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Why the Green Lantern is not Black in the movie
Over the past few weeks, I have been following anything posted regarding Green Lantern. While I do this mainly to keep up with the latest movie news, I also run across a lot of twitter posts of people saying they are mad because the Green Lantern is Black, and that WB is “White Washing” the movie. This is meant to set the record straight.
Before we get into the history “Green Lantern” is basically a Job title, in its current form The Green Lantern Corps has over 7200 members, and is not unlike a Police department. 4 of which have been human including one who is black and one who came before them all and was not affiliated with the Corps. To avoid confusion I will only talk about two of them.
In the Showcase #22 in 1959 written by John Broome and Drawn by Gil Kane, Hal Jordan became The Green Lantern. This time however, the Ring was passed on by a Dying alien named Abin Sur, A member of the Green Lantern Corps, a space police force overseen by the Guardians of the Universe. The Ring could create object passed on the will of the wearer, but did not work on the color yellow. Hal Jordan is who Ryan Reynolds will be portraying.
I know what you are thinking now “Ok that’s great and all but what about the black Green Lantern I remember?”
in Green Lantern #87 a architect and Marine corps Veteran, named John Stewart was selected, Hal Jordan resigned from the Corps for a extended period of time making John the main Green Lantern and the one a lot of people remember as simply the Green Lantern.
Where the real confusion sets in is the Animated series “Justice League” and “Justice League Unlimited” in these shows John Stewart was the Green Lantern.
There have been claims that John was the Green Lantern of this series simply because everyone else was either white or Martian. I personally believe that he was simply the right Green Lantern for that job. Regardless in both series John Stewart became the Green lantern that had the most Mass market exposure to a non comic reading audience. John has had many toys, and other merchandise because of the animated series.
To kids growing up and parents around this time or people that like super hero animation but do not read comics(hard to believe they are out there but I used to be one myself), this made John the only Green lantern to them.
While I understand the outrage considering the exposure John Stewart had been receiving as the Green Lantern. The 2004/2005 Comic series Green Lantern Rebirth brought written by Geoff Johns Hal Jordan and the entire Green Lantern Corps was brought back into the DC universe, Returning Hal Jordan as the main character once again. Since then Green Lantern has been one of DC’s top Selling Comics.
The movie is loosely based on another Story by Geoff Johns called Green Lantern: Secret Origins Which can be picked on AMAZON, in which Hal Jordan receives the ring from Abin Sur In the same way he received it however different events take place afterward.
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I hope this clears up the confusion and everyone can enjoy the movie on June 17th.
Before we get into the history “Green Lantern” is basically a Job title, in its current form The Green Lantern Corps has over 7200 members, and is not unlike a Police department. 4 of which have been human including one who is black and one who came before them all and was not affiliated with the Corps. To avoid confusion I will only talk about two of them.
In the Showcase #22 in 1959 written by John Broome and Drawn by Gil Kane, Hal Jordan became The Green Lantern. This time however, the Ring was passed on by a Dying alien named Abin Sur, A member of the Green Lantern Corps, a space police force overseen by the Guardians of the Universe. The Ring could create object passed on the will of the wearer, but did not work on the color yellow. Hal Jordan is who Ryan Reynolds will be portraying.
I know what you are thinking now “Ok that’s great and all but what about the black Green Lantern I remember?”
in Green Lantern #87 a architect and Marine corps Veteran, named John Stewart was selected, Hal Jordan resigned from the Corps for a extended period of time making John the main Green Lantern and the one a lot of people remember as simply the Green Lantern.
Where the real confusion sets in is the Animated series “Justice League” and “Justice League Unlimited” in these shows John Stewart was the Green Lantern.
There have been claims that John was the Green Lantern of this series simply because everyone else was either white or Martian. I personally believe that he was simply the right Green Lantern for that job. Regardless in both series John Stewart became the Green lantern that had the most Mass market exposure to a non comic reading audience. John has had many toys, and other merchandise because of the animated series.
To kids growing up and parents around this time or people that like super hero animation but do not read comics(hard to believe they are out there but I used to be one myself), this made John the only Green lantern to them.
While I understand the outrage considering the exposure John Stewart had been receiving as the Green Lantern. The 2004/2005 Comic series Green Lantern Rebirth brought written by Geoff Johns Hal Jordan and the entire Green Lantern Corps was brought back into the DC universe, Returning Hal Jordan as the main character once again. Since then Green Lantern has been one of DC’s top Selling Comics.
The movie is loosely based on another Story by Geoff Johns called Green Lantern: Secret Origins Which can be picked on AMAZON, in which Hal Jordan receives the ring from Abin Sur In the same way he received it however different events take place afterward.
.
I hope this clears up the confusion and everyone can enjoy the movie on June 17th.
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