What? You want more of Van Jensen talking about Green Lantern Corps? Well, here you go. This time around Van talks about the changes in issues due to the Fialkov controversy, the possibilities of the Corps fighting vampires and John Stewart’s origin with ComicVine. Check out some highlights below.

Jensen on the tone of the series post-“Wrath of the First Lantern” story:

There’s definitely some heavy stuff that’s just gone down with the Green Lantern Corps. A big thing we want to do is focus on where things are, what the new status quo is and how it affects these characters. We’re definitely building up on that and picking up the pieces where they are. Going forward, I think maybe there’s a shift in tone. We’re going to try to go back a little bit to a sort of high adventure feel. I think the Green Lantern books have been great. They’ve been maybe a little darker in the past than where they’re going to be headed for. We’re trying to return it a little more to the 60s and 70s era Green Lantern feel.

Will Hal Jordan have a presence in Green Lantern Corps?:

He’s not going to have a huge presence. A big part of that is by design. We don’t want to have one character dominate multiple books. Really for the time being, GREEN LANTERN CORPS is very much going to be John Stewart’s book. We really wanted to take these Green Lantern books and use each of them to focus on one of our main Lantern characters. Of course GREEN LANTERN is going to be Hal, Guy will be over in RED LANTERNS and Kyle continuing in NEW GUARDIANS. The good thing about that is it gives me a chance to really explore John Stewart’s character, where he’s at, what he wants and where he’s going, the role he’s going to play in rebuilding the Corps.

Jensen on Guy Gardner no longer starring in Corps and no immediate plans for Red Lanterns interactions:

He will not be in the issue. He does not show up for the immediate future, at least not in GREEN LANTERN CORPS.

 

They’ll be fairly separate for the time being. Definitely going forward there’s going to continue to be some points of overlap in our shared universe. Our characters all have a lot of relationships and, of course, John and Guy have a very close and long friendship. In their new roles, there’s going to be some obvious points for them to come together. In the short term, we won’t see Guy for a little bit.

Will we get a definitive John Stewart origin story in the New52?

There’s probably going to be a little bit of that going forward. There’s not any in the next few issues just because twenty pages is kind of a limited amount of space. Once you start adding in flashbacks, you can pretty quickly limit the amount of story you can tell. I do really want to focus a lot on his background. His background in architecture as well as his military experience are going to play a pretty big role. Some of that is just going to rise through conversation or within the ongoing plot of the book rather than be a whole issue of blow by blow character history.

Praising artist Bernard Chang:

I’ve had the chance to look at all of 21 and I’ve seen several covers and quite a few sketches. I think he’s actually working on 22 right now. The art I’ve seen is great. Bernard is someone I’ve been a big fan of for years and years. It’s really exciting to get a chance to work with him and see those pages pop up in my email.

And finally, the possibility of GLC vs Vampires:

There’s definitely a history of vampires showing up in the DC Universe, of course more recently. There have been some Green Lanterns that have been known to fight vampires. So not in the near future but I’m definitely open to the idea of exploring that idea.