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DC Comics' Green Lantern relaunched as gay superhero
ny post ^ | 6/1/2012 | DAREH GREGORIAN

Posted on 06/01/2012 4:27:18 AM PDT by tobyhill

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.

"He's very much the character he was. He's still the pinnacle of bravery and idealism. He's also gay," "Earth 2" writer James Robinson told The Post.

The Emerald Guardian's sexuality was rebooted along with the rest of his fictional universe as part of DC's "New 52" initiative aimed at rejuvenating their characters.

Robinson said he decided to make the change because making the character young again meant erasing Scott's gay superhero son out of existence.

"The only downside of his being young was we lose his son, Obsidian, who's gay. So I thought, 'Why not make Alan Scott gay?'" Robinson recalled. "That was the seed that started it."

He ran his idea by the bosses at DC, "who signed off on it without hesitation."

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: greenlantern; homosexualagenda
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1 posted on 06/01/2012 4:27:29 AM PDT by tobyhill
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To: tobyhill

What’s next? Batman revealed to be pedophile?


2 posted on 06/01/2012 4:31:15 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: tobyhill

we truly live in a sick age


3 posted on 06/01/2012 4:31:20 AM PDT by Blado (THIS IS NOT AMERICA)
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To: tobyhill
He's still the pinnacle of ...idealism.

There's the real issue.

I wonder if they'll deal with the hepatitis or fights with the boyfriend that comes along with new lifestyle.

4 posted on 06/01/2012 4:31:47 AM PDT by tbpiper
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To: tobyhill

Kinda’ ironic: Go Green is also Go Gay!


5 posted on 06/01/2012 4:32:10 AM PDT by broken_arrow1
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To: tobyhill

Also announced was that DC Comics will now be known as “AC/DC Comics”.


6 posted on 06/01/2012 4:32:22 AM PDT by exit82 (Democrats are the enemies of freedom. Be Andrew Breitbart.)
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To: tobyhill

Should he start wearing lavender now, instead of green?

Or maybe he can become the Rainbow Lantern.


7 posted on 06/01/2012 4:32:40 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Be careful of believing something just because you want it to be true.)
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To: tobyhill

Why not just totally corrupt historic fantasy legacy by making all the DC superheroes gay? I mean for 1 maybe 2% of the population to feel ‘included’ in society now and the other 98% left wondering what effed-up DC writer has up his butt.....


8 posted on 06/01/2012 4:33:20 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: tobyhill
Gotta a feeling Green Lantern will be the laughing stock of the boys who read these comics.

AND, most young men will not be caught dead carrying around a Green Lantern comic book after he comes out.

9 posted on 06/01/2012 4:33:36 AM PDT by sonofagun (Some think my cynicism grows with age. I like to think of it as wisdom!)
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To: tobyhill

I keep looking up for the big “reset” asteroid.


10 posted on 06/01/2012 4:33:55 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: tobyhill

“He’s still the pinnacle of bravery and idealism.”

No, he isn’t.


11 posted on 06/01/2012 4:34:25 AM PDT by John W (Viva Cristo Rey!)
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To: tobyhill

Next Up: Incredible Hulk likes packing fudge.


12 posted on 06/01/2012 4:34:53 AM PDT by broken_arrow1
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To: tobyhill

Having a fecal fetish is not “ideal.”


13 posted on 06/01/2012 4:35:30 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (If you like lying Socialist dirtbags, you'll love Slick Willard)
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To: tobyhill

If this travesty sells parents can be blamed for not giving a damn!


14 posted on 06/01/2012 4:37:22 AM PDT by IbJensen (If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed)
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To: sonofagun

They keep pushing their agenda and you’re right, they will be the laughing stock of the comic book fans.


15 posted on 06/01/2012 4:37:51 AM PDT by tobyhill (Conservatives are proud of themselves, Liberals lie about themselves)
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To: tobyhill
According to wiki: The Green Lanterns . . . are often depicted as being close friends of the various men who have been the Flash, the most notable friendships having been between Alan Scott and Jay Garrick (the Golden Age Green Lantern and Flash), Hal Jordan and Barry Allen (the Silver Age Green Lantern and Flash), Kyle Rayner and Wally West (the modern-age Green Lantern and Flash), and Jordan also being friends with West.

Perhaps this should not be a surprise. In any case, I won't be buying anything from DC Comics, so I don't have to worry what they do to their "universe?.

16 posted on 06/01/2012 4:38:57 AM PDT by Pollster1 (A boy becomes a man when a man is needed - John Steinbeck)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Big seller on Castro Street:

Batman In Action. Scenes of Batman buggering Robin.


