Editor-in-Chief
Phil
I’m Phil, the guy behind Green Lantern Watch. I’ve been reading comics for as long as I can remember, and I’ve followed Green Lantern since 1999. I still remember the first issue I ever picked up: Green Lantern #115. By day I’m a software engineer, which is how this site ended up built from scratch instead of living on a free blog template.
My favorite Lantern is Kyle Rayner. He was never the “chosen” hero type, just an artist who got handed the most powerful weapon in the universe and had to figure it out as he went. My favorite villain is Hector Hammond, because a telepathic man with a giant brain and a grudge is still one of the best pulpy sci-fi ideas in comics. And my favorite Kyle story is Tom King’s The Omega Men, a dark, strange, politically charged space epic that shows what the Green Lantern mythos can do when someone takes real risks with it.
Green Lantern Watch is where I follow the TV show, the movies, and the comics, and where I try to make it easier for new readers to jump in.
Articles by Phil
Reviews
Green Lantern Corps #21 Review: “Footsteps in the Dark”
Jess has her hands full trying to set rules of order for the new Alpha Guardians when Jo Mullein drops a fresh problem on her desk: the interplanetary pirates Jo beat down say they were on legitimate business, and their solicitors want a word with the Corps’ lawyers. The Corps really can’t catch a break.
By Phil • 2 min read
Features
The Spectrum of Light in Absolute Green Lantern Explained
In Absolute Green Lantern, the Spectrum of Light is not an emotional spectrum. Al Ewing's version swaps feelings for stages of cosmic awareness, so each color is a step toward enlightenment rather than a mood powering a ring.
By Phil • 10 min read
Articles
DC Studios’ Peter Safran Says a Lanterns Season 2 Decision Hinges on the Writers’ Room
HBO hasn’t renewed Lanterns yet, but DC Studios says an answer should arrive before the end of the year.
By Phil • 1 min read
Articles
DC Announces Green Lanterns: Bad Boys for Light, a New DC GO! Webcomic Starring Hal Jordan and John Stewart
Hal Jordan and John Stewart go rogue in a new vertical-scroll series launching in November on DC Universe Infinite.
By Phil • 1 min read
Articles
Green Lantern: The Dying of the Light Puts an Aged Hal Jordan on the Run
Jason Aaron and Tirso bring a Dark Knight Returns-style Hal Jordan story to DC Black Label in March 2027.
By Phil • 1 min read
Features
Hal Jordan, Parallax, and Kyle Rayner Explained
How Green Lantern's greatest hero fell, how an unknown artist took his place, and how DC wrote its way back to Hal. This covers both the in-universe story and the real-world decisions behind it.
By Phil • 14 min read
Reviews
Absolute Green Lantern Vol. 1 Review: Green Lantern as Cosmic Horror
Al Ewing and Jahnoy Lindsay drop the space cops and turn Green Lantern into sci-fi horror about a universe that doesn't care about us. It's a great read.
By Phil • 2 min read
Articles
The Green Lantern Is the Strangest Hal Jordan Book in Years
Grant Morrison and Liam Sharp's run deserves more love than it gets. Here's the case.
By Phil • 5 min read
Articles
Finished Lanterns? Here's What to Read Next
By Phil • 3 min read
Features
The Manhunters, Explained
The Manhunters are androids the Guardians of the Universe built as their first intergalactic police force, long before the Green Lantern Corps existed, and they are a separate thing from J'onn J'onzz, the Martian Manhunter, despite the shared word.
By Phil • 5 min read