Now I ask you, what are you gonna do?

How come random black guy has heard of him then?

>Black people are ignorant of the news
Raimi. come on now.
I did forget to mention Hal is/was JLA. The world-saving superteam? Those guys. Plus news would just travel city-to-city

So Green Lantern never saved the planet Earth?

>So Green Lantern never saved the planet Earth?
Help = gibs. He's mad because GL didn't give him handouts.

Is Hal a conservative?

Yes, actually.

Well, he was
But after this episode and some hippie jesus issue, he became kinda liberal kinda conservative

Yeah. It’s actually a fairly important part of his characterization.

Isn't that only in HTH, and at a stretch, JLA? There's nothing wrong with it, in terms of writing, but his political views were there so that Ollie could have something to be argue against effectively.

We already know what he's doing for the orange skins.

Who wrote this scene?

I bet you get handouts and you're just mad because the "other" is getting it.

Did some searching. It was Gerard Jones. Unfortunately, that dulls the impact, but the scene works in context. It was after Hal was setting things back up on Earth and had neglected the rest of his sector. It probably wasn't a jab, so much as wanting a re-do with a bit more depth than Hal being a doormat like in GL/GA
cbr.com/meta-messages-gerard-jones-asks-green-lantern-a-question-about-skin-color/
vulture.com/2018/04/green-lantern-green-arrow-76-woke-superheroes.html

I like that the implicit statement here is that conservatism is so easy to argue against that its mere presence makes liberalism look good.

>Ollie's portrayed as the down to Earth hippie
>slaps his ward for doing heroin and when having a moment of reflection as to how his leaving might've had something to do with it just says, nah the kid was old enough to know better
Why is Hal the asshole in Green Lantern/Green Arrow again?

You can infer what you like, tho that wasn't quite what I meant.
Check the second article I linked here. Hal became a hardline Conservative for no reason other than to say something bad so that Ollie could make a speech about how it was bad and the reader would like it because they agree with Ollie. And Hal would either trail off an explanation or begin one, and look worse. While I also agree with Ollie, it's shitty OOC positioning of Hal.
It's like a Quasar/Spider-Man team-up where Quasar suddenly starts spouting racist rhetoric that makes no sense for him to say so that Spider-Man can tell him not be racist. Racism is bad, but so is the way the message was achieved.

That said
>Good comic
>Good idea that led to an important comic that tackled social issues in a way that arguably hadn't been done before
I have no issues with those. But goddamn, by the creative team's omission Hal was just slotted into a personality that fit what was needed.

>His job and responsibilities lie elsewhere
Than his own planet?

He's in charge of thousands of inhabited planets in his sector. You'd rather GL waste his time helping an old lady cross the street than let a race of bird-people die from an invasion?

You're aware that Sector 2814 doesn't refer to just Planet Earth, yeah? He took over all the planets under Abin Sur's watch

Yep, he's a space cop for a reason.

Wish we could see that in the comics for once. Even when he's in space he's usually considerably far off from Earth.

Didnt Neal Adams call out Dennis Oneil on this by the end of the junkie Speedy arc? I read Adams was pissed with Ollie acting holier-than-thou so he had Speedy punch him out

Neal Adams also make John "OH LAWDY LAWDY CALL ME THA BLACK LANTERN YA HONKEY CRACKA" Stewart, so I'd sooner take O'neil's word on it than his.

Hard-Travelin' Heroes was preachy cringe that got elevated because the people reading it agreed with its message.