DC Comics' Green Lantern is now gay One of DC Comics oldest heroes is super-coming out. The original Green Lantern - a DC Comics mainstay for the past 70 years - will be revealed to be a gay man in next week's issue of "Earth 2." Alan Scott - formerly a married father of two who first appeared in 1940 - tips readers off to his sexuality early on in the comic when he gives his boyfriend a welcome home kiss. "He's very much the character he was. He's still the pinnacle of bravery and idealism. He's also gay," "Earth 2" writer James Robinson told The Post. The Emerald Guardian's sexuality was rebooted along with the rest of his fictional universe as part of DC's "New 52" initiative aimed at rejuvenating their characters. Robinson said he decided to make the change because making the character young again meant erasing Scott's gay superhero son out of existence. "The only downside of his being young was we lose his son, Obsidian, who's gay. So I thought, 'Why not make Alan Scott gay?'" Robinson recalled. "That was the seed that started it." He ran his idea by the bosses at DC, "who signed off on it without hesitation." Go to The Post for more. Print Email Share inShare15 Related Stories Superheroes super hot on big screen, small screen, dead trees QA: Tom Sizemore is off the drugs, in a new movie, and looking for love Recommended Stories Patrick says she's learning, but it will take time Evidence of Biblical cult from time of King David discovered Margaret Cho: 'I don't want a retard' baby Kim Kardashian sends her Instagram followers a sexy pic on all fours Cohen rolls into London in style for 'Dictator' Is the handbrake grappling with extinction? [What's This?] Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainmen...ern-is-now-gay/?intcmp=features#ixzz1wYuJ5GmQ
I commented this on another thread. 1) It's not the popular Hal Jordan Green Lantern 2) It's not a series title, its a character within an Earth 2 series 3) DC pretty much was full of crap with their "major character". People expected a real title like the Flash OR Green Lantern. Not some alternative universe Green Lantern.
Who cares, it is a comic book character, they are not real. Worrying about fictional people is not healthy.
How is this exactly 'pushing' anything on you? Seems to me the artists responsible for the creation of a comic book can define characters any way they choose, much like any other work of literary fiction.
The minute Subway endorsed the Green Lantern movie, I knew it and the character were in for a stretch of bad times. It's like the Madden curse.
I realize that none of you actually read comics, but...if I were gay I would be pissed as hell. Why? 1) It's not even the popular Green Lantern 2) There are like 100 of them 3) That's where DC throws all the "token" races (even alien Green Lanterns) 4) He doesn't even have his own title, its part of a collection of heroes They sold it as one thing and this is what you get. Its like making one of the people in Friends gay or black, essentially.
So if the character is hetero, that's not "pushing" anything. But make him gay, and that's "pushing" something. Was the first black superhero "pushing" race on us? It's like the people who freak out about children's books that depict gay parents, claiming it's introducing children to sex or something, but have no issue with books where the princess marries the prince, has kids, and lives happily ever after.
so now instead of Ryan Reynolds playing the Green Lantern we will be seeing Perez Hilton portray the character lol. oh well, atleast it isnt batman or something lol.
No! It's intellectual dishonesty just like plagiarism. They can't create anything new themselves so they bastardize things we loved as kids. It's an assault against our culture. It's stupid and mean. It's lowlife scum trying to recruit children. It's creeping pedophilia.
The first black superhero was an original creation. not a theft of another original. Get the distinction.
Seems it was all about getting some Buzz...but not really believing in it enough to take a chance. Marvel isnt much better in this regard. Northstar was a small bit hero on a second string team anyway. Not sure how many people really bothered to read Alpha Flight.
see what you are not getting is that DC "introduced" a NEW BLACK CHARACTER, they didnt just reboot Superman and tunr him into some mighty black guy to please a certain group. i think its pretty dumb to reboot a character that way, make a new one and go with it. or hell if they were smart they would know that a lesbian superhero would be much more appealing and im willing to be would net a hell of alot more money than some gay dude. but whatever, i guess we will see lol.
It's not just the comic books. They are pushing it on us in the movies, television shows, it's all over these boards. That's all you see anymore. Who cares? Live your life the way you want, but quit pushing what your doing on everyone else.
Where are all the looney RW Myth fearing nut-jobs yelling that is DC's First Amendment right to print what they want? Half the posts in this thread: http://www.politicalforum.com/current-events/250122-child-abuse-its-finest.html were about the First Amendment. Oh that right, this will be a gay bashing thread. My bad. Then the First Amendment doesn’t apply.
Marvel at least introduced a new character and wrote him in such a way that people liked him...unlike DC borrowing an older character past its shelf life to reinsert for the sole purpose of getting some additional comic readers from the GLBT community.
Hmm. I guess Captain America should still be battling Nazis and Japs, then. Batman should never have been reimagined as the Dark Knight. Comics publishers re-imagine their characters all the time. You may be enough of a purist not to like it, but that's different than complaining about something being "pushed" on you.
truth. my girlfriend had So You Think You Can Dance on yesterday and i sat for a bit and watched it and i couldnt help but notice something funny. for one it seems alot of gay guys compete in that lol, but what i thought was hilarious how the judges would give bigger applauses and do standing ovations for the gay guys that acted the most flamboyant as possible. i only saw a few performances, and the women that were on there killed the men that were competing but they didnt get near the applause the gay guys would. its like the more a gay guy acted like a pretty pink princess the more the judges kissed their ass lol. then i got up cus i just couldnt watch the BS anymore, even my girlfriend was annoyed with it lol.
Are we talking about the same character? People really didnt like Alpha flight. The first run wiht Byrne of course did best, but his art is fantastic and sold books for that alone. Heck i bought a few early issues myself, just for the way he drew Sasquatch...but other than him, the characters on the team werent really interesting. http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2011/10/marvel-cancels-alpha-flight-with-januarys-issue-8/ Marvel and Dc are both in the same boat. Generate the most buzz with the lowest risk. They seem to feel its important to have a Gay hero....but then they put them in books which are questionable.