The Green Lantern's Gone Gay

[sr71plt]

The thread title says it all.

http://news.yahoo.com/green-lantern-relaunched-brave-mighty-gay-070052544.html

 

[3113]

The thread title says it all.

http://news.yahoo.com/green-lantern-relaunched-brave-mighty-gay-070052544.html

"In brightest day and darkest night..." takes on a new meaning, hmmm?

I predict little upset at this. First off, it's Alan Scott (golden age Green Lantern), and few readers remember who he is, let alone care--especially if he's a parallel universe version. Now if Hal Jordan (silver age), the "real" one in the "real" DC universe admitted he'd been gay all along, then there'd be an uproar.

Second, most who read Robinson are already on a more literary-comics bandwagon where gay and transexual characters are a given. Besides, the readers who'd be upset are still too busy being outraged by the parallel universe black Spiderman

 

[Goldeniangel]

"In brightest day and darkest night..." takes on a new meaning, hmmm?

I predict little upset at this. First off, it's Alan Scott (golden age Green Lantern), and few readers remember who he is, let alone care--especially if he's a parallel universe version. Now if Hal Jordan (silver age), the "real" one in the "real" DC universe admitted he'd been gay all along, then there'd be an uproar.

Second, most who read Robinson are already on a more literary-comics bandwagon where gay and transexual characters are a given. Besides, the readers who'd be upset are still too busy being outraged by the parallel universe black Spiderman

Agreed. As much as I love the Green Lantern I know he's not one of the mainstream heroes either... won't lie, I wanted Batman or Superman to come out of the closet. Like ooops... sorry Lois!

 

[Kurokami]

Agreed. As much as I love the Green Lantern I know he's not one of the mainstream heroes either... won't lie, I wanted Batman or Superman to come out of the closet. Like ooops... sorry Lois!

I figured Batman was pretty obvious. I mean... Robin.

I'm interested as to why it's such a big deal, given that it's a parallel earth Green Lantern anyway. I've only recently gotten into DC comics, I guess these Earth 2 peeps don't get a lot of time in the spotlight, normally?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

The whole deal is like female cops and soldiers. Nuthin is so depressing as depending on a 5 foot, 100 pound cop when The Hulk is about to go apeshit on you. Count on the Green Lantern hanging around the showers as much as possible.

 

[mcguinness]

Batman's slipping it to Catwoman in the latest DC continuity I guess.

I'm glad they're doing this, and that it's not a character they're going to immediately kill when the inevitable nerd whining begins.

 

[3113]

Just to add: actually, Alan Scott had a different oath. He use to say things like:
"The light of the Green Lantern
pierces darkness and mystery,
and its radiance
will strike at the heart of evil!"

Hmmmm.

Agreed. As much as I love the Green Lantern I know he's not one of the mainstream heroes either... won't lie, I wanted Batman or Superman to come out of the closet. Like ooops... sorry Lois!

Um...haven't they already done that?

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[manyeyedhydra]

I'm surprised at all the hoolah about this.

I don't know the DC universe that well. Are they that far behind the times that having a gay superhero rates as big news?

Northstar (Alpha Flight) was gay back when I was reading comics in the '80's. At the same time Mystique's lover was Destiny. There was also the Midnighter and Apollo (Batman and Superman analogues that were lovers) in Warren Ellis's The Authority.

It's good an' all, but the hype on this seems more like a cyncial attempt to shift comics than tapping into any cultural zeitgast.

Still, it's good to see.

 

[sr71plt]

I don't know the DC universe that well. Are they that far behind the times that having a gay superhero rates as big news?

I'd say that a large chunk of American society is still that far behind.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Agreed. As much as I love the Green Lantern I know he's not one of the mainstream heroes either... won't lie, I wanted Batman or Superman to come out of the closet. Like ooops... sorry Lois!

Batman, yeah.

