#0 - This issue is basically a conclusion of the "Zero Hour" story line.  A near powerless Hal Jordan transports himself to Oa in order to recharge his depleted energy.  Kyle is dragged along and gains an interesting insight into the twisted psyche of his predecessor.  Hal is just trying to make things right.  He had realized that just trying to recreate Coast City was too limited.  It was the universe itself that was flawed, and so he felt he had to re-make it in his own image.  He was actually going to try again, but Kyle wouldn't let him.  In order to keep Hal from absorbing more energy from Oa, Kyle destroyed the planet.  Kyle assumed that Hal was killed in the explosion, which left him alone to find his way back to Earth.  This issue takes place between issues 55 and 56.

Green Lantern Annual #4 -  Hal Jordan is back on Earth and stealing old power batteries from former GLs in order to get more power.  He ends up taking Guy Gardner's and Alan Scott's and as he's using them to recharge, Kyle also goes for a recharge and the two switch places.  Kyle goes back in time and becomes Hal, Hal goes back a few years and becomes Kyle.  Kyle's stuck fighting some looser named the Invisible Destroyer while Hal takes out Major Force with relative ease, saving Alex in the process.  Kyle beats the Destroyer very easily and goes to "work" at Ferris Aircraft where he tries to figure the time travel problem out.  He decides to re-create the "accident" that led him here.  At the same time Hal is reveling in the chance to be a hero again and goes to recharge the ring.  The two go back to present where nothing has changed despite the time-travel.  They appear at Alex's grave where they have a short conflict (nothing violent, Kyle's just upset at Hal for being there at all).  Hal insists that he can make everything right, but Kyle swears that he'll be there to stop him.  This is supposed to happen between #67 and #68 (I think), but it makes me wonder, Hal should have all the power he needs from when Ganthet merged with him.  Oh well, it was a pretty good story. . .

Green Lantern/Silver Surfer: Unholy Alliances - This prequel to the DC vs. Marvel crossover takes place before Final Night and after Zero Hour, but that's about all I know about it's chronology.  The book opens in the Marvel universe with the Silver Surfer investigating the destruction of a remote planet.  The entity responsible is still at the scene of the crime, and is able to give the Surfer a run for his money.  It's the Cyborg, the creature responsible for the destruction of Coast City, so it's not surprising that Parallax shows up and starts beating on Cyborg.  The Silver Surfer isn't sure who's side to take, so he stops Parallax, giving Cyborg a chance to escape.  Parallax gives the Surfer his "I just want to make everything right" talk, and convinces him to help.  At the same time on Earth, Kyle is attacked by Terrax - a herald of Galactus - who is kicking butt and taking names.  Kyle is saved by a mysterious entity: Thanos.  Thanos convinces Kyle to help him out in stopping Parallax, and they go to the former site of Oa to try and gather the ambient energy left over from the destruction of the planet.  After Kyle helps Thanos gather the energy, Thanos informs him of his true intentions, gather enough energy to destroy the universe.  About this time, Parallax and the Surfer show up and start to fight Thanos and Kyle.  Surfer has given up a lot of his energy to Parallax, so he's very weak, but able to convince Kyle to stop the two titans from either destroying the universe, or re-creating it.  Kyle manages to siphon off the energy from the two villains, but is unable to contain it, so he channels it into the Silver Surfer.  Thanos and Parallax fall into a dimensional tunnel or something and Surfer follows Thanos into the Marvel Universe, but Parallax's final destination is unknown.  The issue ends with Kyle thinking about how working with the Surfer was pretty cool, but hopes they never meet again.  The final panel shows a glowing cardboard box taped together with duct tape, a key image in the DC vs. Marvel series, in which the Silver Surfer and Green Lantern meet up again.  This issue solidifies my belief that Kyle is easily one of the most powerful entities in the DC Universe, he took out Thanos (big time baddie of the Marvel Universe) AND Parallax, both of them near the height of their power.

