Originally Posted by
Revolutionary_Jack
Because after having John Stewart as the impressive, competent, capable African-American protagonist and definitive GL of the Justice League cartoons, obviously being "the black guy" in a buddy cop story centered on a white a--hole is the way forward.
Give me a break.
That just proves the hypocrisy of the superhero business. If a white superhero lead fails in a box-office in a big way as happened with the Ryan Reynolds GL (which didn't just fail it became a goddamn laughing stock on the Batman & Robin level, made into punchlines in Reynolds' Deadpool movies) which was an accurate translation of Hal Jordan as Johns' conceived him, he's still gonna get multiple second chances. But if a female superhero fails, or an African-American superhero fails...or in the case of John Stewart, succeeding, then that's still not gonna help them move forward.
Hal Jordan had the Reynolds movie, he had those mediocre CGI animated cartoons that came out after that, and nothing since then. The Green Lantern that did cross over big was John Stewart voiced by Phil LaMarr and yet he never got the push that was his by right.