Michael Doran at Newsarama had an interesting spec piece the other day on the upcoming rebooted Green Lantern movie recently announced as part of the list of DC movies from Warner Brothers.
He laid out a pretty good list of reasons he believes the movie will star the most recent Green Lantern, Jessica Cruz, who first appeared in Green Lantern #20. The list he lays out is as follows:
1.) She of course is a current Justice League member and again was created by Johns, at exactly the time DCE and Warner Bros. seemed to be assembling their master movie plan and starting production on Dawn of Justice.
2.) Did we mention Johns created her himself, again, just a short time after already creating another new young Green Lantern character that serves to add diversity to the GL Corps and the Justice Leagues – Simon Baz (he even set Baz up as her mentor just before leaving the Green Lantern comic).
It would not be a stretch of the imagination to conclude Jessica was created to fill a specific role Simon does not (we’re getting there in a sec), since Johns could have easily slotted him into the comic book League if he chose.
3.) Since we can safely assume the movie League line-up is Batman, Superman, The Flash, Aquaman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern and Cyborg, we can conclude the movies are following at least the basic roadmap of the New 52 line-up Johns created.
4.) Cyborg basically supplanted Martian Manhunter (as well as other potential characters with rich Justice League history like Green Arrow, Hawkman, and the Atom), no doubt in part to inject some youth and technical weaponry into the line-up, but to also provide some yes … diversity.
5.) Finally, that seven character League … pardon us for saying so … is/was a bit of a sausage fest.
You should read the full article, here and see if you agree.
Copies of her Jessica Cruz’s first appearance in Green Lantern #20, a $7.99 cover price book, Green Lantern #20 can be found on ebay starting at $3.39. Copies of the Green Lantern #20 1 in 25 Variant
can be found on ebay for under $10. (Links updated)
This is a small gamble to take with long odds, but if it pays off, it could really pay off.
The links you put up for the variants are for Green Lantern Corps 20, not Green Lantern 20.
Its for a search for Green Lantern 20 but since Green Lantern Corp 20 also contains the same words they pop up as well. You may have to scroll through them or check the direct links i posted.
Crap. I see what you mean. I have to pull thise right away.
Links pulled. Thanks for the heads up. I know I checked them when I wrote it last night.
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Green Lantern 2011 series right?
Correct.
Just wanted to write it out for clarification. I got a couple of those issues somewhere, I think.
Thanks Nicc
Thanks for this spec. picked up the last copy from the link. under $17 for the variant. This could pay off very well.
Good find! Damn I love this site!
Only her hand appeared GL 20 a la Web of Spider-Man 18. I would put her first appearance in Justice League 30.
I was going by comicvine’s first appearance but JL 30 is a good call.