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Green Lantern
Green Lantern: Emerald Twilight
First edition collectin the Emerald Twilight saga.
79 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 1994
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Ron Marz
1,652 books123 followersMarz 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.
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.
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October 8, 2015
I'm three days late for my Green Theme Read, but here it is.
Hal Jordan, having just lost his home city to Mongul and Cyborg Superman, snaps and turns on the entire Green Lantern Corps and the Guardians of the Universe in an effort to gain enough power to remake Coast City.
This is the three issue sequence from 1994 that fans of Hal Jordan hated, and understandably so. Hal went quickly from hero to villain in a very short space, which demonized him and seemed very out of character at the time. He's crazed, uncaring, and brutal here, driven by the loss of an entire city. The thing that salvages this story for me is Green Lantern: Rebirth, which explains Hal's actions in a pretty interesting way. This arc kicks off a sequence of events that has led up to the present day with Geoff Johns' New 52 run, and it all forms a fairly coherent saga that I still have fun reading.
Hal Jordan, having just lost his home city to Mongul and Cyborg Superman, snaps and turns on the entire Green Lantern Corps and the Guardians of the Universe in an effort to gain enough power to remake Coast City.
This is the three issue sequence from 1994 that fans of Hal Jordan hated, and understandably so. Hal went quickly from hero to villain in a very short space, which demonized him and seemed very out of character at the time. He's crazed, uncaring, and brutal here, driven by the loss of an entire city. The thing that salvages this story for me is Green Lantern: Rebirth, which explains Hal's actions in a pretty interesting way. This arc kicks off a sequence of events that has led up to the present day with Geoff Johns' New 52 run, and it all forms a fairly coherent saga that I still have fun reading.
January 9, 2023
Controversial for its portrayal of arguably the most influential and well-known Green Lantern, Marz takes the hero down an extremely dark path. It adds layers to the character, but also serves to shock and, in some cases, disappoint long-time fans. Enjoyment will be strictly tied to how you perceive Hal's spiralling descent into corruption fuelled by tragedy. A fast-paced and gripping narrative driven by the repercussions of loss, it's unafraid of brutality and revels in the 'fall from grace' trope.
November 14, 2015
Forzada por la respuesta comercial de "La Muerte de Superman" y "Knightfall", la miniserie que presenta el adiós de Hal Jordan como Linterna Verde acusa todos los fallos de un producto a medio cocer, partiendo por su débil premisa (donde la rebelión del héroe es poco más que un berrinche), situaciones inverosímiles y un pobre desarrollo argumental que incluye diálogos y personajes. Telón apresurado para un personaje insigne de DC cuya ausencia se resintió en los años venideros al punto de buscar numerosas excusas para traerlo de vuelta.
June 22, 2013
I have long maintained that this story made Hal Jordan a more intriguing, more rounded character. Yes it was sad to see him fall from grace, but I never subscribed to the common view that his conversion to Parallax was out-of-character. Everybody, even Hal Jordan, has a breaking point; his home city was destroyed, seven million people were murdered, and Hal was not even there to save them or to die with them. Never in his career had he suffered such a defeat, and the despair he felt is entirely plausible.
The story does feel a little rushed (Ron Marz was brought on board at Issue 48, told he had to write Hal out of the title, and that he had to do so by Issue 50; this trade collects these first three issues of Marz's run), but in some ways even that works to its advantage. Given the vastness of Hal's loss, a slow burn would have likely felt contrived and dulled the impact.
The story does feel a little rushed (Ron Marz was brought on board at Issue 48, told he had to write Hal out of the title, and that he had to do so by Issue 50; this trade collects these first three issues of Marz's run), but in some ways even that works to its advantage. Given the vastness of Hal's loss, a slow burn would have likely felt contrived and dulled the impact.
