Green Lantern: Earth One Vol. 1 Kindle & comiXology

It’s fantastic. A reimagined world that is interesting to read about. The art work is beautiful. It has great Star Wars vibes without just ripping it off. I definitely recommend for Sci-fi fans and green lantern fans.

I’ve dug all the earth one series and this one doesn’t let up! Great work by the creative team and the story reads smooth with great transitions and awesome storytelling Harold Jordan won me

I've been a fan of Hardman and Bechko's work since they worked on the vastly underappreciated Star Wars: Legacy II for Dark Horse Comics, and have followed much of their work since then. So when they were tapped to tackle one of DC's "Earth One" titles - and better yet, that they were taking on Green Lantern - I was excited. Hardman's artwork in particular has always thrived in a sci-fi setting, and that continues to be the case here. His gritty, almost wearied line-work gives the pages a dynamic sense of motion, and paints a picture of a world that looks both grounded and familiar and starkly foreign. However, if anyone is the star of this book, it might just be Jordan Boyd, whose coloring is surreal and stunning in all of the very best ways. For a book that is predominantly colored in dark and green colors, Boyd extracts a stunning level of vibrancy and detailed from each and every page of Hardman's art in a way that keep the colors from ever feeling derivative of themselves.It also helps that Boyd and Hardman are given no shortage of creativity to work with, as the world Hardman and Bechko - who co-wrote the book - bring to life is one that's familiar to the DC Universe we know, yet stands apart in some key and compelling ways. All of the usual parts of a good comic book are here, but the distinctive execution lends what could have been a run-of-the-mill origin an originality that helps it stand out. Hardman and Bechko's writing is generally good, although some dialogue felt a bit forced, but it's their world-building that shines the brightest. They have set-up a universe I'm very excited to see more of, and hope that in inevitable future installments they get a chance to really move past the setup and make this world and its characters uniquely their own.With all that said, the pacing of the book is arguably its own worst enemy, as even though it catapults the story from moment to moment with exciting transitions and reveals, there is little-to-no breathing room. This leaves most of the principal cast feeling sadly underdeveloped, as we're not given much reason to care about them or their motivations because the characterization is mostly surface level. All of the pieces Hardman and Bechko play with here are exciting, and I have no doubt that future installments will flesh out the cast of character, but I wish they had been given more room to do some meaningful character work.Ultimately, though, "Green Lantern: Earth One" is still a gorgeous book, and Hardman's art and Boyd's colors are so distinctly exciting that they're worth the cost of admission on their own. When paired with a solid origin story that introduces a well of compelling ideas and mysteries, you get a graphic novel that, while lacking some nuance, remains a great read and one very much worth experiencing.

I thought this was a great retelling and reimagination of Hal Jordan's origin story.I really enjoyed it. Looking forward yo reading more of the Earth One titles.

This book is like watching a movie. I loved the reinvention of characters we know so well. I am looking forward to the next book.

LONGTIME Green Lantern fan here. Never read an Earth One comic before, though, so I was curious about what this alternate take on Green Lantern would be like, and I have to say that I quite enjoyed it. This book has all the characters you'll want to see, but with an alternate take on them, and it is interesting to see how they appear in the book, especially when you have this alternative knowledge about them (to see how they fulfill who they will become). This book takes a particularly interesting twist, where there are Green Lanterns around, but they are mostly the stuff of legend as the centrally organized Corps has LONG been disbanded. Everything about this take on the story, I found to be refreshing and great to read about.This also knocks it out of the park for me as GL story because it plays on the strengths of the GL concept. That is, it pretty much all takes place in space. Even from the get go because Hal works in space to begin with, so it's not like he gets the power on earth and becomes some kind of earth superhero first (like we've seen in some versions... like the movie). I think the strength of the GL concept is that they are in space, on other planets, etc. We have enough heroes on earth, and the GL Corps is such a strong concept, I always hate to see when it is just used to explain how GL gets his power, but then just uses it to do stuff on earth. There's a whole sector out there he should be protecting!!!Overall, I enjoyed the book from beginning to end. I knocked one star because there are a couple issues with the story where the pacing is weird, and some important events that are the climax of the book are put into play only by a random occurrence, which was hard for me to buy, even with suspension of disbelief. But the book is totally worth reading, and any true GL fan should have fun seeing this alternate take on the character and "mythology". Check out!

This is a great way to start with GL world, great easy story to enjoy and start learning bout the lantern

Awesome Green Lantern story!

Truly sci-fi visuals, friendship development between hall and kylowog nicely conducted. No earth as the center of universe, only the real and deep space.

It's a nice decent read while passing these Covid times. The Green Lantern was never my favorite character in the pop culture sphere (Cartoon & that awful Reynold movie). But this is a nice introduction of this iteration of the character in a Star Trek meets Interstellar style without years of info lore dump. Hope they make a third book too complete my collection like Superman Earth One.

Estamos ante una historia conocida pero con sus variantes que hacen de este cómic una delicia. Vemos a un Hal Jordán el cual ya no es piloto de avión de pruebas si no un astronauta que busca minerales en los asteroides y una corporación GL que no está en su mejor etapa. No profundizaré más en la historia ya que sería decir spoilers pero es un comic que deben leer sobretodo ahora que ya está anunciado el vol. 2 para este año. Por favor DC no dejes abandonada la linea de Earth 1 ya que es de lo mejor que han publicado y por lo que más quieras Amazon vuelve a distribuir los vol. 3 de superman y vol. 2 de teen titans ambos en pasta dura, solo eso pido. :'(