darkest shit I've seen in a superheroes comic happens:
Definitely worth to be read.
Español:
Oka,este es el momento clásico en la historia en el que uno de los héroes más grandes de la Tierra se volvió loco hasta que fue retconeado. Hal Jordan perdió su vida. Así que hace lo que cualquier ser normal haría: hasta el punto en que obtiene todo b>el poder disponible para reconstruir su vida.
Este cómic es salvaje. Es casi imposible ver un cómic en el universo principal hoy en día con movimientos de trama tan brutales como los de acá. Admiro que DC se haya quedado con movimientos tan audaces en muchas de sus series durante tanto tiempo,incluso si no te gusta lo que hacían,es impresionante.
La otra mitad del libro está compuesta por un comienzo mucho más alegre: Kyle Ragner es un tipo vago que casualmente tropieza con un enano azul que le da el poder de ser el último Green Lantern.
Su parte del libro es mayormente,su origen e inicios como héroe en la que no pasa nada hasta que sucede una de las mierdas más oscuras que ví en un cómic de superhéroes:
Merece ser leído. -
While this book can still be collected for 60-100 $ on Amazon, Do not do it. This story is hidden away in a fairly recently released volume.
I've read this story in my copy of Green Lantern Kyle Rayner Vol. 1.
The first 3 issues in the volume are Emerald Twilight 3 part story.
I'm primarily familiar with Superman comics but I've read a bit of all the main DC heroes.
As for Green Lantern I was a Kyle Rayner reader as a kid and I only knew Hal as Parallax from the story Green Lantern Vs Silver Surfer, that crazy DC Vs Marvel cross over.
By 1997 I'd pretty much stopped collecting comics.
Round 2016 I started again. One of my old favourite TPB is Superman Transformed. This is the origin of Blue electric Superman.
On the first pages the book describes how superman is powerless and in a side note says see "The Final Night" issue.
Well between 97 and 2016 I'd always wondered what that superman story was all about.
Well it's not really a superman story at all. It's a Green Lantern and Parallax story.
Well I've finally decided to collect the rest of the main books related to Parallex.
So I know own
Death Reign and Return of Superman 4 Vols (covers the reason why Hal goes mad)
Green Lantern Kyle Raynee Vol 1 (Hals Revenge)
Zero Hour Crisis in Time (attempts to rewrite history)
Green Lantern Silver Surfer (been to long since I read this to remember l)
Final Night (hals redemption)
Green Lantern Rebirth Vol 1 (have yet read yet)
Still working my way through 3 of these books and just completed Emerald Twilight!
I totally loved it! which is actually really surprising since there has been so many years of hype built up.
It's fun when a story you've been aware of for well over a decade is finally collected in a great Kyle Rayner Vol and allows you to finally read this epic fall from grace. -
the first three issues, emerald twilight were much better just for the sake of how dramatic the covers were. the second part with the remaining five issues, new dawn were just okay. besides, having being reading graphic novels from the 00´s onwards, it takes a bit to get used to the old designs and drawing styles. and. all. the. drama. in the writing.
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Una de las historias más emblemáticas de Green Lantern. Hal Jordan se vuelve completamente loco al ver destruida su ciudad. Lleno de tristeza, usa el poder de su anillo de manera prohibida para “revivir” a todas las personas que murieron. Pero su locura va más allá, asesina al cuerpo de Green Lantern's, y acaba convirtiéndose en Parallax. Kyle Ryner recibirá el último anillo de poder.
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3.5*
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A good story with an empathetic villain. Not a fan of the FRIDGED origin of Kyle Rayner, though.
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kinda wish there was more of a "parallax" storyline.
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3.5
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This book is an essential core for someone who looks up for the whole Green Lantern mythology. The twist in this story arc is so overwhelming for a hardcore fans. Many fans said their stricture to this saga, yet many more find that this story brought a great impact on the DC universe.
First, Emerald Twilight.
The story tells us about Hal Jordan, the one who many believed as the best Green Lantern, overcome his life's disaster of founding his city, Coast City, where all his life and childhood and memories had been spent, was destroyed by the evil Mongul in the Reign of Superman story arc. Hal was so distressed when he found that his city, with its people have been destroyed so much that even nothing left, just dust and a big hole on the area where Coast City was located then. At first Hal was trying to recreate his city by developing his image of Coast City, with all over included, via his ring. It lasted for a moment, but then it was gone because he used his ring up.
Hal, cannot accept this tragic point of his life, decided to visit Oa to overtake Central Battery and killed everyone who stepped on his way, included his fellow green lantern corps, the guardian, and Sinestro. Luckily there was one guardian left who still lived, and used his power left to make the last green lantern ring and sent it to the earth, to find the new Green Lantern, which lead us to the next event, New Dawn.
The plot is very dynamic, the twisting from the main protagonist to the main villain (when Hal consumed the Central Battery power, he freed Paralax, who consumed his body) was very briliant IMO. The conclusion of the event, Hal's way to overcome his deppresion was so tragic. But twisting the main protagonist was a bold move for then, which made this event became contoversial. This book is very influencing the main Green Lantern universe, and it was worth to read. Extremely worth.
Now for New Dawn.
