Well, after a big promotional campaign saying that a major DC character was going to be "ret-coned" as gay, they revealed that the character is Alan Scott, Green Lantern of Earth 2 (Home of the JSA). He's not exactly what I would call a major character, so I'm a little bummed. Ah, well.
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I agree
I caught the story earlier and my first thought was "Really? He's one of the major ones?"
When I think of the big ones, I see Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Hal Jordan (one of many Green Lanterns) but not Alan Scott. Now here's hoping they treat it with great respect and not just make it like a giant joke.
Not a major Character. He the
Not a major Character. He the greatest green lantern of all time and the original. He wrote the book on willpower! He is also a member of the jsa which has a huge influnce in the world in DC
>>>>>I'm a new soul.I came to this strange world.Hoping I could learn a bit bout how to give and take.<<<<<
Which one is the 'real' character?
Actually, it might be a trade off resulting in no increase in the number of gay characters in the DC Universe.
It depends on where the current continuity is. If this new younger looking (from the pictures I've seen on the web) Earth 2 Alan Scott is the main continuity Alan Scott, then I'm guessing they just wrote Jade and (his gay son) Obsidian out of existence making it a +1/-1 change to the number of gay characters? If there is an in continuity 'New Earth' Alan Scott as well (and I'll admit to having thrown my hands in the air in horror and walked away from a lot of the books after the 'New 52' reboot) who is still straight and the father of Jade and Obsidian as well does that undermine the value of the inclusiveness gesture by having an alternate - not New Earth - version of the character as gay?
I'm all for them making the characters inclusive but can't help but wonder why they didn't create a new character who was gay and make him central to a new book?
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
^ This
So much this.
I read an interview with the writer who made all of this happen and he spoke on his motivations on why they did it. Having his son Obsidian be obliterated out of the DCU with so many other characters is exactly the reason they wanted to make him gay. Perhaps he did it for the fear that they'd be lambasted for killing off one of the only gay characters DC had.
I'm all for creating a gay character and inserting him into the Justice League or something equally as prominent instead of randomly picking someone and saying "he's gay." It's done for all the wrong reasons.
~Lili
Write the story that you most desperately want to read.
My only question is....
Will this have any affect on Alena Scott, from the Hero Retcon of Lilith Langtree, and the authors therein? It's been so long since we've seen any of them.
Wren
None
It'll have zero effect. Thankfully, the Retcon universe is totally different.
~Lili
Write the story that you most desperately want to read.
Not a major character?!?
ARE YOU KIDDING?!?
Alan Scott is the Green Lantern of the Golden Age of Superheroes! He's the one that people were still thinking of when that upstart Hal Jordan started stealing the show back in the 1960s (Jordan debuted a mere 2 months before the end of the '50s, after all)!
Alan Scott, whose Power Ring was not a gift from schizoid little blue men with a complex about the colour yellow but had a weakness that made him interesting, nonetheless (Wood).
Alan Scott was who I still thought of first when I pictured the Green Lantern -- and I wasn't born until the '70s. He was just... a better Green Lantern than Hal Jordan ever thought about being. Or John Stewart. Or Guy Gardner. Or Kyle Rayner. Even any of the alternate timeline and alternate reality GLs, better than any of the GLs from the GL Corps -- the only GL I think I could have ever gotten behind as a "superior" replacement for Alan Scott was from the "Created Equal" Elseworlds two-shot that tackled what would happen if something killed off all the male members of Earth society. The one that it was decided by the superheroes of Earth that should inherit Kyle Rayner's mantle as Green Lantern was Barbara Gordon. Batgirl I / Oracle.
This is huge news. One of the perennial powerhouses of DCU. There's the royal three (Bats, Wondy, and the Big Blue Boy Scout), then the first ones that come to mind are Green Lantern and the Flash.
Green Lantern is gay. This is, as the kids say nowadays, "teh ossims!"
See, I never read any comic
See, I never read any comic books until I was out of high school. I think my first comic book was the death of Superman back in 1992, I was 21 at the time. Then came the breaking of the Batman.
I did watch Superfriends as a kid, so I knew of Hal Jordan more then Alan Scott. But even now, I wouldn't think that he's one of the Big ones, but like second string, but then behind Superman, Batman and Wonderwoman, everyone seems to be second string. reminds me of a thing I saw that had been in a magazine back when the JLA was getting reformed in the late 1990's. Was a simple question on a JLA app form
"Tell us why we need you in a group that already had Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman."
I do wonder about his children. I found out about Jade through the GL comics with Kyle in them and I loved her as a character.
What ever happened to Conner Hawke? The second Green Arrow? Wasn't he also gay? Then of course Piper, from the Flash comics was gay, but man, he's had a rough time and I'm not sure if he is still around anymore.
My own modest opinion
is that most people regard a 'major' character as having their own title which Alan Scott does not have. This seems too much like let's have a gay character that we can call major, but not all that important when all is said and done. Superman, Batman and/or Wonder Woman would be big news and mean something. Alan Scott on the other hand makes me cringe wondering what abuse they're going to pile on him such as what happened with Marvel's North Star. That was ugly.
I'll shut up now.
Hugs
Grover
Wonder Woman isn't Gay?
Oh my. How'd I ever misread that? I wonder if I can still get that love letter I sent her out of the mailbox on the corner...
What borders on pure insanity?
Canada and Mexico.
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I would say Not
To me, She seems more like she is married to her calling, the ambassador to the mans world. From there she just went with Warrior and never needed love.....bondage maybe, but love, never.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Scott He fatherd a daughter Jade who has his powers and a gay son known as Obsidian.
http://omg.yahoo.com/news/green-lantern-alan-scott-gay-good-... Green Lantern Alan Scott Is Gay — And A Good Kisser
May Your Light Forever Shine
Iconic, not Major
DC themselves never called Alan Scott a major character. What they said was "iconic" and that he was and is. One of the Golden Age originals on which a whole raft of later characters are based, he fits the definition of an icon quite well. And with his red, green, yellow and purple costume, he always did look a little gay, :)
My guess had been that it was going to be Captain Marvel, Jr. who would have been a twofer, gay and disabled. They haven't rebooted Freddie yet so it's still possible that that will happen.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.