Parallax: Emerald Night - A special tie-in to the Final Night series, this issue sees Parallax dispatching the evil Cyborg (who destroyed Coast City) at the edge of the universe.  Immediately after, Kyle shows up and tells Hal about the problem back on Earth (namely, the sun has been eaten by some extra-dimensional entity) and asks for his help.  Hal says he'll think about it and goes back to Earth to say his good-byes.  He stops by Guy Gardner's place first, where he admits that he was wrong.  He then goes to see John Stewart in the hospital and using his power, heals him and tells him that he has a bright future ahead of him, then leaves.  He stops by Oliver Queen's Grave and leaves flowers.  He goes to Ferris Aircraft and says good-bye to a few friends there who knew his secret, including Carol.  In the end it's Carol that convinces him of what he has to do.  He finally goes to the ruins of Coast City and while he's reminiscing Ganthet emerges from within him and offers Hal the ring back.  Hal says he can't take it back and Ganthet disappears (and hasn't reappeared yet, he may have died for all we know).  The book ends with Hal summoning Kyle and telling him that he is willing to help.  In the final issue of Final Night, Hal sacrifices himself by absorbing the sun-eater and re-igniting the sun.  This issue takes place immediately following GL #80.

Green Lantern + The Ray - Kyle pulled an all-nighter in order to meet his deadline, but unfortunately missed the mail truck.  So instead of loosing the job, he takes the package to it's final destination, Japan.  In the meantime, a familiar face takes the Magnetic North research by storm.  Yes folks Polaris is back and he's more powerful than ever.  He tests his power in a small island in the South Pacific by causing a Tsunami (or seismic wave, but not a tidal wave as they keep saying in this issue) that destroys it.  He decides to make a bigger splash (get it, splash, tsunami Ha ha, I crack me up) by destroying Japan (coincidence anyone. . .).  Kyle gets to Japan just in time to save that country's premier super hero, Arashi, but he quickly gets hit by Polaris.  One of the things about Polaris that kept him from being a real threat was his split personalities, one of them was a pacifist, and if this personality became dominant, Polaris would stop his rampage.  Unfortunately, this time that personality has been eradicated and it's been replaced by one even more destructive than the original.  Green Lantern's down when the Ray shows up and saves his butt.  Polaris starts a seismic wave and someone has to stop it.  Ray takes on Polaris while Kyle goes to stop the tsunami, which he does quite handily (something the Flash couldn't do, so there Mike).  The two then team up to try and set Polaris' personalities at odds.  In the end it works and Polaris goes comatose.  Kyle takes his package to the company he was working for and finds out that the woman in charge of advertising is none other than the super hero that he saved earlier in the issue.  She doesn't recognize him, naturally, but he recognizes her.  This issue takes place between issues 81 and 82.

Green Lantern Annual #6 - Kyle buys a piece of art at an auction by a relative unknown named Sebastion Beale.  This makes Kyle begin to wonder, will he ever do anything that will be remembered?  Sure he's Green Lantern, but what about his real love, art, will he ever be remembered for that?  Well, Kyle gets home and begins to admire the painting when he gets sucked into it.  He meets up with a beautiful princess and her escort.  It seems that their world is disintegrating and they are trying to find the God-mage to try and set things right.  Kyle agrees to help, but the ring isn't working very well, it won't create the cool robots or such, it only creates things appropriate for the setting he's in.  After months of travel they get to the God-mages castle and when they get inside it turns out to be Sebastian Beale.  It seems that when he created the painting he became a part of it, and it existed as a real world because of his imagination, but his imagination is dimming, and in turn the world is falling apart.  As he's talking to Beale, the world disappears completely, but Kyle decides to build it again using the ring.  Beale helps him and they re-create the world better than before.  Kyle decides to go back home, even though this world really appeals to him.  When he gets back the painting has changed, much to Jade's surprise. . .   This issue takes place between issues 91 and 92.