Kyle Rayner, the earthmen, was lost in the alley when he was approached by the "old blue midget" (or we know as the guardian) and received his Green Lantern ring, but suddenly this old midget dissapeared. Kyle, confused, tried to put on his ring and BAM! He became green lantern, but at first he has no idea what's going on, until he visited Alex, his girlfriend who told him that he is Green Lantern, because he wore the costume as Hal (Which recalled by Alex as the old green lantern). Alex trained Kyle by giving him tips and trick to creating and developing his image into real thing via his ring, even they defeated a suppervillain with Kyle's debut. But when Kyle was in the middle of his training, Mongul appeared and tried to kill him, confused him with Hal Jordan who beated Mongul all out back there when Hal knows what Mongul did to Coast City. Kyle tried to fight, but the gap between their power is so wide. Luckily Superman came and fought Mongul with help of Kyle. This fight gave Kyle his position among other superheroes, moreover Superman admitted that Kyle was great when using his ring.
This New Dawn is a quite fresh story about developing a new character. I like Kyle way better than Jordan, because his personal is gratify. He is laughing a lot, makes jokes, teasing his girlfriend, and so other thing that so boy-ish, make Hal and Clark looks like an uncle. Maybe DC tried to create the character who has an easy going personality like Marvel did to Spidey and Deadpool, and Kyle Rayner is the one. The story itself is refreshing. Giving this story the title as "New Dawn" is just exactly what it is. A new, fresh story about Green Lantern universe which is just destroyed by our loved main character, Hal Jordan. It has so many fun case, like Kyle's arrogance when fighting his first foe, Kyle's imagination about Alex and so many other. And those things had appeared rarely in Green Lantern's issues before this. You'll love Kyle when you read this. This event linked to the arc story "Emerald Fallout", Guy Gardner : Warrior. -
Great little read. Filled in some gaps for me between the Death of Superman and Parallax. Succinct and action packed. This effectively shows Hal's descent into greed and all consuming power as he's seduced by the notion that he can rebuild Coast City and fix all wrongs. At first, you pity him and sympathize, but soon the reader realizes that no good can come from this and Hal has gone down a path that no one could have ever imagined. This leads to the introduction of Kyle Rayner, who is the last hope in the attempt to stop Hal. For those in the know, one of the driving forces behind Kyle's eventual desire to become a GL unfortunately comes from the infamous Women in Refrigerators trope that gets its name from this story arc.
This arc was just the right length with some utterly shocking moments, great action, and some nice cameos to tie into other events occurring in the DCU at this point in its history. -
- Emerald Twilight 3/5 Stars
This was occurring just as I was getting into comics as a kid. I loved the concept of Parallax and I still think these three issues hold up really well. Hal wracked with the loss of the things he loved and going crazy. He slowly loses his sanity and finally crosses the line. Awesome.
- A New Dawn 1/5 Stars
Then we get the 90's Green Lantern, Kyle Rayner. This story is controversial even today for the death of Kyle's plot device- I mean girlfriend. In re-reading it I found it even worse than I remember. Stupid villains that Kyle defeats too easily and then the stupid final fight with Parallax which is just embarrassing. Stick with Emerald Twilight and don't bother with this. -
I really had become interested in Green Lantern following the Death and Return of Superman storyline including the Knightfall trilogy. I didn't care much for Hal Jordan at all before then. After showing Hal's fall from grace and the introduction of Kyle Rayner, I was hooked. I know that some GL fans hate Ron Marz for what he did, that had taken a lot of guts to deconstruct an established character from the ground up.
Marz's run on GL was great and don't listen to some people who have issues with him as a writer. Yes he destroyed GL, he saved it too. Regardless of your opinion, it is still a part of Green Lantern history that helped shape current continuity. -
Although I've heard and read about what happened I finally got around to reading Kyle Rayner's first appearance. I was pretty surprised at how modern it seemed at times. While yes, its very dated and hilariously "90s" at times, Ron Marz does a great job. At times the exposition was done too compacted so it felt like reading an encyclopedia on certain pages, the overall plot line was easy to follow. Mongul and Superman were both glossed over too quickly and Major Force's handling of Alex was swift, to say the least. The art chores were handled by quite a few artists but Darryl Banks' artwork stands out. Overall, a really good entry into GL lore that too often gets a bad rap.
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This was a good book, but I was looking for more of the Hal Jordan/Parallax storyline then was presented here. Yeah this has a good chunk of it, but really only tells half of a story and then jumps into Kyle Rayner's story. I just wish there was a more comprehensive collection of the Parallax story than what I found here.
That aside, the two completely separate stories told here are great in and of themselves. But you get exactly that, two separate stories. -
Four stars, but tentatively. The two stories are great, but New Dawn contains a moment that feminists rally against (probably rightly; although it works in the story, it's indicative of a larger problem in comics).
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This was decent. The Hal Jordan stuff was interesting and it was cool to finally see how his fall actually went down. Kyle Rayner had a nice introduction, but the death of his girlfriend is as horrible as its reputation says it is.
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It was very enjoyable to see an overrated character snap and transition into an actually interesting ring bearer.
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ugh Super-mullet, really DC???
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the fridging (THE fridging, mind you) would've hurt less if they hadn't been so cute 😔 hal with the white hair looked hot also 👍
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It's tough seeing Hal Jordan an a villian, but enjoyed the collection overall.