October 13, 2015
I came to love GL during Geoff Johns' "Rebirth", but wanted to know what this whole Parallax thing was all about. I have to say that this was a pretty awesome read! Ron Marz took Hal Jordan and gave the dude dimension before Johns got to him. What would you do if your whole world burned and you had a ring that could do whatever you will? The Joker said "All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy." And he ain't lyin'. If you're diggin' the current Green Lantern stuff, give this oldie but goodie a try.
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December 28, 2014Edición mexicana de Green Lantern: Emerald Twilight
Como la portada está tomada del recopilatorio estadounidense, en la contratapa puede leerse erróneamente el ISBN correspondiente al tp original.
Como la portada está tomada del recopilatorio estadounidense, en la contratapa puede leerse erróneamente el ISBN correspondiente al tp original.
December 24, 2021
"Too late for you. Too late for me. There's no...turning back now. What's going to happen is going to happen. It has to. You can't stop it...and neither can I."
A shockingly strong idea considering it was entirely editorial interference, that also fails due to that editorial interference.
The greatest tragedy to come out of the Death and Return of Superman (Besides Superman's Super-mullet) was the destruction of Coast City. Hal Jordan was surprisingly chill about it all until DC realized they needed something for the 50th issue of the current series, and hated the idea that the then current writer had, so they hired Ron Marz to change the entire Green Lantern mythology, and he only had 3 issues to do it.
The direction Ron Marz went with it is a great one, after the destruction of Coast City Hal ends up losing it and has a meltdown against the Guardians and his fellow Green Lanterns. However seeing as he only had 3 issues to do this he ends up having to cram a lot into relatively little space, and it loses impact as a result.
The story starts off with a genuinely strong issue one that through the writing and art really makes you feel the loss of coast city, even if you're reading this isolated from how it got destroyed. With him using the Green Lantern ring to recreate family, friends, and eventually the whole city in some pretty powerful scenes that show Hal's insecurity through what they all say to him, equally encouraging and disparaging in equal measure. However, when the ring runs out of power the guardians try to get Hal to explain his actions, using the ring for selfish gains. This is when Hal snaps, and goes on a quest to Oa to gain control of the power battery so he can...because he...
This is the main issue with this story, I don't know what Hal's motivations are. I can understand that he's acting irrationally, but he seemingly has no end goal outside of gaining more power, he claims at one point that he just wanted the power to "make everything right" but like...I don't know what the fuck that means. Can the Green Lantern Rings now revive the dead? Can they turn back time? He doesn't even go back to Coast City at the end of the story, he just kinda fucks off so what exactly were his ideas to "make everything right"? It's a huge blight on an otherwise well told story, complete with dramatic fights and a pretty satisfying duel against Sinestro at the end.
Darryl Banks' art is also surprisingly solid, recognizably comic book-y but with an air of drama befitting the stakes.
Overall a good idea marred by some clumsy execution, glad that Geoff Johns retconned some of the specifics of this story away.
A shockingly strong idea considering it was entirely editorial interference, that also fails due to that editorial interference.
The greatest tragedy to come out of the Death and Return of Superman (Besides Superman's Super-mullet) was the destruction of Coast City. Hal Jordan was surprisingly chill about it all until DC realized they needed something for the 50th issue of the current series, and hated the idea that the then current writer had, so they hired Ron Marz to change the entire Green Lantern mythology, and he only had 3 issues to do it.
The direction Ron Marz went with it is a great one, after the destruction of Coast City Hal ends up losing it and has a meltdown against the Guardians and his fellow Green Lanterns. However seeing as he only had 3 issues to do this he ends up having to cram a lot into relatively little space, and it loses impact as a result.
The story starts off with a genuinely strong issue one that through the writing and art really makes you feel the loss of coast city, even if you're reading this isolated from how it got destroyed. With him using the Green Lantern ring to recreate family, friends, and eventually the whole city in some pretty powerful scenes that show Hal's insecurity through what they all say to him, equally encouraging and disparaging in equal measure. However, when the ring runs out of power the guardians try to get Hal to explain his actions, using the ring for selfish gains. This is when Hal snaps, and goes on a quest to Oa to gain control of the power battery so he can...because he...
