Rewriting Green Lanterns Across the Galaxies: Interview with Writer Geoff Thorne

You know just how hard we ride for Green Lanterns as a fandom on this site. From comic reviews to editorials, you’ll be hard-pressed to find another site that reps the Emerald Crusaders as much as we do. Which makes this article so dope as it is an interview with current Green Lantern writer Geoff Thorne! Geoff Thorne and DC were also kind enough to give us a few exclusive images for Green Lantern #4 for this, so let’s jump right into the interview. Omar Holmon: So my first question is, why do you hate the Green Lantern so much? Why are you putting them through so much stress? What is you doing? You’ve got them going through it. Geoff Thorne: Oh! *laughs* Is that real? Is that the real question, cuz there’s an answer. I pitched them a story that was basically about Jon Stewart. It would have been basically a mini-series. And there is a whole lot of stuff that I was saying in the sort of the background of that story about how cosmic DC works. How I think cosmic DC works. And they were like, “Oh, we like that. Yeah, do that.” The whole thing with the power battery going away…they were gonna do that with whoever was writing the book. Now I have to be clear, all they said was, “The power battery will go dark. At some point, the Green Lanterns will not have access to the power battery for a period of time. And it’s up to you how that happens, when that happens. Is it destructive? Is it some technical malfunction? Whatever the hell it is, that’s all up to you.” So I was like, “…