{"id":4073,"date":"2012-10-10T18:12:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T22:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/?p=4073"},"modified":"2012-10-10T18:12:02","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T22:12:02","slug":"green-lantern-the-animated-series-steam-lantern-episode-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/green-lantern-the-animated-series-steam-lantern-episode-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Lantern: The Animated Series &#8220;Steam Lantern&#8221; Episode Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/usat.ly\/SR1AmQ\">USA Today<\/a> gets a short clip from this Saturday&#8217;s episode of GLTAS. They also get a few words from Producer Giancarlo Volpe, who continues to be a one man promotion team for the series.<\/p>\n<p>The new episode of <em>Green Lantern: The Animated Series<\/em> (airing Saturday morning at 10 ET\/PT on Cartoon Network) debuts the Steam Lantern, an alternate-world hero (voiced by Robin Atkin Downes) with a jet pack and green-tinged force blasts but who \u2014 unlike Hal Jordan and other Green Lanterns \u2014 didn&#8217;t receive a power ring from the Guardians of Oa.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s like the ultimate fanboy in that he met a Green Lantern once and he has tried to replicate their powers using steampunk technology,&#8221; says Green Lantern producer Giancarlo Volpe.\u00a0&#8220;His character arc deals a lot with what it truly means to be a hero. Is it a birth-given right or is it something that you could see someone else and consider them a hero and decide you are, too? That&#8217;s the point of his character.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today gets a short clip from this Saturday&#8217;s episode of GLTAS. They also get a few words from Producer Giancarlo Volpe, who continues to be a one man promotion team for the series. The new episode of Green Lantern: &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/green-lantern-the-animated-series-steam-lantern-episode-preview\/\">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":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-lantern-the-animated-series"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073","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=4073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}