{"id":7936,"date":"2017-03-20T12:05:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T16:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/?p=7936"},"modified":"2017-03-20T12:05:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T16:05:59","slug":"scott-snyder-james-tynion-iv-to-write-summer-prelude-event-one-shots-dark-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/scott-snyder-james-tynion-iv-to-write-summer-prelude-event-one-shots-dark-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Snyder &#038; James Tynion IV to Write Summer Prelude Event One Shots: Dark Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/bx1MxmK.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"326\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"tsm-clipoard-container\">Famed <em>Batman <\/em>writer Scott Snyder and his often partner in crime, James Tynion IV will work with top artists Jim Lee, Andy Kubert and John Romita Jr. this upcoming summer for\u00a0<em>Dark Days: The Forge<\/em> and\u00a0<em>Dark Days: The Casting.<\/em> The books will be one-shot issues that lead into a major event that supposedly Snyder has been leading towards for years!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Scott Snyder on his &#8220;epic&#8221; story:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div id=\"tsm-clipoard-container\">\u201cArt like this demands an epic story. <em>Dark Days<\/em>\u00a0posits a mystery that traces all the way back to when I started on <em>Batman<\/em>. I\u2019ve hinted at them over the years with Easter eggs and clues. This is a mystery that literally begins at the dawn of man and spans generations of heroes and villains and ultimately leads to huge revelations about the past, present and future of the cosmology of DC. I couldn\u2019t be more excited for <em>Dark Days<\/em>. It\u2019s the prelude to the event we\u2019ve been developing for years.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 630px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/emmbJBw.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"961\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Lee, Scott Williams and Alex Sinclair<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Words from Jim Lee on bringing artists to the forefront of DC&#8217;s events:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div id=\"tsm-clipoard-container\">\u201cWorking with Scott and James on <em>Dark Days<\/em>\u00a0is the culmination of the big ideas and endless brainstorming that came out of a recent creative summit. It was tremendous fun having peers like Andy Kubert and JRJR in with some of our top writers. Strategically, Dan [Didio] and I have talked for a long time about bringing the artist back to the table in the genesis of big, epic events. The creative summit was just that, and the level of collaboration was truly invigorating and electrifying. We can\u2019t wait to share <em>Dark Days<\/em>\u00a0with the DC faithful\u2026they\u2019re in for a thrill ride!\u201d<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<div id=\"tsm-clipoard-container\"><em>Dark Days: The Forge<\/em> will be released on June 14, and\u00a0<em>Dark Days: The Casting\u00a0<\/em>hits shelves a month later on July 12.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Famed Batman writer Scott Snyder and his often partner in crime, James Tynion IV will work with top artists Jim Lee, Andy Kubert and John Romita Jr. this upcoming summer for\u00a0Dark Days: The Forge and\u00a0Dark Days: The Casting. The books &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/scott-snyder-james-tynion-iv-to-write-summer-prelude-event-one-shots-dark-days\/\">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":[767,769,768],"class_list":["post-7936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-dark-days","tag-dark-days-the-casting","tag-dark-days-the-forge"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7936","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=7936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}