Green Lantern News From Emerald City Comic Con 2010

Emerald City Comic Con

Well today at ECCC ’10 featured a Green Lantern panel with Eddie Berganza, Geoff Johns, Peter Tomasi, Patrick Gleason and Doug Mahnke talking all things Green Lantern in 2010 here are some of the highlights along with my own personal commentary:

• All the New Guardians will remain on Earth Post-Blackest Night, which makes for exciting events in Hal Jordan’s life.

We knew this the second next months solicitations came out, and I really hope the upcoming storyline in GL will stand up to the hype.

• Larfleeze will soon be getting a house and a boat during his stay on Earth. Also, after hearing about Santa Clause, he decides to hunt him down, aka a Larfleeze Christmas Special, and he also steals the Eiffel Tower.

Geoff Johns has stated before that Larfleeze is becoming one of his favorite characters, which means this comes as no surprise to me. It sound’s like Hal’s going to have to act as a babysitter to Larfleeze until he leaves Earth, whenever that may be.

• We’ll see much more of Sector 2814 in GL soon and Xudar will make appearances.

This is refreshing, considering Johns’ run on GL has had barely any interaction with Sector 2814, and Xudar is sure to make for a good story.

• Atrocitus will try to put the mack on Mera, but she’ll cock-block him.

This is kind of a surprise, but it makes sense. Once BN is over and Mera’s back to normal, I doubt she’d even think about hooking up with the lava spitting alien.

• Carol and Diana will be buddies Post-BN.

Judging by their interactions so far in BN, this isn’t much of a surprise. They compliment each other nicely and I must say, the art they appear in is just GREAT!

• Geoff said he’d think about Hal having adventures in the 58th century like back in the day when asked by Mark Waid.

This is simply awesome, providing it ever happens. I would love to see GL take a step away from the stuff going on lately and focus on something completely different.

• Eddie Berganza wanted to make Kyle a Blue Lantern but the creators didn’t.

Many fans also wanted to see this, and it would have made sense to me, but the fact that it didn’t happen is a lot more reassuring. I have too many questions thus far in BN, and this would only add to that.

• The rest of the 10 laws will be revealed soon.

Finally. This makes me wonder though, does this mean the Guardians of The Universe will return or will the New Guardians take over and create new laws?

• The JSA will make another appearance on Smallville this season, but no GL will make an appearance.

I’m glad The JSA will appear again, but no GL just sucks. As CCO, it’s not like Geoff couldn’t make it happen.

• Turns out GLC’s planned Co-Feature has been scrapped. The plan was to have a “Tales of The GLC” mini-anthology but Geoff vetoed it.

This would have been an awesome feature, it just sucks Geoff didn’t like it.

• Emerald Warriors won’t be Guy Gardner-centric and it will be more of a wide cast of characters.

This is refreshing because it means we’ll see more of the GL’s from the other sectors of the universe.

• The long-anticipated Lobo Vs. Atrocitus fight will come in Brightest Day.

This is sure to be a great fight with at least one amazing splash page.

• When asked if we’ll see a break from big events and go back to one issue stories, Geoff said “No. I like big events”.

This makes me skeptical because after SCW and BN, I could use a year or two of just stories without a crossover title looming over it.

• Geoff says he plans to be on GL for at least 5 more years.

While I like Geoff on GL, I don’t know if 5 more years is the right idea. Sure, another year or 3 but 5? I just don’t know if Geoff can keep up the work he’s been doing.

• GLC #46 will feature Alex DeWitt (Kyle’s girlfriend when he recieved the ring) as a Black Lantern, and she will be inside  a refrigerator, just like when she died.

Wow. I had wondered why no appearance from the infamous girlfriend in a fridge, and I can’t wait to see Kyle’s reaction to her showing up.

This all sound’s fine and dandy, and I can’t wait to see what Geoff has in-store for all of us.

–moyermason@yahoo.com

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