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Alan Scott, aka the Green Lantern, is coming out.
DC Comics has announced that one of its oldest and most enduring heroes, the Green Lantern, is returning — as an out, proud and openly gay super hero.
The change is revealed in the pages of the second issue of “Earth 2″ out next week, and comes on the heels of what has been an expansive year for gay and lesbian characters in the pages of comic books from Archie to Marvel and others, reported the Associated Press.
But purists and fans note: This Green Lantern is not the emerald galactic space cop Hal Jordan who was, and is, part of the Justice League and has had a history rich in triumph and tragedy.
Instead, he’s a parallel earth Green Lantern. James Robinson, who writes the new series, said Alan Scott is the retooled version of the classic Lantern whose first appearance came in the pages of “All-American Comics” No. 16 in July 1940.
So what will the new gay version of Alan Scott be like? DC Comics’ writer James Robinson tells Entertainment Weekly:
“He’s a giant of the media industry. By getting involved in communication, the news, and the Internet, he’s become a billionaire. He’s kind of a cross between Mark Zuckerberg and David Geffen. The original Alan Scott owned a radio station in the ’40s and ’50s, so he was a media giant then. He was this bold, heroic, brave man who took control, who would risk his life for you and be this emerald knight that was always there to protect the world.
“The Alan Scott I’m doing now is that same dynamic, brave, honorable man. A man that you’d want guarding your welfare, your children, your life, your home. He’s willing to give his life for the world. He’s everything you want in a hero. And he happens to be gay. So really, apart from his sexuality, there isn’t that much of a difference.”
The announcement of a gay super hero from DC Comics was not unexpected, as DC co-publisher Dan DiDio’s teased last month that an iconic DC character will reveal he is gay in a June issue, joining prominent lesbian character Batwoman — but the announcement did fuel widespread speculation as to which super hero would be revealed to be gay.
Last month, Marvel Comics announced that its first openly gay hero — Northstar — would be getting hitched. Northstar will marry his boyfriend in mainstream superhero comics’ first same-sex wedding in an upcoming issue of “Astonishing X-Men.”
Earlier this year, Archie Comics featured the wedding of openly gay character Kevin Keller in “Life With Archie” No. 16.
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Oh hell yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i never wouldve guessed
OHHHHH The Fan Fictiooooonnnn!!! X-D
called it! :D
Yeah!
i cant wait for the movie version lol
@ brittany me too and thats hott!
:-{P}
Eh, not intertesting enough
bout time
whoa! go Green Lantern
WTG DC! thats awesome!
Earth 2, Alan Scott ftw <3
so much for him being straight as an (ahem) arrow, but he’s hot anyway.
I’m just happy that there’s finally gay superheroes. even if he isn’t the boss of them all. he oughtta be.
Must he now change his name to Pink Lantern? At least he’s no longer black.
I knew he was my favorite for a reason
They’ve always been bringing up the big issue of equality of the day with Green Lantern.
Woot!
It should of been Tim Drake u.u but hey you go Alan!
@Judy, He’s going essentially be the leader of the other superheroes on Earth-2 by the looks of things :D
I was hoping for someone cool like Cyborg, Flash, Superboy, Aquaman, Robin, or at least the Kyle Rayner or Hal Jordan green lantern.
T-minus two hours till One Million Moms is out raged lol. Sorry Super Man I think Green Lantern maybe my new favorite lol
Excuse me whilst I LOLWUT right now <3 But yay :D
So long as their doing it for the right reasons, and not to simply exploit and make money off of it, this makes me happy.
I’ve never seen Luke Cage, Powerman with a woman.
Hell ya! Superheros can be gay too!!
Couldn’t they use someone more interesting? I mean… they didn’t even bother using a main character. Given, I’m aware that Alan is one of the original 7, but at the same time he hasn’t done much lately. It would be like having Flash come out (lol, the man whore… Jk, I love Wally!), and then having it turn out to be Jay who they were talking about. I just feel that they should use someone who would make more of an impression. And @Brittany Branning, did you call it for Alan, or are you mistaking him for Hal?
They better make a movie!! lol
@John Beitel, what the hell do you mean at least he’s not black anymore? The black green lantern is John, where as the white one/ones are Hal and Guy and Alan. They’re different people, they didn’t just randomly switch races…
Make Hal Jordan and then I’ll care … most non-comics reading people don’t even know who he is. Still, its better than not having any gay characters at all.
Just be happy
An here we thought it was gonna b Kyle lol I will b reading this one :)
remember next time u head to six flags your going to ride on the green lantern. your going to get tied up and have the ride of ur life and take what it throws at you till its finished then u can get off and wait in line. BC youll be back to ride it again. lmao
Makes it all the better that Ryan Reynolds played green lantern <3
this isn’t Ryan Reynolds charactar…darn :(
Ryan Reynolds played Hal… Not Alan.
Interesting!
@ John Beitel, the “at least he’s not black anymore” comment was a pretty ignorant remark
i knew he was my favorite!,
alan is the green lanterns real name.
hott!!
they should make a lesbian rougue! *o*
*facepalm* this pretty much played out as best as anyone could hope. This is the Green Lantern of Earth 2…an alternate reality of the main DC universe – Earth Prime. No, he’s not the biggest name in DC but on Earth 2, he stands alongside the likes of Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman as an EQUAL. There is no Hal/John/Guy/Kyle on Earth 2. It’s him. All him. Only him. That is a strong message! If DC had made anyone from Robin to Wonder Woman a homosexual in Earth Prime, the collective freakout would pretty much doom DC. Even making an alternate universe Batman would have the fans burning their issues of Year One in effegy. The hate of LBGT is strong, alive, and active and a lot of that hate is in the insular, male dominated comic fandom. The truth is that the LBGT readership is a fraction demo of the market so that this is happening at all is, to me, a VERY good thing because DC could get rid of all their gays and the entitled readership would probably APPLAUD them. But they aren’t. They’re trying to be diverse as they can be without pissing off their main readers too much. To say DC isn’t doing enough is VERY unfair.
ahhhaa – green lantern is gay – funny!
…This of course comes at the expense of one of their EXISTING gay heroes, Obsidian, Alan Scott’s son.
Nice fucking going, DC.
(Not to mention at the expense of Obsidian’s sister, Jade)
@ Bree Smith, I do agree with what you say, but I wouldn’t so much say that LGBT in itself is frowned upon in the world of comics. I would say it’s a mix between that and sexism. Most of the women are bisexual, which they use mainly as a ‘hotness factor’. I would say that the issue of homosexuality in the male characters is very strong though. Given… I sure as hell don’t mind the fact that most of the girls are bi, but I would like to see more of an equality between the men and the women…
Thats why the ring choose him. So he could get gay married.
here come the hateful bigots lol… i’m glad that art is mimicking life as it should..
i think i may just start reading Green Lantern
I think it’s time for Aquaman and Robin to come out as well
Aquamans not gay hes a perverted fish fucker
Only thing that could make this better for me is if he was black. lol
YAY!
Just my luck…and I’m just too fekking old for him!
Hellz yeah!