Written by Geoff Johns
Art by Ivan Reis and Oclair Albert
This was a lot more enjoyable, at least for me, than the last issue. While still very much a rehash of Hal's origin, I guess having more focus and the slight alteration to the cause of Abin Sur's crash just made this issue feel like it was offering me something new that last month's failed to do.
It seems Abin Sur "liberated" one of the inmates he was interrogating last issue and brought him along for the ride to Earth. It appears the alien prisoners fed Abin a story about his ring failing him when he needed it most and, thus, Abin's reliance on a spaceship to transport him to Earth instead of his ring, explaining a major inconsistency in the need for his spaceship all these years.
However, while these prisoners probably told him a great many truths, the fact about his ring failing was designed only to feed his paranoia and fear, making it so that his ring would, in fact, fail him due to his own fault, not because of any prophecy. This allowed the prisoner to escape his ring construct shackles and attack Abin in the cockpit as they approached Earth. During the struggle, the alien tore open the ship and escaped. Abin, slightly injured, refused to leave the ship, as it's crash would have landed in a heavy population center, killing thousands. I assume his ring or, his willpower, was still to weak to protect him or stop the ship. Also, it's never explained if the alien survived re-entry or if he could fly o if he actually escaped.
Meanwhile, Hal Jordan is scraping by a living as a grease monkey working on planes after last issue's antics and attempts to get reinstated in the private sector as a flier for an old friend of his dad's. He refuses, but it's revealed he's selling his business to Carol Ferris in exchange for hiring Hal.
Shortly after, Hal, sitting in a recovered plane that crashed recently receives Abin's ring and is transported to him in much the same way his origin has always occurred. The difference is, Abin was shown programming the ring to transmit all the information he had on the Blackest Night to Sinestro before sending it off to find Hal. The issue ends with Hal flying around like a nut after pondering the meaning of Abin's last words, which ended with him muttering Sinestro's name.
Verdict - Check It. I'm still not sold on the need for this Secret Origin or, at the very least, the need for the rehashed material concerning Hal and Carol and so on. They still don't have enough new material to fill a single issue and I don't think next issue will reveal too much more, either. I'll give it a Check It, as it's a more enjoyable issue than Hal running around as a kid and getting kicked out the Air Force, but this is barely a step above anything you'd find on Wikipedia or from the back issue bins for a quarter, where the story's been told a million times.
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