Geoff Johns has been an extremely busy man this weekend with all the attention being paid to the Green Lantern movie this past weekend at WonderCon. Amidst all the promotion for the film Johns did have some time to talk about the Green Lantern comics and the current War of the Green Lanterns story arc running between all three of the of the GL titles.
Johns expressed his notion that the current event is an effort to get back to the four human Green Lanterns and focus on the men behind the rings. As much as this is a story about the threat Krona poses, it is also about getting so involved in doing something that you lose sight of what is really important. As the writer says, "The point of 'War of the Green Lanterns' really examines that...what kind of life is it when you never come out of the costume? And if you go to Hal and ask 'Why are you Green Lantern?' he just knows that he's been doing it for so long. He's been up to ten and running in the red, and he needs to really stop and think. The less you do that, the more things pass you by. So maybe that is me really exploring Hal becoming Green Lantern again, becoming involved with all these crazy events and then continuing to just be Green Lantern and lose himself to that ring. It's something he's done before. This has certainly gotten in the way of a lot of relationships in his life."
4/28/2011
