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Let's just take it as read that Ethan Van Sciver is a comicsgating douche nozzle, and move on. I own the work, and I'm not going to let the inclusion of a whiny gatekeeper keep me from enjoying what is probably Geoff Johns' finest hour thus far.
Hal Jordan was never my favourite Green Lantern - that dubious honour is reserved for Kyle Rayner, who I found to be a very compelling and identifiable character. Hal is just absolutely nothing like me. He's the sort of guy that I imagine would have picked on me in high school, and I've always had a bit of a problem with police officers, so the character just never drew me in. Until my son started reading Green Lantern around the time of "Blackest Night," and I got into it. These are really very good stories that Mr. Johns is telling, and they all start here with a summation of Hal's time in the DCU for about the previous 10 years.
Rebirth sets up so much that plays out over the course of Johns' run on the character, not least of which is to retcon Hal's turn to evil as a parasitic infection from within the central Oan power battery. This prompts a plan to bring Hal back from the dead and separate him from the Spectre before Parallax can use that entity's power to become even more fearsome. It's a cool premise, and goes some way to redeeming Hal, though, as we'll see later, some heroes (Batman) need a bit more convincing.
We'll continue with these for a while. As I say, I think this is the best that Geoff Johns has been in superheroes. Johns is a competent writer, and obviously loves the characters and genre, though I often wish he'd push himself and his characters a little farther out toward the boundaries of the genre. I think he's more than capable of writing what might be considered a great comic, and his Green Lantern work comes very, very close.
More to follow.
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