{"id":3895,"date":"2012-04-05T18:04:34","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T22:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/?p=3895"},"modified":"2012-09-08T20:04:09","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T00:04:09","slug":"is-another-green-lantern-event-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/is-another-green-lantern-event-coming-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Another Green Lantern Event Coming Soon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Green Lantern readers over the last 6 years are certainly no strangers to big storylines and crossovers. DC Comics launched &#8220;The New52&#8221; in September of last year and crossovers were put on hold to let these 52 titles find their own lane. Since then, we&#8217;ve seen various titles mix and match(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsarama.com\/comics\/didio-lemire-giffen-omac-frankenstein-crossover-111227.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Frankenstein <\/em>&amp; <em>O.M.A.C.<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dccomics.com\/comics\/i-vampire-2011\/i-vampire-8\" target=\"_blank\"><em>JL: Dark<\/em> &amp; <em>I,Vampire<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsarama.com\/comics\/tom-defalco-legion-lost-the-culling-120211.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Teen Titans<\/em> &amp; <em>Legion Lost<\/em><\/a>) but nothing on that felt like a &#8220;true&#8221; crossover event. That is until current <em>Batman<\/em> writer Scott Snyder embarked on his &#8220;Night of the Owls&#8221; crossover that sets off on the Bat books next month. Now it seems that Green Lantern will be next on the crossover docket for DC Comics in 2012.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In February, DC attended the MegaCon convention in Florida, and one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supermanhomepage.com\/news\/2012-news\/2012-news-comic.php?topic=2012-news-comic\/0220\" target=\"_blank\">unconfirmed report<\/a> said that <em>Green Lantern: New Guardians<\/em> writer Tony Bedard announced that his book and <em>Green Lantern Corps<\/em> would be crossing over around issues #12-13. There has been nothing said about those two books interacting since then, but we all know that Tony&#8217;s other title, <em>Blue Beetle<\/em> will be crossing over with New Guardians soon.<\/p>\n<p>Now comes a very small hint that after <em>Green Lantern<\/em>&#8216;s current story(&#8220;Secret of the Indigo Tribe&#8221;), we&#8217;ll get a new crossover just as big as &#8220;Night of the Owls&#8221;, which goes through 10 different comics. So its quite believable that the next crossover will go through not only New Guardians &amp; Corps but <em>Red Lanterns<\/em> and <em>Green Lantern<\/em> as well.<\/p>\n<p>That hint? Well that comes from DC&#8217;s Vice President of Marketing John Cunningham in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsarama.com\/comics\/dc-teases-fcbd-surprise-talk-march-2012-sales.html\" target=\"_blank\">recent interview<\/a>. In the interview Cunningham says<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When we look at the March numbers and see where we are on issue #7, after September, and the numbers continue to be as strong as they are, and in the cases of things like the &#8220;Night of the Owls&#8221; crossover, where we see sales numbers increasing right before the next Green Lantern storyline kicks off. And those numbers will go up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Newsarama promises an interview with GL writer Geoff Johns to be posted later, and we&#8217;ll obviously update when that is released but for now let the speculation run wild. With storylines like &#8220;Death of the Red Lantern Corps&#8221; going on in&#8230;<em>Red Lanterns<\/em> and the Blue Lantern homeworld of Odym being ravaged in New Guardians, and lanterns on trial in <em>Green Lantern Corps<\/em>, it&#8217;ll be interesting to see how Johns and the GL editorial team bring all those stories together for one streamlined crossover in such a short amount of time.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect that the New52-Free Comic Book Day title may be of interest to lantern fans. <em>Batman<\/em>, <em>The Flash<\/em>, <em>Teen Titans <\/em>and even <em>Animal Man<\/em> is getting an Annual comic this year, so don&#8217;t rule that out either. I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if Johns used it to set the stage for whatever this potential next event could be. Will this event be reminiscent of <em>Sinestro Corps War<\/em>, <em>Blackest Night <\/em>or <em>War of the Green Lanterns<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green Lantern readers over the last 6 years are certainly no strangers to big storylines and crossovers. DC Comics launched &#8220;The New52&#8221; in September of last year and crossovers were put on hold to let these 52 titles find their &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/is-another-green-lantern-event-coming-soon\/\">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-3895","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\/3895","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=3895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}