Where to Start Reading Green Lantern 

I would start with Geoff John’s’ run I know I’m skipping Zero Hour and Kyle’s journey but it’s just a perfect starting point and John’s explains everything so well It also introduces the origins of all the other lantern corps

I think I started off Green Lantern by reading Blackest Night. I really enjoyed that comic so I went and started reading all the comics in order. (Well, technically not all of them since I started reading from when Hal Jordan became Green Lantern, not Alan Scott). It took me a whole year, but I eventually caught up. I haven't really met other Green Lantern fans in real life, but I like explaining to people I meet why I enjoy the comics and I hope to maybe convince someone else to check them out.

I was a huge Green Lantern fan… 30+ years ago, and dropped out of comics at some point. I’m trying to figure out how to get back into my old favourites Daredevil, the X-Men, and GL. There’s a pleasant simplicity to someone telling you exactly. What. You. Must. Read. But every time I see one of those “the right way” videos, it seems a) like a hell of a lot of work, and b) severely constraining. Thanks for this, “it’s all good” approach.

It was around 2006 or so, but I randomly picked up the second issue of Geoff Johns' GL "No Fear" story arc. I was very confused at where things were in the story, but I always remembered being creeped out by the blue guy who always said "N-no....man..."

I start came late into my teen years when Blackest Night was current and that was my first ever comic book purchase. I knew about the DC Universe through the animated series around the time but I didn't know everything. GL Hal Jordan got me into comics as a whole. It was slightly overwhelming but I'm glad I've stuck with it. I hope more people will see how amazing GL lore can be. 💚

I started with Green Lantern Vol. 1 #1-38 that ran through the 1940s. I was a big sci-fi fan and aware of the Green Lantern mythos thanks to DC animation so knew I would love this character and I did. Since then, I've dabbled around but I'm very happy I started chronologically with the Silver Age.

Hal Jordan kinda got a post Crisis origin story back in the day called Emerald Dawn parts 1 & 2. These have probably been over shadowed by Johns' Secret Origins story, but I still like them.

It’s a good thing that Johns run is in trades.

My first ever GL story was Sinestro Corp 1. Talk about being dropped in the middle of it! But because the story was so great on it's own it made me want to explore the past. Then I found Emerald Twilight/New Dawn and it cemented me as a GL fan. Now they are my favorite heroes

My first Green Lantern was Emerald Dawn #1. It was the perfect place to start following Green Lantern, followed up by The Road Back which showed me the other popular green lanterns of the time. Unfortunately both these are out of print and likely to remain so for a while.

Thus far I've only read 4 Green Lantern runs: I started with the Emerald Dawn 1 and 2 origin story. The reason why I wanted them is simply because I didn't know anything about Green Lantern that the movie and the Injustice videogame series told me about him, and I wanted to at least read his in-comic origin story so I had a more solid ground to stand at. It wasn't fantastic as what attracted me to Green Lantern were the complex and larger-than-life lore surrounding him. It was in Emerald Dawn, sure, but it was too cheesy to really hit me. It was still a pretty decent read but not enough for me to call myself a fan. And that's why my third Green Lantern run was Far Sector! I wanted to read something that had what I was looking for but didn't require too much context. Far Sector was awesome; Hal Jordan's still my man but I really liked Mullein and her dry sense of humor. The tone, the intrigue, world building and pretty much everything was so captivating I just knew it was time to start taking Green Lantern to heart. And now I'm currently reading the Gerard Jones' run and loving every page of it, I'm not that far off but it's by far the brand I look forward to read the most tbh. Can't wait to have a good green chunk under my belt so that I can interact with other Green Lantern fans. This brand is so awesome, goddamn.

I started with Kyle Rayners new 52 run and realy liked it green lantern new guardians was just charming to me.

I loved green lantern rebirth with Jessica Cruz and Simon baz because that series was really awesome and badass

Great video!! I jumped into Green Lantern at a perfect time for me. My first issue was the tie in issue for the Return of Superman. I forgot to remove it from my pull and a few issues later Emerald Twilight started and Kyle Rayner was introduced. I was hooked instantly.

I'm partial to emerald dawn, because that's where I was introduced. I'm also a Hal fanboy. Because, in his body, he has zero fucks. He's going to do what's right, and he's going to do it his way. Modern efforts to humanize him are okay, but give me the Hal Jordan that terrifies Parallax.

