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Yes, the Van Jensen interview blitz continues! <\/em>Just in case you didn’t know, Van Jensen will be taking over Green Lantern Corps<\/em> with issue #21 in June. Speaking with Uproxx<\/a>, Jensen discussed new roles for Green Lanterns including the Guardians right(left, right and left again) hand man Salaak. Check out what he said below.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Van on who the series will focus on:<\/p>\n Really early, the big focus, we decided, was going to be on John Stewart. He\u2019s had a strong presence, but hasn\u2019t been the leading character of a book in the new 52. It\u2019s exciting for me because he\u2019s a character I\u2019ve long enjoyed and admired. He\u2019s had a horrific history; he\u2019s got the destruction of two planets on his conscience. He\u2019s also in his background as an architect and Marine in a unique place to rebuild the corps. He wants to rebuild it, but he also feels betrayed by it. He\u2019s asking himself if he wants to dedicate his life to rebuilding or doing something new.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Taking on the Green Lantern Corps affects the amount of sleep I get! (laughs) I was a crime reporter and editor, and it really helps with dialogue, listening to the way people speak. Currently I edit Georgia Tech\u2019s alumni magazine, and there\u2019s all sorts of extremely experimental stuff in the science going on there right now. I want Green Lantern Corps to have an SF edge, and that science is food for thought for developing plots and ideas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Spotlighting new and old characters, including the mildly used Salaak:<\/p>\n We\u2019re going to see a handful of new characters, and that\u2019s really exciting to me. That\u2019s been a dream of mine since I was a kid. There are a lot of existing characters, though. I went through the special issue profiling all of the Lanterns, I reread the past decade or so of books, and there are just some really really cool characters out there. One character who will have some focus is Salaak. He was the right hand man to the Guardians, so he takes their betrayal harder than anyone. But at the same time the Corps doesn\u2019t trust him, so he\u2019s in a really awkward new position. It\u2019s like dealing with fallout, there\u2019s a lot of raw emotion that characters are trying to deal with and process, and that\u2019ll come through in major characters and minor ones.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yes, the Van Jensen interview blitz continues! Just in case you didn’t know, Van Jensen will be taking over Green Lantern Corps with issue #21 in June. Speaking with Uproxx, Jensen discussed new roles for Green Lanterns including the … 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-5113","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\/5113","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=5113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}How his background influences his comic writing:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n