THE GREEN LANTERN Relaunch by GRANT MORRISON & LIAM SHARP in November

[Frontier]

Well, Bleeding Cool has had this pegged for a while, so nice to have the announcement finally out of the way .

On the positive side, I'm glad to have Hal back on Earth and a re-focus on grounded, space cop, stories. I've missed that ever since the line became more about event after event and had Hal stuck in space indefinitely. Although Morrison makes it sound like Hal doesn't want to be on Earth anymore, which kind of seems wrong to me .

I hope Morrison makes good use of Hal's Earth supporting cast and Rogues. We've been due Carol being brought back in a major role for a while now.

I am kind of surprised that Morrison isn't starting out with a big, sprawling, space opera story for his run, but maybe that's coming as he gets into it.

Liam Sharp's art actually looks like a better fit for Green Lantern then I was expecting .

Although "The Green Lantern" is a weird title.

So I guess Hal is investigating a crashed GL as a deliberate mirror to what happened to Abin Sur. Although is he using that dead GL's Lantern? That seems kind of in bad taste.

[j9ac9k]

Well, Bleeding Cool has had this pegged for a while, so nice to have the announcement finally out of the way .

Who was is who was saying that Hal's series was going to be about investigating how the multiverse is dying? (because this series definitely doesn't seem to be that) I don't remember...

[Raijin]

Ehhh they're going with the "safe" Green Lantern, I see. No John, no interest. It's always great to save money.

[Ilan Preskovsky]

Despite being a fan of the property, I haven't read Green Lantern since Blackest Night totally spoiled any and all interest I had but I'm down for this. Morrison is my favourite superhero writer and the art looks great. It is interesting that of all writer's Morrison is doing an intimate take on Green Lantern when he is known for truly epic storytelling and coming up with more ideas than can fit on a single page.

As for Green Lanterns, just rename it Green Lantern Corps and leave it at that.

[panthergod]

This hilarious contrarian anti Morrison sentiment is ridiculous. He's among the mediums absolute legends, and has directly creatively resusitated multiple franchises including the X-Men. the whiny anti Hal arguments are goofy as well. He's the main character of this franchise. Period. get over it. If that damn movie had'dt sucked due to **** writing, Reynold's self loathing sarcasm routine and WB's general incompetence with DC properties, GL would have been a top 4 DC character. This book will be AMAZING, guaranteed. This will likelybe a cosmic philosophical treatise on the nature of will, imagination and overcoming trauma at least subtextually and on the surface an intimate character study of a traumatized space vet/hi octane sci-fi crime story.

[panthergod]

it's even better than it looks/sounds here, you guys.

get excited.

This is like a dream for you, eh Astro?

[j9ac9k]

This book will be AMAZING, guaranteed.

I'm psyched -- got my blue ring fired up to 120%, but as they say, "the proof is in the pudding..."

[Johnny]

On the positive side, I'm glad to have Hal back on Earth and a re-focus on grounded, space cop, stories. I've missed that ever since the line became more about event after event and had Hal stuck in space indefinitely. Although Morrison makes it sound like Hal doesn't want to be on Earth anymore, which kind of seems wrong to me .

This part got me thinking. Fans have been complaining for years about Hal being stuck in space forever, but the thing is, would Hal himself miss being back on Earth? When he's ring-slinging in space, he's useful, he does his job well, he always helps everywhere he goes and the nature of his job definitely adds to his adventurous spirit. Comparatively, whenever he is back on Earth, there's always emphasis on the notion that he never has his act together, or that he's "ineffective" like Morrison mentions in the interview. That he can't hold a steady job or a relationship, that he has no clue how to properly balance his life, that he only ends up hurting people close to him. Hal has always been better at handling apocalyptic scenarios than everyday life. The former is his forte, the latter can be a nightmare to him. If we look at Morrison's statement based on what we know about Hal as character, would he really want to be stuck on Earth for too long? I mean, he would want to see his family or Carol again obviously, but I doubt he would want to be back on a more permanent basis.

[Anthony Shaw]

I'm psyched -- got my blue ring fired up to 120%, but as they say, "the proof is in the pudding..."

[Anthony Shaw]

This part got me thinking. Fans have been complaining for years about Hal being stuck in space forever, but the thing is, would Hal himself miss being back on Earth? When he's ring-slinging in space, he's useful, he does his job well, he always helps everywhere he goes and the nature of his job definitely adds to his adventurous spirit. Comparatively, whenever he is back on Earth, there's always emphasis on the notion that he never has his act together, or that he's "ineffective" like Morrison mentions in the interview. That he can't hold a steady job or a relationship, that he has no clue how to properly balance his life, that he only ends up hurting people close to him. Hal has always been better at handling apocalyptic scenarios than everyday life. The former is his forte, the latter can be a nightmare to him. If we look at Morrison's statement based on what we know about Hal as character, would he really want to be stuck on Earth for too long? I mean, he would want to see his family or Carol again obviously, but I doubt he would want to be back on a more permanent basis.

This are great points worth exploring.

[K. Jones]

Grant had that cool line in ... Final Crisis maybe, where the alphas or guardians called out Hall for not spending enough time on other 2814 world's like Heliopolis or whatever, so I'm intrigued to think this could follow on that.

I like his Hal even in the bit parts in Return of Bruce and Action Comics.

[Carabas]

He's not changing the set-up. That's what you have to do in a relaunch. He's making it all about Hal, which has flopped.

Well, maybe it needs to flop one more time before DC finally admits that some fundamental changes are necessary.

What you call "not flopping" doesn't actually exist.

[panthergod]

13 year successful run=flop. ok.

[Frontier]

This part got me thinking. Fans have been complaining for years about Hal being stuck in space forever, but the thing is, would Hal himself miss being back on Earth? When he's ring-slinging in space, he's useful, he does his job well, he always helps everywhere he goes and the nature of his job definitely adds to his adventurous spirit. Comparatively, whenever he is back on Earth, there's always emphasis on the notion that he never has his act together, or that he's "ineffective" like Morrison mentions in the interview. That he can't hold a steady job or a relationship, that he has no clue how to properly balance his life, that he only ends up hurting people close to him. Hal has always been better at handling apocalyptic scenarios than everyday life. The former is his forte, the latter can be a nightmare to him. If we look at Morrison's statement based on what we know about Hal as character, would he really want to be stuck on Earth for too long? I mean, he would want to see his family or Carol again obviously, but I doubt he would want to be back on a more permanent basis.

When you put it that way, it does seem like a valid issue that Morrison could explore in this run.

[WallyWestFlash]

This part got me thinking. Fans have been complaining for years about Hal being stuck in space forever, but the thing is, would Hal himself miss being back on Earth? When he's ring-slinging in space, he's useful, he does his job well, he always helps everywhere he goes and the nature of his job definitely adds to his adventurous spirit. Comparatively, whenever he is back on Earth, there's always emphasis on the notion that he never has his act together, or that he's "ineffective" like Morrison mentions in the interview. That he can't hold a steady job or a relationship, that he has no clue how to properly balance his life, that he only ends up hurting people close to him. Hal has always been better at handling apocalyptic scenarios than everyday life. The former is his forte, the latter can be a nightmare to him. If we look at Morrison's statement based on what we know about Hal as character, would he really want to be stuck on Earth for too long? I mean, he would want to see his family or Carol again obviously, but I doubt he would want to be back on a more permanent basis.

This is true. But Morrison also said this will bring a lot of the first run into it which was Hal living stablely on earth. So there is some hope.