here's why John Stewart is the best written character in Comics Green Lantern War Journal by Philip Kennedy Johnson and mtos transcended this character to something he's never been before a lot of people think of John Stewart is the badass Army dude or the cool black Green Lantern but he is truly a lot more than that John Stewart's relationship with his mom is so intricate to his story and it comes up time and time again John's little sister Ellie tragically died in a car accident when she was just around 6 years old but because his mom's older and has dementia she doesn't know that she thinks Ellie is still alive so just so he wouldn't have to break his mother's heart John would create constructs of Ellie just so his mother could still feel the warmth and love of her daughter but we later find out that his mom always knew that Ellie was dead she would purposely pretend that she thought Ellie was alive because seeing his mother with a smile on her face playing with Ellie made John happy it's super sad guys later when a radi and dead tried to attack John's mother Ellie morphed with her to manifest into an entire con