New week, which means a new preview for an upcoming lantern title. Today its Green Lantern: New Guardians #14. More? You want more? Well read some quotes from writer Tony Bedard on the future of Kyle Rayner and his involvement in the “Wrath of the First Lantern” crossover. Check out those and the preview below.
“Kyle is going to have to mentor Arkillo as it turns out,” says Bedard, who has found the Sinestro Corps warrior to be a fun character to write.
“When we started the book, his tongue had been ripped out and he was basically just this scary dinosaur-looking dude. We’ve kind of restored him — he’s got a weird friendship with the Blue Lantern Saint Walker, and he’s developed more of a personality. But he’d still just as soon kill you as look at you, so there’s that.”
“[Indigo-1] tells him compassion isn’t necessarily a positive thing. He feels that positive emotions like hope come easily to him, but things like avarice are going to be a harder thing to master,” Bedard says.
“With avarice, you think greed is something that will always be bad, but self interest drives us to do a lot of good things. There’s a lot of stuff to mine there in those different emotions.”
“It’s ironic, you’d think Kyle who’s had all these girlfriends would have no problem mastering love,” he says, “but that’s going to end up being the last piece of the puzzle for him.”
Bedard says Rayner will come face to face with the father figure and Guardian who gave him his ring, Ganthet, in issue 16, and that showdown rolls into the next major story line, “Wrath of the First Lantern.”
“Every once in a while Geoff comes up with these things that explode the possibilities in the Green Lantern idea, and I think he’s come up with another great twist with the First Lantern,” Bedard says. “It almost eclipses what is being set up right now. It cranks up the danger level to 11 when the First Lantern finally hits the scene.”
“[Carol Ferris’s] a venerable Lantern character,” Bedard says. “In some ways, she’s been as big a nemesis to Hal Jordan as Sinestro was as Hal Jordan’s love of his life. It’s fun to get to examine her and her take on everything that’s happening in the Lantern-verse.”