title: Green Lantern: Wanted - Hal Jordan
author:  Geoff Johns 
description: "This is comic book storytelling at its absolute finest"
zlib_text: Table of Contents
  Green Lantern: An Origin Story
  Everything About...
  The Author
  The Illustrator
  Glossary
  Discussion Questions
  
  Everything is quiet. A ship plummets toward Earth. No one can hear the whine of the ship’s
  engines. There is no sound in space.
  
  But inside the craft, things are different. The whir of computer parts is loud. The emergency
  alarms are deafening.
  
  This alien is named Abin Sur. He comes from a world far away from our own.
  He is a champion in that place. But his time is almost at its end . . .
  “Ring,” Abin Sur says. “Find my replacement. Find a man on this world . . . a man who knows no
  fear. Find the next Green Lantern.”
  
  The ring’s answer can’t be heard over the roaring flames. The ship is no longer in outer space. It
  has entered Earth’s atmosphere.
  
  There is nothing quiet about this man or his plane. His name is Hal Jordan. Flying is what he does
  best.
  
  “You’re taking it too high,” someone says through Hal’s headset. The voice belongs to Carol
  Ferris, Hal’s boss