Tom King is a pretty popular comic book writer, or at least he was while he was still writing Batman during "DC Rebirth." He may still be, but I'm not in-tune with what's going on in comics right now. I've been reading trades digitally via Hoopla, so I'm probably a couple years behind.
Anyway, Tom King used to be a CIA operative, and then he went on to write for DC. He also wrote a critically-acclaimed mini-series about the Vision for Marvel. His stuff can be kind of creepy, but I don't think he's primarily a horror writer. From TV Tropes:
"King's work is notable for tackling the psyches of his characters, darker leanings that hearken back to the 2000s, somewhat topical undertones, slow-paced rhythmic dialogue, Dissonant Serenity-brimmed stories and for implementing many of stylistic trappings of his own favourite authors — most notably Alan Moore and Frank Miller."
("Dissonant Serenity" refers to characters being calm while massive chaos takes place around them, since they're so used to it.)
I liked King's Vision mini-series even though it was creepy. I liked most of his work on Batman even though I hated how he wrote Wonder Woman and what he did with Booster Gold. And then came Heroes in Crisis.
I could write a whole post reviewing Heroes in Crisis. A lot of people hate it. I like the premise - superheroes addressing their hidden traumas - but I think it falls apart as the story goes along. But all I want to do here is highlight one panel that didn't go over well with me or probably most fans of Green Lantern:
This is Hal Jordan's only appearance in the whole series, I think, and I'm pretty sure what he says is meant to be funny. But within the context of the DC universe at the time, it doesn't seem like something that a man who created a brand new Green Lantern ring from scratch purely through the power of his own will would say or feel.
Some time later, I was reading a trade called Darkseid War: Power of the Gods, a tie-in to the main Darkseid War trade that came from the Justice League series. These two books took place before "DC Rebirth," near the end of the "New 52" era. The plot doesn't matter. All you need to know is that, in the Green Lantern chapter, Hal has what appears to be a combination of a vision and a flashback, involving himself as a kid lighting a candle for his late father who died in a plane crash.
God doesn't have free will? He worships us? Sounds pretty blasphemous to me.
When I got to the end of the story, I saw that its title was, "Will You Be My God?" and that it was written was written by Tom King.
I don't think I've seen King write any other Green Lantern stories, and I kind of feel like he and the character don't mix based on these two instances.
P.S., there was one interesting panel in Heroes in Crisis that didn't have anything to do with GL, but it did reference God. Not sure how to feel about it:
Anyway, Tom King used to be a CIA operative, and then he went on to write for DC. He also wrote a critically-acclaimed mini-series about the Vision for Marvel. His stuff can be kind of creepy, but I don't think he's primarily a horror writer. From TV Tropes:
"King's work is notable for tackling the psyches of his characters, darker leanings that hearken back to the 2000s, somewhat topical undertones, slow-paced rhythmic dialogue, Dissonant Serenity-brimmed stories and for implementing many of stylistic trappings of his own favourite authors — most notably Alan Moore and Frank Miller."
("Dissonant Serenity" refers to characters being calm while massive chaos takes place around them, since they're so used to it.)
I liked King's Vision mini-series even though it was creepy. I liked most of his work on Batman even though I hated how he wrote Wonder Woman and what he did with Booster Gold. And then came Heroes in Crisis.
I could write a whole post reviewing Heroes in Crisis. A lot of people hate it. I like the premise - superheroes addressing their hidden traumas - but I think it falls apart as the story goes along. But all I want to do here is highlight one panel that didn't go over well with me or probably most fans of Green Lantern:
This is Hal Jordan's only appearance in the whole series, I think, and I'm pretty sure what he says is meant to be funny. But within the context of the DC universe at the time, it doesn't seem like something that a man who created a brand new Green Lantern ring from scratch purely through the power of his own will would say or feel.
Some time later, I was reading a trade called Darkseid War: Power of the Gods, a tie-in to the main Darkseid War trade that came from the Justice League series. These two books took place before "DC Rebirth," near the end of the "New 52" era. The plot doesn't matter. All you need to know is that, in the Green Lantern chapter, Hal has what appears to be a combination of a vision and a flashback, involving himself as a kid lighting a candle for his late father who died in a plane crash.
God doesn't have free will? He worships us? Sounds pretty blasphemous to me.
When I got to the end of the story, I saw that its title was, "Will You Be My God?" and that it was written was written by Tom King.
I don't think I've seen King write any other Green Lantern stories, and I kind of feel like he and the character don't mix based on these two instances.
P.S., there was one interesting panel in Heroes in Crisis that didn't have anything to do with GL, but it did reference God. Not sure how to feel about it: