Can Hal Jordan get his old life back?
Now that he has returned to Earth, Hal doesn't really know what to do and the first thing that occurs to him is to win Carol's heart once again but his superhero life might get in the way.
Second chapter in this new series and I still can't help but finding some of the same issues.
Jeremy Adams' main story is mostly devoted about Hal's hi jinks on trying to return to how things used to be on Earth and that of course involves Carol. Credit where credit is due, there's more character work going on here, especially thanks to a conversation between Hal and Kilowog which explores more of what's happening in the protagonist's mind (and is cool that Adams is addressing continuity like what happened during Robert Venditti's run).
Unfortunately, Hal is still annoying as hell, particularly when he's so forceful at "winning" Carol's heart once again, even when her new boyfriend is around and of course treating him very poorly when he hasn't done anything to deserve it (Oh, and speaking of which, never make a character say that a protagonist is "very funny" since that should be obvious for the reader already, especially when they haven't done anything to warrant that and is just ends-up in cringe). Plus, the superhero parts are mostly generic and the little story progress there was apparently is going to be stopped because things needs to tie-in to the next event.
Xermanico's artwork is beautiful though, very vibrant, expressive and follows the script perfectly.
It doesn't help that Phillip Kennedy Johnson's segment is overly-short now. Interesting in terms of character work and ideas but it just needs more pages to develop. Montos' artwork is fitting for a cosmic scale story, the scale is there at least.
Yep, not sure where things are going but they don't seem interesting so far.
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