The inevitable return of Geoff Johns!

[Sylent_Asassin Black Lantern Find all posts View Profile Close Sylent_Asassin]

You know... I could do that...

Anyway I can't imagine Geoff doing it. I think he sees the emotional spectrum as his crowning achievement. And as recently as a year ago, if you said on any message board (except for this one) that the spectrum should be flushed, almost every poster would act as if you had slapped his mother's face. Now though...

Not the spectrum, though. The reservoir. The mere thought that the usage of Lantern rings are draining the life out of the universe is asinine. Hell, maybe Venditti wants to handicap all the lanterns. I dunno.

The spectrum can stay, as long as the rest of the Skittle brigade (besides Sinestro and his corps) retreats to their own little corners of the galaxy, never to be heard from again.

[Trey Strain Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Trey Strain]

Not the spectrum, though. The reservoir. The mere thought that the usage of Lantern rings are draining the life out of the universe is asinine. Hell, maybe Venditti wants to handicap all the lanterns. I dunno.

The spectrum can stay, as long as the rest of the Skittle brigade (besides Sinestro and his corps) retreats to their own little corners of the galaxy, never to be heard from again.

The way comics are today, you can't just make them go away quietly. You have to make a super-dramatic EVENT out of it. And yes, I'd enjoy doing that. But that's the only event I'd ever want to do.

[Andrew NDB Shot Caller Find all posts View Profile Close Andrew NDB]

Not the spectrum, though. The reservoir. The mere thought that the usage of Lantern rings are draining the life out of the universe is asinine. Hell, maybe Venditti wants to handicap all the lanterns. I dunno.

I don't know, it's not a bad idea, really. I think the idea is to encourage the Lanterns -- all Lanterns -- to use their power more reasonably.

[Mister Ed Horse of a Different Color Find all posts View Profile Close Mister Ed]

I don't know, it's not a bad idea, really. I think the idea is to encourage the Lanterns -- all Lanterns -- to use their power more reasonably.

I have to disagree there. I think it is a horrible idea. I don't really need any environmentalist metaphors given a central role in my superhero comic book.

The way they structured it, it isn't just that they should use their power more reasonably, but that ANY use of it is "killing the universe". If one actually accepts that premise as true, they shouldn't be using it at ALL except possibly in situations where the alternative is to let something ELSE kill the universe.

Add to that the fact that it makes no logical sense at all for the universe's existence to be dependent on a non-renewable reservoir of emotion that somehow must have existed prior to the existence of sentient life, or else how would the early universe have survived?

[Trey Strain Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Trey Strain]

I have to disagree there. I think it is a horrible idea. I don't really need any environmentalist metaphors given a central role in my superhero comic book.

The way they structured it, it isn't just that they should use their power more reasonably, but that ANY use of it is "killing the universe". If one actually accepts that premise as true, they shouldn't be using it at ALL except possibly in situations where the alternative is to let something ELSE kill the universe.

Add to that the fact that it makes no logical sense at all for the universe's existence to be dependent on a non-renewable reservoir of emotion that somehow must have existed prior to the existence of sentient life, or else how would the early universe have survived?

Wait, you're making too much sense there.

[Space Cop The Dandy Find all posts View Profile Close Space Cop]

My goodness, I have a little computer problem am offline for 9 hours and the GL discussion explodes. Cripes. Why couldn't you guys have had this discussion on a day I'm on every hour?

[Mister Ed Horse of a Different Color Find all posts View Profile Close Mister Ed]

Blame Andrew. He's the one that's been seeding the board with interesting discussion topics.

[Hypo Lil' Leaguer Find all posts View Profile Close Hypo]

Does anyone else feel like the stage is already being set for it? You know, Geoff quietly puppeteering things from the sidelines as chief "creative" officer all this time... letting Hal be emasculated, letting the Corps become a more fractured entity, little things he knows (or thinks) will irritate the fandom... and then one day in the foreseeable future, voila, there's a big hubbub about "Geoff Johns returning to write Green Lantern!" with a slew of big ring-based big events in the wings. With the expectation that people will be longing for Geoff by this point and be excited by this news.

Can't say I agree with that viewpoint.

[Star-Lantern Weaponer of Qward Find all posts View Profile Close Star-Lantern]

Regarding the Emotional Reservoir, I think it's best to be patient with that. I think it's a situation that will have a resolution. Perhaps the end of "Godhead" will clear all that up. For the time being, I think it's just a current issue to cause the Green Lanterns concern and to springboard stories like "Lights Out" and "Godhead."

[Andrew NDB Shot Caller Find all posts View Profile Close Andrew NDB]

Regarding the Emotional Reservoir, I think it's best to be patient with that. I think it's a situation that will have a resolution. Perhaps the end of "Godhead" will clear all that up. For the time being, I think it's just a current issue to cause the Green Lanterns concern and to springboard stories like "Lights Out" and "Godhead."

Probably right. If all it took was about a comic year of time that the Corps other than the GLC were actively sapping their emotional reservoirs, there's no way it wouldn't just happen again in short order if they're all still out there doing what they're doing. And it's not like we can throw another Life entity at the Source Wall to fix it next time.

My guess: It'll turn out Relic was wrong about his own universe. The lightsmiths weren't depleting a reservoir, it was something with their version of the New Gods or Old Gods were doing at the Source that was behind it. Turns out the New Gods in our universe (or maybe Darkseid himself?) were doing the same thing... so now the Corps make them knock it off and all is well.

[IonFan Forum Member Find all posts View Profile Close IonFan]

now that we have a poll up put me down as wanting him back on GL

[Big Daddy Dave Skywalker Moisture Farmer Find all posts View Profile Close Big Daddy Dave Skywalker]

I can't imagine any situation where Geoff Johns returned to GL an I didn't have the same complaints about his stories. He's NOT the same writer he was during his first runs of JSA and The Flash.

[Rotten2thecorps Alpha-Lantern Find all posts View Profile Close Rotten2thecorps]

I did not vote. and here is why. No doubt in my mind that Goeff is better for the book. Even at his worst he was 100 times better then Veditti. That being said. Goeff's run started to fall apart at the end. Was it as bad as everyone made it out... well no but It was basiaclly event after event after event,wich is bad for the book as well. For me to actually be excited about Goeffs return I would have to see a interveiw of him saying Towards the end Of GL he was spreading himself to thin between titles,this time it is only going to be GL and Classic GL characters and there will be no Events for GL other then maybe one to fix all of venditti's stuff.


I don't think Goeff has been involved With GL at all. I think since the Movie flopped DC/WB felt Green Lantern was no longer worthy of thier star writter. If Goeff comes back I will pick up the Book again,however if he does more then 2 events in the first 2 years I will drop it again like a bad habbit.

[Mechinoid Hal's Understudy Find all posts View Profile Close Mechinoid]

I really don't think Geoff is somehow pulling strings at all. But I voted no on having him back. Only way I'd want him back is if he was going to fix Krona back up.

[CaptainFrxz Green Lantern Find all posts View Profile Close CaptainFrxz]

I picked no because the end of his run was kind of wonky.
That being said since he came back to both Flash and JSA at certain points it would not suprise me.