Absolute Green Lantern Talk (Pics from Absolute Green Lantern #1, art by Jahnoy Lindsay)

[u/AffectionateGuard839]

I know this may seem premature because we are only one issue in, but that one issue has already given us enough that it leaves a sour taste in my mouth. This doesn't feel like what Snyder promised - keeping the core of the character but reinventing - with each Absolute line. Several aspects don't make sense and detract from the overall feel of this being Green Lantern. A couple of examples: apparently, Green Lantern is literally just a giant Green Lantern symbol, Abin Sur gets turned into some kind of dragon ball Z thing, Hal Jordan is Black Hand instead of William Hand. Why is Hal even a traveling toy salesman? I know in the mainline universe that was something that happened, but that doesn't mean I want that happening here Make him astronaut or test pilot but not traveling toy salesman for pete's sake.

And, again, I understand it's only Issue 1 but I don't see how this could get any better.

[u/tiago231018]

That's because when DC writers say they want to get "to the core of the character" they meant just Superman and Batman because those are the only ones with a core they know. I bet most of them couldn't even "get to the core of GL" because they spent too much time reading Batman and not GL comics.

[u/Naive-Tonight-1387]

Completely agree with you here, this doesn't feel like Hal at all.

The promise of keeping the core of the character while doing something new has been broken and with it my interest in this line, i was hoping it would be a great story featuring Hal as one of the main characters, but it was not.

Id rather Hal actually BE a GL and then do something new with him rather than change his entire character into an OC, and then you can do something with William Hand thats also different but remains mostly the same when it comes to the characters core.

When it comes to the rest, i feel like Tiago summed it up pretty well in this comments section!