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Before the flurry of changes to the Green Lantern Corps<\/em> and Red Lanterns <\/em>titles yesterday, IGN <\/a>spoke with the new head honcho of\u00a0Green Lantern<\/em>, writer Robert Venditti. He spoke on the next logical step for the series, Hal Jordan and big plans for September. As I said before, this interview was conducted before Joshua Hale Fialkov stepped away from the lantern books.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Venditti on the next logical step following Geoff Johns’ run:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We\u2019ll be giving readers a clean jumping-on point, but we\u2019re also building on the foundation Geoff laid down in his run. I think I\u2019ve read something like 200 issues of Green Lantern since I was hired, and there are some things that occurred to me as the next logical steps for the series. To get there, we\u2019ll need to drop the characters into new situations and have them face conflicts they haven\u2019t faced before. After reading the September issue, readers will see the Green Lantern mythology in an entirely different light.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Venditti reiterates that Hal Jordan will be the star of Green Lantern<\/em>:<\/p>\n Hal will be the focus. He\u2019s one of the most iconic characters in all of comics, so how could I not want to write him? That\u2019s not to say those other characters won\u2019t show up from time to time, but Green Lantern is going to be Hal\u2019s book. Given the events that will transpire by the end of Geoff\u2019s run, Hal is the natural choice for what we want to do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n How his work on X-O Manowar <\/em>helped with his Green Lantern <\/em>writing:<\/p>\n Prior to X-O, I\u2019d only done creator-owned mini-series and graphic novels, which is a completely different style of writing. Not just because the pacing is different, but because X-O was the first established character I\u2019d worked on, too. A lot of people think that\u2019d be confining creatively, but I\u2019ve found it leads to another form of creativity. The constraints of an established character\u2019s history and universe force you to think about a story differently than if you have a blank canvas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Venditti praises artist Billy Tan:<\/p>\n Billy is great to work with. He\u2019s nearly done with our first issue, and every time I see new pages I get excited about what we have coming down the line. He\u2019s able to hit so many different emotional beats. One moment he\u2019s nailing the humor of a visual gag, and the next he\u2019s showing you a double-page spread of some of the most frenzied villains you\u2019ve ever seen. His cover for our first issue perfectly captures one of the main conflicts driving our first arc. He\u2019s an incredibly versatile artist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Before the flurry of changes to the Green Lantern Corps and Red Lanterns titles yesterday, IGN spoke with the new head honcho of\u00a0Green Lantern, writer Robert Venditti. He spoke on the next logical step for the series, Hal … 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-4877","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\/4877","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=4877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}