Issue Green Lantern 1 Subtitle Down to Earth Date June 1990 Writer(s) Gerard Jones Artist(s) Pat Broderick, Bruce Patterson storyline Hal Jordan put his ring and costume back on and visited JLA headquarters. He wanted to make sure he'd made the right decision: to redefine himself without a ring and without a group of superheroes. Hal wandered around and found a moving train he could hop. After daydreaming a while, someone tossed him out of it. He ended up in a town called Hope Springs. They called it Desolation the last time he was there. He found an old friend, Rose Hardin (formerly Lewis). She was a widow now and offered him food and a place to sleep while he looked for work. Guy Gardner showed up a few days later trying to pick a fight. Rose saw them and Hal left. Elsewhere, John Stewart headed for Oa hoping to get answers and direction in his own life.

Issue Green Lantern 2 Subtitle Pursuit of Happiness Date July 1990 Writer(s) Gerard Jones Artist(s) Pat Broderick, Bruce Patterson storyline Hal took a job on a fishing boat. Guy Gardner, half drunk, wandered into a tattoo parlor and recognized the artist: the Tattooed Man. He tried to convince Gardner that was all in his past and threw the troublemaker out of his shop. He followed him and watched him create a house out of one of his tattoos. Gardner goaded him until he fought back, then led him thousands of miles away to where Hal was. Hal's ring warned him Gardner was approaching and he left his meal to meet the other Green Lantern. Instead of attacking the Tattooed Man, Jordan suckerpunched Gardner. One of his workmates saw him and blew the whistle. He was out of a job again. He wandered off blaming Gardner for his failures. On Oa, John found Priest dead. He feared the last Guardian had gone insane and killed him.

Issue Green Lantern 3 Subtitle Sound and Fury Date August 1990 Writer(s) Gerard Jones Artist(s) Pat Broderick, Bruce Patterson storyline Gardner showed up again. Hal challenged him to a fight - without their rings. Gardner accepted and they left them in the custody of a lady at the diner they were in. While fighting, they were both arrested and thrown in jail. Once in jail, they realized they didn't have their rings. They had the cop call the diner, but it appeared someone had stolen them. The two men with the rings began terrorizing the city. The sheriff came in to the jail in a panic. Jordan convinced him he could get them back, and he did. He also convinced Gardner he wanted to be alone. The remaining Guardian began tearing cities from his past away from their planets and bringing them to Oa. John was powerless against him.

Issue Green Lantern 4 Subtitle Among my Souvenirs Date September 1990 Writer(s) Gerard Jones Artist(s) Pat Broderick, Bruce Patterson storyline While on a job picking fruit, Hal learned the news that Evergreen City had "vanished into space." The JLA was there; John attempted to warn Guy via his ring. Hal had a dream about John and a Guardian. When he woke up, a friend told him about other cities which had been taken - all that were along the path he, Green Arrow, and Black Canary had taken years before. He suited up and flew off. After visiting a site, he knew what he had to do. Once more, Hal Jordan repeated the oath and charged his ring. He flew off to Oa.

Issue Green Lantern 5 Subtitle Back Again Date October 1990 Writer(s) Gerard Jones Artist(s) Pat Broderick, Bruce Patterson storyline Hal got close to Oa and the Guardian touched his mind. The next thing he knew, he was waking up in Rose's home. The Guardian told him he'd placed him there because that's what he wanted. He then woke up there again, without knowledge of the mad Guardian or that they were no longer on Earth. He woke up from the trance and contacted Guy Gardner for help.

Issue Green Lantern 6 Subtitle Two Against the World Date November 1990 Writer(s) Gerard Jones Artist(s) Pat Broderick, Bruce Patterson storyline En route, Guy got another message from Hal. He hopped on a city being transported to Oa and hid out. Once on planet, the newly placed citizens began attacking him (the Guardian had told them all to protect him so he could protect them). Jordan went into the Battery in hopes of upping his power, but it backfired. All three remaining GLs were now captives of the last Guardian.

Issue Green Lantern 7 Subtitle Homecoming Date December 1990 Writer(s) Gerard Jones Artist(s) Pat Broderick, Bruce Patterson storyline The Guardian began attacking those who'd helped Hal fight. The Guardians returned to Oa - they'd received Hal's message. As they took their once comrade to trial, the three Green Lanterns went about stopping the madness he'd caused. Appa Ali Apsa (Old Timer's real name) began to control John again. He was much more powerful than the rest - he'd soaked up Oa's power while they'd been away. The rings belonging to Hal and Guy lost their power. They looked up to find Appa dropping the other Guardians out of the sky.

Issue Green Lantern 8 Subtitle Bringing it Together Date January 1991 Writer(s) Gerard Jones Artist(s) Pat Broderick, Bruce Patterson storyline Hal got one of the other Guardians to stop sustaining the planet - to do the opposite of their nature - in order to sabotage Appa. He got to John and had him project total aloneness into Appa's mind. The Guardian began to break down. The Guardians seized control of their planet and its power. After the madness had died with Appa, the Guardians told the three GLs that they were restoring the Corps. Three assignments would be made (who got what would be decided later): one of the three remaining Green Lanterns would scour the universe for new recruits. A second would remain on Oa and help rebuild. The third would return to Earth.