Well, it's official.
After hints and press conferences and leaks
and momentous guessing and betting, DC
revealed to the world that they are in fact
"re-working" and reintroducing original
(WW II era) Green Lantern, Alan Scott,
as a homosexual character.
I have mixed feelings.
I love Alan Scott, and think it's a bold choice.
On the other hand, the entire emphasis on
'switching him' to being gay is a strange one.
It implies, for me at least, that sexuality is
a matter of choice, even if that's not exactly what's
happening.
I wonder, too, if his son will still be gay.
I trust Robinson to handle it well, but
it all feels a bit forced and odd.
I guess in the end if a well-written
gay character is now in the new 52,
maybe it will help.
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| (The awesome Ty Templeton, excellent as always, in response to fanboys' embarrassing outrage.) I think, really and truly what has me most upset; I am a gay, geeky, comic book-loving, longtime Earth 2 fan..... and I had to have the morning radio host point out that "newly gay Alan Scott has one weakness he's powerless against; Wood!" Now that's funny! *** |
