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Hal Jordan is dead on a set of football bleachers in Rushville, Nebraska. Shot, ring gone. That’s the pilot, not the finale, not some mid-season gut punch, and Lanterns has been shredding the manual ever since. A small-town murder case where the space opera should be. Two timelines, 2016 and 2026. John Stewart’s origin rebuilt…

“Lanterns” Episode 4 introduces a character by the name of Hector Hammond, a name that should be familiar to any Green Lantern fan. But the show quickly switches things up by revealing the character to be someone else entirely — which raises the question of what on earth the writers are trying to do with…

Marvel Studios may be taking a page from DC’s playbook with a rumored new series that leans into a completely different genre. The studio is reportedly developing a detective-focused show, though details remain under wraps.

Lanterns has flipped the script on Green Lantern stories in a major way. Though decades of DC Comics have prepared fans for intergalactic war and fan theories about the Blackest Night storyline and the incorporation of the Red Lanterns, the DCU TV series has gone another way. Inspired more by True Detective, Lanterns has proven…

In episode four of HBO Max’s Lanterns, Hal Jordan’s investigation into the Manhunters leads him to a name that he in the show doesn’t seem to know. Hal visits Atlas Inc. looking for its CEO, a little someone named Hector Hammond. This is a name comic book fans know very well, and you’d expect Hal…

In brightest day, in blackest night, nospoilersfor “Lanterns” Episode 4 shall escape my sight. Beware!

We finally know what those mysterious portals are in Lanterns, and it makes a disturbing amount of sense. Lanterns is an unusual TV show, with every episode reinterpreting everything that went before it. Lanterns episode 3 was John Stewart’s origin story, and it radically changed our understanding of the character. John has been groomed to…

Let’s be honest: fans have a lot of major criticisms of the Green Lantern movie, leaving plenty of room for HBO’s Lanterns to go in a different direction.. Director Martin Campbell and star Ryan Reynolds both blame the script, which Campbell once said he wished Reynolds had written. Comics fans had even more to critique…

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…