Friday, June 01, 2012

The Green Lantern comes out of the closet


From ew, Earlier this month, DC co-publisher Dan DiDio revealed to a convention audience in England a heretofore heterosexual DC superhero would be coming out of the closet. DiDio kept mum about the hero’s identity, although he did note that it would be “one of the major iconic DC characters.” Today, DC has confirmed Internet rumors that the character in question is Alan Scott, a.k.a. the original Green Lantern, currently appearing as a lead character in DC’s Earth 2. EW spoke to Earth 2 writer James Robinson (Starman, The Golden Age) about the rebooted version of one of DC’s original heroes.

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3 comments:

JPX said...

I would have had my money on the Green Arrow.

Octopunk said...

I skimmed this while in line for coffee and was going to say something about how they obviously threatened to out Green Lantern if Green Lantern didn't do well and here we are, BUT...

It's Alan Scott! Not the iconic Green Lantern but his little-known predecessor, whose weakness was not the color yellow but rather wood. What a gyp!

Jordan said...

Yeah, that IS a gyp.

No way it would be Green Arrow; he's MUCH too busy drooling over his "woman," Black Canary. (He would have to be "overcompensating.")

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