The Final Night [Paperback]

Ron Marz (Author), Karl Kesel (Author), Stuart Immonen (Author)

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Publication Date: March 1, 1998

Graphic Novel

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: DC Comics (March 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 156389419X
• ISBN-13: 978-1563894190
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 6.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #488,098 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Final Hal Jordan Story, April 17, 2001

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David Suiter (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Final Night (Paperback)

Hal Jordan is the Green Lantern that we all remember from our childhood as he was THE Green Lantern from the 60s to the mid 90s. Hal had been the greatest of the Green Lanterns but when his home town was destroyed he went over the edge seeking revenge. In the Final Night the rogue Hal Jordan storyline comes to an end.

The story is about a great cosmic entity that devours Stars and has come for Earth's Sun. All of Earth's greatest champions unite to help the sun fight off the entity to no avail. Several attempts are made with no progress being made against the Sun Devourer. Many believe that this will be the end of the world as Earth enters its Final Night. Could a fallen champion return and save the day? That is where Hal Jordan comes in.

This book is hurt as this was a major storyline that ran through the individual titles of the DC super heroes and therefore a lot of the story within the trade is lost to the titles that are not reprinted here. The story does not really pick up until Hal Jordan makes his appearance towards the end. So while the story may be somewaht lacking in completeness it is a very dramatic piece as many of the characters realize that for all of their powers and abilities they are helpless against this cosmic threat.

Get this if you are a Hal Jordan fan and want to see his return to being the hero he was always meant to be.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars In Brightest Day, In Blackest Night......, May 18, 2004

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Howard Brown (Illinois) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Final Night (Paperback)

Those word will forever inspire all who reads this to give it all they got with no fear of personal consequences.
A being so powerful to block out the sun and starts to consumes it. None of earth (on eath, off, and even from different time)greatest superheroes could stop it. (Yes even Superman failed) Every means to stop or devert it falls to failure. And in the end, a once hero, now labeled by his peers, a supervillan is called by his succesor: Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner)to help.
This so-called supervillan is Hal Jordan going by the name of Parallax.
Bacially blacked balled by the world for the "Zero Hour" incident, he is face with the decision that would decide the future of not only earth but the entire galaxy if the Sun-Eater prevails. The story give you early hints his fate but it still hold you to every word. At the end he proves that he's still a hero, still the greatest Green Lantern as he recites that famous oath;
In Brightest Day, In Blackest Night..No evil shall escape my sight. Let those who worship evil's might. Beware my power....

Green Lantern Light!!!!!

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars You'll Never Read The Green Lantern Oath In The Same Way...., November 7, 2003

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Edmund Lau Kok Ming (Malaysia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Final Night (Paperback)

DC came out with this comic event in 1996. It is largely written by Karl Kesel (an inker who trained himself to write) and drawn by Stuart Immonen (whose art improved leaps and bounds AFTER this story). Ron Marz put in his best written Hal Jordan story and Mike McKone's earlier art in this book shows how much he's improved today in books like Exiles and Teen Titans (he used to draw all his characters with very short legs!!!).

Anyway, on to the story itself. The plot and main story about an entity(?) called the Sun-Eater about to devour the sun is pretty blah! All it does is set up the story of how all the DC superheroes, including a team up between the Legion's Brainiac-5 and Lex Luthor (in homage to Silver Age Brainiac-Luthor team-ups) failed to prevent the end of all existence as we know it. Then in comes Hal Jordan/Parallax. And the story starts to get REALLY good. Especially the part when Hal goes and make peace with all his loved ones before his final sacrifice (Guy Gardner, the late Ollie Queen, Tom "Pieface" Kamalku and Carol Ferris).

The last scene of Parallax triumphantly undo the effects of the Sun-Eater and recharge the sun while shouting out his oath, "In Brightest Day, In Blackest Night..." is an awesome sight to behold. And you'll never read the words of that oath in the same way after that. It's that kind of scene in mainstream comics that give you that kind of tingling feeling in your spine and makes you say "WOW"!