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

So it's Alan Scott.... MHSW!!!! (I always thought he was hot anyway!!)

At the risk of sounding cynical... does anyone really think this company really cares about breaking grounds with a new gay character?

The fact that they're turning one of their preexisting characters gay instead of coming up with a new one seems like a surefire way to attract more readers and regain old ones who've grown weary about the way Didio and his minions have handled things.

"Guess what? [insert name] is back!"

"So?"

"Took long enough."

"Is Lian Harper alive yet?"

"But now he's gay!"

"WOAH!"

This feels exactly the same as when they announced Cyborg as a member of the Justice League. Breaking ground by adding in one of the most memorable characters they had to their premier team. Oh wait. They added him because he's black.

If they wanted a black member of the JL why not John Stewart? Because of the JL cartoon many people know him best and actually think he's the original anyway.

Because Johns spent so much time building up Cyborg in Flashpoint as that time's equivalent to Superman.

And since Johns is basically the architect of the DCnU... like he was with Infinite Crisis...

This is why I'm not so into news from comic conventions because they drop hints intentionally and to intentionally mislead just to keep the frenzy going about their event. And meanwhile say nothing about other events that are dropping, keeping their real surprises secret.

Anyhoo ... don't get me started on all the diversity talk before the reboot ... taking Vixen, Dr. Light and Black Lightning off the JLA to add a lonely Cyborg

go diversity DC! <--- :rolleyes:

I still think that Shazam would have been a good choice.
I agree that 'Billy' would need to grow up some to become a William, but he needs to do that anyway.
Having Captain Marvel be the avatar of a child was always pretty silly and a little repulsive, to begin with.
:rolleyes:

And over on JLI, taking Fire and vixen out of the equation. Boo!

Stupid Q, but... What does MHSW mean?

I was wondering too.

EDE:

Mr. Nebula seems close enough.

I'd even hesitate to call it an "announcement." It was DiDio's response to a direct question about LGBT characters and whether his position on changing the orientation of previously straight characters in the new 52 had changed. He had previously stated that he'd rather see the company create a new character for whom being gay was part of the character from the get go, rather than altering a pre-existing character. The questioner asked the question in light of other changes to new 52 characters.

It's officially confirmed. It is Alan Scott. He has a cute boyfriend and they have a kissing scene in next week's Earth 2.

A big strapping Alan Scott too!

I'm very pleased so far.

People seem to be concerned that there will be no Jade or Obsidian now, or Obsidian won't be gay but ... that seems something to think about WAY down the line, since this Alan Scott is young.

gays can have all kindsa kids anyways.

For those who haven't seen the big strapping Alan Scott kiss his friend (seems likely a boyfriend but the do like to throw in red herrings every so often), here's a link on geeksout .

So...is "Sam" a totally new character? Or is there some obscure Golden Age character whose secret identity was "Sam" something? (Not counting Uncle Sam, I can't think off-hand of a "Sam" in the bunch, but James knows more of them than anyone with the possible exception of Roy Thomas.)

I'm assuming it's a new character.