Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Dr. Gym'll's Cultural Rarities E2 Alan Scott is the ex-straight "iconic male" DC character to be rebooted gay

Pink Lantern? Didn't they sing backup for some 70s crooner?

I was going to make a joke about no respectable gay man wearing that color scheme, but thought better of it.

Maybe Obsidian and Damon could help him with his wardrobe.

From page six... Poor POV...three pages late and a pair of pants short.

What emotion would pink represent?

Green - will
Yellow - fear
Blue - hope
Red - rage
Violet - love
Orange - avarice
Indigo - compassion
Pink - ?????

...being fabulous

... being hot?

I don't necessarily agree. I think a character that spans 60+ years could be considered iconic even without non-fan recognition.

If this news release was aimed just for comics audiences, I'd agree.

But since it was aimed wider, I don't think Alan qualifies. Moreover, for the alt-earths, alt-GLs factors for wider public confusion mentioned previously, it seems more and more unlikely.

That would narrow their scope more than I would think that they would want to. There are really only a handful of characters that the general populace knows from DC Comics...and those have all been reintroduced already.

I think they are going to be a bit more liberal in their final definition of iconic.

With all the fun that a certain Mr. Matt provides over on FB, it's easy to get distracted here.

Those 1 million moms are buzz kills ... how irrelevant are they ... someone should sue them to take out 'mom' from their name.

You could probably get an actual one million moms to sign up for that as a class action thingy. Wouldn't win, but still.

Thinking about Alan Scott's claim to iconism, one could make a point that he was the first Green Lantern, and headlined his own series back when MOST boys read comics. Might have had a larger circulation and recognition in his day than any GL since has had.

That a fair percentage of that audience has passed away is a mitigating factor perhaps, but it's all in your definition of iconic.

Beat me to it, I was totally gonna say fabulousness.

Or perhaps flamboyance? Or even the other, other meaning of gay, 'carefree, happy.'

Considering there's a "Mr. Terrific" and a "Mr. Fantastic", I'm really surprised there's never been a comic character named "Mr. Fabulous".

I still think it'd cause too much public confusion. DC would spend so much time trying to clarify the different GLs, Earth-2, and why none of the more recent GLs were chosen.

I'm not opposed to a gay Alan (or most any character being revised, save possibly for the ruining of a classic romance), but since this announcement has from the get-go been aimed at the public perhaps even more so than comicdom, I think DC knows it needs a simple message that will resonate, without having to explain too many genre-specific details.

I'm not sure it was initially aimed at the public. Didn't Dan Didio first made the announcement at a comic book convention? I would think if it was supposed to be made to the general public, DC would have issued a press release and/or held a press conference rather than make the announcement at a comic convention panel.

Hmm... this could also explain his fondness for Dickles*!


*Doiby, that is!

^ Wocka, wocka!

so looks like it is gonna be confirmed....not 100% yet but perhaps.

check out the link to Bleeding Cool -

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/05/27/yes-america-its-alan-scott/

and another joke on "flaming" ....heh.

Not quite sure what the point is in posting "a stronger source agrees with the first report, but I could still be wrong." So it's a stronger maybe now?

Of course they'll revert to calling him Sentinel because we all know that's more iconic than Green Lantern.

Well at least it's more iconic to Alan Scott in particular.