Green Lantern: The Greatest Stories Ever Told

The Greatest Stories Ever Told

by John Broome, Dennis O'Neil, Len Wein

Written by Dennis O'Neil, Alan Moore, Geoff Johns and others Art by Martin Nodell, Irwin Hasen, Gil Kane, Neal Adams and others Cover by Alex Ross The greatest adventures of the Emerald Gladiator, collected in one volume! Thrill to the exploits of several

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Dc Comics, Fiction, Superheroes

192 pages, Paperback

First published August 30, 2006

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Reviews

[Scott Waldie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I don’t know if they’re the ‘greatest’ Green Lantern stories ever told by a mile, but they do pick out some solidly sentimental issues and do well to feature all five of the Earth Lanterns which had been around when this was published.

[Benjamin Zapata · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not really the greatest stories ever about Green Lantern,...but still, a nice collection.

[B · Rating 2 out of 5]

There's a really strange choice to essentially reprint the panel-for-panel same origin story twice right in front of the book.

And most of these stories are neither interesting nor seemingly important in the development of the Green Lantern character. Perhaps more telling is that all of the subsidiary characters are horribly weak. All of them are less-than-one-dimensional caricatures. Oh, well.

And I think more story than one could be settled by a simple rule: Don't take off your power ring. It's not that hard.

Perhaps the most interesting part of the book is the early stories' insistence that Hal Jordan was the only moron who thought the power battery was like a "Green Lantern" when it turns out that the same people who make fun of him for this are part of an intergalactic Green Lantern Corps and have been for hundreds of thousands of years. That doesn't speak well for how interesting the other stories are.

[Victor Orozco · Rating 3 out of 5]

Hmm. Not bad at all.

This Green Lantern The Greatest Stories Ever Told is essentially a collection of Green Lantern stories that aren’t necessarily the “Greatest” but a collection of some of the generations' ideal stories from the original Green Lantern of the 1950s to the 2000s.

From Hal Jordan’s origin story in finding the body of Abin Sur and inheriting the ring. Adventures with some of his greatest allies in the Corps like Guy Gardner, John Stewart and others. One actually has him teaming up with his Justice League buddy the Flash and Kid Flash. Another deals with his first encounter with Black Hand and his grand adventure with Alan Scott. Finishing it off with the wonderful Darwyn Cooke story of Hal Jordan flights with his family and friends – truly shows why Hal Jordan loves to fly and of course why he is a Green Lantern.

Nice. C

[Yves · Rating 3 out of 5]

Si cette BD représente vraiment les meilleures histoires de Green Lantern, alors je ne serai jamais un de ses fans. Les premières histoires sont vraiment ordinaire et même parfois mauvaise avec un style vieillot des années 1960. Les histoires s'améliorent au fil du temps mais même encore il n'y a rien de vraiment excitant. Si je n'aime pas ce personnage autant que ça, au moins je peux dire que j'ai au moins essayer de le connaitre.

[Ted Child · Rating 3 out of 5]

Basically a sampler of Green Lantern through the ages that I picked up to further my GL education. Even in the introduction it is admitted that there is no such thing as the “greatest stories ever told” but I doubt many would read with that expectation. I thought the Mark Waid issue was the weakest and the O’Neal/Adams and Johns/Cooke stories were the strongest.

[Michael · Rating 3 out of 5]

While this gives a decent bird's eye view of the Lantern mythos, it's not nearly as diverse as it could have been. Still, Geoff Johns is the best GL writer, and his issue is respected.

[Chris · Rating 3 out of 5]

Worth reading for Green Lantern fans.

[H. Givens · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great collection with a lot of variety -- it could just use some method of separating the stories. It doesn't indicate where one finishes and the next starts, so that can be pretty confusing.

[LBK · Rating 3 out of 5]

Eh