Post by HoM on May 1, 2017 17:18:15 GMT -5
This might read as an odd one.
See, I decided halfway through the third part of this story, over in Green Lantern Corps #72, that the three-issue structure I’d adhered to-- for better and for worse-- over the last year or so, just wasn’t right for this arc. I had too much story and not enough room, and I didn’t want to rearrange the weight of each issue because I think I timed the cliff-hangers perfectly. It just wasn't shaping up how it needed to.
Unfortunately, because I plot like a lunatic (more so when working on Justice League), the story I’d allotted to follow this meant that I needed #73-75, because the finale for that story is, for all intents and purposes, the grand finale of a lot of threads I’ve laid out across the years. While a lot of things are going to get resolved in this story, #75 is the capper for a lot more and also the launch of the next phase. I'm excited, but I still have to tell the stories to get there, right?
So anyway, that meant I needed a fourth issue for this story, and as the story grew and I knew I needed even more room for it, I thought that it might be about time to bring back the Annual concept. I haven’t written one of these bad boys for a while, but I always try and do something different with them each time. Green Lantern Corps Annual #3 is no exception.
My first annual, back when the title was entitled Green Lantern, was way back in 2008. I had an odd little story I wanted to tell and no place for it to go, so after discussing it with my long-time partner-in-literary-crime Don Walsh, we decided to put an annual together; one story from me, one from him. It was a nice package, with a cover by Craig Cermak. The second annual hit the site two years later in 2010, and pulled back the curtain and reframed certain events to tell the secret history of Sinestro in the DC2. I took events not originally written by me that featured the character and flipped the perspective so that different characters than the one originally written gave their view on proceedings. Dialogue stayed the same, but the narrator did not. It was a fun experiment and one I wanted to repeat at some point. The annual also featured a wrap-around cover by Mark and that’s brilliant, isn’t it?
Any reader of the Green Lantern Corps ongoing knows I do not shy away from editor’s notes. This is because there’s a lot going on in the book, and a lot has happened previously, and it would be selfish to assume a reader would know what the hell I’m going on about half the time. The story you’re about to read not only features editor’s notes, but it also takes scenes from past issues and reframes them to show how they’re part of a larger whole. I hope everything fits together for anyone who has followed the book since my first issue, because I bloody well love the title and it’s one of the main reasons I still write for the DC2.
A lot of what’s come before is about to come to an end. When #75 hits the site in three months we’ll enter the next stage of this title’s evolution in the DC2. It’ll be my first seventy-fifth issue on the site and I’m hoping I can tell enough stories to earn a hundredth. Anyway, enough jibber-jabber… welcome to the future! Welcome to Green Lantern Corps #3!
See, I decided halfway through the third part of this story, over in Green Lantern Corps #72, that the three-issue structure I’d adhered to-- for better and for worse-- over the last year or so, just wasn’t right for this arc. I had too much story and not enough room, and I didn’t want to rearrange the weight of each issue because I think I timed the cliff-hangers perfectly. It just wasn't shaping up how it needed to.
Unfortunately, because I plot like a lunatic (more so when working on Justice League), the story I’d allotted to follow this meant that I needed #73-75, because the finale for that story is, for all intents and purposes, the grand finale of a lot of threads I’ve laid out across the years. While a lot of things are going to get resolved in this story, #75 is the capper for a lot more and also the launch of the next phase. I'm excited, but I still have to tell the stories to get there, right?
So anyway, that meant I needed a fourth issue for this story, and as the story grew and I knew I needed even more room for it, I thought that it might be about time to bring back the Annual concept. I haven’t written one of these bad boys for a while, but I always try and do something different with them each time. Green Lantern Corps Annual #3 is no exception.
My first annual, back when the title was entitled Green Lantern, was way back in 2008. I had an odd little story I wanted to tell and no place for it to go, so after discussing it with my long-time partner-in-literary-crime Don Walsh, we decided to put an annual together; one story from me, one from him. It was a nice package, with a cover by Craig Cermak. The second annual hit the site two years later in 2010, and pulled back the curtain and reframed certain events to tell the secret history of Sinestro in the DC2. I took events not originally written by me that featured the character and flipped the perspective so that different characters than the one originally written gave their view on proceedings. Dialogue stayed the same, but the narrator did not. It was a fun experiment and one I wanted to repeat at some point. The annual also featured a wrap-around cover by Mark and that’s brilliant, isn’t it?
Any reader of the Green Lantern Corps ongoing knows I do not shy away from editor’s notes. This is because there’s a lot going on in the book, and a lot has happened previously, and it would be selfish to assume a reader would know what the hell I’m going on about half the time. The story you’re about to read not only features editor’s notes, but it also takes scenes from past issues and reframes them to show how they’re part of a larger whole. I hope everything fits together for anyone who has followed the book since my first issue, because I bloody well love the title and it’s one of the main reasons I still write for the DC2.
A lot of what’s come before is about to come to an end. When #75 hits the site in three months we’ll enter the next stage of this title’s evolution in the DC2. It’ll be my first seventy-fifth issue on the site and I’m hoping I can tell enough stories to earn a hundredth. Anyway, enough jibber-jabber… welcome to the future! Welcome to Green Lantern Corps #3!