Some new information about the mysterious new Green Lantern shown in the "New 52" Free Comic Book Day giveaway has come to light thanks to both
MTV Geek and
Bleeding Cool. MTV Geek recently posted several videos of Geoff Johns and Jim Lee talking about the book in which Johns mentions that readers will see the new character in the Green Lantern books "very soon".
What makes this all the more interesting is that the new Green Lantern was not originally a part of Jim Lee's drawings, Hal Jordan was. British comics website The Bleeding Cool revealed that the original drawings were altered to change the appearance of the Green Lantern fighting Batman. The images below, taken from the original story, show the original Jim Lee pencils, the alterations put over the original images and the final versions of the printed pages.
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| Original Artwork |
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| The Fix |
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| The Finished Product |
5/18/2012
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Good thing they changed him because he looked just like Hall
Good thing they changed him because he looked just like Hall
That's because originally it was Hal.
What's up with the scribbling on the forearm of the mystery GL in the bottom right panel of the first page where he is revealed? It looks like a tattoo of some sort, maybe some kind of arabic language (taking a guess)?
A lot has been made of that, hinting that perhaps the character is Middle Eastern. Part of the lines show up on the original page with Hal, part doesn't and they also don't appear on the "touch up" page. So I kind of dismissed it as a side effect of being tampered with, but it could certainly be a clue.
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