Originally Posted by
Vampire Savior
Well, yeah, no one is going to care if Michael Holt takes over the Mr. Terrific name, because Terry Sloan (that's his name, right?) didn't have much of an active fanbase. Hal Jordan, however, is one of DC's most popular leading characters, who has been in regular publication with decades and decades worth of content. If you try pushing him aside and giving all his stuff to John, what will happen is this: The fans and probably many professionals will see exactly what you did, and they will say "screw that." And whatever you tried doing with John Stewart will be tossed out the window, probably pretty quickly, and someone will see to it that Hal Jordan is put back.