I really wish DC would give us a blue lantern comic. There's just so much potential.
You could have a civilian become so inspired and hopeful from the presence of a green lantern in their region that a blue ring chooses them. This gives your blue lantern all the fancy powers from the start.
Or you could give someone a blue lantern ring without a local green lantern, and theyd still get the flight, force field that protects them from space, and a universal translator. This allows for the hero to grow in power later, but they can still be a small time hero at the start.
You could tackle depression and anxiety and how they affect hope and hopelessness. You can give these to your blue lantern and then make incredibly solid representation of the treatments for them. Like, imagine your hero's ability to fight being so strongly tied to their mental health? AND it could be inspirational for those of us with those conditions to gain or maintain hope, or to seek out treatment that works for us individually. And beyond the representation, it would allow for so many avenues to create conflicts and drive the story forward.
There's just so much potential there and it kills me that it's not being fully utilized
Razor from Green Lantern TAS is a fantastic proof of concept for how interesting blue lanterns can be, as is Saint Walker.
