On the finish of the primary trailer for the upcoming HBO Max collection Lanterns, Hal Jordan scoffs when his new associate John Stewart asks if he ever talks to different members of the Inexperienced Lantern Corps. “I’m the one human, they’re all aliens,” solutions a disbelieving Jordan. As many have identified, Jordan’s remark is unnecessary within the new DCU, the place Inexperienced Lantern Man Gardner serves as a member of the Justice Gang. However as much more have identified, Man Gardner hardly meets the definition of “human.”
Superman would by no means say such a factor about Man, however nobody would blame him if he most well-liked working with one other human member of the Corps. And it feels like he simply would possibly get his want, as The Hollywood Reporter has introduced that Aaron Pierre has been added to the forged of the Superman sequel Man of Tomorrow, reprising his position as Stewart.
By including Pierre to its forged, Man of Tomorrow continues to function a sequel to each DCU mission since James Gunn and Peter Safran relaunched the universe. Clearly, Man of Tomorrow is a direct continuation of Superman, because it sees Superman and Lex Luthor pressured to work collectively. The rationale they’ll work collectively was launched within the closing episode of Peacemaker‘s second season, the place Chris Smith was despatched to a jail planet known as Sanctuary. And who despatched the Peacemaker to Sanctuary? Why it’s Rick Flag Sr., former boss of the Creature Commandos, who developed a hatred of all metahumans after the dying of his son in The Suicide Squad.
What this implies for John Stewart remains to be unclear, as we clearly don’t understand how his story will unfold in Lanterns. The Lanterns trailer tells us that Stewart has been coaching underneath Jordan for 2 months, which signifies that he’s nonetheless a reasonably inexperienced Lantern. But, if Stewart is something like his comedian guide counterpart, then he already involves the position with navy coaching and a eager thoughts, having served as a Marine and labored as an architect. He has a cool and introspective demeanor that’s, on the very least, a lot much less chaos-prone than the perspective of 1 Man Gardner.
