Green Lantern has been blessed with many tremendous artists over the years, the great Neal Adams, Gil Kane and Mike Grell to name a few. Most recently, Green Lantern has been lucky to have had memorable runs by two tremendous artists Ethan Van Sciver and Ivan Reis. As a Green Lantern fan, I've been looking for a page for awhile, but there were certain constrictions, he had to be holding the lantern and he had to be taking the oath. Happilly the nice folks at the Artists Choice were able to accommodate me with this page that satisfied both those criteria.
In this page, which comes from the soon to be classic secret origin retelling by Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis, a young Hal Jordan is taking the oath for the very first time and lighting up his lantern symbol for the very first time after going through Green Lantern boot camp. Like most other Geoff Johns books, it manages to be a great read while seamlessly explaining new aspects of the Green Lantern mythos (like the floating lantern symbol). Thanks also to the great Ivan Reis, an exceptionally talented artist and a truly wonderful guy, who hesitated and examined the page just long enough to cause me concern about whether he would give it back ( LOL! ), before he signed this page for me at the 2009 NYCC.
