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Out of all the members of the Justice League , theGreen LanternHal Jordan is probably the last one any readers would expect to take up reading as a hobbyhorse , lease alone enjoy the periodic literary journeying . But in the trade name newGreen Lantern 80th Anniversarycomic , Hal proves everyone incorrect – he ’s actuallyquitethe rational .
Green Lantern 80th Anniversaryfeatures a variety of trade name new , one - off stories have various members of the Green Lantern Corps . In the story titled “ Time Alone,”Hal teams up with Green Arrowto take down Clock King , who has read a little girl surety . After the girl on the face of it exit , Green Arrow fly off the handle , planting an arrow right in Clock King ’s shoulder , and brutally assaulting the scoundrel over the last of the shaver . LeavingHalto be the level - headed of the pair .
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as luck would have it , Hal depict up moments later with the girl safe and sound , but Green Arrow still wo n’t calm down . fear Ollie may inadvertently pose Clock King to decease , Hal tries to restrain him , which Ollie responds to by punch Hal in the face . He kick the bucket on to berate Hal for having vanish for the past two months , but Hal explains that he was away on another planet . But notfighting some delegation for the Green Lantern Corps … he was really reading . At first that may go like a somewhat poor excuse , but Hal elaborates :
“ In our stemma of work , we see a lot of bad thing . After meeting up with some particularly rough fictional character … I’d noticed that both of us were punch hard . possibly a flake too severely . It get me thinking . If we want to make the world a practiced lieu , we ca n’t keep doing what we ’re doing . ”
Hal say Ollie he needed time to clear his headway , and thatBlack Canaryrecommended he readWaldenby Henry David Thoreau - a rule book that Thoreau famously wrote over the line of two year alone in the woods . Thoreau was a philosophic essayist whose work focalize on oneness with nature , and self - fulfilment , which is just the kind of thing Green Lantern needed to hold in his increasingly violent propensity . “It ’s not that I ’ve gone soft or wimpy,”he says,“I’ve realized that not every problem will be solved with fierceness . ”Hal ’s words inspire Ollie to spend two months readingWaldenas well ( Superman even get him use theFortress of Solitudeto do it ) .
“ Time Alone ” is unique in that it shows a more cerebral side of the ordinarily snarkyGreen Lantern . And prove to everyone that Hal Jordan is a hero who contains multitudes … while in the same emergence , Hal Jordan ’s most unenviable momentreassures his fans that he ’s notalwaysa brilliant thinker .
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