Well, you heard the news not too long ago: Doug Mahnke is the new artist on GREEN LANTERN. And now, we're hearing from Mahnke himself, over at NEWSARAMA:

Newsarama: Doug, were you a Green Lantern fan before you got this job? Doug Mahnke: Thankfully, yeah. Thought it's not by merely being interested in Green Lantern. Pat Gleason and I have been friends since he was a kid. And his work on the Corps got me picking up the books that he was working on. So I've seen everything he's done, which connected me to the books. And I've enjoyed the stories. I got to know the mythos behind it. And I got to appreciate Green Lantern. I knew that the characters were well-loved -- Hal specifically -- and I got to follow along the re-emergence of Hal. So yeah, it's through Pat, basically.