A Kyle title

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AYE !!! THOSE ARE THE VERY RIGHT WORDS FOR KYLE'S FANS INCLUDING ME I LOVE KYLE BEING IN THE GLC FOREVER THAT IS HIS DESTINY EVRYONE SHOULD KNOW OF HIS LAST ISSUE #181 I THINK THAT HE SHOULD BE ELSEWHERE NOW HE IS WITH GUY AND SPANKING AWSOME FOR KYLE AS A BOSSY TYPE TEAM LEADER WITH GUY.... MUCH BETTER TO HAVE A TITLE FOR KYLE TO EXPLORE THE DEEP IN VAST UNIVERSE......DONT YOU KNOW THAT THE GAURDIANS IS ALWAYS TRUSTING KYLE AND HIM BEING THE ONLY LANTERN AS THE TORCHBEARER OF THE GLU....I MEAN THEY USUALLY HAVE SECRETS FOR KYLE TO BE SOMETHING MORE THAN THIS ITS WITHIN HIM AND KYLE DOENT KNOW IT YET....SO WELL SEE IN THE FUTURE.......

I dunno. Not being a big Rayner fan, I'm trying to look at it objectively, and come up with a title that would 1) please Kyle's fans, 2) be a different take so it stood out from GL and GLC, and 3) strengthen the franchise as opposed to weakening it. I'd want to avoid repeating the collapse of the GL franchise in the 90s when Mosaic, Guy Gardner, and GLCQ all fell to the wayside in an attempt to revitalize the core book.

I'd honestly say that a miniseries starring Kyle would be a better m ove than an ongoing. Stipulate it be an 8 part mini so it would collect well in a trade. Forget Ion (like the thread intended anyway), and don't bother doing another new costume, he needs to be established and they need to stick with what they have. I'd keep Kyle in GLC because it's a good place for him and a mini is only a temporary book anyway. Let his friendship with Guy develop in GLC.

I wouldn't bother trying to recapture the good ol' days of the '90s by bringing back Radu, Terry, or the gay fashion magazine. They already did "Will And Grace" Kyle once, and the 90s weren't long enough ago to be nostalgia. Kyle would definately need something NEW to do.

What if the Guardians pull him aside and send him on a special mission, that they only trust HIM to accomplish? He could still appear in GLC and the whole mini could be worked in between whatever issues they needed to be. Have him go on an adventure that takes him from Earth, across the galaxy in adventures on different planets that he visited during the Marz/Winick/Raab runs on some wild good chase with whatever you want as the McGuffin he's trying to obtain for the Guardians. The end result is that he ends up saving Jade and bringing her back to life unexpectedly (to him). He only gets wise to the Guardians true intentions at the end when he finds out whatever mission he was on all along was orchestrated by them to fullfill this task, which could be dressed up in any manner to give it more depth and meaning. And it would bring him back to Earth at the end full circle, and you could even have the mini series start and end with Alan Scott making cameos.

Anyway, that's an idea. It could be filled with little nods to the past that Kyle fans would appreciate, but be giving him an all new adventure that would be self contained with a beginning, middle and a satisfying end that would make a nice trade.

And I'd avoid any overtly pretentious subtitles, like "Torchbearer" or "Guardian Of the Universe." With titles like those, why not "He'll Save Every One Of Us", "Ultimate Savior", or "Rising Above"?

No, pretentious titles like that are not only corny, but it gives the impression that they just slapped him with some new, new NEW monicker to compensate for him not being unique anymore. I know that was the character's bag back in the day, but he's been developed WELL beyond that after all these years. Slapping a new tagline or power on him won't ever give his fans the good time feeling they felt when he was the everyman getting powers and they were seeing him develop along the way. Just call it "Green Lantern: The such and such Effect" Or Green Lantern: Yadda yadda yadda-whatever title relates to the particular adventure he happens to be going on in the mini". Hell you could always try to be clever and have the meaning of the title a complete mystery getting fans to scratch heads, only to be revealed as the mini wraps up that it's something Alan, the Guardians, Jade, or Kyle say that sums up the miniseries. I've seen it done in other books and stories, and works pretty well.