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\u201cI\u2019m really proud of all the stuff we\u2019ve built with Green Lantern \u2014 from Larfleeze to the different corps,\u201d Johns told The Associated Press about his decision. \u201cThe universe has expanded and will live well past my run. It was more than just telling another story, but really giving back to the character by expanding and adding to their mythology.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now, after nine years of writing about Green Lantern, as well as the assorted heroes and villains, along with helping retool their origins for DC\u2019s 2011 revamp dubbed \u201cThe New 52,\u201d Johns said he\u2019d reached a point in the current story to step away and let someone else take over the writing.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was getting to an end point and a story line that made sense for me. I felt like it was time to close my run and focus all my energies on the Justice League corner of the DC Universe,\u201d he said, noting that his stories were collaborative efforts with artists and editors like Ivan Reis, Joe Prado, Van Sciver and Peter Tomasi.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a very, very hard decision. I absolutely love these characters but I felt like I had a story line that really made sense and felt emotionally satisfying and felt very big and very epic.\u201d<\/p>\n
He\u2019s taking some characters from Green Lantern with him, too, including Simon Baz, a Muslim-American Green Lantern that Johns created.<\/p>\n
Johns, who is DC\u2019s chief creative officer, was guarded in discussing his plans for the publisher\u2019s Justice League books, but said the time was right for him to make them his primary focus. He\u2019ll be working with writer Jeff Lemire and continue to write \u201cAquaman,\u201d too.<\/p>\n
The Green Lantern titles will continue, too, and Johns promised a \u201cmonster of an issue\u201d for \u201cGreen Lantern\u201d No. 20 which is illustrated by artist Doug Mahnke.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt really, for me, ties everything else and ends the Green Lantern saga,\u201d Johns said of the 64-page issue. \u201cThis story the way the story evolves. I think people will get a sense of finality from it.\u201d<\/p>\n
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