DC Comics to make prominent hero gay - who will it be?

[Steak Snabler]

If Green Lantern is gay, what does that make Sinestro?

 

[bigpern23]

If Green Lantern is gay, what does that make Sinestro?

Happy?

 

[outofplace]

If Green Lantern is gay, what does that make Sinestro?

Happy?

They have always portrayed him as being extremely upset over the death of Abin Sur.....

 

[JRoyal]

OK, making A Green Lantern gay is not the same as making THE Green Lantern gay. This GL is not a prominent character. May as well have made Killowog gay.

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

http://news.yahoo.com/green-lantern-relaunched-brave-mighty-gay-070052544.html

"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."

Indeed.

 

[apeman33]

http://news.yahoo.com/green-lantern-relaunched-brave-mighty-gay-070052544.html

"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."

Indeed.

And from what I've read, this isn't even Golden Age Green Lantern but a rebooted version of him?

Just to rant for a second: Crisis on Infinite Earths may now well be the worst idea DC's ever had. Yeah, it was a big earth(s)-shattering event when it happened but since then, DC's rebooted its universe at least, what, three times? And that has led to this: where an alternate version of an alternate Green Lantern is coming out as gay because his gay son was wiped out in the last reboot. Seesh.

 

[JayFarrar]

Seems someone at DC saw "Beginners" and loved it.

And the Silver Age Green Lantern is far from a main character, but he does share a name with a failed movie franchise, so there you go.

 

[nmmetsfan]

That explains why he divorced Scarlett Johansson

 

[YankeeFan]

So, one Green Lantern is going to be gay, and another is going to be an Arab-Muslim (from Dearborn, who was recently laid of from his auto industry job, LOL).

Why didn't they just make one, gay, Arab-Muslim Green Lantern?

When DC Comics decided to blow up its fabled universe and create a brave, diverse future, Geoff Johns drew from the past for a new character: his own background as an Arab-American.

The company's chief creative officer and writer of the relaunched "Green Lantern" series dreamed up Simon Baz, DC's most prominent Arab-American superhero and the first to wear a Green Lantern ring. The character and creator share Lebanese ancestry and hail from the Detroit area, which boasts one of the largest and oldest Arab communities in the United States.

"I thought a lot about it - I thought back to what was familiar to me," Johns, 39, told The ashociated Press by phone last week from Los Angeles, where he now lives. "This is such a personal story."

The Green Lantern mantle in DC Comics is no stranger to diversity with its ranks made up of men, women, aliens - animal, vegetable and mineral - from across the universe.

Earlier this year an alternate universe after being laid off from his automotive engineering job. He steals the wrong car, which inadvertently steers him into a terrorism probe and, eventually, an unexpected call to join the universe's galactic police force.

The olive-skinned, burly Baz hails from Dearborn, the hometown of Henry Ford and the capital of Arab America. His story begins at 10 years old, when he and the rest of his Muslim family watch their television in horror as airplanes fly into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Events unfold from there as U.S. Arabs and Muslims find themselves falling under intense suspicion and ostracism in the days, months and years following the attacks.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/arab_muslim_to_join_green_lantern_HLn4CquFha1tuoeSvZYWgL#ixzz25VtRiiKS

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

That's got to be the worst comic cover in history.

A masked black man running at you with a gun.

Why does a Green Lantern need a gun?

 

[Mizzougrad96]

So, one Green Lantern is going to be gay, and another is going to be an Arab-Muslim (from Dearborn, who was recently laid of from his auto industry job, LOL).

Why didn't they just make one, gay, Arab-Muslim Green Lantern?

When DC Comics decided to blow up its fabled universe and create a brave, diverse future, Geoff Johns drew from the past for a new character: his own background as an Arab-American.

The company's chief creative officer and writer of the relaunched "Green Lantern" series dreamed up Simon Baz, DC's most prominent Arab-American superhero and the first to wear a Green Lantern ring. The character and creator share Lebanese ancestry and hail from the Detroit area, which boasts one of the largest and oldest Arab communities in the United States.

"I thought a lot about it - I thought back to what was familiar to me," Johns, 39, told The ashociated Press by phone last week from Los Angeles, where he now lives. "This is such a personal story."

The Green Lantern mantle in DC Comics is no stranger to diversity with its ranks made up of men, women, aliens - animal, vegetable and mineral - from across the universe.

Earlier this year an alternate universe after being laid off from his automotive engineering job. He steals the wrong car, which inadvertently steers him into a terrorism probe and, eventually, an unexpected call to join the universe's galactic police force.

The olive-skinned, burly Baz hails from Dearborn, the hometown of Henry Ford and the capital of Arab America. His story begins at 10 years old, when he and the rest of his Muslim family watch their television in horror as airplanes fly into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Events unfold from there as U.S. Arabs and Muslims find themselves falling under intense suspicion and ostracism in the days, months and years following the attacks.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/arab_muslim_to_join_green_lantern_HLn4CquFha1tuoeSvZYWgL#ixzz25VtRiiKS

My cousin (who is gay) has a pretty hilarious take on why they made Green Lantern gay. He said, "They needed some way to get rid of all of the merchandise that they didn't sell when the crappy movie came out last year."

There might be something to that.

 

[outofplace]

http://news.yahoo.com/green-lantern-relaunched-brave-mighty-gay-070052544.html

"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."

Indeed.

Just because I can't resist an opportunity to look through some Alex Ross renderings, though this is not his best work.

Here's one of Alan Scott as an old guy, before the reboot.

For comparison, here's his Hal Jordan. The old Wizard Magazine offices had a bunch of these on the back wall of the lobby.

(Recognize the real-life person he used as a model? Ross is known for using real people, either famous faces or people he knows, to model the faces of his superheroes after)