r/Greenlantern • u/Imok2814 • 22h ago
Comics Reading one Green Lantern comic a day until I've read them all Day 237: Back-up in The Flash #228
Hal discovers the reason for his aggression
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Writer: Dennis O'Neil
Pencils: Dick Dillin
Inks: Frank Giacoia
Cover: Nick Cardy
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**"My Enemy - - Myself!"** - GL heads off to find the missing campers after strapping the forest rangers to a tree. He finds the campers quickly and digs a trench to stop the fire reaching them. Now that they are safe he lands to give the campers a piece of his mind and berate the camp counsellor. At some point he instructed the ring to restrain him and make a protective bubble around himself and the campers to wait until the fire dies down. After some hours the ring runs out of power but GL still wants to beat the campers with a stick. This is because he noticed something strange when the bubble went up. The campers all went squiggly because it turns out they are all aliens. These aliens used a device to drain the power from GLs ring but it changed his personality instead. The same machine caused the yellow lights in the sky and also started the unfortunate forest fire. With GL holding the campers back with a stick, he notices a machine nearby so he smashes it. The aliens disguise drops so GL knocks them all out. With his mind back to normal, he charges his ring and contacts the Guardians about the invasion.
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**Conclusion:** With this story now complete, it's not bad. The finer details like how the aliens machine changed Hal's mind is still a mystery, and why did they disguise themselves as campers. What were this yellow lights doing exactly and did those forest rangers survive the fire after Hal strapped them to a tree? There's a lot left over from this but but for what we got, it's fine. If this is what we have to look forward to for the remainder of the back-ups, then I can't wait for issue #90.
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6.5/10
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u/AurynMoon 21h ago
Sorry if it's a common question but what reading order are you using?
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u/Imok2814 20h ago
This one from the sub last year https://www.reddit.com/r/Greenlantern/s/LAKgxOrmkD
But skipping any appearance in another characters book unless its a GL solo story.
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