#87 - This issue begins in Kyle's apartment where Jade is doing some photography, but is interrupted by a guy named Access (if you haven't read DC Vs. Marvel you really should). He claims he's looking for Kyle, but since he isn't there he goes to bother "that guy on the surf-board." It cuts to the JLA Watchtower, where Kyle is still in awe of being included with all the big guns. Being included in the JLA does have it's down-side though, as he has to stay on the Watchtower for monitor duty. He and the Martian Manhunter stay behind while everyone else returns to Earth. Kyle is a little set off by J'onn, as he is so obviously alien, but when an alien spaceship starts terraforming LA, all discomfort is set aside. Kyle fights his way inside and finds a dead crew. He's about to blast the ship, when J'onn stops him and figures out what is going on. The ship was programmed to terraform a planet, and restart the dead race, and it picked Earth to do this on. Kyle then suggests another locale and they reprogram the ship to terraform Mogo, a former Green Lantern. I'm not sure how this works, but the planet itself was a GL, and when the Corps was destroyed, the planet "ceased... being what it was." J'onn and Kyle fly off, the last Green Lantern and the last green Martian.
#88 - Kyle is visiting the grave of Alex (you remember, his girlfriend killed by Major Force) and reminiscing about what's been happening in the past couple years since he got the ring. While there he runs into Alex's sister who is incredibly upset at him for missing the funeral (if we remember our history lesson, Kyle was trying to find his way home after fighting Hal Jordan in Zero Hour. She slaps him and tells him that he has no right to be there and that he'd better not come back, ever. He says good-bye to Alex and takes off with Donna to LA to visit his mom. He tells Donna that he hasn't been on good terms with his mom for quite a while, that she never treated him like he was an adult, in fact, he hasn't talked to her since he got the ring. En route to his mom's place, he stops a fire at Star Labs, where Donna accuses him of stalling. When he finally gets to his mom's house, she asks to see the costume, which surprises Kyle, but she just tells him that a mother can tell these things. While trying to catch up on things, Kyle mentions that he tried to find his father, which sends his mom over the edge. Apparently, that was something they never talked about, and this starts a fight between the two and ends with Kyle walking out. The issue ends back in Star Labs with some computer equipment building itself into "The Machine Messiah" as it calls itself. . .
#89 - Kyle's going out for a night on the town with his mom and her boyfriend, who is amazingly, a research scientist at Star Labs, who Kyle saved earlier that day. As they're picking him up at the lab, there is a huge explosion and Dr. Hollis is badly hurt. Kyle becomes Green Lantern and starts to get his butt kicked by The Machine Messiah. The problem here is that the robot can logically predict everything Kyle does. Kyle eventually gets smart and starts letting his imagination run wild. This leads to a pretty cool scene that you'd have to see to believe (and maybe I'll scan it and put it up for you to see). Kyle wins but the issue ends on a pretty sad note. Donna gets a phone call that really shakes her up, and she ends up crying in Kyle's arms.
#90 - What exactly was Kyle doing in the alley the night that he was given the ring? That's what this issue deals with. He meets up with one of his college pals, who hasn't been doing to well in the past couple years. Not only does he have a dead end job, but he's an alcoholic. Way back that fateful night a couple years back, Kyle was helping his friend to the restroom and needed to get a breath of fresh air, so he stepped outside. That's when Ganthet fell to earth and gave the ring to our hero. Kyle realizes that if he hadn't received the ring, he might have been in the same situation as his friend, not doing anything with his life and spending his nights drinking. Kyle convinces his friend to get some help, but only after he's involved in a car wreck because of alcohol. Kyle works things out with his mom and heads back to New York, unfortunately, without Donna. The phone call she got in the last issue was someone informing her that her ex-husband and child were in a car accident and her son is dead, and she decides she needs to handle this alone.