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Convergence: Green Lantern/Parallax #1

If you first started reading comics in the 90s like me, then chances are you already have this comic on your pull list. If not, please read on: During the Emerald Twilight storyline, which came at the heels of Death of Superman, Greatest Green Lantern of All Time, Hal Jordan goes nuts and kills a bunch of his Lantern allies, then murders his bosses, the Guardians of the Universe, destroys the Central Power Battery, and becomes Parallax, an all-powerful being who goes on to rewrite the continuity of the whole DC Universe. The lone surviving Guardian escapes and gives the last ring to Kyle Rayner who then takes up the mantle and becomes the last Green Lantern. If you grew up in this era, Kyle wasn’t just GL, he was THE Green Lantern, but he forever lived in the shadow of Hal Jordan: Greatest and Worst GL Of all time. It was a fascinating time to be a comics fan.

Convergence: Green Lantern/Parallax is so interesting because it puts us right back in middle of that action. In this story, Brainiac’s Convergence domes cut the Lanterns off from the source of their power. Hal, powerless and crippled by the horror of what he’d done as Parallax, is forced to face the consequences of his actions, when suddenly the dome is dropped and Hal’s power returns. The two GLs are forced to fight for the survival of their world against otherworldly invaders, but in this world Kyle is relatively new and inexperienced, leaving Parallax to pick up  will Hal crack under the pressure and blow his second chance at redemption? Read to find out!

[Read Convergence: Green Lantern/Parallax #1 on comiXology]

Jonah Chuang is a Production Coordinator Assistant at comiXology. Emerald Twilight is his favorite GL story.