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Originally Posted by Vonn Hennigar
"I was noticing that DC seems to have based one of its latest crossovers [Blackest Night] in Green Lantern based on a couple of eight-page stories that I did 25 or 30 years ago. I would have thought that would seem kind of desperate and humiliating, When I have said in interviews that it doesn’t look like the American comic book industry has had an idea of its own in the past 20 or 30 years, I was just being mean. I didn’t expect the companies concerned to more or less say, “Yeah, he’s right. Let’s see if we can find another one of his stories from 30 years ago to turn into some spectacular saga.” It’s tragic. The comics that I read as a kid that inspired me were full of ideas. They didn’t need some upstart from England to come over there and tell them how to do comics. They’d got plenty of ideas of their own. But these days, I increasingly get a sense of the comics industry going through my trashcan like raccoons in the dead of the night."
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Ridiculous. At no point during the conversation Geoff and I had in creating Blackest Night did any of us bring up anything Alan Moore ever did. It'd be difficult. I've never read any of it.
I think the idea came first, and Geoff kind of retrofitted it into some classic Green Lantern continuity using some pieces and parts of old stories. It's what he does. He has ideas, and he graciously fits them in to the whole DCU timestream so as to compliment what came before him. It's everyone's job to continue the Big Story.
But the idea that we sat around pining to create something, ANYTHING, and had to resort to repeating something Alan Moore did 25 years ago...well, that's delusional.