Browsing: Lanterns

You’d be forgiven for tuning in to the first episode of Lanterns and thinking you’ve fired up the wrong show. The HBO series is unmistakably about the Green Lanterns. For the uninitiated, they’re DC Comics superheroes and intergalactic cops with magical rings—which represent the wearer’s willpower, fearlessness, and most of all, the wearer’s imagination. But…

HBO might as well change the name of Lanternsto Lantern, because by the end of its very first episode, only one of its Green Lanterns is still alive.

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Lanterns, HBO’s new series about DC comics superhero the Green Lantern, is full of uneasy negotiations. Some of them are deliberate, the surface text of this adaptation: Its two lead characters, Hal Jordan (Kyle Chandler) and John Stewart (Aaron Pierre), are in an awkward mentorship dance, with the former stuck training the latter as a…

The Rotten Tomatoes result for Lanternsis out and it’s quite positive! However, critics agree that anotherDCUproject is better than the latest installment. The project was released in 2024 and has the highest Tomatometer score among all DCU projects.

When DC comics first introduced the character of John Stewart, back in the early 1970s, he was one of the first African-American superheroes to enter a pantheon dominated by white men. The character was a landmark: a Black Power advocate, a college graduate, and one of the few superheroes who didn’t wear a mask. Now,…

The DC Universe continues on the small screen with Lanterns, a new superhero series debuting on HBO this weekend, and the first reviews are now online. Based on the Green Lanterncomics, the show stars Kyle Chandler as Hal Jordan and Aaron Pierre as John Stewart, two human members of an intergalactic law enforcement agency who…

DC Studios head James Gunn promised that each of the projects released by the studio would have its own flavor and feel. However, the recently released Supergirlfelt very much in the Gunn sensibility, leading many to wonder if DC’s third live-action project, HBO’s Lanterns, would be more of the same. We are happy to say…

After Creature Commandos kicked off the rebooted DC Universe canon in 2024, the franchise had its true coming out party last year. Superman ushered in a new era of DC movies, earning widely positive reviews and $618.7 million at the worldwide box office (becoming 2025’s highest-grossing comic book film in the process). On the TV…

Aaron Pierre and Kyle Chandler play two of DC’s legendary Green Lanterns: John Stewart and Hal Jordan. John Johnson/HBO Max