Hal Jordan the rest of the GL Corps were totally unchanged, with hints that they -- unlike other heroes -- retained full memories of the Crisis and the Multiverse that preceded it (this was picked up on and taken further in "Zero Hour", where Hal/Parralax tries to restore the Multiverse).
If I recall correctly, the explanation given during Steve Englehart's GLC Crisis tie-in issues is that the Green Lantern Corps were in the antimatter universes while the other heroes were trying to save the positive ones (which explains why John Stewart, who was Green Lantern of Earth at the time, for the most part was absent during the Crisis itself).
We are on the 3rd Superman reboot since Crisis.
1st the Dreaded iconoclastic man of steel reboot.
2nd "the well at least he tried but it wasn't as good as we wish it was" Birth right reboot, which I don't think no one really brought, including DC Comics.
3rd the current so far so good post-IC reboot which is showing a lot of promise, but many people here are playing to wait and see game after being burn for 20 years.
I wouldn't consider any of those to be "hard" reboots besides the 1986 one with Byrne, Wolfman, Helfer and the rest, because for the other two, Superman's background is tweaked, but Superman's post-Reboot history is for the most part still in place. The Superman that Busiek is writing about still experienced some of the great Roger Stern outer space stories, and (groan) the Death of Superman; he knew Steel just how we saw it, and Maxima and Riot, and so on. Things like whether there was a Superboy or not is different, but Superman's post-1986 history for
In other words, saying "...Oh by the way, he might have been Superboy now" doth naught a reboot make.
Though except for Roger Stern's stuff, I absolutely hate the overwhelming majority of this entire period as being a clueless waste (which is why I'm on this website in the first place). actually, I think the fact that it is for the most part still around is actually a good thing.
I suppose that's an inherent difference between me and perhaps Nightwing and others (though I would not want to put words in his mouth, of course), which is that I don't think the solution to out of character behavior is necessarily to expunge the story in question from continuity forever; such a solution is good in the short term, but disastrous in the long term.
The reason is, we are made to question what we are seeing as being "true," so it's not possible to have any emotional or long-term connection to a character or world. If nothing really matters, if anything can be called a hallucination by the next writer...who cares? This ties into the theme of this entire thread to begin with, that the thing that usurps suspension of disbelief the most, is we doubt what is going on.
It is true that many characters have been written in really out of character ways that are really destructive. Nightwing brought up the whole Parallax B.S. - a piece of nonsense perpetrated because the editorship refused to admit that they made a mistake. But I don't think pretending Parallax never happened is really the solution, because like or not, so much has been done with it that it's not possible to bring Hal back without referencing it.
Ultimately, I like how Geoff Johns brought back Hal Jordan, with the whole "the devil made him do it" explanation for Parallax that preserved Hal's heroism and let him return without being "broken goods," but still having in play this very dark chapter of his life that he can look back on and have it influence his characterization.
I don't think it's possible for a story to be so destructive that never again can we accept a character, if they're placed in a framework where their actions make sense. Kurt Busiek once said, and I agree with him, that
"Don't worry, they're superheroes. They can handle it." Electric Superman was retarded beyond all reason, but ultimately Superman as an idea has the resiliency to bounce back from something like that.
Boy, did I ever think that Jim Starlin was full of it when he said that any Thanos story that he didn't approve of (in other words, any Thanos story not written by HIM) "in reality" featured a Thanos clone or robot.