Damon Lindelof apologizes after 'dumb joke' about Lanterns' green

Damon Lindelof apologized after a podcast quip about the upcoming Lanterns series — saying the show used a one-word title "because we all agreed that the green was stupid" — drew backlash from comics fans. Writers including Grant Morrison pushed back, arguing, "The only people who give a [frick] about the Lanterns TV series are Green Lantern fans.

Why alienate them at the start? That feels more like 'stupid.'" Alan Moore also criticized the remark and recalled receiving a letter from Lindelof while his Watchmen adaptation was in development, calling it "a lot of, what seemed to me to be, neurotic rambling" and saying he told Lindelof not to contact him again.

On Instagram Lindelof wrote, "I made a dumb joke on a comedy podcast. I’m not going to bob and weave about context, the joke was dumb, the fandom is not.

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