Green Lantern is Gay

[Mr_Terrific]

Guess this means there won't be a Green Lantern 2? Of course you and I know who Alan Scott is but what about the ignorant masses that hate everything that's different and by different, I mean gay....

They should have went all out and made Superman of Earth 2 gay. I guess when they eventually merge both worlds in some major even Crisis style, Gay Supes would be too close to the not gay Supes...

Earth 2...wtf. I thought flashpoint killed all of that nonsense?

 

[Suicidejim]

There's not room for "changing" existing ones

That made me laugh a little bit. Superhero comics are notorious for rebooting, retconning, and just outright pretending that past stuff never happened. Heck, sexuality is one of the very few aspects of superheroes that doesn't regularly get altered.

 

[Treblaine]

MFW it wasn't Wonder Woman.

PS: did they really have to chose the SECOND MOST discredited DC character. I mean at least Aquaman only had the Superfriends to deal with, 50 years for those wounds to heal, but It's been less than a years since... that film.

But maybe they will be rescuing this character who has so much potential.

 

[Diana Kingston-Gabai]

So, why are they changing an established heterosexual character into a homosexual one? There's plenty of room for gay superheroes.

Indeed. You can tell by the plethora of gay superheroes they already have.

 

[SnakeoilSage]

Way to cop out DC. Just slap the tag on someone who hasn't been part of the core lineup in 60 years or so. Classy.

 

[Draskinn]

Dang my money was on Martian Manhunter... I mean shoot man it's right there in the name! LoL

 

[Treblaine]

What's next? Lois catches Superman fucking Jimmy Olsen?

The genuine cover art for a non-parody in-canon Superman Comic. Oh the innocent times. I am afraid I do not have context.

But seriously, you just made a slippery slope argument, a serious one unlike my joke one. You aren't giving any mechanism for how one can lead to another, only how it is apparently an equal step but to an unacceptable place.

Just because We go from A to B doesn't mean we will go from B to C.

 

[Dragonpit]

Okay. That works. The Green Lantern Corps is expansive in and of itself, allowing for multiple human mem-I mean...fighters. Anyway, there's easily room in there for a gay character.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

Huh, was totally not expecting that, and that's cool, I guess.

I've never liked the Green Lantern so this really does nothing for me to make me care about him more.

 

[RvLeshrac]

What's next? Lois catches Superman fucking Jimmy Olsen?

The genuine cover art for a non-parody in-canon Superman Comic. Oh the innocent times. I am afraid I do not have context.

But seriously, you just made a slippery slope argument, a serious one unlike my joke one. You aren't giving any mechanism for how one can lead to another, only how it is apparently an equal step but to an unacceptable place.

Just because We go from A to B doesn't mean we will go from B to C.

Nope. But, in this specific case, you're altering the genetic make-up of a superhero.

If you want a comic analogy, this is akin to removing Cyclops's eye-beams or Wolverine's healing factor.

Sexuality isn't something you can "alter," this is the wrong message.

 

[RvLeshrac]

So, why are they changing an established heterosexual character into a homosexual one? There's plenty of room for gay superheroes.

Indeed. You can tell by the plethora of gay superheroes they already have.

The lack of LGBT superheroes is exactly why there's plenty of room for them. You don't walk into a party filled with guys and yell "THIS FEST NEEDS MORE SAUSAGE."

Well, OK, the new Green Lantern might.

 

[Treblaine]

What's next? Lois catches Superman fucking Jimmy Olsen?

The genuine cover art for a non-parody in-canon Superman Comic. Oh the innocent times. I am afraid I do not have context.

But seriously, you just made a slippery slope argument, a serious one unlike my joke one. You aren't giving any mechanism for how one can lead to another, only how it is apparently an equal step but to an unacceptable place.

Just because We go from A to B doesn't mean we will go from B to C.

Nope. But, in this specific case, you're altering the genetic make-up of a superhero.

If you want a comic analogy, this is akin to removing Cyclops's eye-beams or Wolverine's healing factor.

Sexuality isn't something you can "alter," this is the wrong message.

You do realise that it's a different character who is taking up the Green Lantern mantle?

This is more akin to Scott Summers dying or retiring and a completely different character adopting the title "Cyclops" who had the same superpowers but also has a preference for macho men.

Sexuality isn't altered.

 

[MorganL4]

huh....thought for sure it was flash.

I knew it wasn't going to be Flash, or Jordan because in the new JL comic books those two argue over who gets to hit on Wonder Woman, so that was a foregone conclusion.


What I want to know, is how are they gonna explain Jade: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade_%28comics%29


If he is not "recently gay" that would imply that he was always out of the closet, so somewhere along the line, either artificial insemination happened, or Thorn ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_and_Thorn ) knowing married a gay man. ( which is weird)

 

[The Great JT]

Well, I was half-right (in terms of names), I said it was Green Arrow.

Still, this does feel like kind of a cop-out, since it's not one of their big seven (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter, Green Lantern (Hal Jordan), Aquaman, Flash) but this is the kind of thing reboots are supposed to do, re-interpret things and do things differently.

Now that doesn't mean all re-inventions in the relaunch have been good, I mean look at how Starfire's being portrayed post-reboot.

 

[notyouraveragejoe]

I'm glad that they made it a big (albeit not in the most well-known incarnation) superhero. Also, my favourite general character (Green Lantern, as in not a specific Green Lantern) now has even more diversity in the Corps. Awesome!

 

[Crazy Zaul]

Never heard of this Alan Scott guy but otherwise Guy Gardner is clearly the gayest green lantern.

 

[Aerograt]

He's a man who draws power from jewelry, what did you expect?

I laughed sooo hard at this.

 

[subtlefuge]

Glad it's not Hal Jordan to undermine the Queen/Jordan friendship.

Glad it's not Kyle Rayner because. Don't know why really.

Glad it's still going to piss off However Many Moms.

Wish it was someone a little more iconic.