Alan Scott - the new gay superhero AND HIS WEAKNESS IS WOOOOOD!!! AHAHAHAA!!!

[kirke_novak]

OH MY GOD INTERNET ENOUGH WITH THE WOOD JOKES! WE GET IT! WE DO! WE REALLY DO! HIS WEAKNESS IS WOOD!!!!!!! IT'S FUNNY COS HE'S GAY! I REALLY GOT THAT THE FIRST 30000 TIMES I READ IT! REALLY!!!!!

ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So Alan Scott is gay now... God, it would have helped if the defined “iconic” from the beginning, I heard people considering Vibe.

Comments

[timemonkey]

I care about Northstar. The real quetion is who the hell cares about Kyle?

[timemonkey]

Also, it seemed obvious to me it'd be Alan. He's high profile enough to matter but low profile enough that nobody REALLY cares.

[kirke_novak]

That's exactly what I thought - people will recognise THE GREEN LANTERN but will not really him; it's Hal, Kyle, John then maybe Guy and THEN Alan.

But hey, from what I'm reading they made him gay because it fit, not because they wanted to grab headlines. RIGHT, MARVEL. >_>

[timemonkey]

Yeah, the guy who made the change likely did it because it fit but that's likely why he was allowed.

Marvel is just stupid. God that wedding pisses em off. It should be a good thing but because of who it's to and how they went about it it's not. Also, if your boyfriend fully believes you could dump him at any time, marriage is not a good idea.

[kirke_novak]

I'm sure only half of the people that will be at the wedding even know Northstar... and oh god, is Hercules going to be there?!

Super awkward.

[lovelycudy]

When I saw this in the news I immediately thought about you and what you would say :)

What is One Million Mums? And how are you doing?

[kirke_novak]

HA! My reputation proceeds me!

OMM is an online community of crazy right-winged mums that constantly try to boycott anything gay-friendly, to protect Them Children. No idea how many of them are actually mums or women, but the community has a bit over 40.000 members, so a bit under 1.000.000. The last time they tried to call for a boycott of a comic book because of it having a gay content, the issue SOLD OUT completely. They also tried to boycott JC Penny over hiring Ellen DeGeners as a spoke-woman, so JC Penny struck back by having two gay dads and their kids on the posters for the Father's Day sale. Yay.

I am doing fine but my life is completely uneventful. No new sordid love affairs, no new job, even no new fandoms. BORED NOW!

[lovelycudy]

I really wish these crazy people would stay away from... everything. Just, like, in a barren planet or something.

My life is super boring too. I'm going back to comics and getting into Marvel Universe fandom because, hey, I really liked Avengers and Thor. But yeah, boring, boring, boring.

[totalgleekgirl]

I thought of you when I first heard about this, but I just sort of shrugged and didn't think much of it. I guess I'm the odd one out, I don't see what the big deal is. Alan Scott is low key enough for it not to be a huge deal for most of the green lantern fans, that's why he was picked I imagine.

[kirke_novak]

Indeed, my goal is simple - I will not rest until every person on The Internet will think of me when faced with the dire news of GASPS gayification of a fictional character!

From the interviews, it seems that - on contrary to Marvel whose gay marriage is clearly and openly a publicity stunt - it was the writer of the book who decided to make Alan gay, in order to make up for the loss of Obsidian. The Editor-In-Chief agreed to that with no problem - DC had always been more LGBTQ friendy that Marvel. On top of that, I must admit, that, 2 issues down, the book is one of the best DC titles at the moment.

Though I still prefert Aquaman. HIS BOOK! I MEAN I PREFER HIS BOOK! >_>