green lantern john stewart secret origins

Green lantern john stewart secret origins movie#
Green lantern john stewart secret origins series#

I would really urge you to read Tygers first, if you can, since it will considerably alter your perception about this story.

And, thank goodness, this book is nothing like the film other than the fact that it features Hector Hammond and Sinestro.

Green lantern john stewart secret origins movie#

If you can, purchase the edition with the illustrated cover, and not the movie tie-in cover, it just looks so much better.

Green lantern john stewart secret origins series#

In fact, this whole series by Geoff Johns is pretty good. As such, this book is a welcome addition to any Green Lantern fan’s library. I’m not sure whether there are other Hal Jordan origin tales readily available out there, with the possible exception of Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn and books like Green Lantern: Rebirth. I suppose you could argue that it’s the culmination of events that started more than twenty years earlier… but I’m getting ahead of myself. Johns takes this idea and develops it further here.It’s actually a magnificent achievement once you start stringing the pieces together. That by planting the seeds of doubt the inversions would eventually cause Abin-Sur’s failure and downfall. The idea behind the original story, by Moore, was that it would be a self fulfilling prophecy. This origin tale leads into that arc.Ībin-Sur’s prophecy has been around for years it isn’t something Geoff Johns dreamed up for Secret Origin.

It’s one of the stories Johns collected in Green Lantern: In Brightest Day and if you read the accompanying introductions in that particular book you realize that the seeds for Blackest Night was planted long, long ago already. Even though so many years separate the two stories, it’s fascinating to see the impact that a story like Tygers can have on continuity. It’s an iconic Green Lantern story from 1986 which deals with the five inversions and the prophecy disclosed to Abin-Sur and it’s incredibly important to the Secret Origins story Johns is telling here. It’s really surprising that there hasn’t been more mention here of Tygers, by Alan Moore.

Geoff recently became a New York Times Bestselling author with the graphic novel Superman: Brainiac with art by Gary Frank. He also served as staff writer for the fourth season of ROBOT CHICKEN. Goyer, as well as penned the acclaimed “Legion” episode of SMALLVILLE. Geoff also developed BLADE: THE SERIES with David S. Geoff received the Wizard Fan Award for Breakout Talent of 2002 and Writer of the Year for 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 as well as the CBG Writer of the Year 2003 thru 2005, 2007 and CBG Best Comic Book Series for JSA 2001 thru 2005. Since then, he has quickly become one of the most popular and prolific comics writers today, working on such titles including a highly successful re-imagining of Green Lantern, Action Comics (co-written with Richard Donner), Teen Titans, Justice Society of America, Infinite Crisis and the experimental breakout hit series 52 for DC with Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka and Mark Waid. His first comics assignments led to a critically acclaimed five-year run on the The Flash. He worked with Richard Donner for four years, leaving the company to pursue writing full-time. During that time, he also began his comics career writing Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. Through perseverance, Geoff ended up as the assistant to Richard Donner, working on Conspiracy Theory and Lethal Weapon 4. He moved to Los Angeles in the late 1990s in search of work within the film industry. He attended Michigan State University, where he earned a degree in Media Arts and Film. Geoff Johns originally hails from Detroit, Michigan.