{"id":5176,"date":"2013-05-30T09:34:28","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T13:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/?p=5176"},"modified":"2013-05-30T09:34:28","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T13:34:28","slug":"charles-soule-compares-red-lanterns-to-hbos-the-wire-and-talks-long-term-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/charles-soule-compares-red-lanterns-to-hbos-the-wire-and-talks-long-term-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Soule Compares &#8220;Red Lanterns&#8221; to HBO&#8217;s &#8220;The Wire&#8221; and Talks Long Term Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i40.tinypic.com\/5uijaa.jpg\" width=\"639\" height=\"248\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Talking with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbookresources.com\/?page=article&amp;id=45754\">CBR<\/a>, the new writer for <em>Red Lanterns, <\/em>Charles Soule is now setting his sights on perfection. I happen to think HBO&#8217;s tv series &#8220;The Wire&#8221; is the best drama ever. So its quite intriguing when a comic book series about anger filled napalm blood spilling creatures gets compared to it. If there was no reason to pick up <em>Red Lanterns <\/em>on June 26th, there sure the hell is now. Read below for some quotes on that and more.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Soule on what sets the Red Lanterns apart from other corps:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It goes back to the comparison I made earlier, with shows like &#8220;The Shield&#8221; and &#8220;Sons Of Anarchy&#8221; and &#8220;The Wire&#8221; &#8212; shows that take a realistic approach to what it&#8217;s like to be someone who is not seen as a good guy. Society doesn&#8217;t see you as a useful element, so you&#8217;ve got to decide who you want to be, yourself. Even if you want to be part of society, if they don&#8217;t want you do you even care? Do you <em>have<\/em> to be part of it? I think those are really interesting questions that you can&#8217;t necessarily do the same way in some other book. It would tough to see, say, Captain America, not to disparage another guy&#8217;s title, but it would be a little harder to see him wrestling with some of those questions. So having a book where you can have Guy Gardner really feel like he&#8217;s been, not exactly <em>rejected<\/em> by the Greens, but thinking, &#8220;Why do they send <em>me<\/em> to be part of this horrible Red Lantern Corps when they could have sent anybody? Why did they stick me with this terrible gig?&#8221; There&#8217;s a lot of emotions you don&#8217;t get to play with in the other titles!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Soule on working with Alessandro Vitti:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ll tell you, one of the great joys of working at DC is seeing the people they have drawing their things. It&#8217;s unbelievable, and Alessandro is absolutely no exception. You write a scene and go, &#8220;How could that ever be realized?&#8221; and he handles it more perfectly than you ever could envision in your head.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I had him do a lot of weird stuff in this first issue, as you can see in the preview pages. You&#8217;ve got Atrocitus mangling a weird pig\/deer Red Lantern hybrid and then you cut to Guy and Hal in what appears to be Guy&#8217;s garage working on a motorcycle. The tone and the settings are all over the place, but he&#8217;s just done an amazing job with it. I had the pleasure of meeting him at C2E2 about a month or so ago. He was super great and super tall and super skinny! [<em>Laughs<\/em>] He was very nice and I enjoyed talking to him. I look forward to working with him for a long time to come.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Soule on long term plans for the series:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m writing this the way I write all these ongoing series, which is that I have a fairly tight plan for this arc I&#8217;m working on, I have a looser plan for the arc that&#8217;s after that and after that, I have ideas. I have plot points that I&#8217;m building toward, but I wouldn&#8217;t say I have outlines for forty issues or anything like that. I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing some of the ideas as I write; this is pretty fertile ground, so I&#8217;m sure some good stuff is going to show up.<\/p>\n<p>I think the last two or three pages of my first issue are really going to lay the ground for what I want to do, and I think people are going to be surprised. It&#8217;s going to be fun to get those reactions and see what the Internet has to say! [<em>Laughs<\/em>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Talking with CBR, the new writer for Red Lanterns, Charles Soule is now setting his sights on perfection. I happen to think HBO&#8217;s tv series &#8220;The Wire&#8221; is the best drama ever. So its quite intriguing when a comic &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/charles-soule-compares-red-lanterns-to-hbos-the-wire-and-talks-long-term-plans\/\">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-5176","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\/5176","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=5176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}