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Top Ten Best Moments From Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps
I’m going to say it right now, Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps should go down as one of the best runs in all of Green Lantern history. Fifty issues filled to the brim with epic space confrontation, dramatic twist and turns, and friendships you never knew you wanted, but can get enough of. So now that it’s been some time since the conclusion, it’s time to countdown the ten best moments from the series. It should go without saying, but there will be spoilers ahead. Read at your own caution, enjoy.
Green Lantern November 2018 Solicitations
Oh yeah! A new era of Green Lantern kicks off just 3 months from now and today we get our first taste of what’s to come. “A masterpiece in the making”? I can hardly contain myself. Hit the jump for more Lantern related solicitations coming this November.
Top 10 Biggest Moments from Ron Marz’ Green Lantern Run
The 10 Biggest Moments from Ron Marz’ Green Lantern Run
From Green Lantern Vol. 3, #48 in January of 1994 all the way to #125 in June of 2000 (with a modicum of breaks along the way), Ron Marz was the Geoff Johns of that era of Green Lantern comics. There were ups, there were downs, there was crazy stuff, but always it was entertaining. Down to Earth more often than not, to where there’d be any sort of big space adventure, that’d be a big deal. I loved that. I admit, I would have never picked up an issue of Green Lantern had I not read in Wizard Magazine that “big stuff” was going on in the title. I picked up #50, backtracked a little from there, and the rest is history.
Let’s go down memory lane a little bit of some of the highlights of Ron Marz’ tenure as the gatekeeper of Green Lantern:
No, Tom Cruise isn’t “in the running” for Hal Jordan in the Green Lantern Corps movie (at least, not yet)
A lot of articles are spreading like wildfire in the past couple of days about Tom Cruise being “in the running” for Hal Jordan in the “Green Lantern Corps” film but he has one condition: he dies in the script, but he doesn’t want to. If they change this in the script, he’s all good.
There is a couple of very obvious things wrong with this.
As has been well documented, after his simultaneous ousting as CCO of DC and President of WB Entertainment, as a consolation prize Geoff Johns was and has been tapped to write a first draft on the “Green Lantern Corps” screenplay there is no guarantee they will even use. It is neither complete nor turned in yet, nor given the thumbs up by WB as any kind of, “OK, this is something we want to move forward on.” As Geoff Johns has admitted in interviews, he “hopes” WB likes it and the hope is that they would proceed with his vision. “Hopes” being the operative word. They could very easily pass on it, as they passed on his script wrote in tandem with Ben Affleck for the original version of “The Batman” that Ben Affleck was going to direct.
There are several key words in there. The long and the short of it is that there is no script yet, the casting process is a long ways off (like, you know, when WB knows what movie it is they’re shooting, as they haven’t even read Geoff’s script yet because it doesn’t exist). Tom Cruise cannot be “in the running” if the casting process is still in the distance. Can you imagine pitching Tom Cruise right now?
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WB: “Hi, Tom. A word?”
Tom Cruise: “Hey, sure! What’s up, WB?”
WB: “You want to play Hal Jordan in our new Green Lantern Corps movie?”
Tom Cruise: “Eh… I dunno. The last one was kind of iffy. Wasn’t that the one co-produced by Geoff Johns? That word is around Hollywood, you gave full veto authority to, creatively?”
WB: “Yeah! It’s funny you mention him. He’s the guy that’s writing the script of the new one.”
Tom Cruise: “Oh.”
WB: “Well what do you say? Are you in?”
Tom Cruise: “Jeeze, I dunno. I guess I’d need to read a script first. Can you send one to my agent?”
WB: “Doesn’t exist yet. But Geoff Johns is a great guy! He used to work for Richard Donner in like the 90s for little bit, as he mentions in many, many interviews you can Google. You may remember Richard Donner from SUPERMAN! #richarddonner”
Tom Cruise: “Ehhh… right, but… so you basically have nothing for me to look at right now? Fallout’s doing pretty great but I certainly don’t want another Mummy…”
WB: “Nope! But are you in?”
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You can see how absurd that is, yes? Nothing to see here, folks. Everything you read on the internet isn’t true.
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REVIEW: Green Lanterns #53
When you’ve read as many comics as I have, you tend to start noticing patterns. Certain arc don’t feel like they matter in the grand scheme of things, Which is completely fine, after all if every single arc had cosmic shattering consequences they would ultimately lose their significance. Still as comic readers we desire some sort of hook to keep us invested if even the stakes aren’t on a grand scale. Perhaps that happens in this issue? Warning the following review will contain spoilers, so remember to read your comic before continuing on. You have been warned.
Stjepan Sejic Shows Off Art from Discarded JUSTICE LEAGUE ODYSSEY Issues
So yeah. Unfortunately, Justice League Odyssey is delayed. But on the bright side, Scott Snyder is totally killing it on Justice League and even Justice League Dark looks promising. But neither of those features Jessica Cruz so whatevs, right? Thankfully, artist Stjepan Sejic is gracious enough to lend a helping hand to us needy lantern fans. To ride us over until the actual series releases, he’s provided a fresh look at the issues that were discarded. Take a look below!
REVIEW: Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps #50
The time has come, the epic series finale that we’ve all been waiting for. A final showdown between two warring factions, both who have their own ways of enforcing peace. Will this issue nail the landing? Warning the following review will contain spoilers, so please read your comic before reading this review. Trust me you don’t want this one spoiled for you. You have been warned.
REVIEW: Green Lanterns #52
Epic space battles, a cosmic horror inside the central power batter, while a giant armada rains destruction upon a defenseless planet. Sounds like a normal day for the Corps. Warning the following review will contain spoilers, so remember to read your comic before going reading further. You have been warned.
Grant Morrison’s “The Green Lantern” Pitch Asks for Seasons, Exotic Locales and no Star Sapphire
In DC Nation #3, Editor Brian Cunningham gives us Grant Morrison’s pitch for The Green Lantern coming in this November. Below I’ve shared some of the more interesting bits from Morrison’s plan.