This is the main issue with this story, I don't know what Hal's motivations are. I can understand that he's acting irrationally, but he seemingly has no end goal outside of gaining more power, he claims at one point that he just wanted the power to "make everything right" but like...I don't know what the fuck that means. Can the Green Lantern Rings now revive the dead? Can they turn back time? He doesn't even go back to Coast City at the end of the story, he just kinda fucks off so what exactly were his ideas to "make everything right"? It's a huge blight on an otherwise well told story, complete with dramatic fights and a pretty satisfying duel against Sinestro at the end.
Darryl Banks' art is also surprisingly solid, recognizably comic book-y but with an air of drama befitting the stakes.
Overall a good idea marred by some clumsy execution, glad that Geoff Johns retconned some of the specifics of this story away.
October 24, 2020
Hal Jordan stand amid the ashes of Coast City and tries to cope with loss on an untold scale. When he is censured by the Guardians, Hal's rage and frustration boil over and he sets out to steal the power of the Central Battery on Oa, brutally battling his way through friends, colleagues and enemies alike.
When Geoff Johns soft-rebooted Green Lantern it was retconned that Hal had been possessed by the fear entity Parallax, but here we see events as originally intended; with Hal's fall to the dark side being due to his being pushed over the edge mentally and emotionally.
Many fans claimed that Hal's fall was out of character but, honestly, Marz does a great job here of making it feel believable. It's a fall of increments as each frustration, each denial, mounts up and pushes Hal further and further off his rocker. The early scenes where Hal tried to recreate Coast City and people he knew there through sheer willpower are an excellent expression of a man made delusional by grief.
Also, this book gives us the first appearance of Kyle Rayner, who was the Green Lantern of my childhood.
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When Geoff Johns soft-rebooted Green Lantern it was retconned that Hal had been possessed by the fear entity Parallax, but here we see events as originally intended; with Hal's fall to the dark side being due to his being pushed over the edge mentally and emotionally.
Many fans claimed that Hal's fall was out of character but, honestly, Marz does a great job here of making it feel believable. It's a fall of increments as each frustration, each denial, mounts up and pushes Hal further and further off his rocker. The early scenes where Hal tried to recreate Coast City and people he knew there through sheer willpower are an excellent expression of a man made delusional by grief.
Also, this book gives us the first appearance of Kyle Rayner, who was the Green Lantern of my childhood.
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November 27, 2017
Para começar, a nossa EaglemossBr não cadastrou corretamente o ISBN... Crepúsculo Esmeralda/Novo Amanhecer (DC Comics Coleção de Graphic Novels #30).
Hal Jordan com mágoa, angústia e raiva, coisas que não condizem com um Lanterna. Já que ele age como um louco, os Guardiões também... Um novo começo com um novo 2814, jovem e sem sequer uma casa ou emprego, e já tendo de enfrentar Mongul (mesmo que com uma ajudinha...). Em seguida, ele tem de passar por perdas para amadurecer.
Com desenhos simples, mas um roteiro inovador.
Caraca, tiozinho, bagaça: coisas de pseudo-tradutores; além de "...as chances DISSO acontecer"; "...eu prefeRIA que ...encharcasse..."
Hal Jordan com mágoa, angústia e raiva, coisas que não condizem com um Lanterna. Já que ele age como um louco, os Guardiões também... Um novo começo com um novo 2814, jovem e sem sequer uma casa ou emprego, e já tendo de enfrentar Mongul (mesmo que com uma ajudinha...). Em seguida, ele tem de passar por perdas para amadurecer.
Com desenhos simples, mas um roteiro inovador.
Caraca, tiozinho, bagaça: coisas de pseudo-tradutores; além de "...as chances DISSO acontecer"; "...eu prefeRIA que ...encharcasse..."
September 30, 2019
A man with the power of a god and the will to use it. Give him his worse day and see how far he can fall,... and he can fall.. very far...
