"I made a dumb joke on a comedy podcast. I'm not going to bob and weave about context, the joke was dumb, the fandom is not. I owe them an explanation and a genuine reflection of my actual feelings ... For a quiet, uncoordinated kid, there was nothing cooler than a hero whose superpower was his imagination."
"I have upset Grant Morrison, which means I have now pissed off MOST of the brilliant British/Scottish comics writers that I grew up idolizing. To quote the bard (Otis Redding), this is nobody's fault but mine."
"Green is not stupid, it is my lifelong favorite color and I have a questionnaire that I filled out in third grade to prove it. Green is fucking awesome."
Damon Lindelof, creator of HBO Max's Lanterns series, apologized for a year-old joke made on a podcast where he quipped that the series was called Lanterns because "we all agreed that the green was stupid." The comment resurfaced when the trailer launched in March, prompting Green Lantern writer Grant Morrison to publicly criticize Lindelof for dismissing the character as fundamentally stupid. Lindelof responded with an Instagram apology, acknowledging the joke was dumb and clarifying his genuine love for Green Lantern. He explained that the character's imaginative superpower inspired him as a child and that green is his lifelong favorite color, even providing evidence from a third-grade questionnaire.
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