For a while I’ve wished for an Earth-based Green Lantern title. As Geoff Johns' Green Lantern grew ever more cosmic and complicated, and runs that followed by Robert Venditti and others followed suit, a back-to-basics superhero vs. supervillains, civilian-identity-and-supporting-cast-type Green Lantern book often seemed very attractive. Thinking about it now, perhaps the last time we really had that was Ron Marz and Judd Winick’s successive Green Lantern Kyle Rayner runs, so maybe all this is a desire to return to that.
In the Dawn of DC Green Lantern Vol. 1: Back in Action, writer Jeremy Adams gives us Hal Jordan back on Earth, which is a start. By the end, Adams and artist Xermanico deliver us some pulse-pounding action sequences, and there’s some developments with Hal’s ring that I’m interested to see explored. But Back in Action starts slowly, for one thing, and its biggest liability is front and center, Hal Jordan himself. Jury’s out on this one, and I’m curious to see what Adams will do next.