Good advice for starting out. I think a video covering where you start with each main lantern could help to.

I started with Ron Marzs Green Lantern/Silver Surfer crossover lol it got me into my favourite characters, and in general DC and Marvel Cosmic and I never looked back.

I got to love G'nort though the late 80's Justice League, and his stories in Green Lantern Corps Quarterly, especially.

My first Green Lantern comic was the collected edition of Green Lantern Rebirth by Geoff Johns. I knew next to nothing about the characters but I loved that story. Ten years and hundreds of dollars later I'm still forking out for GL books. With the exception of Morrison's run, I have loved all of them, even the movie (no, seriously). 👍👍

I started with secret origin personally and loved it. I went back and read from post crisis after thise 7 issues though.

Never had a GL book before, but I know so much about them (but so little due to the lack of actually reading the issues and only going off of summaries from Wiki pages). I think they are one of my favourite DC heroes/groups. Probably top five, if not in the top three, for favourite super heroes of all. Anyway, I started reading Hal Jordan and The Green Lantern Corps. The first issue is when Hal forges a new ring out of pure will with the aid of the Gauntlet of Krona. Or whatever it's called. Funny thing is they never depict where he puts it when he takes it off and puts the ring on. Then he just flies away. A few panels before that he was saying the Gauntlet was hidden because it was too dangerous and it sounds like it was the reason why he was becoming pure will. Comic logic man. Anyway, after reading Vol.2 I felt like I want to go back and read the Sinestro Corps War. Maybe even go further back and read the war of light and then the Blackest Night. Eh, I'll figure it out.

I got two issues of Mosaic in '94 from a guy and thought little of it (at 11), but they did introduce me to Hal, John and the fact that there were a bunch of lanterns out there, later he gave me GL 58 of the Marz run. Though the story itself wasn't much, the letters pages basically explained the whole Emerald Twilight saga and I HAD to know more! I soon found a shop with loads of back issues and (because the newer stuff wasn't there) decided then to start close to when I was born - When it lost the GA co-title in late '79. Thanks to that, some of my earliest reads were the fantastic 'Tales of...' backup series of the 80's. Funny thing is, I only got around to reading Emerald Twilight last year!

I got into the Golden Age GL, first. I read Alan Scott's adventures with the All-Star Squadron. I got into Hal Jordan during The Death Of Superman storyline, which led to Emerald Twilight. I really got into Green Lantern during Kyle Rayner's run as GL. John Stewart was one of my favorite characters on the animated Justice League series, so I read a lot of comics with him.

I started with Geoff Johns' run and read GL corps alongside and I've been picking up every issue ever since. Loved Venditti's run and loved Morrison's run, undecided whether I'm going to pick up Thorn's run but I probably am.

Green Lantern is my favorite hero. Specifically kyle rayner, as i am more like him than the others. It would be a huge responsibility though, too, but im down. 😂

I love Peter j Tomasi Superman and super sons and his green lantern run I thought was super underrated in my opinion.

Thank you for your help.

Thanks! This is helpful. Calming even. Started w/ Earth One books by Bechko & Hardman. And those are wonderful first contact Sci-Fi stories! Now reading Geoff Johns run. Mainly because it's the only thing getting printed in Russian.

Great video for new fans

I only recently started getting into Green Lantern. I had seen the animated series when it aired and vaguely knew the gist of things but hadn’t actually dived deep into the comics. Reading the JLA by Grant Morrison omnibus got me interested in Kyle so I picked up the modern trades of his run, overall really liked them, and now I am set on reading the rest of his title digitally. I’m already planning on getting the Geoff Johns omnibuses once I’m done with Kyle, call me hooked.

Fantastic Video!

I actually own both Kyle issues you mentioned I love the one with Superman

Maybe it's time for me to finally get into Green Lantern. I don't know why but I actually read Blackest Night and Wrath of The First Lantern from way back without reading anything before that to understand the context.

I started off by reading emerald twilight and jumped to rebirth after green lantern #56. Continued with the Johns run into New 52 which is where Im at right now

I will try

I happened to pick up the first collective comic (omnibus?) of the Geoff Johns run, and am reading the Sliver age omnibus 1 because I heard Hal was super clumsy and funny in that, although it may actually be one of his Bronze Age traits? It's still great though and makes random sense!

