N.K. Jemisin Opens DC Comics’ Afrofuturism Pit Up With Janelle Monáe Inspired Green Lantern

With the first issue of Far Sector out and our introduction to Sojourner “Jo” Mullein, the first Black woman to become a Green Lantern, it’s easy to see how the elements of Afrofuturism will separate this Green Lantern from the rest. You can thank the Jamal Campbell on the art for that and the multi-award-winning pen game of writer N.K. Jemisin. N.K. Jemisin came through and opened up the most pit in DC Comics sci-fi genre which is exactly what it needed. We got to do a quick interview with N.K. Jemisin to discuss the latest all things Far Sector #1, Green Lantern Lore and More Omar Holmon: I gotta give you the hard-hitting questions from jump. So the first one is, How does it feel to have the best-dressed Green Lantern in the game to date? N.K. Jemisin: *laughing* I feel a deep responsibility to make her so because A) she is the first Black woman in the game but also because I obviously was inspired by Janelle Monae and that means of course that she has to look fabulous because I cannot disrespect Ms. Monae like that. That’s really what that came down to. I mean, some of it is also because she has been so much of a representative in so much of her life. She’s been one of the few black women in a lot of the spaces that she’s inhabited in her life. She’s learned to kinda just represent herself as best she can at all times because she is aware of how she is going to be judged and how negatively people are going to react to her no matter what. So, she makes sure her eyebrows ar…