Like the GLC, though, they tend to enforce a relatively nebulous moral code and the “greater good,” not specific laws. I think that works best for storytelling purposes, although I guess you can lay a police-style framework over the GLC to make it more accessible to readers.

In the current incarnation, the GL Corps is patterned after a police force, which makes a lot of sense to me.

This is why, I think, I prefer Green Lantern stories which use the Corps as a loose framework to do general space opera, science fiction and superhero stories without getting too deep into the minutiae of the organization.

Really, this article — which is fun, by the way — only begins to touch on all the problems posed by the concept. To the “it really doesn’t make sense for Green Lanterns to have a day job” argument, I would add that if they’re going to continue to characterize them as policemen/women, then they really shouldn’t have secret identities either, because that kind of screws up the whole notion of accountability to the public.

My problem with the Corps is that since the early ’90s, there’s generally always been three or four human GLs operating simultaneously while every other planet got one at a time. It made it look like Earth was getting special treatment.

But the way they went about it, destroying Hal was just lame.

Plus, Green Lantern is not a sex-specific name, I would’ve loved to have seen a new human female GL. Instead…white dude who acted vaguely like Peter Parker. Boring.

Still want a female human GL.