{"id":4623,"date":"2013-02-11T17:33:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T22:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/?p=4623"},"modified":"2013-02-11T17:38:18","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T22:38:18","slug":"top-5-wanted-replacements-for-geoff-johns-on-green-lantern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/top-5-wanted-replacements-for-geoff-johns-on-green-lantern\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5: Wanted Replacements for Geoff Johns on Green Lantern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i50.tinypic.com\/zv7vvd.jpg\" width=\"575\" height=\"227\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So the big news is out! <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/VPxan6\">Geoff Johns is leaving <em>Green Lantern<\/em> with issue 20 in May(along with every other lantern creator)<\/a>. Well, with no time to grieve, the members of the Green Lantern Corps Podcast were forced to pick their top 5 choices to replacement the long running writer. Its all wishful thinking.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">ERIC<\/span>: <\/strong>Hard to pick replacements when you&#8217;re essentially limited to whoever is left in DC&#8217;s stable&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\"><strong>5. <\/strong><strong>Grant Morrison (Action Comics, Batman Incorporated)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\"><strong>4. Andrew Kreisberg\/Greg Berlanti\/Marc Guggenheim (JLA&#8217;s Vibe, Green Lantern Movie Prequels)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">(Essentially the production team of <em>Arrow)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">\u00a0<strong>3. Ivan Brandon (Men of War, Viking)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">(And a two way tie for first place&#8230;.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\"><strong>1. Gail Simone\/Judd Winick (Batgirl, The Movement\/Catwoman, Green Lantern)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">ANDREW<\/span>: <\/strong>This is fantastic news.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\"><strong>5. Andy Diggle (Action Comics, Daredevil)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\"><strong>4. Judd Winick (Catwoman, Green Lantern)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\"><strong>3. Paul Jenkins (Batman: The Dark Knight, Spectacular Spider-Man)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\"><strong>2. Mark Waid (The Incredible Hulk, Incorruptible)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\"><strong>1. Grant Morrison (Action Comics, Batman Incorporated)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">BRANDAN<\/span>:\u00a0<\/strong>Shocked. I expected another 30 issues at least.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\"><strong>5. <\/strong><strong>Sean Gordon Murphy (Joe the Barbarian, Punk Rock Jesus)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\"><strong>4. Nathan Edmondson (Grifter, Who is Jake Ellis?)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\"><strong>3. James Robinson (Earth 2, Shade)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\"><strong>2. Sterling Gates (Hawk &amp; Dove, Vibe)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\"><strong>1. Brian Azzarello (Wonder Woman, Spaceman)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">FRANKIE<\/span>: <\/strong>These are my picks from current writers on DC&#8217;s payroll.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\"><strong>5. James Robinson (Earth 2, Shade)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\"><strong>4. Brian Azzarello (Wonder Woman, Before Watchmen: Rorschach)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\"><strong>3. Gail Simone (Batgirl, The Movement)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\"><strong>2. Jeff Lemire (Animal Man, Green Arrow)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\"><strong>1. Scott Snyder (Batman, American Vampire)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; So the big news is out! Geoff Johns is leaving Green Lantern with issue 20 in May(along with every other lantern creator). Well, with no time to grieve, the members of the Green Lantern Corps Podcast were forced to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/top-5-wanted-replacements-for-geoff-johns-on-green-lantern\/\">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":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623","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=4623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}