UPDATE: COMICS: Joshua Hale Fialkov Quit GREEN LANTERN Because DC Is Killing John Stewart

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It could be both stories. A classic whodunit: "Who killed John Stewart?"

As much as I've loved Geoff Johns' space opera stuff, I'd like to see the Green Lantern Corps acting like cops instead of soldiers. (And ever since the Justice League cartoon John has been soldier boy.) Sounds like a good change of pace to me. (Which, of course, is why DC won't go for it. Dan DiDio prefers to make stupid changes.)

I'm confused aside from the the title and banner of this article, nowhere IN the article does it stated that kill John Stewart was the plan...
It really just reads as creative storytelling differences.

Oh sure, kill the black guy...

Yeah I don't know where the John Stewart info is, But I'd kill Kyle anyway.

What @tmeadows34 said ^

Oh and I did read an article saying he left because DC wanted to kill off John Stewart.

So they are killing off one minority and adding another(Baz)?

They feel there are to many minorities now that they added Bak (I think that's correct). Kyle Rayner is just boring right now.

DC, you really know how to alienate your fans. Who's next ICON? Probably not since you're making sure know one knows who he is anyway...

isnt hal already dead?? I havent read much GL
its on my tpb or hardcover pick up list
Not on my monthly list

I've never been a big Stewart fan, but I have enjoyed what they've done with him over the last 4 or 5 years.

My two favorites are Kyle and Guy. I liked Hal when I was 10, but now that I'm older I don't. He's the boring one. I don't ever get the impression his character cares about much other than chasing after Carol.

Why not an Asian Green Lantern?...Or is that too much to ask for a bunch of white guys writing it?

...Or maybe another 50 or so years when Asians are actually tolerable?...

Makes sense. They added a minority to their lineup, so now they get to kill one.

It would be a dream come true to work for DC Comics. But I am more and more getting the feeling like my next dream come true after that would be quitting DC Comics.

Shut your old ass up, Gusto.


Hal Jordan rapes puppies. Lamest character ever!


1.) Baz
2.) John Stewart




1000.) Everyother GL








1 trillion.) Hal Jordan.

Get rid of guy instead. he's a total assh*le.

I prefer the John Stewart of the JL/JLU show to the John Stewart of the comics anyway. If they made him the same character he was on the show, I'd be very pissed they were going to kill him. I don't think it's a good idea to kill him all around, but I am not as pissed about it as I would be were he the JL/JLU John Stewart.

Honestly, I'd be calling for Hal Jordan to get the axe. I've never found his character interesting, and my perception has generally been that he's only "the most popular GL" because of the nostalgia factor and lack of stand-out successor.

Then again, I'm not really a fan of the broader Green Lantern "thing" anyway -- just never appealed to me. So I'm probably not the best one to comment on this.

@Levi Damn, that's a lot a [frick]s in your last statement.lol

I agree, it sucks that they may kill him off.

GL is lame idea, but Jon Stewart in JL and JLU was easily may fave. DC sucks. [frick] Baz, Gaynor, and Jordan. Gardner was cool back in the day.

It works both ways. On the one hand, he shouldn't be forced to write a story he isn't comfortable writing, especially if it involves such a huge change. On the other hand, he could've taken that concept and crafted one of the best ever Green Lantern stories from it.

The black guy always has to be killed off.... Sure go ahead..

@infinitemonkey there was an asian Green Lantern on the Batman Beyond TV show if that helps.

Green Lantern is kind of becoming a lame concept nowadays anyway. It seems people, including the writers of the comics, just see Green Lantern as a way of putting more minority characters into a costume that has a recognizable insignia. And I'm not trying to say I'm against ethnic diversity in comics, far from it, but it just seems so unoriginal to just put every minority character in the same costume. Don't get me wrong, John Stewart is a cool character, and I've heard Simon Baz is great too.

But why not branch out a little? Throw some ethnic diversity around the entire DCnU! Now, I doubt Superman, Batman, or Wonder Woman will ever be anything but white characters. But there are so many interchangeable superhero identities apart from Green Lantern. Flash, for example. Everyone loves Barry and Wally, but the number of Flashes is growing so much that he could have his own Corps soon - how about an Asian Flash?
Robin just died in the comics, and Batman's probably going to recruit a new sidekick - if it's not that Harper Row character, why not an African-American Robin? What about a Middle-Eastern Batgirl?

Or, here's a wild idea. New characters? I mean, like 1% of the characters in DC comics are minority characters, and I'd say about half of them have their own identities, while the others share theirs with other characters. And Marvel are kind of guilty of this too. Why not give us something new? I thought that was what the New 52 was all about.

What the everloving [frick]... John Stewart is 1000x better than Guy "douchebag" Gardner or Kyle Rayner (aka Peter Parker wannabe).

@Nomis
Hawkgirl... he tapped that.

There are two kinds of comic characters. Live ones and one;s who haven't come back to life yet. I can't imagine why anyone cares about these stupid "death" story lines anymore. I just feel embarrassed for the creative/editorial team when they resort to them. And kinda embarrassed for the fans who are upset at the "loss" of their beloved character. I can't think of a single character who remains dead. Even Gwen Stacy got cloned...though I guess we can declare her deadish still.