I started with Geoff Johns because I got into DC Comics by his run on Teen Titans

I started with Secret Origin and I also read Rise Of The Third Army. Now I'm like "errr........now what" :P

I actually stared reading around issue 148 of Hal Jordan’s run. I read it off and on until around the new 52 and have been keeping up with the titles and getting the stuff I missed. I pretty much did as you are suggesting.

Geoff John's is definitely the best jumping on point. If you're confused with Rebirth though maybe read Secret Origins then go back and start his run from the beginning

I started reading issues from the 60s where John takes over for hal then moved to rebirth....I like all is work and this wan no except read rebirth then go into sinestro corps wars right after and have a blast

When i get asked this question I usually ask them which Lantern do you like the most, and I direct them from there.

Man I need a Stewart run

Personally, the comics I read need to be in chronological order, if I read a Batman story where Gordon is captain, then read another one and suddenly he’s commissioner, my brain wants to explode. I’ve only read the emerald dawn story from the 90s, so I was wondering if there’s any comic that picks up shortly after that story concluded, and if not the closest thing to that, I don’t wanna read a comic right after with a bunch of new lore or characters introduced, I’m aware reading comics (that aren’t part of one run) in order is pretty difficult but I’d like to try. I’ve mostly been reading Batman so with series like legends of the dark knight and Tim sale and jeph loebs Batman books, it’s pretty easy to figure out the closest thing to a chronological order, but with other heroes it seems pretty difficult.

hey man i'm starting with green lantern and i read the post-crisis emerald dawn I and II where should I go next.

Having access to dc infinite universe where would you suggest I start?

What do I read after Emerald Dawn 1 and 2? I’m kinda stuck there

Great video! I started with: Green Lantern: 80 Years of the Emerald Knight, Deluxe Edition, and Green Lantern: Rebirth, Deluxe Edition. Was going to get the 3 Omnibuses by Geoff Johns but that will run me over $400.00 (in Canada), so figured I only go forward after Rebirth. Not really anything I can find in Deluxe or Omnibus thought. That's the only way a collect stuff. Hoping they do release Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps run by Robert Venditti in Deluxe or Omnibus but no luck so far. Do you know of any other Deluxe or Omnibus that has been issued for anything after rebirth? Thanks, James 😁

What music are you using at the start of the video? I recognise it but I can’t think of where from and it’s driving me crazy haha

Started with 2003 Rebirth.

Is “Blackest Night Saga (DC Essential Edition)” a hard read for beginners? I want to start reading Green Lantern comics but don’t know where to start 🤔

It's funny I started it in a much similar way. Also with Kyle Rayner lantern . However mine was issue 95. Where is said green lantern verse robotworld. I just thought the cover was super dope and so was the character the design. I went back and bought every Ron Marz issue. To me he was Ike Jane Austen. I thought he was a genius lol. Of course then we had the follow up run by Winnick. What is DC thinking but not making these into some omnibus editions? It's almost crazy to me how short the career of Ron Marz was.

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huge blue lantern fan any idea wat comics i should go outa my way to get? i just realy like the idea of hope

Make Green Lantern and Star Sapphire's Relationship Canon in the DC Comics

„I can’t decide where to start“. „Good News you can start anywhere you want!“ „But I can’t decide where to start!“ This Videos in a nutshell.

I'm the type that basically wants to stand up from my chair, point my finger and yell "NO, FUCK YOU! THERE IS A CORRECT PATH!!". I am a completionist generally and obviously the best way is to read everything starting at Green Lantern #1 in the golden age era, how else are you gonna understand the current DC timeline??? Oh boy.... I've tried the golden age approach, silver age approach, new 52, rebirth, geoff johns... As more years go by and after each failed attempt in terms of trying to read everything, you realize that people are completely correct in recommending "runs". Its the writer and not the character that makes for a good story. Green Lantern will not consistently be amazing through +80y of writing, that's just logic. Start anywhere and pay attention to writer/artist and just go from there. Timeline means nothing in DC at this point anyway.

Good video. But you should of shouted out the vendetti run !

can you explain white lantern i have the comic but i was confused

should I read Geoff Johns or is he too much of a Joss Whedon level bad guy not worthy of my money?

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Anime

OK but maybe some recomendations instead of endless rambling

All that vocal fry, this video seems to be narrated by one of the kardashians 😖