With all the superhero slop that has hit streamers over the past half-decade, it’s been a long time since we were excited for a comic-book show. But Lanterns, the next TV series to launch from James Gunn and Peter Safran’s rebooted DC Universe, is looking increasingly like a strong antidote to our small-screen superhero antipathy. It has a stacked creative team, led by Lost and Watchmen maestro Damon Lindelof—and a vibe that has drawn comparisons to the first season of True Detective. Early trailers have looked pretty damn good. Hitting HBO Max in mid-August, Lanterns will take DC’s fan-favorite Green Lanterns—the cops of the cosmos, essentially, whose super-charged super-rings give them the power to conjure green-tinted shields, weapons, and anything they can really imagine, out of nothingness—and bring them to Earth, for a grounded, gritty detective mystery that seems tonally in line with the aforementioned prestige masterwork. It’s another bold genre swing amid Gunn and Safran’s quest to revitalize DC Studios across media: with Superman, they won acclaim for revitalizing classic Golden Age comic-book style, …