Green Lantern: Five Choices To Take Over From Geoff Johns

With the surprise announcement this week that DC Entertainment Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns is stepping down from his role as Green Lantern writer after nearly ten years, fans were shocked and a bit baffled as to where the comic–which has now become the cornerstone of a whole corner of the DC Universe–goes from here.It’s hard to know, after all, whether a title like Green Lantern: New Guardians or Red Lanterns holds much appeal in a post-Johns era; much of the appeal of the Green Lantern line was that they all sort of fell in step with what Johns was doing at the main book, supporting his massive mega-stories and proving that the secondary and tertiary characters that he had created or re-established during his time on the books were valuable parts of a big picture.A big picture that, for now at least, is being wrapped up and carried away, when Johns takes a huge chunk of the Green Lantern creative family with him. All four of the Green Lantern family writers and at least one artist (Doug Mahnke, who draws Green Lantern and who will follow Johns to another project) will leave in May, setting up a new status quo for an incoming group of creators in June.So…there will be a need for an entirely new batch of creators to come in, more or less all at once, to keep the Green Lantern line afloat. And while there are already rumors floating around as to who will take over the books, we wanted to take a look at some of the creators who seemed capable of taking on a responsibility like being the first Green Lantern writer to follow Geoff Johns–the man who reinvented the mythology and turned the property into something fans truly care about for the first time in years.