DC Comics' Green Lantern relaunched as gay superhero

ny post ^ | 6/1/2012 | DAREH GREGORIAN

[tobyhill]

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."

[Dr. Sivana]

If I remember my comic book history correctly, DC comic’ first comic magazine was titled “Action Comics.” And that was where Superman originated.

Not quite. The DC stands for "Detective Comics", which had been around for several years before Action Comics. (Batman first appeared in Detective Comics #27, a year after Action #1. The company had earlier been named National Periodicals.

"More Fun" comics predates both, and I believe that "More Fun" was renamed "Adventure Comics" early on. "Adventure Comics" was discontinued only a few years ago. It had a rotisserie of characters that did not quite warrant their own title at the time, including Superboy and Supergirl.

[Dr. Sivana]

No good can come from hanging around with those little blue guys from the planet Oa.

[TYVets]

Anyone who allows this comic book in their home is guilty of child abuse.

Agreed

[doug from upland]

Just finished the Hitler Rant about this. It will be on YouTube soon.

[GreyFriar]

Thank you for the info. Did Superman appear in Action Comics or a newspaper comic strip first?

BTW, I’m still mourning my loss of the first 100 issues of Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos back in the 70’s when I discovered upon returning from Germany, that mice had gotten into them during my overseas tour.

[pepsi_junkie]

"...earlier this year and impending same-sex nuptials in a Marvel X-Men comic have recieved a small amount of backlash from angry parents, Robinson said he's not worried about that because "that kind of negativity is stupid and outmoded."

Couple of thoughts here. First, this is a marketing gimmick and after all the "we're going to have a big announcement, a major character is gay!", having it turn out to be golden age Green Lantern is a major cop out. Might as well make it Red Tornado. After the fanfare, nobody will notice since he's a B-list character.

Second, such an arrogant creator. He's not worried about the customer reaction because anyone who doesn't like his stuff is stupid? I hope this twerp gets a lesson on why making customers unhappy matters. When he's living in a cardboard box and trying to sell his sketches of "gay spiderman" and "gay flash" at the bus depot, maybe he'll get the point.

[doug from upland]

HITLER RANT NOW ON YOUTUBE

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2890309/posts?page=1

[who knows what evil?]

Second, such an arrogant creator.

Some people in the comics industry have enormous egos...interesting considering that 99.999999% of the American population doesn't even read comics...many of those don't even know that they are still published.

Notice how NONE of these huge box office blockbusters (Avengers, Dark Knight) don't feature 'in your face' sodomite characters? Gee...I wonder why?

[Dr. Sivana]

Thank you for the info. Did Superman appear in Action Comics or a newspaper comic strip first?

No. The comic book was a hit first. It is true that the earliest comic books were simply reprints of newspaper strips, with More Fun Comics being the first with "All New" material. That is part of the reason they are called "comic" books, even though superheroes and later lurid horror and scifi would dominate, not the humor characters (Archie, Dennis the Menace, Richie Rich, Little Lulu) that have had a role, but never a dominant one. Sorry about the loss of your Sgt. Fury's. I lost some 1940s vintage Whiz Comics in a botched move.

[longtermmemmory]

this will be shep “homoagenda” smith’s lead story

[pepsi_junkie]

For anyone interested in old comics, this site has a ton of old largely "off brand" golden age comics (1930s through 1950s) online. I say "off brand" because it's all public domain stuff so no Superman or anything like that but it does have a bunch of old Shazam / Marvel family stuff there and plenty of action/war/humor comics from back in the day.

Digital Comic Museum

[longtermmemmory]

so this lantern’s weakness is wood

his predicessor was killed the shafts of wood arrows.

he is dead

his two children no longer exist.

lavender lantern?

brown star?

flaming fashionista?

wonder how the earth 1 (prime whatever) will deal if/when he sees freakshow. oh yes he is dead. homosexuals just claiming the dead.

[GOPJ]

It makes no sense to me either. Are DC Comic folks are under the impression there aren't enough people in the publishing industry laid off yet?

If they want 'gay' why don't they start a gay comic and leave the 70 year old Green Lantern alone? Guess we both know the answer to that one.

[longtermmemmory]

this is about recruiting children.

this is about pushing the big lie of born with the fetish.

somebody should be fired immediatly for allowing this to go forward.

The superheros are about right and wrong and prototing the innocent from evil. Here we have evil seeking out the innocent.

well it is inevitable that this evil will self extinct. No future, no children, no society. just death of evil.

[Rastus]

I don’t know, but he’s British and he recently wrote a Superman story that had the US Army as the bad guys.

[Rastus]

I think Guy Gardner is portrayed as a jerk because he’s portrayed as a conservative and they want to use him to beat up conservatives once again.

[Chode]

[Smokin' Joe]

If they want 'gay' why don't they start a gay comic and leave the 70 year old Green Lantern alone? Guess we both know the answer to that one.

Because they are not content to create their new perversion, they feel compelled to soil the past as well.

None of their comics will enter my house again.

[who knows what evil?]

I don’t know, but he’s British and he recently wrote a Superman story that had the US Army as the bad guys.

Author Robinson lives in (wait for it) San Francisco...