Meet the 'consummate Green Lantern,' John Stewart.
With the dawn of a new era for DC Comics, Green Lantern John Stewart is officially taking on a new role himself — on Earth, no less. The iconic cosmic superhero will be trying his best to enjoy retirement from the Green Lantern Corps, and his new chapter begins in Green Lantern: War Journal #1, available September 19th from DC Comics
And John has a responsibility to his family that he's trying to fulfill. And even though people are kind of trying to get him back in service, he's like, “I'm more needed here than I am out there.” But deep down, he's not sure he believes it. So yeah, that's kind of where we find John. And then there's this thing that comes along, and it kind of is a parallel to that experience.
That might have been the first time I'd ever seen that in a book, a superhero who didn't want the mask. Like, “I'm Green Lantern John Stewart,” to me that was so compelling. And to me, that's what makes him the consummate superhero, more so than his own personal gifts for architecture — and violence, frankly — and for leadership. All those things that make him a great Lantern. The thing that makes him a hero is his willingness to show his face.
SR: Yeah, yeah, I mean, the word journal does a lot, carrying that as well — the idea of reflection, even amidst the war. So, switching gears a little bit from that reflective nature to maybe the more cosmic stuff. I know a lot of DC fans will be familiar with your work from Action Comics, which recently took Superman very far from home. And now we're turning towards Green Lantern, and even though he's stuck at home, he is this iconic cosmic hero for DC.
You know, there are things about the Green Lantern histories that I kind of questioned, and I want to kick the tires on some of that and show what quote-unquote “really happened.” We'll see that play out in the story, and the Revenant Queen and the Radiant Dead are a crucial part of that. In the first issue, he gets harassed by elements of his past that come back to haunt him. But then the Revenant Queen shows up, and he doesn't even know who the hell that is. He doesn't know where she comes from. She seems to know him. But he doesn't know her or what her beef with him is, what she wants him for, what her plan is — he doesn't know anything about it, because he's unaware of that whole other universe in which he's the man.
SR: If my opinion is worth anything, it feels like it's going great. I feel like you can tell when the artist and the writer, you know, really have it going on. And this first issue really communicates that. SR: So we're at this exciting time to be a DC reader — things are connecting, it's Dawn of DC, we're seeing characters show up in other books, and it's all very cohesive.
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