DC Brings Original Green Lantern Out of the Closet
You can stop wondering.
The character DC intends to bring out of the closet is the original Green Lantern, Alan Scott:
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.
Yep. I’m sure that was why.
No political agenda, just the obvious choice.
While a gay wedding in Archie Comics 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.”
“We should be preaching love and tolerance,” he said.
That’s odd. I thought, as comic book writers and artists, you would be focused on making awesome story arcs with killer visuals.
Nope. Comics are for preaching love and tolerance.
I think I need to go re-read my Punisher comics. Clearly I missed something.
The politically correct view of the liberal Left sees itself as protecting gays from evil conservatism. It makes perfect sense why a super-hero would be gay and why a comic about super-heroes would go in this direction.
We’ve gotten to the point in America where comic books from the 40s to the 90s look more real than the politically correct view of reality from the political Left today. Even when I was 14 and eating, not just reading comics, I wasn’t dumb enough to buy into this; I would’ve probably simply have stopped buying comics.
Given science-fiction writer John Scalzi’s recent piece about white privilege, where, being the head of the SFWA, he’s basically racially Wagnerized SF, I probably would’ve stopped reading SF too.
Hollywood and TV and have long since gone this way and I have little interest in seeing black Norse gods, oceans of physically dangerous females found nowhere in history, and conspicuously gay heroes.
From Honey West to Emma Peel to Xena, the exception to the rule was fun but now it is the rule and so defies the fantasy world of even TV, SF and comics. My ability to suspend disbelief is being challenged even more than Burroughs’s hero who goes to the dinosaur-laden center of the Earth. I don’t want Hooja the Gay One, Dian the Man and gay Mahars. I don’t want the socialist Sari overrunning the Land of Awful Capitalism.
Imagine being jarred out of Tolkien and Lovecraft’s delicate fantasies by such political nonsense and realize that fantasy is no longer a refuge from the world but a sad and stupid analogue to a newspaper or CNN and MSNBC.
The phrase “social justice” has taken on such a taint, that I more readily identify with Dr. Doom and Galactus since they have the now nostalgic hope of the equivalent of an asteroid strike that would do away with faddist idiocy and return a depopulated world to reality.
I think it’s time I write a new SF novel; one where there is not just an anti-hero, but where the villain itself, representing reality, is the hunted and sad victim and where all the evil enemy’s actions seem just, justified and worthy. I will identify with my villain as he strides through solar systems robbing space ships, destroying factories that produce robots that do all our work, burning laboratories that produce clones and killing smugglers that bring in semi-sentient workers to healthy industrialized worlds.
I will call him Dr. Doomright. He will have a small team of friends: Capt. Past, the robot-hating Manman, and Pecos William, the asteroid-slinger.
In short, screw these people. And even that is somewhat unclear.
Cool. So Sam is going to get the same treatment as other superhero significant others, right? Kidnapped, brainwashed, maybe the occasional bout of turning evil and destroying New York in a demon inferno?
No? Because that would be homophobic?
Ahhhh. Now we see the likely issues.
Punisher, hell. Where’s Lobo when you need him?
Careful: in some, off-Earth, languages, Lobo is translated as ‘in the closet’.
Good point. He did get reincarnated as a female version of himself in one story. And he dresses a bit like the biker guy from The Village People. Hm…maybe he does have some gender issues to work out.
Surprise? No:
http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2012/05/22/major-dc-comics-character-coming-out-as-gay-and-marvel-announces-same-sex-marriage/#comment-236528
So does this explain his weakness for wood?