Oh, look, DC decided they wanted another Kyle Rayner.
Green Lantern Annual #1 is coming out August 29th and, well, that’s the cover at right. So either GL will decide to get a logo inspired by Nickelodeon game shows, or somebody had better break out the glowing green spatula.
Considering we’ll be meeting a new Lantern named “Baz” with a mask straight out of Kick-Ass in Green Lantern #0, and the GL books have been teasing a Blackest Night sequel of sorts, we’re thinking it’ll be the glowing green spatula.
So, basically, it’ll be like Emerald Twilight all over again. Maybe this time the replacement Lantern can actually be an ethnic minority instead of being clumsily retconned into being one by a writer too lazy to read previous issues of his own comic.
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Eh, honestly I’m cool if it’s Hal, he’s always been the least interesting human Lantern.
He is admittedly kinda DC’s version of Cyclops.
The two seem to be drawn nearly identical if you swap out the ruby quartz shades.
It’s a common artistic stereotype: the humorless self-righteous dick.
So… he’s a gun wielding Luchadore?
They’re almost making it too easy for Ray Mysterio to pick his next ‘Mania Costume.
No, but I would pay money for a GL luchadore.
Hurricane Helms?
Will they… will they nuke said fridge?
Yes. Yes they will.
I’m thinking Guy Gardner. They just did a Green Lantern movie and with a Justice League movie in the works, it wouldn’t make sense to off Hal Jordan. And I don’t think DC is stupid enough to off the only black Green Lantern so John Stewart is safe. That only leaves one question, will Guy wear an actual redshirt or will it be a yellowshirt since that’s the color you get with red and green.
Just as long as they didn’t make Cassandra Cain or Stephanie Brown a Green Lantern offscreen just so they can kill GL Cass or GL Steph, I can live with it.
Are you kidding? If not even Hal Jordan on a rage bender could kill Gardner, then he’s effectively fricking invincible.
Not to mention John Stewart is the best GL ever and it’s fun keeping him around if for no other reason than to have him kill other GLs.
Movie Green Lantern should have been Kyle Rayner picking up after a disaster decimates the Corps.
DC/WB should be trying for alter egos people can relate to. A sex machine test pilot with abs of steel garners no sympathy, no matter how classic the character may be (and Hal Jordan is, regrettably, ALWAYS BORING.) A struggling artist who gets thrown into chaos?
Same with Barry Allen. Boring and really nothing for a modern audience to give a shit about. An uptight police scientist, or a former sidekick trying to pick up the torch from the traumatic loss of his mentor while maintaining one of the few public identities? Wally West all the way.
EDIT: A struggling artist who gets thrown into chaos? WAY more interesting, even if it’s mishandled the same way the actual GL movie was.
WB’s problem is that they looked at Rayner and assumed “wacky misfit” and tried to make a vehicle for Jack Black. STOP TRYING TO MAKE THESE THINGS STAR VEHICLES. Christ, it’s like the same people who were in charge in 1995 are still making everything Nolan won’t touch.