Its been nine years in the making. “Wrath of the First Lantern” comes to an end with Geoff Johns’ Green Lantern #20. Check out the preview for the issue below along with some words from Geoff via USA Today.

 

 

“I never had really planned being on this book this long,” says Johns, DC’s chief creative officer who also pens the Justice League, Justice League of America and Aquaman books. “I feel extremely fortunate that I work with so many great artists and writers on building the Green Lantern universe in the way we did this time around.

 

 

“We’re leaving it in a good place for people to come on and play with concepts that were there before us, concepts we introduced and introducing their own stuff. Building on a foundation is always much more fun than destroying a foundation.”

 

“Emotion’s such a powerful thing, so from the beginning I wanted to really delve into what self-awareness and what emotions are and personify that in comic-book characters and explore them in that way,” Johns says.

 

“The First Lantern really personifies all the emotions the Guardians threw away so long ago, and how essentially they’re bottled up emotionally. Everybody can relate to that.”

 

 

 

“I love Hal Jordan and Guy Gardner and all the Green Lanterns. They’ve been great characters for a long time and hopefully we helped them grow a little bit more, but I find Sinestro probably took the biggest leap in terms of where he was before we started and where he ended up,” the writer says.

 

“Whenever I leave a book, I’ve tried to work the character and the concept to a place that is good for somebody else to step in. But really, my first concern is telling the story correctly,” Johns says.

“I don’t want to be dictated to what I should do with the book and I don’t want anyone else to feel dictated to. They should be able to take it in the direction they want to take it in.”