Beware my power...

Green Lantern

It was his work on Green Lantern that made Geoff Johns a household name and got him promoted to chief creative director of DC Comics (or whatever).  He made sense of Hal Jordan's timeline enough to bring him back to life in a satisfying way, and turned a character who once had trouble keeping a solo series into the headliner of a number of world-shaping epic storylines.

Having said that, there's one trait Johns brought to his Green Lantern Corps which made it tough for me to read.  He played up the space police aspect and included a lot of inexplicably Earth-like procedures.

For the uninitiated, a Code 1011 is "deicide." 

By "Earth-like" procedures I, of course, mean Utah.

The end result was that, for a superhero with a magic ring, Green Lantern felt a little...mundane. I'd like to keep the epicness of the Green Lantern Corps while returning a sense individuality to the members, and I'll do it by depowering the spectrum corps entirely.

If you'll remember from waaaay back in the My52 Blackest Night rewrite, Hal Jordan revived the dying Entity of life by reabsorbing all the various emotional entities from their respective power batteries back into the White Entity.  They saved all life in the universe, but in the end depowered all the Lantern Corps.

Yellow, Orange, Violet and Blue Lanterns are depowered and taken off the galactic stage. Although I was never a fan of the Red Lanterns, I can totally see Atrocitus (and Dex-Starr just because) killing all his fellow Red Lanterns to claim enough burning energy to remain active.

He's gross-looking, but would provide a nice change 

from Sinestro as the go-to Green Lantern villain.

I'd also like to keep the Indigo Tribe going just to continue to play off their mysterious origins and goals.

Meanwhile, the Green Lanterns are also depowered, but unlike the other Corps, they have a body of high-powered Guardians guiding them.  With their police force rendered powerless and a strong feeling of guilt over their role in hiding the Blackest Night (and other extremes they've gone to recently in the War of Light), the Guardians make the ultimate sacrifice and enter the central battery, using their own power and life forces to relight it.  As powerful as the Guardians were, though, it's not enough to empower 3600 sectors worth of Lanterns, so the remaining Corps has to be selective in where they base themselves.  Each remaining Green Lantern must act in an increasing level of autonomy, with only occasional guidance and support from Oa.  Many of my favorite veteran Lanterns continue on, such as Rot Lop Fan, Iolande, Salaak, and Stel, while others are retired (some by choice, like Soranik Natu).  

Of our Earth-born Lanterns, I waffled a bit on which one to keep as the My52 Green Lantern, or even introducing a new character to take up the ring.  To be honest, Guy and Kyle were never in the running.  Guy was never more to me than a one-note character, and Kyle never hooked me in 20 years of trying.   Hal and John were both strong candidates, though, but despite John's success as a character in the Justice League animated series, I ultimately opted to keep Hal in the suit both because he brings the strongest supporting cast (non-costumed story aspects are just as important to me as their costumed antics), and also because I came up with other plans for John.

While Guy and Kyle quietly retire to obscurity, John retains the distinction of being the only mortal to be named a Guardian (I believe from his 'Mosaic' days, gaining the title "the Architect") and will remain on Oa with a still-ringed Salaak to help run the Corps.  

See?

On Earth, Hal keeps his position as an Air Force fighter pilot, and with it all the supporting cast that came with it, like Cowgirl and General Stone.  It's an interesting inversion that Hal's commanding officer is in on his alternate identity, rather than him having to keep coming up with excuses when he goes off-world for days at a time.  I'm not clear why Stone would keep his secret, but there it is.  Hal also has his brother's family living in Coast City, but they're not particularly danger-prone, so they'll be there to simply provide an air of the mundane in Hal's otherwise gonzo life (fighter pilot by day/space cop by night).