{"id":4848,"date":"2013-03-18T18:42:19","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T22:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/?p=4848"},"modified":"2013-03-20T13:35:13","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T17:35:13","slug":"is-rags-morales-replacing-billy-tan-on-green-lantern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/is-rags-morales-replacing-billy-tan-on-green-lantern\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Rags Morales Replacing Billy Tan on Green Lantern?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i47.tinypic.com\/2drannm.jpg\" width=\"707\" height=\"247\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: Rags Morales has indeed confirmed that he&#8217;s on Green Lantern #24, and ONLY that issue<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ragsmorales\"> via his Facebook<\/a>. And yes, those six fingers are apparently intentional, as Rags says this is a glimpse of a completely new character.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Original article:<\/p>\n<p>So we all know that June will give us the end of the Johns era of lanterns and see writer Robert Venditti (<em>XO<\/em><em> Manowar<\/em><em><\/em>) take over the helm. We know that<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/YmX1Nw\"> artist Billy Tan is set<\/a> to replace Doug Mahnke with Venditti. But is Billy Tan already being replaced? That may be the case as <em>Action Comics <\/em>current co-artist(along with the future\u00a0<em>New Guardians <\/em>artist Brad Walker), Rags Morales says he&#8217;ll be jumping to GL. Oh yeah, there&#8217;s more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Ok, next I&#8217;ll be on GREEN LANTERN #24. Every page a splash, story to have ramifications. Robert Venditti writer. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/TL7ZNYBtFe\" title=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/RagsMorales\/status\/313766134618918912\/photo\/1\">twitter.com\/RagsMorales\/st\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ralph RAGS Morales (@RagsMorales) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RagsMorales\/status\/313766134618918912\">March 18, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nAnd just in case that twitter embed didn\u2019t work the way I wanted it to, that\u2019s Rags saying<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cOk, next I\u2019ll be on GREEN LANTERN #24. Every page a splash, story to have ramifications. Robert Venditti writer\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maybe Mr. Morales is just replacing Billy Tan on issue #24 and not ongoing. If Morales&#8217; words are true, and we have no reason to believe they aren&#8217;t, then maybe the every splash page concept from Venditti just wasn&#8217;t going to be possible for Tan. As the artwork shows, Rags is clearly working on something.<\/p>\n<p>*header is an old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicartfans.com\/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=949585&amp;GSub=137145\">commission piece by Morales<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; UPDATE: Rags Morales has indeed confirmed that he&#8217;s on Green Lantern #24, and ONLY that issue via his Facebook. And yes, those six fingers are apparently intentional, as Rags says this is a glimpse of a completely new character. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/is-rags-morales-replacing-billy-tan-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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4848","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\/4848","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=4848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}