![]() ![]() So I wanted to write something to help them too. But they don’t always understand what is happening or what to do. People out there who have friends and loved ones with anxiety–they almost all WANT to help. The other thing I wanted to do was to show it from Simon’s side. Here’s some simple things that might help you. So, this issue was an encoded shout out to my brothers and sisters in anxiety, just to say… hey, you’re not alone! I feel you. Things like exercise, meditation, sleeping, hydrating, doing the dishes, helping others, petting a cat–these are things that saved my life, or at least, my quality of life. What I tried to do with issue 15 was think about myself five, ten years ago, where I was with my anxiety, and think about what did I need to hear when I was really struggling? Could I have heard it in a comic book? A comic book that is also about punching things with magic rings? Who knows! I did know that there’s a lot of people out there who struggle like I do. I’ve known it for about a decade, and before that, I struggled without even understanding why. Sam Humphries: I have my own struggles with anxiety. What went into that script and how much of your own stated anxiety issues made their way into Jess’s feelings? GeekMom: Green Lanterns #15 is perhaps one of the best comics I’ve ever read portraying anxiety disorder. page from Green Lanterns #15, which has an optimistic and hopeful ending for Jessica Cruz And he gives a unique answer about his comic dream job. I interviewed Humphries about his run, about his portrayal of anxiety, and how he sees the issue of representation, especially given there’s intersectionality between Jessica representing a neuro-atypical hero and a LatinX hero. You can find their stories in Green Lanterns: Volume 1: Rage Planet and Green Lanterns: Vol 2: Phantom Lantern, out this week. Seeing them mature and triumph during this run has been joyful. ![]() Readers see that in Jessica’s constant struggles with her anxiety disorder and Simon’s fears that he won’t be good enough to be a hero. What Humphries has done is take the idea of “a hero without fear” and show that courage isn’t the absence of fear but the ability to overcome it. I know exactly why: I love these two kids. Green Lanterns, which features Jessica Cruz and Simon Baz, has been consistently one of the first comics I open to read when it shows up in my digital review files. I never liked Hal, I wasn’t buying comics when John Stewart first appeared, I missed the reboot with Kyle, and I had zero interest in bringing back Hal as the main Lantern.īut Sam Humphries has made me love reading a Green Lantern comic. I found, oddly, that I’d collected bits of every Aquaman run ever.īut I’d never collected a Green Lantern run. Image copyright DC ComicsĪbout a decade ago, I went through my comic collection of twenty longboxes to catalog and then give away. Corrina’s two new favorite GLs: Jessica and Simon. ![]()
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