CBR: Bedard Talks Team Dynamics of "Green Lantern: New Guardians"

[CBR News]

"Green Lantern: New Guardians" writer Tony Bedard speaks to CBR News about Invictus and the new dangers facing Kyle, Larfleeze, and the rest of the "New Guardians" team.


Full article here.

[sethysquare]

Wow. I can't wait to see whats going on. I do hope that the plot gets a little faster.

[Harbinger of Apocalypse]

Cool to see Larfleeze having a role. Didn't expect that. Though she is probably gone as a result of the reboot, I was kind of hoping that Lianna would join the team since she has worked with Kyle Rayner before. But, I suppose the cast is a bit too big now for more members.

[Will.S]

The book started out a bit on the slow side but Tony's been doing a great when it comes to keeping me interested and using a good hook. Plus, besides Kyle, I really dig the way he writes the rainbow corps.

[Ben D]

Cool to see Larfleeze having a role. Didn't expect that. Though she is probably gone as a result of the reboot, I was kind of hoping that Lianna would join the team since she has worked with Kyle Rayner before. But, I suppose the cast is a bit too big now for more members.

While I don't have hopes that she would appear, she could be a member of the rebooted Omega Men if DC ever decides to use that team again.

[Doctor Voodoo]

I still call him Agent Orange. The name Larfleeze makes me chuckle, lol.

Great to see that Fatality is going to be getting more exposure, my favorite part of the Agent Orange arc was when she showed up and kidnapped(and kissed) John Stewart.

[Slaughter]

Is Kyle team leader? Didn't see him doing any leading, and he doesn't fit Team Leader profile for me.

I think Fatality would actually be the closest thing the team has to a leader, look how she managed to get the other Lanterns stop fighting each other and start fighting Kyle, and then rallies the other Lanterns to get behind Bleez as they go invade Oa. The woman's team leader material.

[sethysquare]

Is Kyle team leader? Didn't see him doing any leading, and he doesn't fit Team Leader profile for me.

I think Fatality would actually be the closest thing the team has to a leader, look how she managed to get the other Lanterns stop fighting each other and start fighting Kyle, and then rallies the other Lanterns to get behind Bleez as they go invade Oa. The woman's team leader material.

It didn't seem like a leadership role have been established yet.

[fredmanson]

With GLC, GLNG is one of the best GL title series!! I didn't know the GL universe as it is so vast and the series largely high their numbers.

This relaunch has helped me to jump aboard on the GL 4 titles and I am very happy!!!

I am finding that the GL and the RL have a slow pace. Is it me or not?

Anyways, I will continue to buy these books, as well as the new GL Animated TV series to come in April. Five books of the GL universe, that's great!!!

[Harbinger of Apocalypse]

While I don't have hopes that she would appear, she could be a member of the rebooted Omega Men if DC ever decides to use that team again.

Indeed though I always felt that her potential was better spent in the pages of Green Lantern than Omega Men. But, yeah, I don't have hopes of her appearing either. Seems a lot of the villains and characters from the Kyle Rayner era are just gone really with the exception of Fatality.

Anyway, I think at the moment there is no pecking order amongst the New Guardians and its pretty much everyone out for themselves though Fatality did manage to effectively rally them on Earth against Kyle. Though, to be fair, even the previous incarnation that had Sinestro, Atrocitus and the other leaders also didn't really have a leader either...

[PretenderNX01]

I guess it's the "too many cook sin the kitchen" playing out. All of them are high members of their Corps so they are fighting for dominance. It's interesting to see them all trying to be top dog.

I am finding that the GL and the RL have a slow pace. Is it me or not?

I can see that. Those two titles are setting up more personal stories, so they are taking some time to build it all up between limited characters and their relationships.

Kyle's got a lot going on around him, and people coming in and out of his life, so a lot is happening but he's not much closer to answers.

They're both interesting to me too.

[The Ray II]

Is Kyle team leader? Didn't see him doing any leading, and he doesn't fit Team Leader profile for me.

I think Fatality would actually be the closest thing the team has to a leader, look how she managed to get the other Lanterns stop fighting each other and start fighting Kyle, and then rallies the other Lanterns to get behind Bleez as they go invade Oa. The woman's team leader material.

I think Kyle has taken on leadership roles here. But like Bedard says, Fatality could also take charge fairly easily. And you have to remember it appears Larfleeze is pulling the strings.

[Retro315]

They've recently warped to Okaara ... Invictus is heading toward Larfleeze's temple ... this is all cool for sure. But cooler still, in my mind is that it's all in the Vega System - the exact HOME of Bedard's "late, great R.E.B.E.L.S.".

How much of R.E.B.E.L.S. is still intact? A lot of those characters are spun out of other DCU areas. Vril Dox is caught up in all kinds of Brainiac history ... Lobo is heading to Deathstroke ... Starfire is caught up with Roy and Jason on Earth.

But is there still a team, on a refugee planet, where Vril is hanging out with Blackfire, with Adam Strange, Captain Comet and some choice space heroes kicking ass for profit? I'd love for Bedard to be able to hang onto some of his babies (the same way Lemire got to hold onto Ray Palmer).