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Honestly, while John Stewart is a part of every main DC event, and often part of some flagship books, it wasn’t until Geoffrey Thorne’s Green Lantern series from last year that I felt that John Stewart finally got some shine in the comics the way I’d been hoping for. The blueprint was clearly laid out by Justice League, why weren’t we getting more John Stewart content injected into our veins on a monthly basis? Revitalization This would be fine if no comic characters got that treatment, but Hal Jordan being the golden child of the Green Lantern Corps in the comics meant that all that nuanced development went to him.

As I stated before, he’s always around, but the comics never seemed to focus on the rounding out of his character in the same way the show did. It was a golden era for sure.Ī lot of this was because of the late, great Dwayne McDuffie, who undoubtedly brought a lot of lived experience and authenticity to the fleshing out of John’s character.Īs I got older and ventured into comics more, I yearned for more John Stewart content and found that it was really lacking. We got peeks into his background as a Marine and an architect, and we got to see him explore his complicated relationships, often as one corner of the love triangle featuring him, Hawkgirl, and Vixen. We got to see him spend time at home and interact with his community. It developed him as a character, not just within conflict, but as a person in his regular life as well. Justice League soared where the comics often failed John. And let me tell you, getting John over Hal at such a formative age, as a young Black boy, meant that I was never gonna mess with Hal in the same way that I messed with John.

But it wasn’t your dad’s Hal Jordan Green Lantern, we got John Stewart. The roster for this show had the Trinity, as well as The Flash, Hawkgirl, Martian Manhunter, and Green Lantern. If you’re my age, which is mid to late twenties, or even a little older, you mainly know John Stewart from the famed Justice League cartoon that we all grew up watching on Saturday mornings. That is until this past year, in Geoffrey Thorne’s Green Lantern series. He’s been in them trenches, but from a narrative standpoint, we haven’t seen a lot of development for the character since Xanshi blew up, and that was in the late ‘80s, early ‘90s. He’s even been a core member of the Justice League a few times. After failing to save the planet Xanshi, he dealt with the weight of failure on a massive level for quite a while, spinning into his first solo title Green Lantern: Mosaic, where he took care of the Mosaic World, which had large sections of cultures from multiple planets trying to coexist in one setting, working through his inability to save Xanshi along the way.įrom there he spent some time with the Darkstars, another intergalactic police force, but he ultimately decided to rejoin the Green Lantern Corps, getting in the thick of things as one of Sector 2814’s main Green Lanterns. Don’t get me wrong, John Stewart has had a few pillar moments since 1972.

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