Johns' Exit First Salvo In Complete Green Lantern Creative Exodus

[CBR News]

According to DC's May solicitations, a mass exodus of creative talent is set for the "Green Lantern" family with Geoff Johns, Peter Tomasi, Peter Milligan and Tony Bedard all concluding their time with the Corps.


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[RobertoDaCosta]

how much time before they all start complaining about DC's management???

[Maidman]

Dc has no clue what the hell they are doing!

[Rakzo]

how much time before they all start complaining about DC's management???

Dc has no clue what the hell they are doing!

I don't know where this mentality comes from. If anything I would say that DC is doing the right choices here and the GL team most likely wanted to leave already.

[Claude]

"The first salvo in an exodus"?

The English Language is screaming in pain, but I love it when CBR tries to sound like a news source. :)

[Jadenewt]

Hopefully now the GL line can move from being event after event to being a book about something other than bad guardians and color wars.

[Biolizard]

how much time before they all start complaining about DC's management???

They've been going this long; I doubt it's to do with management.

Johns has done his story, and the others, who have worked with him for so long on it, probably decided that it was also the right time for them to move on as well.

They've all worked together for so long on the books - since Johns is the leader, it makes sense that his departure perhaps prompts the other creatives to feel that they've had good times out of Green Lantern, but it won't be the same without him and so they'd rather try something new. The long-serving creatives especially will likely get the pick of any available book they'd want given how much they've contributed to building the Green Lantern franchise over the years.

[Byzantine]

In the case of New Guardians, this really is just good news.

[InformationGeek]

Wow, everyone is leaving. I wonder who will be writing these titles now since none of them are ending.

[semicyon]

As mostly a Marvel reader, I can't help but wonder if they are looking to the early success of the creator swap for Marvel Now! relaunches and decided to experiment with that on a smaller scale. It seems that the Green Lantern line was least impacted by New 52. I hope this is an intentional move by editorial/managementand well-coordinated re-allocation of their creative resources to keep the line interesting and moving books.

[Desaad]

This is, of course, what needed to happen and I'm ridiculously thrilled.

Here's to each of these books having a stronger individual identity, direction and focus.

While there is no way to know, with all the rumblings we've been hearing and the fact that Tomasi probably isn't going back on the GL stuff, I feel as though this is the place we might see Fialkov (two 'linked' books; that puts him either as GL, Batman, or JL), Kindt ('tons of stuff for DC'), and Venditti.

Kindt and Venditti feel, to me, to be almost assured. Fialkov I'd lean against.

[Captain Jim]

I was just thinking: maybe Peter Tomasi, Peter Milligan and Tony Bedard aren't completely leaving, just trading titles.

[Harbinger of Apocalypse]

Interesting. Hope some good people replace them though I do wonder if this is the end for Red Lanterns and possibly New Guardians.

[Desaad]

I was just thinking: maybe Peter Tomasi, Peter Milligan and Tony Bedard aren't completely leaving, just trading titles.

Milligan I'd be willing to see on Hal's book.

The others, I want gone.

[Desaad]

Interesting. Hope some good people replace them though I do wonder if this is the end for Red Lanterns and possibly New Guardians.

They'd have said "Final Issue", I should think.