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Post by HoM on Apr 18, 2016 7:50:59 GMT -5
Please let me know what you thought of this issue!
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Post by Steve K. on Apr 18, 2016 18:03:09 GMT -5
Charlie, your run on Green Lantern are the stories I follow the most on this site as it feels like the most complete tale. Different story threads show up but they all tie together into a cosmic masterpiece. Parallax is scary and I can’t wait to see what he and you have planned.
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Post by HoM on Apr 19, 2016 3:12:53 GMT -5
Charlie, your run on Green Lantern are the stories I follow the most on this site as it feels like the most complete tale. Different story threads show up but they all tie together into a cosmic masterpiece. Parallax is scary and I can’t wait to see what he and you have planned. Cheers, Steve. I take a real pride in the stories I'm telling here and in Justice League, really due to the amount of accumulated stories prior to the current issue that hits. Everything's building to something, and I'm planned up until #75 (not long!), with enough threads to go beyond that. I'd really like to hit #100 on both titles, and then, maybe then, I can step away from writing duties, but there's so much I want to do, and due to the continuity and foundation of what's come before, I can't do it anywhere else! One of the things Don and I have discussed is writing our own superhero stories, putting all the great ideas we have on these books to use for original content, but I struggle to get my head around the sheer scope of the world building required. I was talking to a friend about it yesterday-- Batman is Batman. You drop him into a story and an element of that story tells itself, and then you can build up on that. Writing a new character means you have to lay the groundwork, and in a world of "show-don't-tell" I get scared quite easily. Don, of course, can do it like nobody's business, because he's one of the smartest writers (especially world builders) I know, and here's hoping I can get to that place at some point too. |
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Post by HoM on Apr 30, 2016 6:03:34 GMT -5
I’ve said it elsewhere, but Parallax has never been seen on a Green Lantern cover before. We’ve seen other “iterations” of the character kicking about, the first being when Hal was corrupted at the tail end of Scott’s run on the book (in a great jam cover by him and Ramon), but that wasn’t the main man. Later, in the Scarlet Reign arc, another universe’s Parallax popped up, and he was in that classic vein, but we haven’t seen OUR version of the guy. That changes here, in a cover by DC2 legend Roy Flinchum. This is out guy. This is our villain. And when Parallax appears, you drop everything, even if it’s the threat of Black Hand, and you run and try and stop him from destroying the universe.
And sometimes you fail.
Black Hand is still loose, still undetectable, and still the boogeyman. Just because he’s off the grid doesn’t mean we won’t see how he interacts with the larger story, and I’ve just plotted one hell of an arc that brings him to the fore. In the run up to #75, we’ll be seeing Black Hand again, and it won’t be pretty.
But with regards to Parallax, he’s building an army. A terrorist organisation that hates the Green Lantern Corps. Manhunters, Effigies, Ranx and more. He’s experimenting on alien races, creating power rings capable of channelling their abilities, experimenting on their bodies to make them weapons. He’s a monster. And that’s going to boil over across the universe soon.
Who else then? Atrocitus is still lurking behind the wall he erected around Sector 666. What’s going on with the Red Lantern Corps? Carol Ferris is on Earth with a power ring given to her by the Predator. What’s going to happen with her? And a few issues ago, deep in the Forbidden Sectors, something was pulled from the other side, someone called ‘the First’, and there promises to be others. Then what about Terri Henshaw, the reason Hank lost his will, the woman who twisted her family into weapons of which to spite the world? Why are there so many threats mobilising in the shadows? And when will they strike?
As Parallax promised John Stewart in Green Lantern Corps #56:
But what if the universe isn’t going to wait for Parallax to get round to them? What if the universe is ready to declare its own war on the Green Lantern Corps?
Keep reading. Because the Emerald Damned are coming…
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Post by oblique on May 24, 2020 10:19:07 GMT -5
Green Lanterns in Japan! This was an exciting three-parter. I really enjoyed the cool glimpse of other countries and superhero cultures on Earth, outside of the Big Hitters in the Justice League. This reminded me of Morrison's style and take on many superhero teams when he "went wide" during this Crisis stories and 52, like his version of the Great Ten. Though now I really wonder what happened to other members of Ultra Element Force 5.
Parralax is a nasty villain, man. I will say there were some "M" moments in there that I didn't (personally) enjoy, but this has been a dark take on the cosmic horrors faced by the GLs and I was prepared for it. Emerald Damned? That does not sound good!
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Post by HoM on May 25, 2020 15:13:17 GMT -5
Green Lanterns in Japan! This was an exciting three-parter. I really enjoyed the cool glimpse of other countries and superhero cultures on Earth, outside of the Big Hitters in the Justice League. This reminded me of Morrison's style and take on many superhero teams when he "went wide" during this Crisis stories and 52, like his version of the Great Ten. I was very much trying to expand the world of the DC2 in this arc, and there was something about the Japanese culture and the way it collides with the superhero world that fascinated me. It’s also something I explored in Omega Crisis, and the Superwoman-starring Action Comics arc. God, I miss writing that character. I loved seeing Sonny Sumo in Final Crisis, along with the Super Young Team. The Great Ten are another team I thought weren’t given a proper shot outside of stories written by the core 52 writers, though there were flashes in their ongoing that were interesting. For me to truly capture that feeling, I wanted to build something from the ground up, trying to mix Idol culture, the vibrant Sailor Moon sensibility, Puroresu / Joshi (wrestling) themes, and a bunch of power rings seemed like the right way to go about it! Making Godzilla-- and the rest of the Kaiju we’ve seen in history!-- real was also a blast, and helped to explain why the characters were more science-heroes, ala Tom Strong and the ABC line, than super-heroes. They were dealing with a Pacific Rim-styled rift that was spitting monsters out during the post-war period. A rift that Parallax has snatched from its moorings off the coast, torn open, and weaponised for his future war with the universe… Though now I really wonder what happened to other members of Ultra Element Force 5. As the powers were artificially granted by Parallax and his symbiotic bridging of elemental alien creatures with a bunch of Japanese teens with their distaff power rings, with the formers’ release at the end of the arc thanks to John Stewart, Ultra Element Force 5 are now powerless. That said, a version of the characters are scheduled to make an appearance in the non-fan-fiction novel I’m working on at the moment! Obviously they won’t be affiliated with DC[2] continuity, but still… I created them… Parallax is a nasty villain, man. I will say there were some "M" moments in there that I didn't (personally) enjoy, but this has been a dark take on the cosmic horrors faced by the GLs and I was prepared for it. Rightly or wrongly, I had a tendency to go dark / mature in these stories. Very early on during my return to the site I realised that there wasn’t a massive audience on the site, so writing to a younger age group was pointless. I was writing for adults, and I didn’t want to compromise the horrible vision I had for these characters and where they were going. The horrors are going to be dark, they’re going to be cosmic, and if you’re where I think you are in your reading list, you’re about to hit another “mature”-ish arc, though it’s less murder-y and more sexy-y. Emerald Damned? That does not sound good! If you’ve read the breakdown I sent you a few weeks back, you know what this term was building toward! Ah, to be able to write Green Lantern fan fiction full time… alas… |
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