Me and my new scooter! It’s a 2007 Genuine Buddy 125, nice and coppery. Naming process starts now! My old one is Pia…
It looks kind of gold to me…maybe Booster?
… THE BEST POST. Seriously, Alan Scott, NOBODY IS IMPRESSED, DC.
DC just wanted some press and a ‘good job on having some gays’ cookie. But people aren’t that stupid, DC. No cookies for you.
Exactly. They don’t give a shit about any kind of inclusivity or diversity that isn’t trendy and won’t grab headlines.
All I’m saying is, I refuse to rest until there’s fic that turns this situation into that Christopher Plummer movie where the dad comes out as gay after his wife dies, only in this version his son’s gay too and reluctantly lets himself be convinced to take his dad out to the clubs.
I kind of appreciate that (bearing in mind Marvel’s shortcomings) DC is like GUYS. GUYS. WE MADE SOMEONE /GAY/! and over at Marvel everyone is like, What was that, sorry, we’re at the gay wedding of some canon gays who have been gaying it up for TWENTY YEARS.
The only issue is calling Alan Scott a “major character”, though if you define “major character” as “someone headlining a book”, he is one. Seeing as his book is JUST STARTING, (a) it doesn’t matter if you don’t know him *yet*, and (b) I don’t think this was “oh shit make someone gay” so much as “oh shit we need to revamp the JSA characters”. They made the announcement first, but I don’t think they were like “Shit shit make someone gay. Who? Alan Scott,” so much as “Hey, can we make Alan Scott gay? Please? Thank you,” and then PR wanted to make a story out of it.
Seeing as Batwoman has been solidly kicking people’s asses and being unapologetically queer since she appeared in the DickBats era (when she headlined Detective Comics) and now has her own book, this isn’t the first major gay character. (And her comic doesn’t leave her sex life a mystery.) Speaking of which, Maggie Sawyer’s been a gay supporting character for quite some time. And there are a pretty large number of other people here and there that I’m not as familiar with (eta: like Alan’s gay son, who was deleted in the reboot with the deaging and shit). Not to mention DC’s incorporation of Wildstorm’s Apollo and Midnighter, or the creation of Bunker for the new 52 Teen Titans.
What this changes is an earlier policy they had where they said they would create new gay characters but they would not change the orientation of canonically straight ones. If that eventually allows other writers to reveal preexisting characters as bi or asexual or something, I’m not going to complain.
Also fuck you, Googler. Alan Scott is a Green Lantern (you know those, right?) and moreover, the first Green Lantern, and he’s been kicking it since 1940 (he was created like 2 months after Dick/Robin).
Alex and I determined, through science, that it would be a green lantern or a flash. Alex guessed Kyle Rayner, but I just woke him up and he says Alan Scott is a “cool” option. (is he is own gay son now? is that how reboots work?) (by the way we used the science of “they are going to pick one of the things where there are a lot of those things and just make one gay”)
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The Doctor is kind of horrible at playing dead.
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