Warriors Bar Podcast: LANTERNS - Episode One
Russ, Zach and Dave (Around the Lens Podcast) discuss the first episode of HBO’s LANTERNS
After watching the pilot to HBO’s massively successful DC adaptation Lanterns, Emerald City Video and Around the Lens teamed up for a reaction/analysis podcast, with longtime ComicBook and Comic Related writer Russ Burlingame hosting as the resident Green Lantern nerd.
Russ already reviewed the pilot episode (TLDR: 3.5/5 stars), but there’s a lot more analysis here, and it’s great to catch up with Dave to lend some of his expertise on the military aspects of the series.
Oh, and there’s a…
LANTERNS Week 1 Reading List:
Green Lantern: Secret Origin by Geoff Johns, Ivan Reis.
Most people will tell you to start with the beginning of Johns’s run, because he re-established the lore pretty well and explained the whole Parallax thing that we’ll probably talk about a lot coming up -- but I reject that, because many of those first 12 or so issues were drawn by an unreprentant fascist. Fuck that guy, and don’t buy his books.
The Final Night by Karl Kesel, Stuart Immonen.
Mister Miracle by Tom King & Mitch Gerads
Green Lantern: Beware My Power (movie)
