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Justin Jordan Walks Off Green Lantern: New Guardians And Tells Everyone Why

Published Sat, 06 Dec 2014 09:00:26 -0600

Justin Jordan is the co-creator of books like Luther Strode and Dead Body Road at Image Comics, writer on Crossed, owner of the most recognisable beard in comic books (even more so than Oliver Queen) and was snapped up by DC Comics to write Green Lantern: New Guardians when Geoff Johns and friends left the books a couple of years ago.

But he's done.

And last night on Facebook he told everyone why.

Eh, I'm tired of waiting for someone to make the announcement for me, so let me dump this here on a Friday night:

I'm leaving New Guardians as of issue 40 – my decision, and one I (and DC) have known about since about last April.

It's not because I don't like writing the book (I do) or because I've had any kind of DC falling out (I haven't) – basically, I've written about four hundred pages of New Guardians, and I've told the story I wanted to tell, so I figured it'd be a good time to wrap up this stage of Kyle's story and for me to do something else.

I took New Guardians because I wanted a challenge – I'd never written a cosmic book, not anything so sci fi, and I wanted to stretch. And it's been great. I loved working with my editors, with Brad Walker and the rest of the artistic team. And I think we put out a good book.

No book is ever perfect, but I think this is probably the most consistently good work for hire book that I've done. I've gotten to tell the stories I wanted to tell, the way I wanted to tell them. Their weaknesses are mine, and that's not always the case for non creator owned books.

And I enjoyed working with the Four (Eventually) Five Corpsmen, the writer of the various books. It's been about a satisfying a working experience as I can imagine having.

Thanks to DC for letting me write the book and all the fans for reading it.

(And no, I'm not saying what happens to the book after me. You folks are going to need to wait for that)

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