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Pink Lantern? Didn't they sing backup for some 70s crooner?
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I was going to make a joke about no respectable gay man wearing that color scheme, but thought better of it.
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Maybe Obsidian and Damon could help him with his wardrobe.
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From page six... Originally posted by Cobalt Kid: - when can we start joking about his weakness to wood?   Poor POV...three pages late and a pair of pants short. 
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Originally posted by SharkLad:
Nobody has made a "Pink Lantern" joke yet? What emotion would pink represent? Green - will Yellow - fear Blue - hope Red - rage Violet - love Orange - avarice Indigo - compassion Pink - ?????
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Not much between despair and ecstacy
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Originally posted by Kent Shakespeare:
agreed. Iconic implies not just a big name within comics, but one that has permeated outside of the usual comics fanbase. I don't necessarily agree. I think a character that spans 60+ years could be considered iconic even without non-fan recognition.
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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.
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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.
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Originally posted by Dev - Em: Poor POV...three pages late and a pair of pants short. 
"Anytime a good book like this is cancelled, I hope another Teen Titan is murdered." --Cobalt
"Anytime an awesome book like S6 is cancelled, I hope EVERY Titan is murdered." --Me
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With all the fun that a certain Mr. Matt provides over on FB, it's easy to get distracted here.
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Those 1 million moms are buzz kills ... how irrelevant are they ... someone should sue them to take out 'mom' from their name.
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You could probably get an actual one million moms to sign up for that as a class action thingy. Wouldn't win, but still.
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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.
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Long live the Legion!
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Originally posted by Dev - Em:
...being fabulous Beat me to it, I was totally gonna say fabulousness. Or perhaps flamboyance? Or even the other, other meaning of gay, 'carefree, happy.'
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Considering there's a "Mr. Terrific" and a "Mr. Fantastic", I'm really surprised there's never been a comic character named "Mr. Fabulous".
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Originally posted by Shining Son:
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. 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.
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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.
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Hmm... this could also explain his fondness for Dickles*! *Doiby, that is!
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Still "Lardy" to my friends!
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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?
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Of course they'll revert to calling him Sentinel because we all know that's more iconic than Green Lantern. 
First comic books ever bought: A DC four-for-47-cents grab bag that included Adventure #331. The rest is history.
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Well at least it's more iconic to Alan Scott in particular.
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