Green Lantern: TAS trailer

Finally a trailer of the new Green Lantern: The Animated Series cartoon.



Yes, the animation is CGI. If this is your first time hearing of this, then cool. But if you frequent comic book news sites, or even animation news sites, and you're surprised? Learn 2 Read, please.

We're only seeing glimpses of the characters with tiny seven and thirty second trailers like this, but the creators for this need to bring more than their A Game. Now that Green Lantern has joined both Spider-Man 3 and Fantastic Four as one of the most polarizing comic book movies of all time, Green Lantern is dangerously teetering on the edge of being the next "Batman", and needing to take an eight year rest before someone picks up and does something solid with the concept again. (Only Green Lantern doesn't have a fraction of the recognition Batman has, so it would likely be even longer.)

With Bruce Timm (Batman: TAS) on the project, normally that would be assurance that this concept would work, but with a look that I've only ever supported being used in ReBoot, I'm concerned, to say the least. Hopefully people enjoy it more than Young Justice, or at least as much.

Green Lantern is my favorite character DC. Don't mess this up (even more).

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