Who Defiled Hal Jordan’s Grave?
Let me be up-front with this, I’m picking a nit here. But, it’s the kind of thing that Geoff Johns does (especially in Green Lantern) that really grates sometimes. If it was an isolated thing, it wouldn’t bug me at all. But Johns does this sort of thing habitulally. What am I talking about? Retcons. And not just retcons for the sake of making fixing a broken character. I can handle Johns’ Hawkman retcons. I can even swallow his Parallax retcons because (even though they fly in the face of years of Green Lantern continuity) they were necessary to make Hal Jordan viable. So, okay. I’ll play ball. But the retocn in blackest Night #0 just felt completely unnecessary. It’s so minor, most readers probably didn’t notice it at all. The line I’m referring to is when Hal tells Barry that after he died, his grave was defiled. And not by his enemies. No, Hal claims his grave was defiled by his former allies. This claim seems to have gone unquestioned by most of the internet, but it just rang false
