Green Lantern: Five Artists To Take Over Post-Johns and Mahnke

Lost a bit in the announcement that Geoff Johns and all of the other Green Lantern writers are leaving their respective titles in May was the announcement that Doug Mahnke, who has been drawing the series since Ivan Reis left to draw Justice League, will be off Green Lantern as well.The workhorse artist whose resume includes previous stints on Action Comics and Final Crisis, will reportedly follow Johns to an as-yet-unannounced title where they’ll work together. That leaves Green Lantern as arguably the biggest, most exciting opportunity since the launch of the New 52 for a good creative team; while Superman has been open a couple of times, that book has been troubled for years, with only short, infrequent bursts of greatness since about 1997. Green Lantern, meanwhile, has been an audience and critical favorite for nearly a decade.Besides that, while Reis and Mahnke are solid talents whose stock has risen after quality runs on the book, neither of them is Greg Capullo. Green Lantern has, to this point, been unmistakably the Geoff Johns show, and so the right artist could walk in and really set the tone for the future of the series without drawing the same (likely unfavorable) comparisons that the writer will almost inevitably get to Johns.So, who are some solid choices to take over the title? Read on, and then check out our list of prospective writers, too.