WriterGeoff Johnstalked to Publishers Weekly about his upcomingGreen LanternepicBlackest Night . He explained the mythology of his many corps , how monthly books and trade paperbacks fit together , and his hope for the new Green Lantern picture .
Green Lantern , of course , is the superhero whose “ power ring ” can make or do anything , using a occult dark-green igniter . GL ’s traditional weakness was the people of color yellow , and Johns ’ big donation to the mythos was to make up one’s mind that the colors in the Lantern universe put up for different emotion , with green representing willpower and sensationalistic standing for concern . But what do the other colors represent ?
Last month ’s firing of Blackest Night # 0 aid explain : fleeceable stands for self-possession , orangish for avarice , and indigo for compassion . ( Hence the Indigo Girls . ) In the audience , Johns finally explain why colors and emotions tie together in the first place and the larger metaphysical implication , starting with the pivotal position of the Green Lantern Corps :
They ’re the fulcrum . So if you search at ROY G BIV [ a mnemonic for the colour of the spectrum ] on a line and it ’s balance on the hint of a pin , swaying a little bit - green is the centre that does n’t move . When the first sentient being actually willed itself to move and had a voluntary natural process - the will to survive , the will to go - it created this invisible aura . It gave off an vim . I do conceive there ’s something to being sentient and cognizant of your surround . We ’re not just rocks . We ’re move around of our own will . So when those first sentient beings existed , they gave off an aura , and that glory was hoard and combine into green light source . When we got more sophisticated and our emotion started to change , we felt fear and survival of the fittest through concern , and that give off another invisible aura that could be condensed and pull in into a yellow light . And it go on into rage and rapacity and hope and compassion and love .
Johns also discussed what sorts of storey he likes to distinguish and what he hopes readers will get out of Blackest Night , seemingly taking a swipe at Frank Miller ’s abandoned Batman - vs.-Al - Qaeda epic Holy Terror , Batman ( which still might be the individual dumbest idea in comics history ) in the cognitive process :
The affair I always like about ideas in cartoon strip is when they ’re metaphor for something else . I do n’t want to see Batman push Al Qaeda . I do n’t desire to see terrorists in the book of account . If Green Lantern is go to fight terrorists , I require him to fight the Sinestro Corps . All these different army corps represent something different to me and to the lector . If the readers like sci fi risky venture with aliens and star warfare and an epic tarradiddle , heavy . If they want stuff that ’s deep , great .
When ask how he poise writing a monthly comic with the fact that many will only read the story as a trade softback book , Johns acknowledge believe about the dispute that might make , but that it does n’t strike how he writes . He mark he would have choose DC had collected Sinestro Corps War more or less otherwise than how they in the end went about it , and he hopes Blackest Night will ultimately be collected as one giant storey that properly integrates the Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps titles .
Indeed , he direct to the collaborative nature of pen in the DC as one of his favored parts of the occupation . single out Green Lantern Corps writer Peter Tomasi as one of his best-loved people to work with , and that the opportunity to build a share population with multitude he respects is one of the most satisfying parts of the originative process .
Finally , he discourse the upcoming Green Lantern movie and his belief that Green Lantern has the potential to be the next gravid cinematic superhero :
I conceive Green Lantern is poised to be one of the large persona in the cosmos . No other superhero is like him . It ’s not even a superhero book ; it ’s a sci fi Koran . It ’s Lord of the Rings in space . It ’s Star Wars and aliens and fuzz show , but it ’s its own thing . For me , Green Lantern has always had the most potential to reach and extend to a lot of people because it ’s such a wonderful mythology . It ’s grown in the comedian to the point where there ’s pastime in the movie , and now the motion-picture show is move to uprise it to a place . With [ Casino Royale director ] Martin Campbell [ signed to direct the Green Lantern movie ] , I really have a lot of high-pitched hopes that it ’s perish to be gravid , and I think people will continue to become lover of Green Lantern .
Blackest Night # 1 is due in comic book stores July 15 , and I ’m really not sure I can wait that long .
[ Publishers Weekly ]
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