What DCU Heroes Might Live in LANTERNS' Midway City?
Lanterns episode six reveals that John Stewart hails from Midway City, Michigan — likely serving as the DCU's fictional stand-in for Detroit, following James Gunn's pattern of replacing real-world cities with DC's fictional locales (Metropolis for New York, Coast City for LA). The article traces Midway City's comics history: created by Gardner Fox and Joe Kubert, first appearing in 1961's The Brave and the Bold #34 as the longtime home base of Hawkman and Hawkgirl, and later also home to the original Doom Patrol starting in the mid-1960s. Though largely a forgotten "generic Midwestern town" in modern DC continuity, its comics legacy leads the author to speculate that its introduction in Lanterns could hint at future DCU appearances by Hawkman, Hawkgirl (possibly forming a romance with John Stewart, mirroring the animated Justice League series), and/or the Doom Patrol.
Visit https://nerdist.com/article/lanterns-midway-city-explained-dc-comics-hawkman-hawkgirl-doom-patrol/ to read or listen to the article.
Powered by Instaread (https://instaread.co/player)
","author_name":"Instaread"}