Green Lantern/Flash: Faster Friends Part I - About fifty years ago an alien spacecraft fell to Earth and in the interests of "national security" the Flash (Jay Garrick) and the Green Lantern (Alan Scott) were called in to eliminate the threat.  In they're absolute trust of the government (yes there was a time when people trusted the government, hard to believe isn't it?), they never thought that the alien might be peaceful, and attacked unquestioningly.  Having defeated it, Flash and GL were pushed to the background, not even thanked.  Realizing the mistake they had made, they hid the space ship in a place where no one would find it.  Fifty years later, the alien escapes from the government lab that held it prisoner for so long, and he's pissed.  Not only was he locked up for fifty years, but the tests run on him gave him an incurable cancerous disease.  The first thing he does is kill the man in charge of his incarceration, then finds Jay and Alan in order to retrieve the ship.  When the two disappear, their wives contact the most recent Flash and Green Lantern and tell them the story.  The boys aren't happy to be working together, but concede that it's necessary to save Jay and Alan.  Using his ring, Kyle is able to pinpoint Alan's signature and find the buried space ship.  The alien apparently has some pretty powerful psionic abilities and forces Alan and Jay to protect him while he sends out a signal and sets the ship for self-destruct.  Kyle and Wally manage to save Jay and Alan, but don't stop the ship from exploding.  The boys seem to have saved the day, but the alien's final words hang heavy in their minds, something about it being "too late for all of us."

Flash/Green Lantern: Faster Friends Part II - After a quick recap of the last issue, we find that Jay Garrick is dying.  His hyper-metabolism is actually causing a disease that has been slowly killing him, leading up until now.  He has about twenty four hours to live.  That doesn't stop him from finishing his duty, which at this point is to stop an alien invasion.  The message that Alien X (the name of the alien from the previous issue) sent was an "invitation" to a parasitic race that apparently sweeps across worlds leaving nothing in their wake.  Portals have been opening across the world and these aliens have been pouring out.  Jay and Wally go back to the remains of Alien X's ship, only to meet Alan and Kyle.  The younger pair of the quartet decide to go back through one of the portals and fight the aliens on their home turf.  When they arrive, something weird happened, they end up in each other's costumes, thinking they're the other.  These scenes are very amusing: Kyle thinking he's Wally making fun of the Green Lantern, and Vice Versa.  Eventually with the help of Jay and Alan the boys realize who they are, and start kicking butt.  They come across the mother alien and manage to drive it off, convincing it that it's actions are wrong.  The alien also gives them transportation off the planet, in the form of four portals.  They figure out that what happened earlier with the mistaken identities was because Kyle and Wally went through the same portal, thus the alien offered four portals, one for each of them.  Alan suggests that if he and Jay enter one portal at the same time, some of his healthy cells would transfer over to Jay's.  Jay suggests that this could work the other way as well and won't let Alan risk it.  Alan goes ahead and risks it, and (surprise, surprise) it works, Jay is cured, and there are no ill-effects to Alan.  Both Jay and Alan tell the boys that they hated each other when they started out, but became best friends, and if Kyle and Wally can overcome the friction that their relationship seems to be based on, they might just become the best team ever.  That's saying a lot considering the legacy, first Alan and Jay, then Barry and Hal.  Those are some tough acts to beat.  These issues take place around the time of GL #83.

