What would be the state of the Green Lantern franchise right now if Morrison had led the revival?

[The S0/\/\@7ic Si/\/\[]Dl370n]

What if Grant had spearheaded the Green Lantern/GLC universe revival instead of Johns? What would be the differences in the characters, villains, stories and general direction of the franchise at this point? How successful would the franchise be, compared to the success it has now?

What characters would Grant have introduced? What stories would we have seen and what would the GL side of the universe, as well as the GL franchise as a whole look like as of now?

[megaharrison]

Morrison's story's are crazy and have their own appeal, but Johns is better at mainstream staying power. The GL universe Johns created has defined the franchise and its future, hes probably the most important GL writer ever. Had Morrison taken over I imagine we would have had our share of crazy stories involving weird-sounding aliens, the multiverse, and obscure silver age references, but ultimately when he left the GL franchise wouldn't have been in the kind of robust shape Johns built it up as. Johns created a self-contained universe and cast of characters within the DC universe (much like X-Men had before Marvel tore it down due to the movie wars) which can tremendously boost a comic franchise.

I'm not sure the GL revival could have been any more successful than what Johns did. It was one of DC's top non-Batman titles under Johns run, and before that had been wallowing and lagging in a state of semi-irrelevancy.

[The S0/\/\@7ic Si/\/\[]Dl370n]

Morrison's story's are crazy and have their own appeal, but Johns is better at mainstream staying power. The GL universe Johns created has defined the franchise and its future, hes probably the most important GL writer ever. Had Morrison taken over I imagine we would have had our share of crazy stories involving weird-sounding aliens, the multiverse, and obscure silver age references, but ultimately when he left the GL franchise wouldn't have been in the kind of robust shape Johns built it up as. Johns created a self-contained universe and cast of characters within the DC universe (much like X-Men had before Marvel tore it down due to the movie wars) which can tremendously boost a comic franchise.

I'm not sure the GL revival could have been any more successful than what Johns did. It was one of DC's top non-Batman titles under Johns run, and before that had been wallowing and lagging in a state of semi-irrelevancy.

What exactly would have prevented Morrison's take from lasting?

[megaharrison]

What exactly would have prevented Morrison's take from lasting?

Morrison's stories and characters are very self-contained and really only properly utilized by Morrison himself. I doubt Zhur-Varr the Space Judge of Earth 23 with his bubble-ship of imagination would have appeared in many GL stories after Morrison left. Johns meanwhile created the Emotional Spectrum as we know it, and it was pretty simple/straightforward with lots of possibilities for future use by any writer. As a result, GL stories still utilize it.

I'm not bashing Morrison mind you, but Morrison does his own crazy thing whereas Johns is much more mainstream.

[Sirzechs]

The Alan moore bits that Johns added to Sinestro Corps war probably would have still been used, but GL would probably be really weird now, He'd probably upgrade them to Multiversal officers instead of just Space cops.

[Pharozonk]

It imagine it would be more character driven and less big flashy event driven.

[Judge Dredd]

I think Johns ideas will last longer then if Morrison had written the book. He has a lot of large ideas and would be great for the time being but I do not think his ideas would be used as much as Johns will. I would love to have him on the Green Lantern Corps book now and have some good stories but do not know if he would be the best to reboot the book.

[Den]

Morrison has some really odd, really GREAT ideas, but sometimes it feels like others have trouble with the toys he leaves behind. Not saying Johns stuff can't be botched by others (Any writer might drop a ball with another writer's work) but his does seem more 'new user friendly' to me.

EDIT: Or what Megaharrison said

[The S0/\/\@7ic Si/\/\[]Dl370n]

The Alan moore bits that Johns added to Sinestro Corps war probably would have still been used, but GL would probably be really weird now, He'd probably upgrade them to Multiversal officers instead of just Space cops.

I think Johns ideas will last longer then if Morrison had written the book. He has a lot of large ideas and would be great for the time being but I do not think his ideas would be used as much as Johns will. I would love to have him on the Green Lantern Corps book now and have some good stories but do not know if he would be the best to reboot the book.

Morrison's stories and characters are very self-contained and really only properly utilized by Morrison himself. I doubt Zhur-Varr the Space Judge of Earth 23 with his bubble-ship of imagination would have appeared in many GL stories after Morrison left. Johns meanwhile created the Emotional Spectrum as we know it, and it was pretty simple/straightforward with lots of possibilities for future use by any writer. As a result, GL stories still utilize it.

I'm not bashing Morrison mind you, but Morrison does his own crazy thing whereas Johns is much more mainstream.

Morrison has some really odd, really GREAT ideas, but sometimes it feels like others have trouble with the toys he leaves behind. Not saying Johns stuff can't be botched by others (Any writer might drop a ball with another writer's work) but his does seem more 'new user friendly' to me.

EDIT: Or what Megaharrison said

Well, in that case, what are the concepts and characters/extraterrestrial races Morrison would have come up with, as opposed to Larfleeze, Emotional Spectrum/Rainbow Corps, etc.?

Also, how would Morrison specifically have utilized the GL concept as opposed to how Johns utilized it?