Re: HAL JORDAN RETURNS IN OCTOBER'S REBIRTH

First of all, Trevor, using the phrase "with all due respect" before telling me my opinion is "bullshit" is like serving that same bullshit on fine china. No matter how you dress it up, it's still an insult. I would like an apology, and suggest that you calm down.

My reference to him dying as GL instead of Parallax was referring to far more than just the name change. If he had died as Hal Jordan, tragic hero, instead of badly-tarnished former hero, it would have been VERY different. There would have been cries from some quarters to bring him back, but with nowhere near the vehemence and organization. The main ammo the "Bring back Hal" camp has used over the past 8-10 years has been how badly he was mischaracterized and treated from 1994-96. If that had never happened, many, perhaps even most, of those people would not have been so militant about it. In my opinion, he would have stayed as dead as Barry Allen; perhaps seen in time-travel, or maybe even as a "spirit," but he would have remained dead.