Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics Page #4

reflect our fears and our concerns...

...you know, both as

individuals and as a society.

They change over time.

But the more important thing the villains

present is our more global fear...

...our more human fear,

our fear of loss...

...our fear of death,

our fear of the unknown.

The villain represents basically

everything that we fear...

...or everything that

we need to fight against.

Parallax is interesting because the idea that

it's a world-eater, that scares the hell out of us.

At any moment some

universal malevolence...

...can come and take us over.

That's a pretty scary thing.

By the time they were doing the

Superman show, I was an adult.

But whenever you'd watch those

Darkseid episodes, I'd be like:

"Oh, God, this is gonna

be bad. " You know...

...anybody who can

make Superman bleed...

...is somebody that you

don't wanna be trifled with.

Because what are any of us

really gonna do against him?

JOHNS:
I really made Sinestro and

the Sinestro Corps embody fear.

They're cosmic terrorists.

Their mission when they come

is to destroy Coast City.

"We're gonna make Green

Lantern's town a crater...

...and a symbol of fear, so that

nobody will ever come back here. "

Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps says,

"We're not afraid. We're gonna fight your fear. "

Hal flies to his brother's house and his

brother is there with his wife and his kids.

Hal Jordan says to his brother,

"You have to leave right now. "

His brother says, We're not

going anywhere. We believe in you.

We're not afraid. We're

standing our ground. "

And suddenly another Green

Lantern says, "Hal, look outside. "

And someone's put a green

light in their window...

...and another person puts

a green light in their window.

And suddenly there's green

lights all throughout the city...

...as a symbolic gesture to Hal.

And for me, that was a recharge moment

for Hal Jordan overcoming fear...

...but it was also a moment,

emotionally, for me saying, like:

"This is how we deal with

fear. We take a stand. "

They're our personal demons.

Like, they're the fears

we have about ourselves...

...come to life in these

incredibly colorful and bright...

...and sometimes funny,

sometimes terrifying ways.

All of us face those things in our lives,

where you face adversity in some way...

...where you're positive you're

not gonna make it through this one.

And I think we've all been there at some

point where you're just thinking to yourself:

"I am not capable of overcoming this. "

Whether it's a small day-to-day

thing or it's a big thing.

And what villains do is they represent

those fears on this macro way...

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