Comments on: Missing In Action: Gerard Jones’ Green Lantern

By: Fawad

Fawad — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 22:00:39 +0000

The Gerard Jones-era was a new golden age for the green lantern books. It wasn’t about flash, it was about fun story-telling. Taking this expansive character history and making it accessible and relevant and yet maintaining its timelessness. There was both character development, thoughtful storytelling and satisfying action and space operatics. There was a respect and reverence for the character’s past, but also a lot of new characters and ideas. But not to the point of breaking the camel’s back–as I feel the current change-fest does. Also, there was some real humor giving it all a human touch. Jones has since proven himself to be more than just a flash in the pan comics writer, going on to success and critical acclaim in independent comics, important non-fiction works on the medium, novels and even academics as a teacher.

By: IrvinQ

IrvinQ — Sat, 28 May 2011 18:13:45 +0000

His writing drove ALL FOUR BOOKS INTO THE GROUND. Jones was truly awful.

By: Simon DelMonte

Simon DelMonte — Fri, 27 May 2011 00:30:22 +0000

I loved Mosaic, but that seems to be a book that was relegated to the back bins way back when someone at DC ordered the book canceled because he didn’t like it, despite its sales. It’s a shame, since it was such an innovative series.

Jones’ other work, however, was so-so. Lots of exposition and retrofitting, not much growth. And his take on Guy was fun for a while but got rather cartoonish.

By: Ricardo Amaral

Ricardo Amaral — Thu, 26 May 2011 23:38:29 +0000

I still think his entire GL run was much better than Johns’ GL current Care Bears run. Too much flash, almost none character development.
And, yes, Green Lantern: Mosaic is still the best GL title ever produced. I also enjoyed immensely the GL Quarterly books.

By: EJ

EJ — Thu, 26 May 2011 20:38:09 +0000

It doesn’t surprise me that DC has skipped the Jones era of GL for now, simply put there is too much controversy and bad stories told during that era.

Which in Jones defense was mostly thanks to editorial which sabotaged his run halfway through it and it showed in the book after GL #25 the stories weren’t as good. Unlike Johns who has mostly had editorial backing behind him Jones was stopped in his tracks to reshape the GL mythology and books like he wanted to.

But I would like to at least see his earlier stories collected in some form, they were very high quality but I could do without the later part of it.