HBO Max's 10-Episode Sci-Fi Series Could Be the Perfect 'Lanterns' Replacement

Lanterns is the kind of success no one expected. The more grounded take on Green Lantern lore, combined with excellent character work from leads Kyle Chandler as Hal Jordan and Aaron Pierre as John Stewart, created a winning formula and made Lanterns one of the most-watched shows on HBO Max. While a second season of Lanterns remains in development, that doesn’t mean DC Studios is done with Green Lantern. Pierre is set to return as John Stewart in Man of Tomorrow next year, while Nathan Fillion is reprising his role as Guy Gardner for Mister Miracle. Another series looks to embrace all the cosmic elements of Green Lantern while building out the world of another fan-favorite DC series.

Appropriately enough, this new series is titled My Adventures with Green Lantern. Spinning out of the events of My Adventures with Superman, My Adventures with Green Lantern will see Jessica Cruz (Auli’i Cravalho) joining the Green Lantern Corps. There’s just one catch: while the Guardians of the Universe usually choose Green Lanterns, Jessica becomes a Green Lantern when a power ring literally lands in her lap. She’s then pulled into the fight of her life “when more debris from the Lanterns’ ancient space war arrives – along with their alien foes,” according to the official logline.

‘My Adventures With Green Lantern’ Will Tackle the Cosmic Elements of the Green Lantern Comics

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One of the major debates surrounding Lanterns is that its narrative felt better suited to a terrestrial DC hero like Batman or the Question than to two men charged with defending the universe from interstellar threats. While the show mentions other Green Lanterns like Ch’p the squirrel and Mogo the living planet, some viewers felt there could have been more Green Lantern elements in a show called Lanterns. My Adventures with Green Lantern is about to fulfill their wish, as the series is set to bring in plenty of characters from the comics. A preview at Annecy Festival reveals that Jessica attends Hal Jordan Memorial High, with her classmates, including future Green Lantern Kyle Rayner.

Jessica will also have to deal with other Green Lanterns, most notably the Corps’ drill sergeant, Kilowog. She will also be fighting Yellow and Red Lanterns in the series, hinting at the presence of two iconic Green Lantern villains. The Yellow Lanterns are usually part of the Sinestro Corps, led by the titular Sinestro — Hal Jordan’s former mentor and Green Lantern who now wields the yellow power of fear. The Red Lanterns, on the other hand, draw on the red power of rage thanks to their leader, Atrocitus. The presence of Yellow and Red Lanterns hints that My Adventures with Green Lantern will explore the emotional spectrum established in Geoff Johns‘ Green Lantern run, and that it’ll be a more cosmic affair than Lanterns was. Producer Jake Wyatt also said that he wanted the villains to stand out at Annecy:

“We wanted to get weird with the bad guys. We needed hot evil people to scare the hell out of Jess and her buddies.”

“We wanted to get weird with the bad guys. We needed hot evil people to scare the hell out of Jess and her buddies.”

Your answers point to the iconic sci-fi hero who shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of facing the impossible.

You carry a weight most people would crumble under — the knowledge of what you’re capable of, and the burden of what you might have to become.

• You see further ahead than others and you plan accordingly, even when the vision frightens you.
• You are driven by loyalty to your people and a sense of destiny you didn’t ask for but can’t escape.
• Paul Atreides is not simply a hero — he is someone who understands the cost of power and chooses to bear it anyway.
• That gravity, that willingness to carry what others won’t, is exactly you.

You lead with instinct, warmth, and an absolute refusal to accept a no-win scenario — because you’ve always believed there’s a third option nobody else has thought of yet.

• You take the mission seriously without ever taking yourself too seriously.
• Your crew would follow you anywhere, not because you demand it, but because you’ve earned it.
• Kirk’s genius isn’t tactical — it’s human. He reads people, bends rules with purpose, and wills outcomes into existence through sheer conviction.
• That combination of warmth, audacity, and relentless optimism is unmistakably yours.

You are the kind of person who holds the line when everyone else is losing faith — not because you’re fearless, but because giving up simply isn’t something you’re capable of.

• You lead through conviction. Your voice carries because your belief is unshakeable.
• You gave up everything ordinary the moment you chose the cause, and you’ve never looked back.
• Leia is not a supporting character in her own story — she is the moral centre of the entire rebellion.
• That same fierce, principled, unbreakable core is what defines you.

You are not reckless, not grandiose, and not particularly interested in being anyone’s hero — you just refuse to stop when it matters.

• You see threats clearly, you document the truth even when no one listens, and when the time comes you handle it yourself.
• Ripley’s heroism is earned, not performed. She doesn’t have a speech — she has a flamethrower and a plan.
• You share her composure under the worst possible pressure, and her refusal to pretend the monster isn’t there.
• When it counts, you don’t flinch. That’s everything.

You have been through fire that would break most people — and what came out the other side is something the world underestimates at its peril.

• You don’t ask for help, don’t need validation, and don’t wait for anyone to tell you the rules no longer apply.
• Your loyalty, when it finally arrives, is absolute — but it’s earned in silence and tested in action, not in words.
• Max is not a nihilist. He is someone who lost everything and found, against his will, that he still has something worth protecting.
• That bruised, stubborn, ultimately human core is exactly yours.

‘My Adventures With Green Lantern’ Is Drawing Inspiration From a Legendary Anime

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