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They say if you repeat a lie often enough it becomes the truth, and there are untruths about Emerald Twilight that have been repeatedly uttered in comic shops and online since 1994 that have become the truth for many people, including this issue’s author, Tony Bedard. I picked the issue up and vowed that I’d try to remind myself that this story has no lasting consequence and make an attempt to look for the positives. So it’s not hard to imagine that this week’s Convergence: Green Lantern/ Parallax #1 is one that hasn’t been high on my anticipation scale as DC revisits the Green Lantern universe during the pre-Zero Hour timeline. It’s no secret that Emerald Twilight is my least favorite Green Lantern story of all time and that those events, coupled with the comics industry’s tactics in the 1990’s, was enough to make me drop the hobby all together. “It’s freakin’ unacceptable he ended up like this”
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