By Vaneta Rogers
As Blackest Night rounds the corner of the halfway mark, there’s one thing that fans can agree on: Ivan Reis is drawing some of the best work of his career.
Reis started drawing comics professionally when he was only 14 in his home country of Brazil. Five years later, he debuted in American comics with Ghost for Dark Horse. Over his career since, he’s worked on comics for various publishers, including Marvel and DC, but really caught the attention of fans in 2005 with the epic space battles he drew in the DC mini-series Rann-Thanagar War.
Since his run on Green Lantern began with Issue #10 in 2006, the Brazilian artist has defined the look of the comic’s multitude of characters and various settings. He and writer Geoff Johns guided the comic through the popular 2007 storyline, “Sinestro Corps War,” and last year’s “Secret Origin,” which told Hal Jordan’s background.
Now DC has tapped him to draw the publisher’s premier event, as Blackest Nightencompasses not only the Green Lantern universe, but most of the DC Universe as well.
Although Reis told Newsarama readers in February that he would be leaving the Green Lanterns behind after Blackest Night, he promised that there would be more projects with Johns in his future.
Newsarama talked to the artist about how Blackest Night is going, how he designed some of those two-page spreads, and whether he’s still counting on that future project with Johns.