New Green Lantern’s Power Ring is Worn on Something Brown

Weeks of speculation over which DC character was going to come out of the closet as a rump-ranging friend of Dorothy has been answered. Its the Green Lantern! Holla!

From the NYPost here:

One of DC Comics oldest heroes is super-coming out.
The original Green Lantern – a DC Comics mainstay for the past 70 years – will be revealed to be a gay man in next week’s issue of “Earth 2.”

The Emerald Guardian’s sexuality was rebooted along with the rest of his fictional universe as part of DC’s “New 52” initiative aimed at rejuvenating their characters.

Robinson, a British writer who lives in San Francisco with his wife, is no stranger to gay characters

“He’s a type-A personality who doesn’t hide in the shadows,” Robinson said.

“I hope he’s a positive figure. If there’s some kind of kid out there who’s reading the comic and who’s worried about the person he is, maybe it will give him a positive sense of who he is. Or maybe a different kid will read it and decide I don’t need to bully some kind of kid in school,” Robinson said.

While a gay wedding in Archie Comics earlier this year and impending same-sex nuptials in a Marvel X-Men comic have recieved a small amount of backlash from angry parents, Robinson said he’s not worried about that because “that kind of negativity is stupid and outmoded. We should be preaching love and tolerance,” he said.

Ya think the series is going to generate dollars, which is really the only thing comic book writers should be concerned about? If so, good for them. If not, will DC stoop to calling its readers “homophobic” for not buying it which is what liberals tend to do? Will DC have to beg for Federal subsidies to keep the book going when no one wants to buy it? And WTF would you want to buy a comic book about “love and tolerance?” Give me the Hulk smashing anyday.