Here in 2014, comic fans are pretty used to controversy.
Controversy over the death of a character who’s already been killed and resurrected multiple times, controversy over a character’s new costume, controversy over a character’s sexual playmate, controversy, controversy, controversy.
Between message boards, indigent bloggers and even publishers looking to stir up interest, it seems controversy and super hero comics go hand in hand. Controversy happens, we get riled up for a few minutes and then we (hopefully) move on.
Back in 1994, controversy got out hand and for the first time as a comic fan, I was terrified of my very own people.
Yep. I’m talking, of course, about the fall of Green Lantern Hal Jordan and the rise of Hal’s Emerald Advancement (Formally “Attack”) Team.
Quick rundown of a little story called
Emerald Twilight: Coast City, home town of longtime Green Lantern Hal Jordan is destroyed by an alien, Jordan tries to use the ring to bring it back, the Guardians try to punish him for using the ring for personal gain, Jordan snaps, destroys the Green Lantern Corps, absorbs the battery and becomes the big bad of the DCU.
It was the 90s.
Shit like this happened all the time. Only this time a lot of people got bent out of shape. And not just regular “they done my character wrong” kinda shape, but the kinda shape usually reserved for war crimes and general mass human atrocities.
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