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10/10/2003: more about Green Lantern
So this morning I browsed a couple of sites about Green Lantern (Hal Jordan not Kyle Rayner), and wow, when DC decides to go for character assassination they don't do it halfway. I mean, I've read Zero Hour so I had been vaguely aware that GL had become Parallax and tried to reset the universe in the aftermath of Coast City being wiped out, and that he's now, after Parallax died saving the sun, become The Spectre to atone or something like that. But I didn't know anything about him, and I didn't realize that he went on an insane rampage, killing and injuring several of his former friends and colleagues, and wiped out the GL Corps as well as the Guardians.
I browsed around these sites and my reaction was pretty much boggle. It's not that I'm a Hal Jordan fan, so it wasn't much of a gut reaction to the character assassination, but I kept thinking, what if they'd do that to a character I really like? Like, what if they were to turn Nightwing into an insane serial killer just for kicks because the sales of his book were falling or something?