But when DC mentioned that they were going to retrofit a gay identity on *gasp* a male character-- we all knew that it wasn't going to be anyone big.

I don't know the DC universe that well. Are they that far behind the times that having a gay superhero rates as big news?

Is the Pope Catholic? Does a bear shit in the woods?

 

[Goldeniangel]

Yeah unfortunately there was a big hoopla when they first announced that a major character would be coming out of the closet. I thought Batman would be perfect, but one of my friends pointed out that would never happen because of the complications of him having an underage ward - which I thought was just plain dumb, but I know that there would be a segment of the population that would go crazy about gay Bruce Wayne having a male ward. *sigh* Makes me sincerely dislike some people that their minds would immediately go to the worst possible place.

At any rate... I'm glad that they're trying to work on it. Maybe Captain America will come out next. That would make my day!

 

[sr71plt]

Batman, yeah.

But when DC mentioned that they were going to retrofit a gay identity on *gasp* a male character-- we all knew that it wasn't going to be anyone big.

Well, I'd expect him to be big in some dimension.

 

[Stella_Omega]

You know they announced that Batwoman would be a lesbian about a month ago. And they kind of waited to see how well that would go over before they made the announcement about the male character.

My sincere hope is that Batwoman's girlfriends don't get killed off one per season. Fridging is insulting enough when it's hetero but to use it to provide motive for a lesbian character-- such bad taste.

Well, I'd expect him to be big in some dimension.

Indeed.

 

[sr71plt]

Now if I ever was going to write a fan fiction, you can be sure that it would be Batman--and precisely because of his (eighteen-year-old, of course) ward.

 

[3113]

I don't know the DC universe that well. Are they that far behind the times that having a gay superhero rates as big news?

Having a gay superhero doesn't rate as news. Having a big name superhero who is gay DOES rate as news (imagine if Superman or Spiderman was going to come out of the closet). "Green Lantern" counts as semi-big. It would, as I said, be even bigger if that Green Lantern was Hal Jordan, but it's not, so it's middling-news as compared to not news or big news.

You know they announced that Batwoman would be a lesbian about a month ago.

Actually, Batwoman has been a lesbian since 2006, from the minute they brought her back and gave her a book This wasn't news because no one knows who Batwoman is...just who Batgirl is. And Batgirl is still hetero.

Just to add, apparently no big deal was made out of Batwoman being a lesbian, she just was, and from what I've been told, the writing and story telling on that book has been terrific. I'm sure older issues have been collected into a graphic novel or two. Might be worth getting.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Now if I ever was going to write a fan fiction, you can be sure that it would be Batman--and precisely because of his (eighteen-year-old, of course) ward.

There's a lot of that out there.

Also Batman with a harem, because there have been a bunch of Robins over the years. It's fun to smoosh them all into the same timeframe and let the young dudes get busy with each other when Daddy's away.

Then they get spankings when Himself comes home.

 

[lovecraft68]

"In brightest day and darkest night..." takes on a new meaning, hmmm?

I predict little upset at this. First off, it's Alan Scott (golden age Green Lantern), and few readers remember who he is, let alone care--especially if he's a parallel universe version. Now if Hal Jordan (silver age), the "real" one in the "real" DC universe admitted he'd been gay all along, then there'd be an uproar.

Second, most who read Robinson are already on a more literary-comics bandwagon where gay and transexual characters are a given. Besides, the readers who'd be upset are still too busy being outraged by the parallel universe black Spiderman

Yes this will upset the purists.

Honestly it ticks me off a little. Not because they're making him gay, but they're reaching back 70 years to change this guy

why not just have the latest GL come out of the closet.

This is what's wrong with DC/Marvel. They refuse to come out with anything new or original. All they have done for years is "restart" "Reinvent" and "reboot" titles and characters.

For anyone who used to collect, you know that having a #1 issue was a big deal. Well that's out the window because they continuously stop a series and start it again.

They're even doing it in the movies. They are redoing the spiderman movie that was only done a few years back.

