{"id":5133,"date":"2013-05-20T16:20:49","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T20:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/?p=5133"},"modified":"2013-05-20T16:20:49","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T20:20:49","slug":"preview-green-lantern-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/preview-green-lantern-20\/","title":{"rendered":"PREVIEW: Green Lantern #20"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Its been nine years in the making. “Wrath of the First Lantern” comes to an end with Geoff Johns’ Green Lantern <\/em>#20. Check out the preview for the issue below along with some words from Geoff via USA Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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“I never had really planned being on this book this long,” says Johns, DC’s chief creative officer who also pens the Justice League<\/i>, Justice League of America<\/i> and Aquaman<\/i> books. “I feel extremely fortunate that I work with so many great artists and writers on building the Green Lantern universe in the way we did this time around.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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“We’re leaving it in a good place for people to come on and play with concepts that were there before us, concepts we introduced and introducing their own stuff. Building on a foundation is always much more fun than destroying a foundation.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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“Emotion’s such a powerful thing, so from the beginning I wanted to really delve into what self-awareness and what emotions are and personify that in comic-book characters and explore them in that way,” Johns says.<\/p>\n

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“The First Lantern really personifies all the emotions the Guardians threw away so long ago, and how essentially they’re bottled up emotionally. Everybody can relate to that.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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“I love Hal Jordan and Guy Gardner and all the Green Lanterns. They’ve been great characters for a long time and hopefully we helped them grow a little bit more, but I find Sinestro probably took the biggest leap in terms of where he was before we started and where he ended up,” the writer says.<\/p>\n

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“Whenever I leave a book, I’ve tried to work the character and the concept to a place that is good for somebody else to step in. But really, my first concern is telling the story correctly,” Johns says.<\/p>\n

“I don’t want to be dictated to what I should do with the book and I don’t want anyone else to feel dictated to. They should be able to take it in the direction they want to take it in.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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