Funny, but I never understood why people label Hal as bland.
Hal was the one who usually enjoyed having a little fun every once in a while, compared to Bruce whose millionaire playboy persona was only something he kept up for public consumption and Barry who was a bit of a science nerd.
Is it because he doesn't make lame quips while he's fighting some bad guy or break the fourth wall to make a stupidly quick pun?
Hal's a moderately conservative Irish Catholic with a sense for excitement and adventure, but also a sense of honor and duty (being a U.S.A.F/turned private test pilot and a member of an intergalactic peace keeping force)
It just depends on who is writing him (like every other character)
it's because people had no idea how to write the character and would just tack on whatever persona they deemed relevant at the moment. honestly, it wasn't Hal that was bland, it was the stories being told about him for most of his run.
Cooke's New Frontier is probably the best story ever told about Hal and it's mainly just a leadup to his origin and him becoming GL.
