Geoff Johns Talks Blackest Night

[ashley76]

Newsarama.com has a great interview with Blackest Night scribe Geoff Johns. Here is an excerpt from the interview...

NRAMA: It's almost overwhelming when you look at all the characters you've created since taking over Green Lantern. Is that something you consciously decided to do for this comic and subsequently this event?

GJ: Well, it's something I've been doing in other comics too. If you look at JSA, by the time I left, half of them are new. When I was on Flash, a lot of the villains I introduced, like Tar Pit and Girder and Murmur and Hunter Zolomon, were new too. I'm always trying to introduce new characters that feel organic to the world. I want them to feel like they existed in that world already.

But you know, along with those new characters, I'm a firm believer that you also want to polish up the characters who are here. You want to present the characters that we know and love already in a new light. You have to do both. I don't want to just throw out all new characters. If I'm working in the DC Universe, I don't want to do one or the other. I want to do both, and with the expansion of Blackest Night, there is the space to explore other DC characters that don?t often get a spotlight in an ?event.?

And since John Stewart was a central figure in Justice League over the last year, he hasn?t been as prominent in the Green Lantern stories as of late. That changes starting in Blackest Night with a pretty shocking event in Green Lantern #44, which Doug Mahnke illustrated beautifully. And Green Lantern #48 is all John Stewart.

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[TheGameAH]

Geoff is by far my most favorite writer now, and has been since JSA and Flash. The Blackest Night storyline is off to an amazing start.

[ashley76]

I agree and their was major shock factor in the first issue!