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After sacrificing himself to save the entire universe from a cosmic WMD, Hal Jordan finds himself trapped inside his own power ring! And he discovers an entire universe lies inside it, populated with souls whose lives are threatened when his ring runs out of power! Can Hal save yet another universe one issue after saving the last? Only Grant Morrison and Liam Sharp know the answer within this classic run in the making!
I do not understand how this book is getting such high reviews. I'm so sick of Grant Morrison on Green Lantern. Hal goes into his ring and the AI is a fairy living in some sort of fantasy world? What the hell? I hated every second of this issue and it bothers me because I love Hal Jordan. He's my favorite Green Lantern and I really want to like his stories but these are terrible.
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I wonder how long you've been a fan of Hal Jordan then? Myrwhydden first appeared in the Silver Age Hal Jordan series, around Green Lantern #24. The story was called "The World Within The Power Ring!" and it's shown up numerous times over the yeas. I'm dating myself, but I remember my dad getting me this comic. I had a whole run at one point...
Long after that. However, the ring now has was forged from his own willpower so that place shouldn’t exist inside this ring.
Also, it said that if the rings energy was depleted they’d all die right? Well it depleted but everyone was fine. It was just a bad story. I think the goofy stuff like the world inside the ring should have stayed in the Silver Age because it just doesn’t make sense with how the rings are shown in the modern age.
There's another precedent for your second point in the "Zero Hour" backup stories in the Silver Age GL series. A small bit of life-saving reserve power left that can't do anything but preserve the wearer, lasting a little longer. Hokey? Maybe but it's never been a huge game-changer. RE: your first point, either it can and does exist inside his ring (if he wantsd to create it as it was before), or during one of DC's reboots that's a moot point./1
As for the Silver Age stuff in general, Morrison's tenet on his excellent Batman run was that 'it all existed' - meaning every way Batman was depicted in his run from #1-whatever including Detective Comics etc. actually happened, and what would it make the character if that was the case? He's gone on record as saying his TGL run will be the same philosophy. Loving it so far!/2 of 2
I wasn’t a fan of his Batman run either. I liked him on Animal Man but I think that’s about it. I’m just not into Morrison’s idea of continuity. If everything was supposed to count they wouldn’t have done all of the reboots. I absolutely loathe what he did to the X-Men. I’m a fan of tight continuity and Morrison just doesn’t do that.
Don’t like it don’t read it fool. You keep moaning every time it releases. Just give up on the book then and go read something else you fool. It’s not gonna make you feel any better.
Feel free to piss off and not read my review then.
@Talon1load how do you feel about writers that are into continuity porn, like Peter David and Kurt Busiek?