Yesterday I was trying to explain to Katie the furor that erupted back when DC replaced Green Lantern Hal Jordan with Kyle Rayner. I came up with this analogy:
Imagine that a new Star Trek series begins with Captain Picard going insane, killing off the entire crew of the Enterprise, and destroying all of Starfleet except for one ship. That one ship gets handed to someone similar to Wesley Crusher, but who has never appeared before.
![[The Flash and Green Lantern argue over trying to reverse death]](https://journal.kvibber.com/wp-content/uploads/2004/08/hal-barry-life-and-death.png "Clearly he’s changed his mind")
No way wesley crusher!!! he was like a kid when they first introduced him!
Whoa!, was it really that bad, when the title of green lantern was given to Rayner…….. Did not know that.
The DC fans back then must have been brtutal.
For the record, Wesley Crusher sucks.
(and it also sucks that we in London UK don’t get the same type of free comic book day, as you guys do.)