17 posted on 06/01/2012 4:39:08 AM PDT by IbJensen (If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed)
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To: tobyhill

A lot of comic fans are going to look at this as a slap in the face to Green Lantern creator Mart Nodell, who passed away a few years ago. Mart was looked upon as a ‘grandfatherly figure’ among many fans and retailers...he was still sketching for fans and signing books right up to the end...p*ss on DC...I hope this financially cripples them.


18 posted on 06/01/2012 4:42:14 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: tobyhill

Up next...Batman and Throbbin


19 posted on 06/01/2012 4:44:11 AM PDT by albie
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To: tobyhill

Anyone who allows this comic book in their home is guilty of child abuse.


20 posted on 06/01/2012 4:46:15 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: tobyhill

Just in time for ‘Gay Week’ parades.

Wonder how many peter-puffers will be wearing “Green Lantern” costumes?


21 posted on 06/01/2012 4:46:25 AM PDT by panaxanax (Voting 'Third Party' will ensure a Communist-Marxist-Socialist dominated Supreme Court!)
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To: tobyhill

What does he drive, a Smart Car?


22 posted on 06/01/2012 4:46:25 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: tobyhill

When God tell me that He considers sodomy to be acceptable, then I will accept it, but He has spoken enough times that I pretty much understand what He thinks of the practice.

Yet, even sodomy advocates know this truth deep down inside, for most of all they yearn for approval of their actions and associated “lifestyle”. If this were not true, then the threat of “outing” someone would not carry any weight. But it still does carry weight, or else liberals would not publicly make that threat against conservative politicians who happen to be closet gays.


23 posted on 06/01/2012 4:49:29 AM PDT by theBuckwheat
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To: tobyhill
Well, that just rendered DC Comics Kitty Litter, imho. They can join JC Penney's.

I'm not going to patronize any company who sucks up to the people who would destroy my Church. (And anyone who thinks they aren't gunning for every Church which refuses to 'marry' them has another think coming.)

24 posted on 06/01/2012 4:52:13 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: Venturer

——Anyone who allows this comic book in their home is guilty of child abuse.-—

Ditto bump


25 posted on 06/01/2012 4:53:07 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Viva Christo Rey!)
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To: tobyhill

I’ve heard it said that if God doesn’t judge America He will have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.


26 posted on 06/01/2012 4:54:39 AM PDT by wolfman
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To: Pollster1
Perhaps this should not be a surprise.

Why? Why shouldn't it be a surprise?

Haven't you ever had a close friend you haven't tried to play 'hide the salami' with?

Instead, it is the inevitable denigration of friendship to at least arm's length or be branded faggots.

It is an attack on the ability of men to be brothers, with no sick substitute for copulation involved.

27 posted on 06/01/2012 4:58:06 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
Anyone who allows this comic book in their home is guilty of child abuse.

Queers are everywhere in comics nowadays, so you need to watch every comic that comes into your home...better yet; don't let your child near this soft-core garbage...

28 posted on 06/01/2012 4:58:21 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: tobyhill

I’m surprised comic book fans even put up with these wholesale rewrites of the entire DC universe. Sounds pretty retarded.


29 posted on 06/01/2012 5:00:15 AM PDT by Junior_G (Funny how liberals' love affair with Muslims began on 9/11)
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To: tobyhill

Not to be outdone the Fantastic Four are changing their name to the Fabulous Four, and the Justice League has extended invitations for membership to Ace and Gary! Fags have replaced tiny little dogs and third world orphans as the must have accessory.


30 posted on 06/01/2012 5:00:26 AM PDT by 762X51
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To: sonofagun
Gotta a feeling Green Lantern will be the laughing stock of the boys who read these comics.

AND, most young men will not be caught dead carrying around a Green Lantern comic book after he comes out.

I agree. Not only will comic book sales suffer, but so will sales of any other Green Lantern themed merchandise. Serves them right.

31 posted on 06/01/2012 5:01:02 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: wolfman
I’ve heard it said that if God doesn’t judge America He will have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.

G-d is judging us now for failing to acknowledge Him as Creator, and he is using queers to do it. These people are mentally ill, and need help.

32 posted on 06/01/2012 5:01:12 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: tobyhill

First of all, I don’t believe there are any gay kids, only molested ones.

Secondly, I don’t believe there are any gay readers of super-hero literature.

The only reason for this change is that one or more of the writers is gay. This has nothing to do with their audience.

In my opinion.


33 posted on 06/01/2012 5:01:37 AM PDT by samtheman (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2888480/posts?page=2#2)
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To: tobyhill
He's still the pinnacle of bravery and idealism.

