Green Lantern: Emerald Knights

Green Lantern

by Ron Marz, Chuck Dixon

When a young Hal Jordan is thrust forward in time, Kyle Rayner, the current Green Lantern, finds himself face to face with his legendary predecessor. Working together for the first and only time, the two Green Lanterns must find a way to defeat Sinestro and the villain that Hal is destined to one day become, Parallax. Joined by the JLA and Green Arrow in this adventure, Kyle must not only find away to defeat his enemies but also decide if his actions in the present will prevent Hal from going insane and killing many of the Green Lantern Corps in the past, or only make things worse.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Dc Comics, Superheroes, Fiction, Sequential Art, Space Opera

208 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1998

About the author

Marz is well known for his work on Silver Surfer and Green Lantern, as well as the Marvel vs DC crossover and Batman/Aliens. He also worked on the CrossGen Comics series Scion, Mystic, Sojourn, and The Path. At Dark Horse Comics he created Samurai: Heaven and Earth and various Star Wars comics. He has also done work for Devil’s Due Publishing’s Aftermath line, namely Blade of Kumori. In 1995, he had a brief run on XO-Manowar, for Valiant Comics.

Marz’s more recent works includes a number of Top Cow books including Witchblade and a Cyberforce relaunch. For DC Comics, he has written Ion, a 12 part comic book miniseries that followed the Kyle Rayner character after the One Year Later event, and Tales of the Sinistro Corps Presents: Parallax and Tales of the Sinestro Corps Presents: Ion, two one-shot tie-ins to the Green Lantern crossover, The Sinestro Corps War.

His current creator owned projects include “Dragon Prince” (Top Cow) and “Samurai : Heaven and Earth” (Dark Horse).

Photo by Luigi Novi.

Reviews

[Subham · Rating 3 out of 5]

Hal Jordan from the past comes to the present times and its such a fun team up between Hal and Kyle and like the classic thing of knowing the future and how does one from the past cope with it and also great time travel rules here and connecting to the larger continuity back then and Kyle learning his legacy. Its kinda like "the return of barry allen" type story for Kyle but more impactful in a way and in a way sort of gives Hal his redemption moment too!

[Grant · Rating 4 out of 5]

Definitely the best of the green lanterns I've read thus far, but also the one I read and re-read as a kid, so I might be biased.

[Karli · Rating 3 out of 5]

Goodreads says this contains Green Lantern #76-77 and #92. This is incorrect. Those issues (as well as some issues of Green Arrow) are collected in Green Lantern: Emerald Allies. This collection actually contains Green Lantern #99-106 and Green Arrow #136.

[Nicolas · Rating 2 out of 5]

A goofy time travel tale that is basically retconned in the end. It's more of a "What if..." kind of tale. It doesn't really add anything to the overall story. Not a fan.

[Mr. Stick · Rating 4 out of 5]

"THERE ARE WORSE THINGS THAN DYING, FRIEND. WITH THIS LITTLE RING I CAN TAKE YOU APART MOLECULE BY MOLECULE AND THEN PUT YOU BACK TOGETHER AGAIN. AND MAYBE I PUT YOU BACK TOGETHER RIGHT AND MAYBE I DON'T. BUT YOU'LL BE ALIVE AND CONSCIOUS FOR EVERY SECOND OF IT. OVER AND OVER AND OVER..."
- Hal Jordan bluffing a terrorist... or not?

Due to a time travel mishap (because THAT never happens), green lantern Kyle Raynor, brings former green lantern Hal Jordan from "ten years prior" (the 60's) to the present (the 90's).
Late 90's Green Lantern was far more entertaining than I expected. My expectations were pretty low. Then again, DC didn't have as bad a time during the 90's as Marvel did.
Anyway... this was a lot of fun. Three-and-a-half star (rounded up to four).

[James Bowman · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fun little time-travel-enabled team-up between Hal Jordan and Kyle Rayner, from the era when Kyle was the only Green Lantern. It pretty much ends as it has to, and it could probably stand to explore the differences between Kyle and Hal's styles a bit more, but it's perfectly entertaining. (B+)

[Russell Pearce of Sector 2814 · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a fun little story that has good art work and ties into Kyle Rayner Volumes 1 and 2. It pretty much is self contained. So long as you are familiar with the other two and enjoyed them you should enjoy this one as well.

[Ben Clarke · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting concept, bringing past Hal into the future and seeing all that has changed is always going to churn up some emotions. Kyle also trying to make sense of his place in the Justice League now that Good Hal is back makes the secondary plot feel reasonable and easy to follow. Death and Redemption play key concepts in this book and it doesn’t disappoint. The only reason it falls short of 5 stars is that the idea of having two human Green Lanterns at once isn’t a new concept even when this was written, so the hard hitting feelings of that plot where not as strong as they could have been. Also they make Hal really incompetent I think in the Green Arrow subplot, which is strange to do even if he is “inexperienced” Dude beat Kalibak in a 1v1 but then eats dirt when it comes to a few eco-terrorists. I think if the Kalibak conflict happened after the ecoterrorists the flow would have felt better

Also anything with Dr. Strangelove references is pretty cool

[machado · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5*

[Bookworm Amir · Rating 3 out of 5]

A Green Lantern twist of the 1001 nights (albeit not with the same length of the original work). Basically the Vizier is the evil person here, and what Sherecazde (I can never get her name correct) tells to the Sultan Jor-Dan, is in reality happening in an alternate dimension as well.

It's basically a white Ali Baba with a lamp with a green genie (to be his green lantern ring). Not a lot of willpower is required to activate the ring apparently, as all you do is 'whisper' the commands to the genie. With this, there really isn't much Green Lantern lore, besides the stylized Arabic names of the main characters, and the green themes. Other than that, nope.

[Chuck Ventura · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hal from the past comes to the future and finds out that he became a bad guy.

This story was a creative way to get Hal and Kyle to team up and learn from each other. I really liked Hal's personality as an old school, no fluff good guy. And Kyle's just trying to measure up to him, often feeling jealous and insecure how quickly Hal is accepted by the JLA and friends.

Another classic Marz tale with a lot of heart.

[Kevin · Rating 3 out of 5]

This series is one big lead in to the War of the Green Lanterns. It starts off really slow, but I enjoyed where is seemed to be going in issues 3-5. 6 and 7 were where we could have seen a large scale battle, but they opted to leave that villain for the War. It was a bit disappointing to have the whole set be build-up, but I'll have to see if it pays off.

[Mike · Rating 2 out of 5]

A lot of comic book cliches happen in this GL story.

[Phil · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good way to bring hal back and meet rayner