Green Lantern Vol.3 #50

Ron Marz, Darryl Banks, Romeo Tanghal

Emerald Twilight Part 3: The Future

I’ve decided I wont go too much into what happens as the issue as I more so want to document how Kyle is changing in each issue and my personal opinions on it. So I’ll give a bare bones a summary as possible.

In this issue Hal battles sinestro and snaps his neck just like Barry Allen did to Professor Zoom.   He then murders Kilowog and proceeds to go into the central power battery, draining all its power and destroying it. This indirectly kills almost all the other lanterns who may be knocked out in space and such as they have no ring power to get themselves to safety. 

The guardians send Ganthet to earth with the final GL ring where he finds Kyle outside a bar telling him “He will have to do”. He then gives Kyle the ring, leaving Kyle confused. 

This is the first time we see Kyle in the uniform and god damn does it look good. A lot of heroes in the 90s were introduced with normal background which is something I definitely miss and wish was more prevalent in todays comics (superheroes normal life). 

I thought the issue was really great and I am a big fan of parallax Hal, his costume is cool as fuck and his story is evidence of Jokers saying that all it takes is one bad day. 

We didn’t learn much more of Kyle’s personality here so not much to talk about. This does remind me a lot of Spider-Man’s origin (the themes anyway) and I’m not sure if that is a popular viewpoint.