Green Lantern: Earth One Volume One Review

Finished reading Green Lantern: Earth One Volume One, introducing Green Lantern into DC's Earth One publication line as the writing team of Gabriel Hardman and Corinna Bechko reimagine Hal Jordan for this alternative universe. The book opens with a team of miners working on an asteroid along the asteroid belt within the solar system when two of the miners Hal Jordan and his colleague Volkov head inside a crashed spaceship where they discover the remains of long dead alien along with a large, deactivated robot in the craft. After leaving to go back to the rest of their team the craft that Hal and Volkov is broken in half when the power ring that Volkov took from the alien activates who's soon leads to Hal using the ring to try and get back to his crew only for the large robot to awaken and attack Hal, who is lucky enough to beat the robot only to find himself lost on another planet where he soon learns truth of the Green Lanterns and the Manhunters that wiped them out. Overall this was a great book as it brings to life a new and different take on Hal Jordan's origin while also keeping familiar elements for DC's main continuity for fans of the character while also being extremely new reader friendly with how the book has its own unique take on the the Green Lantern mythos. There is a nice amount of character interacts throughout the book that also brings some intriguing development to the characters while also helping to expand on the world building by giving enough focus on how each planet and alien spices that Hal Jordan goes to has different beliefs. The art throughout the book is amazing as it puts a great amount of focus on the designs of each character with how the different species of aliens emote and communicate with one another while also having a great amount of emphasis on the sci fi elements of the book with the Earth based technology having a very dark aesthetic while the more alien looking planets and characters being more fantastical in their aesthetic. 8.5/10.