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Newsarama’s Vaneta Rogers has interviewed JLA writer James Robinson about his upcoming JLA/JSA crossover. He talks about how Jade’s return heralds the arrival of the full Starheart – the source of her and her father’s powers.
Alan Scott derives his Green Lantern powers from a different source than the Guardians of the Universe’s Green Lantern Corps (GLC). As part of their foundation of the GLC the Guardians gathered the remaining wild magic in the Universe together into a single orb called the Starheart (so-called because it was hidden within a star). A fragment of that orb made its way to Earth where – via some sort of strange resonant sympathy with the GLC – it caused itself to become a mystic duplicate of a GLC Lantern battery and Power Ring. It’s that magical ring that Alan Scott uses in his adventures as Green Lantern. It’s also the power that Jade has inherited.
Robinson described to Newsarama the troubles that the Starheart’s approach to Earth causes,
What her [Jade's] resurrection does, as you saw in Issue #44, is it brings the whole Starheart to Earth, which in turn affects the world. It affects every meta with magic or elemental powers, which are two of the main energies that are within the Starheart. It’s also causing the Earth to have terrible natural disasters of various kinds. And most specifically, it affects Alan Scott, Obsidian and Jade.
It’s all basically the Starheart, which has the mind of an infant, having fun as it learns about the planet. It needs to be controlled. That’s always what it wants. And Alan Scott had the ability and the will to do that, to control it…at least when it was a small amount of the Starheart that was on Earth. But once it’s all of the Starheart, it’s about finding a way to control that.
He also talks about coming back to the Justice Society after relaunching it with Geoff Johns a decade ago. There are also the standard questions we’ve heard at the last couple of conventions “What about Batman”, but it’s a nice promo interview that recaps a lot of what he’s been reported as telling convention audiences lately.
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