And someday he’s going to - if things go the way I hope they go - have to look out for his old man and I’m going be trying to tell him he doesn’t need to and get him out there and live his on life. Like, I’m preparing him for a life without me in it. And I’m already dreading having to send him away someday. So I want to see their relationship.Īnd honestly, I project a fair bit of myself onto her as a parent of a young kid. To me, John is the consummate superhero and his hero is his mom. So that’s kind of been the mission statement of this whole thing. I want to see John as a much more complete person. These things shaped him as a person but we don’t ever hear about it. You communicate it through detail and through emotional investment, you know? I want to see these little nuggets, these little hints throughout John’s mythology like his mother, who inspired him. But if you don’t know who the characters are, you have to communicate who these people are.
Like, I want to see that kind of stuff on the screen. I just don’t care about that kind of stuff.
What they care about, what they’re afraid of, what their failings are, what their virtues are. And you just can’t bring yourself to give a s-t about any of it because you don’t know who anybody is. PKJ: We’ve all seen action movies in which there’s all this visual bombast. Why is that specifically that focus, especially his relationship with his mother? I think part of that is sort of showing his family life and his family. But he never strikes me as someone who feels confused or even dealing with contradictions. Thinking that he’s done with the Lanterns even if they’re not done with him.ĪIPT: I think one of the things that struck me about your portrayal of John is that he’s kind of stuck between worlds. John in this transition between his career as a Lantern and his time as a son dealing with end of life stuff, and trying to figure out what he’s gonna do next with his life. We often see him in a team book, and so we get the John Stewart shorthand where he just gives a little bit of military jargon and so we’re able to boil everybody down on the team to where it’s like, ‘Oh, it’s the ex-military guy.’ I want to see John, the ex-Marine, but also John, the architect, John, the son, John, the brother. And to also use that as the setting for a new Jon Stewart story that actually, despite the testosterone-driven story that’s coming, actually shows him as being much more complicated than we sometimes see him. Stuff that just felt like it could be a really stark contrast to the current Hal story that’s happening. I wanted to see James Cameron’s John Stewart, you know? And so I actually drew upon movies like Terminator 2 and Aliens and Predator - that golden age of just top-shelf action flick. I wanted this to feel more like an 1980s action film. And this one just didn’t feel like that kind of story. I love old classic fantasy, but I also really love Beowulf and older Arthurian legends. I very often draw on old stories, like pre-modern English or things like Tolkien. Phillip Kennedy Johnson: I wanted to take a different tact than I usually take with my books. Courtesy of DC Comics.ĪIPT: Where are we at leading into issue #1 of Green Lantern: War Journal? It seems we’re dealing with the Multiverse, and maybe two or more Johns.
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That includes how War Journal builds from the back-ups, why the tale focuses on his family, Stewart’s big bad and his mentee, and some other possible highlights for the series proper. In the meantime, we recently caught up with Kennedy Johnson during a Zoom call to talk about the book. Green Lantern: War Journal #1 officially drops September 19.
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Once Green Lantern: War Journal launches later this month, the story follows Stewart as he believes his “time as a Green Lantern has come to an end.” If only things were that easy, and instead Stewart may have to abandon his peaceful slice of life when “a terrifying and contagious force with a mysterious connection to Oa appears on Earth.” With some possible Multiverse action, and a new Lantern to boot, Stewart will clearly have his hands full in this poignant slice of drama. The brand-new solo book spins directly from those backup stories (which concluded this week, September 12, in Green Lantern #3). Now, the creators and Stewart are leaving the back pages for their very own title, Green Lantern: War Journal. Led up by writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson and artist Montos, the pair forged a new path for John Stewart that spun directly out of Worlds Without a Justice League – Green Lantern.
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While that story has had plenty to offer in the ongoing evolution of Hal Jordan, it was the backup story that generated just as much hype. Back in May, writer Jeremy Adams and artist Xermanico launched the latest Green Lantern solo book.
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