Actually, in the case of John Stewart (the only black Green Lantern I know of), it's quite the opposite:
Posted on 09/05/2013 6:51:06 PM PDT by Kip Russell
Green Lantern... Black superhero...Gay
Actually, in the case of John Stewart (the only black Green Lantern I know of), it's quite the opposite:
“It’s interesting that the issue at hand isn’t that the characters are lesbians, but rather that DC Comics doesn’t want any of their characters to be married, straight or gay. As noted above, Superman’s marriage to Lois Lane was erased from continuity, as was that of The Flash. Over at Marvel Comics, Spider-Man’s marriage was also wiped from existence recently.”
For all their pretensions of “maturity”, the comics industry can’t handle complexity very well. So instead they substitute a little of the old ultra-violence instead. Relationships are hard to write, but rape isn’t.
There have been exceptions, of course...the comics of Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman come to mind immediately... but (to paraphrase Theodore Sturgeon) 90% of comics stink. But then, 90% of everything stinks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_Law
What we need is Superman lamenting how different he is and Batman being played by Ben Affleck.
I smell Sit Com!
Good. Time to weed the faggots out of the comic book business.
Kids still read them, too.
I remember reading Archie comics when I was probably 6 or 7 in the mid-1960s. You would have been thought insane to publish such a thing.
HELL NO! That was "Green Lantern!"
Justice League Unlimited and the rest of the series in the DC Animated Universe are, collectively, the best iteration of the superhero genre ever put on television.
As far as I can tell, Batwoman is still going to be portrayed as a lesbian...she just won't be getting married, because DC Comics doesn't want any of their characters to be married.
It really is a sad thing, that this material is being used to indoctrinate so many.
Who says this isn’t a free country? Look at what people will let you have done to yourself!
I think that’s it exactly. The escapism is drained out and replaced with the reality of married life. Not to mention all the questions readers would raise with their parents or older peers.
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