Trivia / Green Lantern (2023)

• Awesome, Dear Boy: As detailed on the main page, Adams’ first professional writing credit was for Green Lantern: The Animated Series back in 2013. So, he’s admitted he’s excited to come back to play with Hal and the Corps again (and this time in the mainstream comics continuity).
• Executive Meddling: According to Adams, Sinestro's inclusion in the book was DC Editorial's decision, not his.
• Production Posse: Adams and Xermanico had previously collaborated on Flashpoint Beyond.
• Real Life Writes the Plot: Possible example with Hal and John (both here and in his eventual spinoff book). The elevation of Hal and John to the Dawn of DC's flagship Lanterns preceded the DC Studios announcement that the characters would be part of James Gunn and Peter Safran's rebooted cinematic DC Universe in 2025. So, it's not hard to imagine that out of all the Earth Lanterns, DC put Hal and John back in the spotlight in late 2022 specifically to capitalize on that then-impending announcement and accompanying PR.
• Recycled Script: The initial premise of Hal convincing Carol to give him his old job at Ferris back after a long time in space resembles Len Wein's run from the early 1980s, and issue 2 brings back Wein's villains the Demolition Team.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The original Dawn of DC press release in November 2022 announced that Mariko Tamaki would be helming the post-Dark Crisis relaunch. The next press release two months later announced that Jeremy Adams would now be the relaunch's writer. Neither DC or Tamaki have officially explained why (or when) she departed the project during pre-production (although comments from Tamaki seem to imply it was scheduling-related).
  • The relaunch was also originally titled Green Lantern: Hal Jordan in the aforementioned press release (presumably to mirror the Green Lantern: John Stewart sister book). The subsequent press release has revealed it’s now been shortened in the interim to just Green Lantern.
• Word of God: The reveal of the John Stewart backup (and the change in the Hal Jordan book name) caused concerns that John’s previously announced Dawn of DC book had been scrapped and/or repurposed for this relaunch. Johnson's had to personally reassure the readership that, yes, the spinoff is still happening. The backup is merely serving as the prelude.