Green Lantern's Most Humiliating Defeat Came From Batman, Apparently
Warning: Spoilers for Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #4!
In DC Comics, staple Justice League members Green Lantern Hal Jordan and Batman have butted heads more than once, and now Bats has revealed he once took Hal down with a well-placed yellow brick! Suffice it to say, a Green Lantern’s outdated weakness to the color yellow never did these cosmic space cops any favors, and of course, Batman never could resist exploiting a good flaw.
Touched on in Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #4, by Mark Waid and Dan Mora, this series has focused on the untold adventures of Batman and Superman well before the current DC Comics continuity. Still in the midst of telling its opening story arc, this series has immediately drawn fans in with gorgeous and colorful art and a script that feels just right for the characters swept up in it, with young versions of Dick Grayson — still clad in Robin attire — and a relatively new-to-the-scene Supergirl only adding to the book’s allure.
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A loss hinted at while Batman and Superman battle a possessed Hal Jordan, it’s not until Superman is nearly taken out by Hal’s newly magically imbued ring that fans are let in on a secret defeat that Hal most certainly doesn’t want anyone to know about. After jumping in front of Superman and deflecting the ring’s beam before Big Blue is incinerated by it, Batman can’t help but comment on their current predicament and sneaks in an off-hand reveal that gives readers a hint as to what may be Green Lantern Hal Jordan’s most humiliating defeat.
Blocking the incoming magic with all his might while Superman recovers, Batman looks back to his partner and says, “I miss the days when you could just
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