It's always cool to see heroes go down the path of the dark side, and Green Lantern did this very well. His logic and reasoning is both understandable and a bit insane, but it's believable.
It's always cool to see heroes go down the path of the dark side, and Green Lantern did this very well. His logic and reasoning is both understandable and a bit insane, but it's believable.
March 10, 2024
The line “This was the place Hal Jordan grew up, where he worshiped at the shrine he called father” took 70 years off of my life.
The fight between Kilowog & Hal gave Anakin & Obi-Wan mustafar vibes <3 at least Hal had the high ground here
The fight between Kilowog & Hal gave Anakin & Obi-Wan mustafar vibes <3 at least Hal had the high ground here
August 1, 2025
start of my kyle rayner journey.
as someone who hasn’t read much green lantern this book does a lot with the rings in a short time. the concept of Hal’s grief powering his will to recreate coast city is such a great way to use the willpower idea.
63/100
as someone who hasn’t read much green lantern this book does a lot with the rings in a short time. the concept of Hal’s grief powering his will to recreate coast city is such a great way to use the willpower idea.
63/100
September 15, 2017
It has its moments (his interaction with 'Coast city', for example), but overall it's just an okay story. You can get everything you need by reading two sentences about it.
May 12, 2018
Too rushed, but I always enjoyed this.
August 12, 2019
Hal Jordan’s heel turn. Impressive how hard DC went for it in this run. I can see why fans were mad but it makes his redemption arc that much more powerful.
May 17, 2020
Don't like the writing but the story is dark and amazing. End is perfect
September 14, 2021
Hal Jordan is one of my favorite heroes, his power is amazing in the dc universe in my opinion, in this comic he shows one more time why he is my favorite
October 24, 2021
Tenía un mejor recuerdo de este tomo, con el tiempo recae en lo forzado e inverosimil. Nace de una propuesta comercial de renovar a Green Lantern que no ha añejado bien.
July 11, 2023
Hal Jordan falls and falls far.
March 7, 2008
The storyline published in Emerald Twilight came out just after I graduated from High School. Having been a GL fan for quite a while at that point, it was hard to accept that they killed off my favorite character, and even harder to accept that the story they did it with read more like a cop out and less like something well-planned. Only a year previous they had killed off Superman, both while the death's of Supergirl and The Flash were only a handful of years before that. The death was not the hard part to accept; it was a badly written one.
With hindsight, it hasn't improved much, but with Hal Jordan now, definitively, back, the events of Emerald Twilight seem more like a bad dream, and less like the traumatic event that it seemed like at the time. I stopped buying a reading comics for quite a while after this, and it was only recently that I have finally been able to completely re-embrace Green Lantern the way I did when I was 17. I shouldn't blame this book, even though this was the catalyst. The angst of the late-teen years, coupled with financial issues, make comics collecting less of a priority. But the death of Hal Jordan was a symbolic death for me too, in that I was finally aware of the fact that I could have my emotions and interests toyed with and manipulated by something that I loved so much. It was pretty devastating for a teenager.
With hindsight, it hasn't improved much, but with Hal Jordan now, definitively, back, the events of Emerald Twilight seem more like a bad dream, and less like the traumatic event that it seemed like at the time. I stopped buying a reading comics for quite a while after this, and it was only recently that I have finally been able to completely re-embrace Green Lantern the way I did when I was 17. I shouldn't blame this book, even though this was the catalyst. The angst of the late-teen years, coupled with financial issues, make comics collecting less of a priority. But the death of Hal Jordan was a symbolic death for me too, in that I was finally aware of the fact that I could have my emotions and interests toyed with and manipulated by something that I loved so much. It was pretty devastating for a teenager.
