It’s a nice coincidence that my Lantern-style character makes his debut this week, just after DC Comics’ “Blackest Night” kicked off (of course, not living in a town with a comic shop, I have to wait to get my copy) as well as the news of Ryan Reynolds being cast to play Hal Jordan in the “Green Lantern” movie! The last two bits of news are WAAAAAY more important than this semi-mysterious brown(?) Lantern, but I’m excited about all of them.
“Blackest Night,” if it’s even half as good as Geoff Johns’ “Sinestro Corps War” will dwarf any of the recent “summer events” that either DC or Marvel has manufactured over the last several years. And that’s because it’s a natural — and incredible — outgrowth of an ongoing storyline, not just a sales gimmick.
And I think Reynolds is a great choice for Green Lantern. He’s a guy who has name recognition, which, as a friend pointed out today, is more necessary with a character that most of the public is unfamiliar with, as opposed to Superman or Batman. He’s got the geek credential, having been in a Blade movie, as well as playing Deadpool in the unfathomably awful Wolverine movie (he’ll certainly have a better vehicle in his solo Deadpool movie — it’s impossible to get anything worse than Wolverine). He’s got the “leading man” qualities that you want in a superhero movie, the ability to be funny on his own and with script help, and has the physicality to make it work. Finally Warner Bros. does something right!
And as for the guy at the dirt-color end of the spectrum, above? Well, I’ll unwrap that in the strips to come. And, yes, the brown does have a meaning. …
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