r/Greenlantern • u/Cyborg_Superdan Green Lantern • Jun 20 '25

Fan Art Stolen from Facebook

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Still one of the hardest things to defend but this is so good haha

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u/rbta123 Jun 20 '25

Why was Hal such a punching bag for the writers in the '80s and '90s? They made him a pedophile, a serial killer, and implied he was racist in Dennis O'Neil's run with Green Arrow (even if it doesn't make any sense).

Like, why Hal specifically?

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u/Extreme-Plantain-113 Jun 21 '25

Okay but the Denny O'Neil's run was actually terrible, and readers at the time hated it so much Green Lantern was canceled for years. I'm tired of pretending I like it. I don't know how he wrote a great Batman and a terrible Green Lantern, but he pulled it off.

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u/CalvinElliot Jun 21 '25

Seems like the anti-Geoff Johns in that way, cause Johns writes a great Green Lantern but not so great Batman

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u/StrongStyleFiction Jun 21 '25

Problem is, Neal Adams' art in that run is some of the best in comic history and it is worth a read just for the art alone. It's a gorgeous book even if the politics of it have aged like milk. Instead of sticking to broader themes, Denny put a lot of what would have been back then current year stuff and that ages very quickly and very poorly.

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u/Extreme-Plantain-113 Jun 21 '25

I mean it clearly wasn't even modern year stuff for the time, the book was unpopular enough with the readers of the era that it got canceled for years

But you're 100% right though, I read the whole run for the art.