I don't know why I get so hung up on the things people say on social media, the socials, when it's just a performance space. It's not really possible to tell if anybody means any of the things they say on there. Gunn was controversial, I believe that much, but the idea that someone would still be pining for the Snyderverse at this late hour and respond to the ouster of James Gun with vengeful delight just seems like a wild ride to me.
I feel like Marvel has run its course, and it sorta seems like they agree, with a hard turn into nostalgia for nostalgia that doesn't read as a position of strength. I liked Gunn because he was doing weird, oblique shit, which is the same reason he's disliked by the DC fandom's priestly caste. I don't mean that to sound insulting, I think that's the role they actually fulfill. I can respect somebody who likes something so much that they don't like it anymore. As far as James Gunn goes, I sorta thought the whole idea of being an artist was to trick a patron into paying for your passion projects. Is that… is that not what it is?
Anyway, so now Skydance went and got their own Marvel Guy, and the normal maneuver in that scenario is to wipe the slate, the way an ascendant lion might kill its competitor's cubs. I've heard rumors back and forth about what this means for Lanterns, but it seems like there isn't much to know there. You certainly couldn't avoid the conversation around it, but we don't know what kinds of conversations they were having behind closed doors.
Most of what I've heard about the new dude, Jeremy Latcham, came from a podcast called "Bible Bros" which definitely sounds like a podcast to me. They want to read the tea leaves on this dude, the kind of divination strictly forbidden in the Book of Deuteronomy, to see if he's gonna dump out a big bag of Christ on their cinematic slate. He just sounds like a normie to me. Mega-normie. He's the guy you hire after your charismatic, innovative thinker has just gotten done shoveling hundreds of millions of dollars into a furnace.
(CW)TB out.