I know after all these years its tough to be original, but come on guys how about a new character?

 

[lovecraft68]

There's a lot of that out there.

Also Batman with a harem, because there have been a bunch of Robins over the years. It's fun to smoosh them all into the same timeframe and let the young dudes get busy with each other when Daddy's away.

Then they get spankings when Himself comes home.

Forget Batman and Robin-or buttman and rubbin' as I called them in a parody story I wrote when I had the store.

"Holy leather chaps Buttman it's the Diddler and the jerker!"

anyway I want the batgirl/batwoman poison Ivy/Catwoman Lesbian fanfic.

Lots of licking lots of scratching!

 

[sr71plt]

There's a lot of that out there.

Also Batman with a harem, because there have been a bunch of Robins over the years. It's fun to smoosh them all into the same timeframe and let the young dudes get busy with each other when Daddy's away.

Then they get spankings when Himself comes home.

I do have, somewhere around here, a parallel story to that, a spinoff of the Ira Levin play Deathtrap, where an aging successful playwright has taken a young playwright under his wing (and into his bed) to steal the younger man's fresher work and pawn in off as his own. The shit hits the fan when the younger playwright finds a new, rich, producer boyfriend. I was thinking of the badly hidden Batman-Robin relationship while I was writing that.

I spent some time in the movies and at a celebrity novelist dude ranch and learned that a whole bunch of movies, books, plays, etc. were written gay tongue-in-cheek and full of double entendres that the gay community could appreciate that the rest of society couldn't see. Batman was one of the models they talked about in those days.

 

[Hubs_in_hose]

Yes this will upset the purists.

Honestly it ticks me off a little. Not because they're making him gay, but they're reaching back 70 years to change this guy

why not just have the latest GL come out of the closet.

I thought the same thing. With GL it would be easy enough to have the "next" GL be gay.

This is what's wrong with DC/Marvel. They refuse to come out with anything new or original. All they have done for years is "restart" "Reinvent" and "reboot" titles and characters.

For anyone who used to collect, you know that having a #1 issue was a big deal. Well that's out the window because they continuously stop a series and start it again.

They're even doing it in the movies. They are redoing the spiderman movie that was only done a few years back.

I know after all these years its tough to be original, but come on guys how about a new character?

It is sad that all they do is "reboot" "reuse" and "reinvent". Come on, we get that recycling is good but the story is old.

 

[mynameisben]

It is sad that all they do is "reboot" "reuse" and "reinvent". Come on, we get that recycling is good but the story is old.

Amen.

 

[TE999]

When I first read that DC was going to 'out' one of their major characters I immediately thought of Wonder Woman. Golden Lasso of Submission? That revealing costume? Raised on an island of all women? Hello? Her supposed sweetheart, Steve Rogers, was a wimp, a beard, a non-entity. I mean WW in a daisy chain with Supergirl, Mary Marvel, Batgirl and the Black Canary? Rowwwrrr! I mean, circulation through the roof!

 

[Cruel2BKind]

I don't think it would make any sense for many of the major superheroes to be specifically Gay. Bi, definately. They all had too many meaningful relationships with women.

Batman had Rachel and others
Superman had lois lane and lana lang
Hal jordan had somebody, who cares
Aquaman had the queen of atlantis
etc

 

[estragon]

The say GL "is the retooled version of the classic Lantern whose first appearance came in the pages of "All-American Comics" No. 16 in July 1940."

It's one thing to reinvent, reboot, repurpose, recycle or re-engineer, but leave my tool alone!

 

[topace]

Hal Jordan (my preferred Green Lantern first [due to the animated movie] then that artist kid who got a ring and he had to help in the anime as a show in the series Ultimate Justice League) had his childhood friend Linda (some L name anyways) Farris, the owner's daughter of Farris Aircraft.

Frankly, they need to invent new characters if they want to make 'em gay, not completely change characters either present or past.