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laughing_tree2023-05-30 01:24 amEntry tags:
DC Pride 2023 #1 - "Love's Lightning Heart"
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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laughing_tree2023-02-10 07:34 pmEntry tags:
Far Sector #3-4
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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laughing_tree2021-03-11 12:49 amEntry tags:
The Green Lantern: Season Two #11 - "Contest of Crowns"
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_tree2021-01-16 12:10 amEntry tags:
The Green Lantern: Season Two #10 - "Multi-Crisis on Intimate Earths!"
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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laughing_tree2020-12-03 10:27 pmEntry tags:
The Green Lantern: Season Two #9 - "The Marriage of the Trillennium!"
For me, it was about going back to what the hell happened to this guy. He gets this ring, he's adopted into an interplanetary police force, and basically all his relationships fall apart and he can't hold down a job. There are a dozen women whom he has maintained all these difficult, and bizarre, and quite different relationships with, and he can't seem to hold it together. But he happens to be the greatest cosmic cop of all. -- Grant Morrison
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laughing_tree2020-11-11 12:23 amEntry tags:
The Green Lantern: Season Two #8 - "War with the Anti-World"
Yeah, we were going right back to the original physical model for Sinestro. [Sinestro co-creator] Gil Kane used David Niven so we thought it would be funny if this Anti-Matter Sinestro was this English gentleman. Give him a slight cynical bite and sense of humor and it just set the whole origins for the character again and we loved the look of his colors; we reversed the colors of his Sinestro suit, it looks great! -- Grant Morrison
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laughing_tree2020-10-06 01:03 amEntry tags:
The Green Lantern: Season Two #7 - "Ultrawarrior"
Instead of Hal butting heads with these geriatric space dudes that he always had problems with, where he was the young cocky guy and they were the old heads, suddenly we have Young Guardians. It’s also having a little bit of fun with this ‘ok boomer’ thing. -- Grant Morrison
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laughing_tree2020-09-08 05:51 amEntry tags:
The Green Lantern: Season Two #6 - "Assault on Sector General"
Well, it's kind of like with Superman -- he's expansive and he's a good character. Batman is a more devious and more Machiavellian type of character who can really bring you down if he wants. But with Green Lantern and Hal Jordan, it's really fun to put yourself in that headspace, this is a guy who doesn't break. You know, so many heroes have been made fallible as an attempt to make them relatable and, I think with Jordan, the less fallible you make him, the more fun -- and honestly, the more relatable -- I think we know guys like him, guys who get their heads down and just do the job, that would get their arms blown off and just be like "It's just a scratch!" -- Grant Morrison
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laughing_tree2020-08-09 12:06 amEntry tags:
The Green Lantern: Season Two #5 - "Wanted: Hyperman Dead or Alive!"
There's not a lot of stress for Hal until maybe midway through the run. I like to see him coming in like a cop; the minute a cop comes in with the hand of authority and defends and then gets to get up and go home and I like that he has that authority to just come in and sort things out. -- Grant Morrison
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