I am intrigued to see what remains of the old continuity. As you say, the destruction of Coast City must be radically altered (although presumably must’ve still happened to some degree in order for Hal to become Parallax the first time). Likewise with Kyle. Part of his whole thing has been the “everyone I loves dies”, to the point where it was pretty much a running gag. However if Donna and Jade don’t exist in the new universe, what does that mean for Kyle’s character?

Certain things we can assume are now properly gone, just due to the plots Geoff’s been telling for years now (all the stuff with Oa’s foundry etc doesn’t entirely make sense if Kyle blew up the planet – so we can assume that never happened now – likewise Guardians have always been both male and female in the new universe). Of course, by the flip side of things, the reboot allows them to bring back characters that were otherwise dead and off the table, which could be quite fun (from the Kyle fanboy point of view – killing Nero was a waste of a decent villain).

I definitely think part of the fun of the GL books is going to be figuring out how it all fits together now, as much of the past must be pretty different, despite recent stories remaining the same.

Currently, the GL books feel like a ‘don’t ask’ kind of system, it’s like they’re operating in their own, original DCU, continuity, reboot be damned.

I can work with that.