August 9, 2016
Emerald Twilight was a three issue mini-series that needed more time to tell such a grand story. Hal Jordan is still reeling from the destruction of his hometown of Coast City and is slowly turning into something decidedly NOT Hal Jordan. Part one is largely another retelling of Hal's origin story, with Hal recreating Coast City and its inhabitants through the power of his ring. The Guardians disapprove as he is using his ring for "personal gain" and demand that he surrender his ring and report to Oa. At this point, Hal isn't in any mood to deal with that, so he refuses and starts his journey to Oa with his ring to solve this problem his way. From here, Emerald Twilight plays out like the Cliff's Notes version of a graphic novel. Important fight scenes are condensed to a couple of frames and Hal's descent into madness happens inexplicably fast. We get the general idea of why he's on edge, but it is under-explained what pushed him over and how he looses it so quickly. Hal's last stand takes two issues and just 53 pages to play out. It needed more time to do this story justice. It seemed like the Readers' Digest condensed version. It is a great story and the art work looked really good, but we raced through the bulk of the story so fast that we didn't have time to stop and see what was going on. Emerald Twilight was too much story for just three issues.
March 9, 2010
Si no es la mejor historia que leí de GL, le pega en el palo. Ok, no puedo ser objetivo porque la leí en la época en la que creía que los cambios que le hacían a los personajes eran definitivos, en la que la idea de "legado" en DC parecía ir en serio y en la que era raro ver masacres en comics mainstream. Pero además de mucha, muchísima violencia, también había un par de partes entre emotivas y oníricas muy bien logradas. La escena de la Ciudad Costera fantasma del principio de tomo ha de ser una de las más fuertes y contundentes en la historia superheróica. Hoy en día seguro que no me gustaría tanto si hiciera una relectura crítica, pero tampoco tengo intención de sacarme la duda pronto.
July 26, 2021
Book of contention amongst Green Lantern fans.
It's a well-told, eerie, unsettling story about a guy who goes insane and desperately searches for the power to resurrect his destroyed city, even if it means killing his friends.
On the other hand, it's total character assassination and does not work as a Hal Jordan story. Picture your favorite hero, then BOOM he's a villain now for the next 10 years.
Me personally, I never liked Hal that much, so I was fine with it.
It's a well-told, eerie, unsettling story about a guy who goes insane and desperately searches for the power to resurrect his destroyed city, even if it means killing his friends.
On the other hand, it's total character assassination and does not work as a Hal Jordan story. Picture your favorite hero, then BOOM he's a villain now for the next 10 years.
Me personally, I never liked Hal that much, so I was fine with it.
August 22, 2025
Es de no creer el destino de Hal Jordan en este arco. Soy un gran fanático de Green Lantern, y aunque siempre quiero ver salir victoriosos a los Corps, creo que está decisión editorial fue completamente acertada. No somos completamente buenos o malos, sino que somos como un río que fluye entre rápidos y turbulencia hacia remansos y aguas calmas. el río no quiere hacerte daño, pero existen las creciente y el desbordamiento que arrasa con todo a su paso.
November 20, 2013
Being completely new to the green lantern's universe I must say that...Hal Jordan kicks ass! There's a very strong dramatic arc going on here about the corruption and the, in my opinion justified rogue actions of the best Green Lantern of all. When he stated that, they do too much and gain nothing in return, I could understand what he meant. It's a great story and a great tragedy.
February 28, 2014
I love the idea, but wish they developed it more. They are turning one of their main superheroes bad, and it seemed super rushed, like they just couldn't wait to get Kyle Rayner out of his nine inch nails tshirt, and in the green lantern suit.
December 18, 2015
La storia è telefonata, ma non è brutta.
I disegni però sono penosi, anche per gli standard della prima uscita. Almeno per il capitolo finale (il #50) potevano affidarli ad un disegnatore non dico eccelso, ma almeno bravo.
I disegni però sono penosi, anche per gli standard della prima uscita. Almeno per il capitolo finale (il #50) potevano affidarli ad un disegnatore non dico eccelso, ma almeno bravo.
September 4, 2012
One of my favorite Green Lantern stories of all time.
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