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Al Ewing on reinventing Green Lantern as cosmic horror — and why the Absolute Universe isn’t afraid of the dark
‘No rings, no lanterns, no fear’: Al Ewing explains the terrifying vision behind DC’s Absolute Green Lantern.
Al Ewing is one of the most prolific writers working in comics today. Whether it's his work on books like X-Men Red, Immortal Hulk, Immortal Thor (and Mortal Thor!), Venom, Metamorpho: The Element Man, or We Only Find Them When They're Dead, Ewing has deftly crafted stories across various genres that boldly push the mythology of comics as we know them. Recently, Ewing has expanded into the world of DC Comics as the writer of Absolute Green Lantern and the one-shot, Absolute Evil #1.
Ewing's Absolute Green Lantern is a horror-filled reinvention of the Lantern mythos, following friends Jo Mullein, John Stewart, and Hal Jordan after a mysterious, enormous lantern structure falls from the sky into their small town, trapping them all within its borders. From the lantern emerges an alien named Abin Sur, who possesses power beyond human comprehension and is hellbent on "judging"
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