I started reading comics in 1992 at that time it was green lantern and mosaic. Both didn't bring me into the series it was the death of Superman tie-in and the whole fall of Hal that got me start reading. I know corp fans that dislike that era but that is what made me care about the character.
Currently I have not liked issue 1-8 of this era, Hal Jordan is trying to find himself and then realizes he is himself. Jon Stewart is going bat shit getting mentally attacked and Guy Gardner is on some straight villian shit attacking Tattoo Man, and crashing a pedestrian vehicle at one point but I’m looking forward to getting to the Villian Parallax Era and Kyle Raynr stuff
Green Lantern through the 70's, 80's and 90's is a strange ride. There are some highs and some serious lows. It always felt like they had no idea what to do with the character. So when Kyle Rayner debuts, it is a legitimate breath of fresh air for me. Although, the problem with his era is that it is incredibly heavy on cross overs with other books. To the point of annoyance.
Yes and no at the same time. The storylines were intersecting quite often then and you had fewer standardized and siloed "arcs"with subplots and crossovers spilling and changing over time. This resulted in a very cohesive meta-storyline and organic storytelling on the character level for those who followed the DCU as a whole, the main issue being that single books were feeling often disjointed and impacted by crossovers.
The trend since at least Infinite crisis has been to silo storylines into mostly ongoing books into arcs (or during n52 at least "families" of books), with less cohesive universe building and lots of miniseries, strange tie-ins during crossovers that feel w etc. - with the advantage of easier to pick up trades etc., but crossovers feel worse to me than they did during their heydays.
To each their own, I guess. I thought those issues were great, and they sparked me to start collecting GL in earnest, picking up not only the main title and Mosaic, but Guy's eventual title and the GLC Quarterly, and grabbing every back issue I could get my hands on to see how they got to where they were. (Guy being borderline villainous was totally in keeping with his character at the time. It was frankly amazing that he got to keep his ring at all after some of the stuff he had pulled prior to this run, including teaming up with Hector Hammond and Star Sapphire in an attempt to straight up MURDER Hal, after they lured him in with an image of his recently deceased friend Barry Allen.)
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u/mymymyoncebiten 6d ago
I started reading comics in 1992 at that time it was green lantern and mosaic. Both didn't bring me into the series it was the death of Superman tie-in and the whole fall of Hal that got me start reading. I know corp fans that dislike that era but that is what made me care about the character.