Lanterns Just Teased Another Batman Connection With a Major DC Deep Cut

After 3 Episodes, Lanterns Opening Credits Finally Lives Up To Its HBO Heritage

DC’s Lanterns is on its way to becoming one of the most interesting shows on HBO now. The grounded take on the DC Comics character Green Lantern and his surrounding mythos has received quite a lot of appreciation, despite being only three episodes in. While it might not be HBO’s most incredible project, one aspect […] This post belongs to FandomWire and first appeared on FandomWire

LANTERNS Writer Fires Back at “Woke” Criticism Over John Stewart

Calling John Stewart “woke” is a pretty strange criticism when the Green Lantern has been tackling race, politics, war, and social issues since the early 1970s. Vanessa Baden Kelly, a writer on HBO Max’s Lanterns, has seen some of those complaints online, and her response is basically: have you met John Stewart?Baden Kelly, who wrote Episode 3 of Lanterns, talked about the backlash surrounding the DC series and found it amusing that some of the …

Lanterns Just Teased Another Batman Connection With a Major DC Deep Cut

Thanks in part to the success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, fans have come to expect superhero projects to connect to each other and crossover when they can. So far, James Gunn’s take on the DC Universe has done that a bit, with Superman and Supergirl appearing in each other’s movies, Rick Flag Sr. as an overarching villain of sorts, and now with two new Green Lanterns, Hal Jordan and John Stewart, in Lanterns to go along with Guy Gardner’s …

‘Lanterns’ Writer Reveals What Really Stood Out About John Stewart and Hal Jordan’s First Meeting

HBO’s Green Lantern series has spent three episodes carefully building the prickly, mismatched dynamic between its two leads, but Episode 3 finally gave fans the full picture of how that partnership actually began. Rather than treating John Stewart’s origin as a quick flashback, the show dedicated its entire third hour to unpacking exactly how he...

‘Lanterns’ Writer Reveals What Makes Hal Jordan and John Stewart’s First Meeting So Devastating

HBO Max’s ‘Lanterns‘ has spent its first two episodes establishing Hal Jordan and John Stewart as reluctant partners investigating a murder mystery in the American heartland, but it’s the show’s willingness to dig into their shared history that’s turning heads this week. Rather than treating John Stewart as simply Hal’s newer, less experienced counterpart, the... The post ‘Lanterns’ Writer Reveals What Makes Hal Jordan and John Stewart’s First M…