Mosaic Comics

  Here we are with issue four of Green Lantern written by Geoffrey Thorne and art by Tom Raney and Marco Santucci, and…everybody, page one made this entire issue worth it for me. Something I have wanted for decades was for someone at DC to follow up on the series Green Lantern Mosaic, acknowledge its importance to who John Stewart is as a character, and just tell us what happened to all of it after that series ended…and after almost thirty years, Geoffrey Thorne is finally doing it.   This page takes place right around the end of Emerald Twilight, just after Hal Jordan destroyed the Central Battery and became Parallax.   By this point, John had ascended and become a being on the level of a Guardian, but now having lost two worlds, John rejects what he’s become, and Ganthet agrees to seal it all away, explaining why John was his regular old self after Emerald Twilight, and why he’s never talked about any of it.   John references losing two worlds, the first obviously ...

In all my years of reading comics, I’ve never grown tired of Green Lantern, and the reason is the nearly infinite potential inherent to that franchise.  There’s no such thing as a story you can’t tell using Green Lantern, and that comes from the fact that the Green Lantern Corps is made up of a massively diverse cast of thousands of different members from every background you can imagine.  And if you can think of a culture or perspective that isn’t represented already, it’s easy enough to create another character…because when you have a Corps of 7200 members, what’s one more?  This allows a great deal of creative freedom, since a writer with very specific, personal story to tell doesn’t have to figure out a way to make it fit into the life of one standard protagonist.  A new character can be introduced, a Green Lantern who’s specifically built to tell that particular story like no other could. That’s where writer Minh Le comes in.  He comes from a family of im...