One of DC Comics oldest heroes is super-coming out.
The original Green Lantern – a DC Comics mainstay for the past 70 years – will be revealed to be a gay man in next week’s issue of “Earth 2.”
Alan Scott – formerly a married father of two who first appeared in 1940 – tips readers off to his sexuality early on in the comic when he gives his boyfriend a welcome home kiss.
via DC Comics Green Lantern relaunched as gay superhero – NYPOST.com.
No doubt, this will create a great firestorm, but honestly, you didn’t see this coming? The dude wore a cape and a mask in daylight and had a fancy ring.
Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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Well, he does have a weakness for wood…
bam. I missed that.
Is this really DC’s first major gay character?
Marvel got there 20 years ago with Northstar the guy who’s getting married this month. For my own part, I love the touch that Northstar’s boyfriend is a black man, too. I think that that really drives home the point they’re making.
And a non-mutant, come to think of it.
Uh-oh … people are right, they are promoting cross-species marriage!
Of course, Quicksilver married Crystal, and she’s not even a human … Scarlet Witch was married to Vision, who’s a robot.
What was I saying? Oh, yeah … isn’t DC a bit behind the curve, here?
“No doubt, this will create a great firestorm”
Is that a DC pun?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firestorm_(comics)
Yup
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