And please, please, keep him white. GL was originally an anglo. I had no idea who in hell thought it was a good idea to change the skin color of a major character?
It’s as bad as making Shaft or Spawn a white man. These heroes are made in a certain manner and they should be left as such.
There’s more than one Green Lantern.
First Green Lantern was Hal Jordan. Then he went nutso for awhile after Coast City was attacked (destroyed, IIRC), becoming a villain called Parallax. After he was brought down, he spent some time as the Spectre.
Meanwhile, a number of other people took their hands at the mantle of GL: John Stewart (the black guy) and Kyle Rayner (another white guy, but with black hair). Remember that there is an entire organization of Green Lanterns.
Less than two years ago, Hal finally became the Green Lantern again.
So it wasn’t as if Hal was turned into a black guy.
Um, why would it matter? John kicked butt as GL. Now that wimp Kyle OTOH. And considering the rest of the GLs aren't even human, it matters if our GL is a certain color?
The Green Lantern Corps was formed by a bunch of blue immortals from the planet Oa.
I’m pretty sure the first Green Lanterns were not even Earth Humans.
As much as I love Hal Jordan, a world without Jon Stewart (and especially the Cartton Network animated Justice League) just wouldn’t be as cool.
Actually, the original Green Latern (Silver Age version) was Abn Sur. He was sort of... fuschia.