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Newsarama: Jeremy, how does it feel working on Green Lantern at the moment, eight issues in?
[laughs] I wanted people to go “This was worth it!”
How was it working with him?
Ron Marz:It’s actually not the first time I’ve done interiors with Dale.
I did a What If…?
issue in, like, 1993 with Dale, which is nuts.
Adams:What was the What If…?
Marz:It was “What If Barbara Ketch Had BecomeGhost Rider?”
It’s not like that’s anybody’s favorite What If…?
I’ve known Dale for years.
He was actually atCrossGenStudios not that long before everything started to funnel down the drain.
Jeremy, you’ve been working with Amancay Nahuelpan after launching the series with Xermanico last year.
How has it been working with Amancay on this arc?
Adams:It’s great!
[laughs] I think he and I work really well together and he does great interiors.
Obviously, there’s that ’90s nostalgia.
I didn’t realize writing Green Lantern, that the pull towards space was so drastic as a writer.
It’s such a natural tendency, so trying to keep Hal on Earth has been somewhat difficult!
He was like “Do you want to do a Green Lantern story?”
and I was like “Yeah, but I can’t do it this week!”
[laughs] Anytime you get to go back and play with those toys is great.
I tend to approach short stories as a different kind of a fish than a 20-page story.
It’s got to be a gem.
Did I do something to pull on your emotions?"
because, if I didn’t, I didn’t do my job.
In some ways, that’s the same thing Kyle does here, which is not coincidental.
It’s definitely what was in my head when I sat down to do it.
Adams:Is it easy for you to slip into the voice of Kyle?
It’s like putting on a hoodie that fits just right.
Not everything we do in our careers is a fit.
Sometimes you play with stuff and you go “Shit, that’s not the right thing!”
Where’s Hal’s head during all of this?
when you take away these things.
His ring won’t let him leave the atmosphere and those mysteries are unraveling at a rapid pace.
That’s been really interesting and people have been really responding to it.
The preview reveals Jo Mullein playing a larger role in the series moving forward.
After she was created by N.K.
Jemisin and Jamal Campbell in Far Sector, what do you think she brings to the Green Lantern mythos?
I like that aspect of her.
Marz:I think her backstory is terrific and it’s a different backstory than any other Green Lantern.
I think most other comics, DC or Marvel, don’t offer you that kind of flexibility.
We’d be remiss if we didn’t talk about the villains.
Adams:It never does!
What do you think it is that makes Sinestro stand out so much from the other Green Lantern villains?
Marz:I think it’s personal.
I think there’s such a connection between the characters.
in the sweet innocence of the Silver Age.
Since then, the character has been built very much into Hal’s opposite number.
Then, they go into completely separate directions.
In terms of the sheer spectacle, it’s just cool when they fight each other.
I rode the Green Lantern ride at Warner Bros World in Abu Dhabi and it was great.
Adams:Did you go to the Hall of Justice too?
Marz:Hell yes!
I rode the Green Lantern ride, which is seriously the best one there, three times.
There’s this Sinestro big battle and it really puts you in the middle of it.
It’s a great display of why those two characters work so well as arch-enemies.
I kept thinking of Pacino and De Niro in Heat.
WithSinestroand Hal, I think there’s a very thin line between them in terms of morality.
I think Hal is slightly over there going, “No, that’s too far.
Paramount is freedom of choice.”
Those two philosophical differences can react really well to each other for interesting stories.
There’s this begrudging respect in the way they’ve been written in the past.
I will now hear Sinestro as De Niro and Hal as Pacino.
It’s very cool, the tension and the strength of those two characters.
Jeremy, what else can you tease about the future of Green Lantern?
Adams:Within the next two issues, we’re going to find out a huge number of things.
Marz:That’s our job basically.
Green Lantern #8 is published by DC on February 13.
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