The Green Lantern #5 - "Blackstar at Zenith"

[laughing_tree]

What I hope people take from it is that you can tell slightly more low-key adventures. I think it becomes an arms race that’s unwinnable to continue to keep topping everyone’s world-ending scenario. It can be fun, but I think we’ve all done it for so long now that it becomes yet another trope. So the idea was to just take it back to the everyday. And you don’t have to worry about the end of the universe, you just have to worry about telling a decent story. You know, having some good characters and things that get raised and then resolved. And little subplots. It seems to make it easier, and I think it also makes it more universal, storytelling-wise, when it’s not about gigantic crises. It’s about stories we understand but are not necessarily on an epic scale. -- Grant Morrison

Comments

[doodleboy]

Grant Morrison sure loves David Bowie huh....

Also Liam Sharp's art is gorgeous.

[strejdaking]

Kind of retro, isn't it?

[viridian5]

Yep, and I'm loving it.

[doodleboy]

Greg Rucka compared him to Barry Windsor Smith during his Wonder Woman run, so yeah a fair bit retro.

His style reminds me of a bunch of artists. One part BWS, one part Frazetta, one part Totleben.

[mastermahan]

What I hope people take from it is that you can tell slightly more low-key adventures. I think it becomes an arms race that’s unwinnable to continue to keep topping everyone’s world-ending scenario... So the idea was to just take it back to the everyday.

This is the series where the Earth was stolen, shrunken, and sold to a Christian God impersonator who gave humanity superpowers. That was a single issue. Conversely, Grant Morrison once got eight issues out of a diabetic kid going downstairs for a soda.

Then again, Morrison probably has a very different definition of "everyday".

[tcampbell1000]

You gotta respect the stones that motivate the Guardians to say, "Hey, Lantern Jordan, remember how many times you've given the middle finger to our authority, not even counting that time you were under an alien influence and basically killed us all? Let's make that work for us."

[empgonzo]

Everything on Vorr(e) consumes... hmm.