Browsing: Lanterns

With last Sunday’s episode revealing a far darker origin for eventual Green Lantern John Stewart than might have been expected, and the prior episode introducing multiple possible “big bads”, including several longtime Green Lantern nemeses, as well as a slew of unanswered questions, this take on the characters is nothing if not intriguing. Originally pitched…

In DC Studios’ official podcast covering Lanterns, writer Tom King described the series as “…a show that’s about legacy…” and “…passing things on.”A theme that couldn’t be more blatant when the premiere ended with Aaron Pierre’s John Stewart finding the frozen body of Kyle Chandler’s Hal Jordan, Earth’s first and then only Green Lantern, and…

It goes without saying, but a key element of any successful superhero is the costume. It’s pretty hard to imagine Spider-Man becoming such a cultural phenomenon without the eternally cool webbed costume designed by Steve Ditko, and had DC Comics gone with Bob Kane’s original red-and-black look for Batman, we almost certainly wouldn’t have 15…

The HBO Max show is making some changes to their dynamic, but are they for the better?

Lanternshas been slow-rolling the lore of the Green Lantern Corps, while taking the more grounded approach of following two space cops (Hal Jordan and John Stewart) investigating a clandestine alien plot in small-town America. It’s understandable: Green Lantern is one of DC’s most fantastical characters, and the Ryan Reynolds film from 2011 proved that a…

Lanternsis doing more as a detective mystery show than it is as a DC superhero origin story. To the credit of show creators Chris Mundy, Damon Lindelof (LOST), and Tom King (Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow), that mystery keeps viewers hooked on the series week-to-week, and keeps it alive online as fans share their best guesses…

Lanterns has finally revealed why John Stewart has a thing for birds, and it’s more to do with character than power. Lanterns is in a class of its own as a superhero TV show; it’s prestige TV, with phenomenal character work. Episode 3 was a John Stewart origin story, daring to rewrite comic book lore…

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Lanterns has addressed the expansive roster of the Green Lantern Corps on several occasions, but so far, the only Green Lanterns we’ve actually met are Hal Jordan, John Stewart, and Guy Gardner. Fans likely have lengthy lists of Lanterns they’d like to see in the DCU, but the show just gave parts of one Green…

HBO’s Lanterns just delivered what critics are already calling its best hour yet, and the show is wasting no time raising the stakes for what comes next.