Emerald Dawn

And HAL was the one that was in most of them as opposed to any of the other Lanterns.

I did have Emerald Dawn, I guess.

The origin? Well, is that the one where – Emerald Dawn

is the retold HAL origin.

Emerald Twilight is where HAL dies.

Fuck off, right? I'd like

to reread Emerald Dawn.

I remember really loving that miniseries.

when i that was when i went to chicago

they were old but i was that was right

yeah i mean like and i don't i god i oh i do not want to get into this but you know like i don't i don't mind putting hal into a darker light uh I also think that people who tried to claim that he was one of the villains of the show are like nuts, but that's that's a different thing altogether.

But the other thing is, is like when you read Emerald Twilight or Emerald Dawn or whatever, like how loses it because his home city and everyone he knows is killed.

Right.

And if you wonder why DC won't reprint any issues by Gerard Jones outside of a few that they had to include in the recent Justice League International on the buses, it's because Gerard Jones served time in prison for something that would have seen him show up on Chris Hansen's To Catch A Predator.

But the run that they're referencing is the run that began with Emerald Dawn and ended with Emerald Twilight.

It's when Hal Jordan had his origin retold, and he was a bit of a deadbeat.

Like, he was an alcoholic, he crashed his car, he caused, uh, his brother to become injured in, in the car accident he was ultimately responsible for with drink driving.

They absolutely did.

And that brings us to run number six on the Nerdist list, a massive defining six-issue limited series called Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn, which ran from 1989 to 1990.

And to understand why this series exists, you really have to understand the mechanics of what DC Comics was doing as a publisher at the time.

The big reset?

Exactly.

Superman got Man of Steel, Batman got Year One.

And Hal Jordan got Emerald Dawn.

Right, which was written by James Owsley, Keith Giffen, and Gerard Jones, along with artist M.D.

No, it's the miniseries they did.

Oh, Emerald Dawn? Right.

Yeah, when they had the grave there.

When they suddenly made him into, would he

There's a lot of history between these two that we've heard about, but at least so far, we haven't seen much of it unfold on screen.

In the late '80s and '90s, DC Comics gave Hal Jordan a new origin story over two six-part miniseries: Emerald Dawn and Emerald Dawn 2.

In the second miniseries, written by Keith Giffen and Gerard Jones, and illustrated by M.D.

Bright, the creative team reimagines Jordan and Sinestro's longtime rivalry as having started as this mentor-mentee relationship.

After Hal becomes Earth's Green Lantern in Emerald Dawn, he finds himself in prison in Emerald Dawn 2 for drunk driving shortly before getting the ring.

The DUI is definitely a bizarre setup for a superhero origin story, allowing for this absurd yet kind of incredible scenario where Hal is splitting time between carrying out his 90-day prison sentence and sneaking away for training sessions with Sinestro.

Here's Hal getting Lantern pointers from Sinestro in space, and him also playing football in the prison yard in Emerald Dawn 2 Part 3.

In 2004, writer Geoff Johns took over the Green Lantern line with Green Lantern: Rebirth, and he began to vastly reimagine and expand the Green Lantern mythology.

And I followed this, I followed, uh, Mark Bright from, um, book Green Lantern that he was drawing for DC.

And, uh, I think he was drawing, he drew Iron Man first, then Emerald Dawn, which is a Green Lantern story, I believe.

And then he was drawing Icon.

I followed the artist to this company and I have to shout out a really good friend of mine, uh, um, Sam Coleman, Samuel Dwayne Coleman, he was the one who was a serious collector of Milestone comics.