Mosaic Comics

  Hey everybody, it’s time to dive into Green Lantern #10, written by Geoffrey Thorne, art by Chriscross, Juan Castro, and Marco Santucci, colors by Mike Atiyeh, and letters by Rob Leigh. The Lightbringer has been destroyed, and the power within the massive giant is erupting out into the universe, in the form of a massive Godstorm that threatens to destroy everything, and the only way to stop it is for John to absorb the Godstorm into his own body.  Part of me wonders if this specific action is the reason Lonar guided John here in the first place…the Godstorm is a mass of cosmic power that New Gods like Lonar can’t absorb for some reason, but John is a mortal who ascended, meaning that he’s powered by cosmic energy without technically being a God, so he can absorb the Godstorm.  Unless Lanar suddenly becomes willing to have a direct, detailed conversation once this is all over, I don’t know that we’ll actually ever get an answer, though maybe that’s fine for a story that...

  There’s a popular narrative that’s been going around in the fan community for a while now.   It’s this idea that DC hates Hal Jordan, and refuses to use Hal Jordan in any projects across any form of media.   And if you just list it all out, it might sound convincing…Hal’s not starring in the Green Lantern comic right now, he hasn’t been part of the Justice League in a long time, he’s not supposed to be in the HBO Max tv show…and when he does show up, it’s in an elseworld mini series where he’s usually some kind of bad guy.   But no matter how I look at it, I just can’t agree with this idea that DC is somehow disrespecting the character, or the fans of the character, by choosing not to use him for much right now. I think it would do everyone a lot of good to get some perspective, so let’s take a look at a handful of fan-favorite characters who’ve each existed for a very different length of time, and see how long it’s actually taken them to come and go from the spot...