Grant Morrison Defends Green Lantern After Lindelof's 'Stupid' Comment

The trailer for Lanterns reignited debate among comic fans after it downplayed many characters' cosmic elements in favor of a tone evoking True Detective. The conversation intensified when Damon Lindelof told the Lovett or Leave It podcast, "It's called Lanterns because we all agreed that the green was stupid, so now it’s just Lanterns." Grant Morrison has pushed back on that remark.

Morrison wrote on their Substack that Lindelof's line amounted to a "jockish dismissal of superhero conventions." They questioned why a writer who calls the material "fundamentally 'stupid'" would take the job, why studios hire people who are "ashamed and in denial" about the comics they're adapting, and warned that alienating Green Lantern fans at the start "feels more like 'stupid'." Morrison also argued that "Green Lanterns" is a more evocative title than "Lanterns." Morrison is one of the most influential comic writers of all time, with credits including Arkham Asylum, Doom Patrol and JLA, and they wrote Hal Jordan from 2019 to 2021.

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