No, he's not. He's queer.

34 posted on 06/01/2012 5:05:48 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: tobyhill

How to kill a franchise


35 posted on 06/01/2012 5:10:53 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: tobyhill
While a gay wedding in Archie Comics earlier this year and impending same-sex nuptials in a Marvel X-Men comic have recieved a small amount of backlash from angry parents, Robinson said he's not worried about that because "that kind of negativity is stupid and outmoded."

...so you are saying that G-d is 'stupid and outmoded'...is that what you are saying, Mr. Robinson? (Robinson lives in San Francisco, by the way...)

36 posted on 06/01/2012 5:11:06 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: exit82

If I remember my comic book history correctly, DC comic’ first comic magazine was titled “Action Comics.” And that was where Superman originated.


37 posted on 06/01/2012 5:13:21 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: IbJensen; Morgana

parents don’t care, have you been paying attention to what schools and television have been putting out?


38 posted on 06/01/2012 5:14:38 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: tobyhill
Just to remind everyone just what is going on here...

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."

Is Mr. Robinson a member of the Communist Party?

39 posted on 06/01/2012 5:15:45 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: tobyhill
Is Green Lantern the one they turned into a Black Super Hero on television? (I see a cartoon series where there is a black guy in a green costume)
40 posted on 06/01/2012 5:17:15 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Greed + Envy = Liberalism)
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To: GeronL

Parents don’t notice. Parents too busy chasing all mighty dollar.


41 posted on 06/01/2012 5:22:23 AM PDT by Morgana (I only come here to see what happens next. It normally does.)
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To: tobyhill

I could kick Fuscia Man’s butt.

What is this friggin obsession with Gays?

I don’t see how, if one wants to viewed as a person, that they are not offended by being objectified like this.

Are you are person or are you gay?

Is being gay the whole of your identity?

Your primary identity?

Or is being gay one aspect of your life but not your whole person?

Are you interesting for the sake of being interesting and being interested in others or are you some carny, maybe on the midway, show?

Do you equate the attention you receive as being part of a donkeys and midget show?

I don’t know how in this day age you morons aren’t seeing this.

If your identity is a homo fine, we have parades for you in San Francisco.

If you identity is much more complex and you think about quite a few other things throughout the day, you might be interesting to hang out with.

Grow up and figure what you are.


42 posted on 06/01/2012 5:23:29 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live athrough it anyway)
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To: tobyhill
I assume these guys know less than 2% of the population is gay... The 10% number was always a lie...

Newspapers ONLY give the finger to half their potential customers - but to give the finger to 98% of potential customers? That take REAL stupidity...

43 posted on 06/01/2012 5:25:34 AM PDT by GOPJ ( "A Dog In Every Pot" - freeper ETL)
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To: tobyhill
Woo-hoo! Just in time for National LGBG Month!

/sarcasm

44 posted on 06/01/2012 5:28:14 AM PDT by 3catsanadog (Scats for Newt!)
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To: GOPJ

The comic industry is so PC it squeaks...many of its customers are conservatives (look at the comic readers here at FR), but they are completely ‘blown off’ (heh) by the screeching libs on the creative side of the industry. Of course; DC and Marvel are located in NYC, so comics DO reflect the sick world outside THEIR window...


45 posted on 06/01/2012 5:28:26 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: who knows what evil?

We truly live in the end of times. God save us.


46 posted on 06/01/2012 5:29:25 AM PDT by freebird5850 (Just don't have a tagline today. This administration makes me quite sad.)
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To: Cowboy Bob
Is Green Lantern the one they turned into a Black Super Hero on television?

There are hundreds of Green Lanterns...the black guy is just one of many. AA, you know. :-)

47 posted on 06/01/2012 5:31:02 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: tobyhill
He's very much the character he was. He's still the pinnacle of bravery and idealism.

This is a stupid thing to say.
There have been multiple Green Lanterns and there is only one absolute criterion for being chosen as a Green Lantern: fearlessness.
"Idealism" has nothing to do with it.
In fact, one Green Lantern, Guy Gardiner was a complete jerk.
48 posted on 06/01/2012 5:32:31 AM PDT by ct_libertarian (W.W.J.G.D? What would John Galt do?)
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To: freebird5850

Take comfort...G-d will save those who belong to Him...He gave His word.


49 posted on 06/01/2012 5:33:00 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: tobyhill
Funny, my brother and I came up with a spoof of Green Lantern called "The Pink Lamp-post." You could say we predicted this. ;)

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50 posted on 06/01/2012 5:34:12 AM PDT by Thorliveshere
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