John Stewart: Green Lantern Appreciation 2023

[Frontier]

Nothing kills a man like driving on a freeway .

[HandofPrometheus]

Interview with PKJ. A really solid read. I love how he describes how he crafts his stories and plot lines. Def applies to everything he’s written, that’s for sure.

https://www.gamesradar.com/green-lan...-john-stewart/

Really good interview! Beautiful preview pages. I can’t wait for this to drop!

[Mantis-Ray]

It's funny that John and Hal's series start with them both having a red pickup truck.

Also how both appear to be feeling some growing pains after being back on Earth.

Looks like our guys have been in space way too long.

[Primal Slayer]

Being in the room for a couples fight....always awkward.

[Anthony Shaw]

It's funny that John and Hal's series start with them both having a red pickup truck.

Perhaps they share a mutual love for Fred Sanford, hence the truck.

[Timber Wolf-By-Night]

PKJ mentions Johns sister's here. While it great that we finally get to see more of his family, I wonder if he will make it canon in comics universe that his sister is Lynn. I don't know if it was mention that they actually are.

Honestly hope it's a defining run for John, him and Victor are in rough spots right now.

John Stewart and Lynn Stewart are not, and never have been, brother and sister. They're two African-American people who happen to share a last name. It's just a fan-generated theory from people who think this will automatically elevate both John Stewart and Black Lightning into being some sort of African-American Power Family, despite the fact that DC has shown no interest in making such a thing happen.

[Shockingjustice]

John Stewart and Lynn Stewart are not, and never have been, brother and sister. They're two African-American people who happen to share a last name. It's just a fan-generated theory from people who think this will automatically elevate both John Stewart and Black Lightning into being some sort of African-American Power Family, despite the fact that DC has shown no interest in making such a thing happen.

Lynn was John's sister in Young Justice.

[Timber Wolf-By-Night]

That was the cartoon, not the comics (and I don't subscribe to Max or whatever it's called now, so I haven't seen it). And plenty of stuff done in other media has been left out of the comics, just as plenty has been integrated into it. Yes, I know about Jimmy Olsen and kryptonite's radio origins. But Sarah Lance isn't going to happen, nor is Cheshire's established family history being retconned to make her related to Artemis and Sportsmaster, nor is a one-armed clone of Roy Harper.

And do DC writers really want to make John and Jefferson in-laws? Do they? What is it that fans think such a move would lead to, and what is more likely to result from it instead?

[skyvolt2000]

What is it that fans think such a move would lead to, and what is more likely to result from it instead?

The hope it would actually show a black hero actually having a FAMILY with the doors open for teams up and development.

Since it seems to be an issue to show most black heroes with actual families. Something John has not had since the 80s.

Other than the Foxes in Batman -whose black family have we seen? Who have we seen BEYOND one relative such as Steel, Cyborg and Aqualad?

It's like there is some issue showing a black hero with a full blown family-including the guy from Wakanda whose family outside of his mom and sister hasn't been seen in his own book for now 10+ years.

It would be nice to see more black characters be something then asexual lonely losers that don't have lives outside of being heroes.

[Frontier]

That was the cartoon, not the comics (and I don't subscribe to Max or whatever it's called now, so I haven't seen it). And plenty of stuff done in other media has been left out of the comics, just as plenty has been integrated into it. Yes, I know about Jimmy Olsen and kryptonite's radio origins. But Sarah Lance isn't going to happen, nor is Cheshire's established family history being retconned to make her related to Artemis and Sportsmaster, nor is a one-armed clone of Roy Harper.

And do DC writers really want to make John and Jefferson in-laws? Do they? What is it that fans think such a move would lead to, and what is more likely to result from it instead?

Shared universe world-building.

[ducklord]

Shared universe world-building.

That kind of thing just shrinks a universe.

"Two people with the same (common) last name? Well, they *have* to be related, don't they?"

Phooey, sez I.

For the record, I'm also not a fan of the retroactive familial bonds between Starman and Phantom Lady, Speedy and Guardian, Robin and Robotman's creator, and Captain Marvel Jr. and Kid Eternity.

Sometimes Roy Thomasing goes way too far.

[Frontier]

That kind of thing just shrinks a universe.

"Two people with the same (common) last name? Well, they *have* to be related, don't they?"

Phooey, sez I.

For the record, I'm also not a fan of the retroactive familial bonds between Starman and Phantom Lady, Speedy and Guardian, Robin and Robotman's creator, and Captain Marvel Jr. and Kid Eternity.

Sometimes Roy Thomasing goes way too far.

I actually liked most of those. If only because for one the Phantom Lady issue in Starman was really fun .

[ducklord]

I actually liked most of those. If only because for one the Phantom Lady issue in Starman was really fun .

Sure, but that was pre-Cry for Justice/edited by Archie Goodwin James Robinson. Jack Knight reading a phone book would've been fun in that title.

[Frontier]

Sure, but that was pre-Cry for Justice/edited by Archie Goodwin James Robinson. Jack Knight reading a phone book would've been fun in that title.

True, but that's what made it work for me .

[Vordan]

Thread of interview snippets regarding what PKJ has said



Oh man I’m ecstatic to see PKJ pick up the United Planets plotlines he seeded in the Warworld Saga here. Definitely seems like his John book will tie in with the Olgrun stuff somewhat. And finally we get to see some more exploration on what the United Planets running the GLC means!