None of you told me Green Lantern was a tragic comedy. I just

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>I know, I will just turn myself in to the police but I can totally use my ring to get out
>W-Wait don't ask me for my ring

This was post-crisis retconning to make Green Lantern more like a flawed Marvel character. Johns, Hal fanboy that he is, retconned it with GL: Rebirth.
But yes, Hal has had many dumb moments over the decades.

>>90337217
How do you retcon someone being a fuck up?

>>90337126
Why didn't he just slip the ring on his cock, or up his asshole?

>>90337360
To quote wikipedia
>In this new origin Hal Jordan is working as an assistant mechanic under Tom Kalmaku, barred from flying due to his insubordination while in the USAF and his employer's lingering guilt about his father's death in the line of duty. Then Abin Sur, while fighting Atrocitus of the Five Inversion, crashes near Coast City.

>>90337046
Hal's actually a fairly tragic character, but writers tend to ignore that

>>90337217
Hal already got marvel-ized in the silver age when Carol dumped him and he left town and went through a string of weird jobs then teamed up with Ollie

>>90337217
Didn't Hal always used to be a fuckup iirc. John got the ring only because Hal slipped in the tub, so the ring has to search for the backup.

>>90338143
That's not John's origin. His origin is that Guy Gardner got hit by a bus and the Guardians picked John to be Hal's new backup

Has anyone had more origin re-writes than Hal?

>>90339591
Superman (original, Byrne, Waid, Johns, Morrison).

>>90339591
Wonder Woman

Hal only had two, that's not that bad

>>90337046
He gets a DUI as well

>>90339795
Yeah, Emerald Dawn II was about Hal's three month stint in prison. Hilarious in hindsight, it was written by Gerard Jones, a guy who's going to get sent to prison for life for child pornography.

>>90339991
Giffen was also involved with Emerald Dawn 1 and 2.

>>90340119
Priest also did a bit of Emerald Dawn 1 didn't he? Although I guess he and editorial had different ideas

>>90339991
Damn I really liked it actually

>>90337126
Remember back in the day when Hal could make the ring invisible? Cause he sure can't.

>>90341565
It's an origin story for a reason. Sinestro calls him out for not knowing how to do so in the story.

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>>90341565
Remember when Hal could use his ring to create a photo realistic disguise for himself or for others? Or withdraw pieces of crucial information from people's minds? Or create multiple copies of himself?

Silver Age GL is as crazy as Silver Age Supes was

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>None of you told me Green Lantern was a tragic comedy.
What's tragic about it?

>>90342079
I wish the ring still had some of those powers. It's supposed to be the most powerful weapon in the universe, it should be a bit more capable than just creating green anvils and going pew-pew.

>>90342858

>costume on the wall

I thought the ring always generates the costume?

>>90343919
Generating a costume just to take it off and keep it around as regular clothes sounds like Hal.

>>90342998
Well they at least brought back the ability to create duplicate rings that were reliant on the power battery of whomever created them

How did goody 2 shoes perfect Barry become best friends with Hal?

>>90343919
If you notice, it's actually floating there. You can see the domino mask just above the neck line.

>>90343919
nope, in older comics it was a physical uniform that they sometimes put on/off using the ring

I don't think the uniform itself became a construct until Kyle era maybe?

>>90348909
Marv Wolfman had the uniform itself be physical, but the domino mask wasn't.

>>90349078
oh yeah, that makes sense

now that I think about it maybe it was during Englehart and the GLs could change the way their uniforms looked when they became mostly constructs?

>>90349118
Yea, Englehart era was when everyone started changing their costumes.