Over at Entertainment Weekly, Grant Morrison and Liam Sharp announced “The Green Lantern: Season Two,” which will continue the duo’s trippy take on Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps.
Following up on the current “Green Lantern: Blackstars” miniseries, “The Green Lantern: Season Two” will feature more done-in-one stories that connect to tell a larger story, a trick that Morrison said he’s consciously lifted from his recent stints in TV writing rooms.
“Working with [the writers on Syfy’s Happy and the upcoming Brave New World] was great,” Morrison said to Entertainment Weekly. “Watching how seasons were crafted to work and have a story based around one episode, and then many episodes would link up into bigger backstory, that experience totally influenced what I’ve been doing on ‘The Green Lantern.'”
Morrison also teased an upcoming team-up between Green Lantern and the Flash, as well as a new dynamic between Hal Jordan and the soon-to-be-Young Guardians.
“The first issue is about Hal Jordan going in search of replacements for the Guardians of the Universe,” said Morrison. “It ties into all the big stuff that’s happening in the DC Universe next year, so there’s a little bit of that, but the fun was ‘let’s mess up the status quo.’ These are new Guardians with very different ideas of what’s right and wrong. Instead of Hal butting heads with these geriatric space dudes that he always had problems with, where he was the young cocky guy and they were the old heads, suddenly we have Young Guardians. It’s also having a little bit of fun with this ‘ok boomer’ thing.”
While “Season Two” will include plenty of new developments, the overall focus will remain on showing exactly why Hal Jordan is touted as “the greatest Green Lantern,” even among the Green Lanterns themselves.
“In a way, it’s not that Hal Jordan is a superhero amongst humans, he’s a superhero amongst Green Lanterns,” said Sharp. “Whether he’s our favorite Green Lantern or not, it’s established in the tomes of Green Lantern lore that he’s the greatest Green Lantern of all time. You go to the future, they’re still talking about Hal Jordan. We’re in the midst of telling the story of the greatest Green Lantern of them all. That’s amazing, to show what that means.”
The first issue of “The Green Lantern: Season Two” will drop February 12, but if you can’t wait for a sneak peek at the first issue, Entertainment Weekly has exclusive black-and-white preview pages that you can take a gander at right now.
