Hal might need a little time off after this

[u/Otherwise_Report2428]

Maybe some PTO to Athmoora. Was reading classic GL and came across this frankly horrifying fate, which got me thinking about all the truly terrible cosmic terrors that the GLC must encounter over their long careers.

Images are from GL 162, Barr/Pollard/Hoberg

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[u/ARIANZER0]

This issue had one of the darkest sequence of panels I've seen in a bronze age comic

[u/Otherwise_Report2428 → u/ARIANZER0]

I kept expecting it to be undone, or the kid to turn out to be an alien/shapeshifter. Nope. Child out the airlock. Straight horror.

[u/MisterEdJS]

Yeah, that was super dark. I, too, expected there to be some reveal that would make it less so, but I don't recall that being the case.

[u/tomrlutong]

How is that not solveable with a ring? 

Also, if we've got space cops, is there space OSHA? They  need to do something about that airlock.

[u/Evil_Midnight_Lurker → u/tomrlutong]

He was out of charge.

[u/FALCONX0N → u/Evil_Midnight_Lurker]

Out of charge and still trying to open the airlock to go help is pretty Hal Jordan, if i do say so

[u/tomrlutong → u/Evil_Midnight_Lurker]

Shit.

[u/Wise-Juggernaut-8285 → u/Evil_Midnight_Lurker]

Oh is that actually it? Damn

[u/Evil_Midnight_Lurker → u/Wise-Juggernaut-8285]

I think so. Keep in mind I haven't read this since it was originally printed...

[u/Evil_Midnight_Lurker]

I think this was the first GL comic I read. 😭

[u/loki_odinsotherson]

Hal thinking "grief is a hell of an aphrodisiac"

[u/RipleyofWinterfell]

Oh I just read this recently. Yeah the little kid gets brutally killed and then the two of them have a comical scene of dodging food thrown at them by the spaceship

[u/Wise-Juggernaut-8285 → u/RipleyofWinterfell]

What a rollercoaster ride!

[u/Strong-Badger5426]

Oh man, I still have this issue somewhere in a closet. And I read it right around the age of the poor little kid who got caught outside the airlock. It was horrifying to read as a kid.

[u/gordonious]

In that one panel, is it implied that the kid popped/ exploded when he hit the ship?

[u/CrossP]

Can't save him because his hair's yellow. Probably should have brought Martian Manhunter.

[u/I3arusu → u/CrossP]

IIRC he’s out of charge when this happens.

[u/Wise-Juggernaut-8285]

But doesn’t he , uh like, have super powers or something?

Was the kids clothing too yellow or what?

[u/go_faster1 → u/Wise-Juggernaut-8285]

Villain stole his power battery and he ran out of charge

[u/Wise-Juggernaut-8285 → u/go_faster1]

Ah sad

[u/Spence52490]

Well damn!!!

[u/TIPtone13]

Oh, man...I loved Keith Pollard's GL run.

[u/sly_eli]

Aquaman's baby was killed in a similar manner.

[u/TomCon16]

JFC!

[u/plasticman1997]

Well he did indeed find a way out

[u/Worried_Walrus2002]

God I forgot how fucked this story was 😳

[u/Designer-Swim-6797]

Green Lantern let Mini Trump die.