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Green Lantern # 33 - Secret Origin, Book 5
is a comic book issue published by DC that was released on 9 / / 2008User Rating - 8 votes, 4 avg.
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"GREEN LANTERN: SECRET ORIGIN" Part 5 of 6! Hal and Sinestro continue to battle
Abin Sur's killer, but will these two Green Lanterns become enemies before they
become friends? And what strange secrets within Abin Sur's power ring concern
the massacre of Space Sector 666?
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Secret Origin, Book 5
Although I am enjoying Geoff Johns work on Green Lantern I am disturbed by his propensity to ignore the silver and golden age and all of the rich GL history that has preceded his run. I never believed this secret origin was necessary. Johns has stated that he couldn't tell his blackest night story without first doing this secret origin, however much of it feels repetitive and unnecessary. The amount of original content could have been condensed into a two issue flashback with the story then moving into the Red Lanterns saga. Instead, Johns feels it necessary to completely rework some heavily treaded GL territory. Martin Jordan's death, Abin Sur's death, Hal's early relationship with Carol Ferris, his training on Oa, the first meeting with Sinestro, these have all been done before (including by John's in the current GL run) and personally, in the case of “Emerald Dawn I and II”, retaconned Hal as a much more interesting figure. In that regard, “Secret Origin” has disappointed me greatly. The Hal Jordan origin of “Emerald Dawn” was a down and out near-drunk who was saved by having the Corps come into his life. During that origin, Hal’s inherent strength was recognized by the ring and rediscovered by Jordan himself. It made for a much more effective origin story then Johns’ “wide-eyed” and more sanitized version of Jordan
What permeates “Secret Origin” is a feeling that Johns cannot conform his work to the GL history already in existence, so he instead steamrolls over that history as if launching an all together new series. The Abin Sur story could have been told without reimaging his death. Atrocitus could have been introduced into the continuity without completely wiping clean all of the GL history that has come before him. Hector Hammond and Black Hand could be modernized without eliminating what had come before. It is widely acknowledged that time passes between story arcs, Johns could just as easily have fitted his work within the continuity, not in spite of it.
GL has always been a very linear series. When HalJordan
What permeates “Secret Origin” is a feeling that Johns cannot conform his work to the GL history already in existence, so he instead steamrolls over that history as if launching an all together new series. The Abin Sur story could have been told without reimaging his death. Atrocitus could have been introduced into the continuity without completely wiping clean all of the GL history that has come before him. Hector Hammond and Black Hand could be modernized without eliminating what had come before. It is widely acknowledged that time passes between story arcs, Johns could just as easily have fitted his work within the continuity, not in spite of it.
GL has always been a very linear series. When Hal
