{"id":3565,"date":"2012-07-16T14:31:07","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T18:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/?p=3565"},"modified":"2012-09-07T23:37:51","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T03:37:51","slug":"geoff-johns-says-third-army-story-is-not-an-event-each-title-stands-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/geoff-johns-says-third-army-story-is-not-an-event-each-title-stands-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Geoff Johns Says THIRD ARMY Story is NOT an Event & Each Title Stands Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an interview with Newsarama<\/a>, Geoff Johns talked about all three ongoing comics he’s writing for DC Comics. While at the San Diego Comic-Con, Johns had a few interesting things to say about the upcoming Third Army crossover story and teasing an even bigger story that comes after. Read some choice quotes below.<\/p>\n

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Well, the idea is that we’ve been building the Guardians to this for quite awhile. The Guardians thought emotion was the weakness that resulted in murder and chaos and violence in the universe so they created the Manhunters to police it, and that didn’t work.<\/p>\n

Then they thought maybe it’s not emotion as a whole we need to eradicate, maybe it’s fear. The thing that causes violence and mistrust and all these horrible things. So they created the Green Lantern Corps and embraced Will. Now with the creation of all the other Lantern Corps and the emotional spectrum, now they feel that’s out of control. So they now want to create a third army to take care of what they deem the real problem in the universe is. And the real problem they think is, unfortunately the one thing that we embraced is Will.<\/p>\n

Free Will, the idea that beings have free will that can lead to these bad decisions, that needs to end. So they’re going to eradicate free will by creating this new third army. And what the Third Army actually is, what they do, we’ll see really soon, but the Guardians are on a mission to essentially wipe out all semblance of free will.<\/p>\n

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Rise of the Third Army is going to happen subsequently in all the Lantern books, but you don’t have to read all the Lantern titles to get it. Then that builds to another story. This is actually the prologue to another story.<\/p>\n

So, Rise of the Third Army is not actually, not quite an event, it’s the prologue to the next story that immediately follows it. I don’t know how to explain it much better than that so hopefully that makes sense!<\/span><\/p>\n

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If you are reading Green Lantern and are interested in how the Third Army affects the Red Lanterns or just want to know a bit more about them, you can buy that book. Or if you only want to read Red Lanterns, you can do that and get a complete story. You don’t have to buy anything you don’t want to.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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In an interview with Newsarama, Geoff Johns talked about all three ongoing comics he’s writing for DC Comics. While at the San Diego Comic-Con, Johns had a few interesting things to say about the upcoming Third Army crossover story and … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}