The Latest ‘Lanterns’ Mystery Deepens With an Eye on Its Endgame
One of the things that is both a blessing and a curse in any comic book adaptation is that when you kill a character, you can always come up with a way to bring them back. In the case of Lanterns, Hal Jordan might be dead, but John Stewart has resurrected his Sentry to help in the investigation. And why the heck is this episode starting in a whole other year yet again?
- ▪One of the things that is both a blessing and a curse in any comic book adaptation is that when you kill a character, you can always come up with a way to bring them back.
- ▪In the case of Lanterns, Hal Jordan might be dead, but John Stewart has resurrected his Sentry to help in the investigation.
- ▪And why the heck is this episode starting in a whole other year yet again?
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| Publication time | Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:00:26 +0000 |
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One of the things that is both a blessing and a curse in any comic book adaptation is that when you kill a character, you can always come up with a way to bring them back. In the case of Lanterns, Hal Jordan might be dead, but John Stewart has resurrected his Sentry to help in the investigation. How far will that go? Who killed Hal in the first place? And why the heck is this episode starting in a whole other year yet again? Let’s recap the penultimate episode of Lanterns season one. The year is 1975, and a young Hal Jordan has a black eye. He got into a fight with his entire baseball team when he disagreed with the coach’s decision to pull him from the game and refused to give up the ball.
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