Green Lantern - Secret Origin

Here is a comic with Secret in the title that I can actually get behind. It took me awhile to read Green Lantern -Secret Origin, but now that I've finally finished it, I can say it really paid off for the Green Lantern mythos. At first, I was nervous about having to read another retelling of a superhero origin story, and Hal Jordan in particular has never been that interesting to me. However, with writer Geoff Johns at the helm, I was confident the story would at least be good. The fact the Secret Origin was fantastic proves further that Johns is the best thing DC has going for them; something I've been saying since at least the Sinestro Corps. War.

Secret Origin follows Abin Sur's passing of the power ring to rookie Hal Jordan, which inevitably turns him into the greatest Green Lantern of them all. His subsequent adventures includes his training by his soon-to-be arch-rival Sinestro, his early romance with Carol Ferris, and his first near-disasterous encounter with the Guardians of the Universe. Yet, it is when Johns builds up the prophecy to the "Blackest Night" the Secret Origin takes full shape. He clearly wants readers to feel "Blackest Night" has been preconcieved since the inception of Hal Jordan. Johns may be dabbling with Green Lantern reckoning, but he also offers a new depth to once one-dimensional characters like Abin Sur or Ganthet that gives the franchise a new richness. By the end, Secret Origin will have you salivating for the dark turns to come next.

Ultimately, this is the Green Lantern Origin story to start from, even if it is nearly 50 years past the original origin.

-Jon