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I didn't watch the Lost finale when it aired on TV, but I remember the day after it aired, and how angry people were. The ambiguities in the finale of Lost, despite the fact that it had already been established that the characters on the show find each other in the afterlife, didn't sit well with some viewers. If you're in this camp, have no fear, because writer Al Ewing doesn't plan on writing Absolute Green Lantern like Lost. 

I interviewed Al Ewing about writing Absolute Green Lantern, one of the more mysterious books in DC's Absolute Universe. Absolute Green Lantern follows Jo Mullein, John Stewart, and Hal Jordan in a small town called Evergreen. One day, an enormous lantern falls from the sky, entrapping the entire town. An alien figure named Abin Sur emerges and tells the residents of Evergreen that they will be "judged." Like the characters in the story, we don't truly understand what's going on in Evergreen for a while. But don't worry, because Al Ewing knows where it's all headed. 

"One thing I've been trying to do is make sure that every time we answer a question, we ask two new ones. Just to keep that sense of the reader not knowing exactly what's going on. Hopefully [we will] do the Lost thing better than Lost. Hopefully sew this up. I'm thinking very far ahead. I know where a lot of this stuff is going," said Ewing. 

Honestly, Absolute Green Lantern is a cathartic read because it reminds me of being alive. I have no idea where my life is headed the same way that I have no idea where the story in Absolute Green Lantern is headed next. My life may not be written by Al Ewing, but Absolute Green Lantern is, and that's enough for me.

Read our full interview with Al Ewing on his Absolute DC work here. 

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