Green Lantern/Sentinel: Heart of Darkness - This three part mini-series retells the origin of Alan Scott, the first Green Lantern, and has interesting repercussions for the future.  Way back in GL #96, Jade disappeared from Kyle's apartment, and that's about where this story begins.  In issue one, Alan shows up and asks Kyle for help in finding Jade.  They start their search in a mental institute where Jade's former boyfriend - Brainwave Jr. - is being treated.  Brainwave attacks Kyle and Alan and nearly drives them crazy when Obsidian (Jade's brother, very overprotective...) shows up and nearly kills Brainwave.  Issue two picks up at this point with Alan and Kyle stopping Obsidian.  This doesn't last for long as Obsidian plays placid for a while before attacking again.  This time he appears to be a lot more powerful and wins, teleporting our heroes to a strange realm where the Starheart reigns.  The Starheart is the source of all Alan's powers, random magic that was banished by the Guardians at the dawn of time.  It has now regained sentience and is planning on remaking the universe in his image.  He has chosen Obisidan and Jade to help him in this quest as they gained their abilities from the Starheart through Alan.  Being the protective father, Alan wants to keep his daughter out of harms way, so he offers to give up his powers if Starheart will not force Jade to be his servant.  Starheart accepts and Alan becomes an old man, clutches his chest and falls to the ground.  In issue three, Kyle takes care of him while Jade takes charge of the situation.  She accepts the powers of the Starheart, for there would be no other way to defeat it otherwise.  Jade surrenders herself to the power and manages to defeat it.  Kyle helps pull her back once the Starheart is defeated and everyone appears in a wheat field in the middle of nowhere.  Alan's powers have returned to him, and he has returned to the age he was prior to this ordeal.  Jade however made a major sacrifice, she lost her powers in giving her father back his.  Now she's just a normal, green-skinned woman.  This story takes place between GL #96 and #97

Green Lantern Secret Files #1 - This book isn't much new to someone who has been reading since the beginning, but it offers some interesting insights.  For example, Kyle wasn't the first person offered the ring after Hal went crazy.  The Guardians wanted someone more seasoned, and when that person turned it down, Ganthet gave it to the next person he found.  That person... Guy Gardner.  He didn't want to be the Guardian's lackey again so he turned it down.  There's some good stuff in this issue, and some stuff to look forward to.  In the profiles section there is a new villain that will be appearing next year.  Hopefully he'll last long enough to make up part of Kyle's Rogues Gallery (something the boy has desperately been missing).  Other stuff... A peek into Kyle's sketch-book, an interview with Jade, plus profiles of many comrades and villains.  This book takes place before Kyle goes off on his time jaunt in issue 98.
 
Green Lantern Annual #7 - I know I've ripped on the "concept" annual quite a bit, and this year was just as bad, for the most part.  However, this book was the exception to the rule, in fact it was FANTASTIC.  Kyle is in the LA area and begins thinking of Alex, and how he's still not put her memory to rest.  He continues to reminisce on this while saving some people from an accident.  One of the vehicles explodes and Kyle is saved by a green force shield, not of his making.  He initially thinks it's Hal, until the being reveals himself to be Abin Sur, the Green Lantern who gave Hal his ring.  Abin directs Kyle to an anomoly that's bringing people back from the dead, and has the potential to destroy the known universe.  Kyle rushes off, and finds Mogo, a living planet that was in fact a Green Lantern (and should be dead, by all rights).  He lands and finds several supposedly dead former Green Lanterns.  They attack him and when Kyle asks who is behind it, a dastardly villain shows himself... Nekron, lord of the dead (or some such nonsense...).  Apparently there is actually some higher force bringing souls back from the dead, and it's caused a rupture between the world of the dead and the living, through which he can control the spirits of the dead that have come back (yeah, it's a bit complicated, but it makes sense, just read it).  Kyle figures that if the dead are causing the rupture, the solution must be to get rid of the wandering souls.  He takes an action that is appalling to him, but the only one he can take: Kill the GLs.  He does so, and throughout, thinks of how Hal did the same thing, thinking it was the right thing to do then as well.  He finishes the dastardly deed and goes home.  He goes to Alex's grave and sets his feelings at ease.  This issue takes place sometime in the Emerald Knights storyline, which include issues 101-106.  This was not only the best Annual this year so far (and considering that all but one of them is out, that's saying a lot), but it's also the best GL annual that I've read so far.  I loved this issue and nearly renewed my faith in the concept annual.  For your information, the only other annual worth anything so far was the Martian Manhunter annual, but the JLA annual isn't out yet, and it may be pretty good, we'll see.