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A lot of people still are like, "Oh, Jo's the Green Lantern, but she's only in it a little bit with all this large ensemble cast that keeps expanding." [...] Jo's not the Green Lantern. Jo has the green power. There's a difference. The Green Lantern is that big thing that's currently on the moon. Nobody knows what the hell it is. That's the Green Lantern. That's what the book's about. -- Al Ewing

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Introducing the Absolute versions of not one, but two of the most beloved characters in DC history!

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I think my favorite part was realizing that Green Lantern didn't have to be a person. The Absolute Green Lantern is a large object from space that landed on a town. There are other lanterns, and they are also large objects in space. None of the people in the book are lanterns. -- Al Ewing

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It’s all about unknowability. It’s about the horror of unknowability. It’s Green Lantern as a cosmic horror. The thing about Green Lantern in the regular DC Universe is that it’s a known quantity. Everyone in the universe knows the Green Lantern rules. Everyone understands, at this point, that you have the Green Lanterns, Yellow Lanterns and Red Lanterns. They know that the Green Lantern is weak against Yellow, they need to recharge their rings—there are rules. The structure of the Green Lanterns and Guardians, they’re like a known police force. -- Al Ewing

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Are the straights okay? Hal Jordan is, to my knowledge, straight, and he is not okay. Jo Mullein isn't straight but isn't doing that well either, frankly. It's the Absolute Universe, folks! Nobody is okay. -- Al Ewing

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There’s a lot of that biblical stuff in there. I told someone else it was one of my comics where I try to solve God. I have an ongoing relationship with religion in my work, from a very agnostic perspective, but I work a lot of that out on the page. -- Al Ewing

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laughing_tree

Originally I wanted John Stewart to be the main protagonist, and I wanted him to be around forty-five. I sat down one day and thought to myself ‘Do I want to do another haunted old man comic? Do I want to do another comic about an older man?’ A lot of my comics seem to be about old men. I was getting notes about how passive John was in the book as well. I was searching for who else could be the protagonist after that, and I had plans for Hal, and I needed somebody who cuts through really well. That’s Jo Mullein. -- Al Ewing

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laughing_tree

As to why we did what we did to Hal, I think Hal can take it is the short version. If Hal can't take it, then he's not the character I thought he was. But I'm sure if you're a fan of Hal, yeah, you know he can take it, you know he can take some lumps. He's a big enough character to take the knocks. -- Al Ewing

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laughing_tree

The big thing here is that nobody knows what the Green Lantern is. In the regular DC Universe, Green Lantern is like a known thing all over Earth. Everybody sees that symbol, they know, "Oh, it's one of those space cops with the rings." No space cops, no rings, no lanterns. What is the Green Lantern? It's an enormous object that has fallen on a town... -- Al Ewing

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I get about as riled as I can get about these things nowadays when other creators choose to artificially raise the stakes in their stories by destroying characters and concepts before they even get a chance to be explored. How can I ever forgive my former Batman editor and pal Peter Tomasi for killing Red Racer, the gay Flash of Earth-36 thereby destroying his relationship with Flashlight, that world’s version of Green Lantern, and killing a newly-created queer character for no defensible reason? - Grant Morrison

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The thing is, it’s a common science fiction concept. There’s nothing new about a society that outlaws emotion. What I wanted to explore with it though, was this is a society in the process of change. This is a society in which certain people have discovered how to subvert the lack of emotion and they are not so much lamenting the type of rebellion that happened in Equilibrium, but they’re coping with it. They’re struggling. They don’t have the learning to deal with it. Human beings spend their lives learning to master their emotions. If you had no emotions until you were 30 and then suddenly experienced anger for the first time, you would probably kill somebody. -- N.K. Jemisin

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It's my last chance to talk about American comics. -- Grant Morrison

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That's a big strand with the relationship that Hal starts to develop with the young Guardians. And they're almost the opposite [of their predecessors]: They're not ancient, they're not authoritarian in that sense but they have very strict ideas of what they think is right and wrong. They have far-seeing abilities to predict what might happen and how things will work out. But, as you said, they're not always necessarily right and they're going to have to learn that. -- Grant Morrison

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laughing_tree

So we loved the kind of disconnection of that: the beatnik idea of how Jordan has no home, he sleeps on friends' couches, he sleeps with women who have these bizarre connections with him. He travels with nothing but his lantern and a rucksack. And he hitchhikes on the road, he's afraid of nothing, he likes a fight, he's just this old-school kind of guy who's trying to survive. He's like a cowboy trying to survive in the 21st century in a lot of ways. -- Grant Morrison

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Entries tagged with title: green lantern

Absolute Green Lantern #8 - "Sojourner"

Absolute Green Lantern #9

Absolute Green Lantern #7 - "Meanwhile, in the Dark"

Absolute Green Lantern #6 - "Qard, Rao, Sur, Aur"

Green Lantern #27: We Are Going To Need More Backup

Absolute Green Lantern #5 - "With Fear"

Green Lantern Corps #7: No Emotions In The Universe, Week One

Absolute Green Lantern #4 - "Chaotic Action"

Absolute Green Lantern #3 - "The Philosopher's Stone"

Absolute Green Lantern #2 - "The Abin Sur"

Absolute Green Lantern #1-2 - "The Black Hand"

Green Lantern The Book Of OA Had Companion Books

Green Lantern #12

Green Lantern # 11 : I Am The Senate!

DC Pride 2023 #1 - "Love's Lightning Heart"

Far Sector #3-4

Far Sector #1-2

The Green Lantern: Season Two #12 - "The Intelligence Engine" [series finale]

The Green Lantern: Season Two #11 - "Contest of Crowns"

The Green Lantern: Season Two #10 - "Multi-Crisis on Intimate Earths!"

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