Gay Super Hero

the green lantern is gay now and also he likes men

Why would they bother.. Yeah it'll probably make being gay more acceptable to people etc, but its 2012.. Nobody really cares anymore? plus he's only a bloody superhero.. who gives a sh!t like.

Actually lol at the men that will fling their previously MACHO dolls at the wall mortification when they realise he's gay.:pac::pac::pac:

Father Damo wrote: »

Has anyone who reads this stuff actually ever been laid, gay or straight?

Doubtful.

It's purely a publicity stunt. The character in question does not have his own comic - there has been a different Green Lantern for years - so it's a move that gives DC great PR and generates little risk. There's no particlar comic for people to boycott, for example.

Comics are basically a dying industry - despite the explosions of tablets and the like - but its iconic character have never been so popular because of the superhero dominance of the box office.

This has meant that the only regular comics that tend to sell are those with recognisable characters and minority protagonists - female heros, African-American heros - can't compete. There have been attempts to redress this (the Spider-Man in one series has Black and Hispanic parents, for example) but readers' tastes are very conservative - they'll be happy reading the same old heros.

With that in mind I doubt a gay superhero with his own series will arrive anytime soon, and then I'd also imagine it would have a tiny audience.

I can report that I have both read a comic and engaged in full-sex with a woman.

Also, there's been gay super-heroes in comics before. The Runaways is one example.

It's only been around for 30 years or so

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_themes_in_comics

So yellow will now clash with him

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Gay Super Hero just went and made the Green Lantern Gay, full story here http://ie.ign.com/articles/2012/06/01/the-original-green-lantern-is-dcs-new-gay-character

Before anyone in the lbg community has a fit I'm not having a pop at you but i`m a bit confused why they felt the need to turn a comic book hero gay. Its all very strange, could they have not just made up a new super hero. This is really going to confuse some young guys. Who`s next Superman, Batman? I'm all for equal whatever but its all getting a little carried away.

So what? Retconning is one of the most common plot devices in comics.

First off, characters with any kind of military background like Nick Fury get retconned all the time as their military record becomes more implausible so it changes from WWII to Vietnam to Desert Storm.

Secondly, in the case of the Green Lantern, it's not like there's only been one Green Lantern. It's just a job description rather than a secret identity type superhero. I mean so far we've had Alan Scott, Hal Jordan, John Stewart, Kyle Rayner and a couple of others. Practically every DC character got retconned at the start of the Silver Age anyway so I really don't see what the big issue is.

Despite your protestations to the contrary it really does seem like its the homosexuality that you've got a problem with. Retconning happens all the time. Bits of a character's history get added to, taken from and altered in lots of different ways. Look at The Killing Joke for example. Reading comics over any significant length of time means you're going to have to adapt to a lot of new stuff.

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Gay Super Hero just went and made the Green Lantern Gay, full story here http://ie.ign.com/articles/2012/06/01/the-original-green-lantern-is-dcs-new-gay-character

Before anyone in the lbg community has a fit I'm not having a pop at you but i`m a bit confused why they felt the need to turn a comic book hero gay. Its all very strange, could they have not just made up a new super hero. This is really going to confuse some young guys. Who`s next Superman, Batman? I'm all for equal whatever but its all getting a little carried away.

Spot on. It's not even remotely realistic. Whoever heard of someone coming out later on in life.

Father Damo wrote: »

Has anyone who reads this stuff actually ever been laid, gay or straight?

I reckon Nicholas Cage has gotten a tonne of ass over the years.

speedboatchase wrote: »

To be honest I'd never read any comics since the Beano until a few months ago. There's obviously a huge social stigma about a grown man reading a comic on a bus or whatever but the anonymity of reading a few online with an app - plus the tech they use to shift to the next panel - won me over.

Seems a bit weird that The Avengers is on course to be the second-biggest movie of all-time yet someone who wants to read about one of the characters would be a laughing stock, no? Can report that I have still been having "the sex" with the gf since I picked up the new hobby too

People also need to consider comics like Maus, Waltz with Bashir, Sandman, even things like Watchmen. Complex story lines and deeper themes that make the majority of Hollywood movie output look like the dreck it really is.

Seriously, if you have never read Maus then do so. It won a Pulitzer Prize for a reason.

It would make more sense to me if they had actually just created a new character/superhero, turning them gay just seems a little cynical.