Originally Posted by
Bill Laimbeer
There are quite a few things being said here as truth that aren't quite true, or at least not the whole truth.
The GL fanbase was divided probably ever since John took over the role in the mid 1980s. One has to read the letter columns to see this. If you read the letters in the early Gerard Jones comics in the early 90s, it was the same thing. That is, people complaining about this Green Lantern or that Green Lantern while championing their favorite. Kyle Rayner did not start that. It just got more pronounced when he arrived because of the drastic story direction, the length of his tenure, and the rise of the internet and popular magazines like Wizard.
That said, it's incredibly disingenuous to call that direction a failure. The title was relatively popular and Kyle Rayner brought in a lot of new fans. Whether it was the right thing to do or not can be debated, but let's not act like there are no appreciators of that period of Green Lantern comics or that it's the source of all the woes with the Green Lantern franchise.
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