Read much Mark Waid stuff, have you?

Yes, as well as Kurt Busiek. Mark Waid wanted to use Kyle Rayner in Kingdom Come, but had to compromise that decision for Alan Scott because Alex Ross wanted to use Hal Jordan. Busiek used Kyle Rayner for the JLA/Avengers story (excluding flashbacks and alternate/warping realities, of course). Neither are anywhere near as deadset on using Silver Age characters as Geoff Johns. Alex Ross is probably worse than Johns, but Ross doesn't write much and is nowhere near as influential.

Johns may have introduced "Skittles" Lanterns and a plethora of other characters, but his protagonists are all decidedly Silver Age heroes and he will warp, twist, and screw around with continuity as much as possible to get rid of Modern Age characters in order to put his Silver Age heroes in the limelight or to add a Silver Age taint* to Modern Age heroes.

* I say taint here not to denigrate the Silver Age, but because that's essentially what Johns does with Modern Age characters. Bart Allen is Impulse, not Kid Flash. Sometimes Johns just needs to leave well enough alone.

I love the silver age! Wooohooo!

Yeah, my love of Warth is purely superficial. As far as I know, there's never really been any kind of story about him. The whole blue cosmic space Genesha thing he has going on just looks so cool.

Look how awesome he is!
http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Warth_(New_Earth)

LOL! I used to try that back in the day, wondering the same thing you did - how does something get on the rumored or strongly rumored list. I hope it works better for you than it did for me.

Ok heck that was the reason most liked Dex-star till they just recently gave him a story as well(a rather heart rending one too)

And Boba Fett. So there's that again. Atrocitus is my Boba Fett with the lantern corps.

I suspect Boneyard doesn't want to burn his sources. I also suspect I know some of BY's sources, and thus realize he has good reason not to burn them.

I don't think that DC cosmic is even close to as interesting as Marvel cosmic. Mind you, Gotham City beats almost anything on Marvel Earth.

A comics universe that had Gotham City and the Guardians of the Galaxy would be interesting! Noir on Earth, and gonzo in space!

I reluctantly had to "leave" comics a couple years ago, so I have missed out on the most recent stuff. Before that, I was a big Geoff Johns reader, loved almost everything he did (not a perfect writer, but got more right than wrong I felt). Obviously, I'm a big JSA fan, but I also loved his Flash and Green Lantern revamp.

When I heard about the "Skittles" Lanterns saga . . . I thought, "that sounds super-lame." Now, I haven't read any of it, I might sometime (in trade form), so I'm willing to with hold judgment. But from what I know of it, it still sounds lame to me. It is even lamer that it is bleeding over into HeroClix sets where it "doesn't belong" thematically, in my opinion.

I'd like DC to get themed sets as well done as Marvel (it certainly has the material for them), but I think the WB/DC marketing folks interfere too much, and push Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and now Skittleverse characters.

The big difference I see between Waid and Busiek, and Geoff Johns, is that the former two respect what came before them while Johns wipes his butt with it. It's not so much that they use Silver Age characters, but how they use them. Neither Waid nor Busiek would have turned Black Hand into a necrophiliac, to name but one of Johns' offenses.

I don't necessarily love everything Johns does, but one man's offense is another man's brilliance. And Black Hand is one of those things (for me). I didn't care about him before that...even when Johns 'rewrote' him the first time.

Yeah I liked the Zombie Death Worshipping black Hand better than "Oh I iz a space zombie Nom nom nom Grow muh hand back"

Ah, right. The Silver Age. Where characterization and depth is a sin and even villains aren't really allowed to have any darkness to them. Instead, they all cackle and laugh about stealing space-diamonds or getting one over on that guy who done did them wrong.

Besides which, for every necrophiliac villain that he makes, Johns also "redeems" one murderous pedophile (i.e., Hal Jordan) via hamhanded retcons. It's really only villains that Johns mucks about with, and most of them were shallow, two-dimensional, ill-developed characters to begin with.

Black Hand was one of GL's lamest villains-- and the guy has quite a few lame villains. Even if you don't like the change, the damage is minimal. OTOH, he's turned Sinestro from Snidely Whiplash With a Power Ring into somebody far, far more interesting, somebody one can even sympathize with even if one disagrees with him.

Johns has committed planty of sins, but the good far outweighs the bad. I don't even mind the Black Hand change-- I'm far more ticked off about the Shark. At least that can be easily rectified.

It wasn't until Flash: Rebirth that he really ticked me off. can't say I really like what Waid did with a lot of the mythos, either, though.