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Posts will still be spotty for awhile, but I’m back. The number of mainstream comics titles featuring LGBT characters has skyrocketed since I began this blog in April of 2008 with the intent of spotlighting LGBT heroes, villains and supporting characters. Between new characters surfacing and old favorites being retconned, it was inevitable I’d miss a few important stories while I was busy stealing the life of a more successful me from an alternate dimension, so I’m going to try and catch up now… BEWARE SPOILERS ABOUND and PLEASE COMMENT IF I LEFT ANYTHING OUT – or if you just want to discuss how cool it is to have heroic LGBT representation in 10 titles on the racks at every comic store! (well 9 after the end of Avengers Academy). If you want Marvel and DC to keep it up… START BUYING ANY OF THE FOLLOWING TITLES IF YOU AREN’T ALREADY!!! If we buy them, they may keep making them.
I mentioned Northstar‘s Astonishing X-Men nuptials before they occurred but I was too occupied with “moving details” by the actual wedding date to blog about it. The event went off like clockwork despite the telepathic machinations of Susan Hatchi (Karma’s half-sister) and Jean-Paul’s Sh’iar teammate Warbird’s protests. The reception afterward was a total blast until Wolverine exploded.
Kevin Keller‘s solo series is wholesome, sweet and funny. It simultaneously manages the difficult task of empowering LGBT youth and remaining completely appropriate for its intended age group. We’ve seen Kevin’s first date and moment in the spotlight as an Olympic torchbearer. We’ve also seen “Future Kevin” (the one who was married in the pages of Life With Archie) announce a run for Senate with a platform centered on gun laws in LWA #24.
Bunker, (Miguel Jose Barragan) the flamboyantly out-n-proud new member of the Teen Titans is discovering new aspects of his powers (levitation) but his personal story hasn’t really unfolded yet. Interviews with creators mentioned a past love that has yet to surface on panel.
Rictor and Shatterstar are still together as a romantic couple (despite Rob Liefeld’s objections) and both are active members of X-Factor – but with the current arc who knows… relationships are evolving and unraveling at the speed of light as the team gets closer to their milestone 250th issue.
Apollo and Midnighter‘s rebooted relationship continues to grow in the pages of Stormwatch. We’ve seen a number of empowering small moments (connecting with Jenny Quantum), but not that much time spotlighting the personal side of their romance. I ALREADY know they can decimate anything when working in concert… I’d like to see a “date night.”
Gotham socialite Kate Kane, A.K.A.Batwoman stalks the city’s dark streets (to critical acclaim) when she’s not busy canoodling with Detective Maggie Sawyer of the GCPD (not to mention winning her SECOND GLAAD award for “Outstanding Comic” – the first was in 2010).
X-Men Legacy #274 told a touching tale in which Rogue was unable to save a mortally injured closeted gay man and used her ability to “reap” him and deliver a message of love and regret to the man’s former lover. Oh yeah, she also rejected Magneto’s marriage proposal.
In the final issue of Avengers Academy, Julie Power and Karolina Dean are making rainbows in the sky as fame-hungry Striker (Brandon Sharpe) makes his first post scars public appearance at the Prom of a gay teen inspired by Brandon’s “It Gets Better” video – making it a recond-breaking TWO LGBT kisses in one issue! Including Marvels SECOND on-panel gay male kiss, and not that long after the first (Wiccan and Hulkling in the last issue of Avengers: The Children’s Crusade). Someone else will have to write up a scorecard on girl on girl snogging in the Marvel U. Anyone up to it?
DC Comics New 52 has become even more inclusive with an intersex re-invention of “The Shining Knight” who appears in their medieval title, Demon Knights.
In a recent issue (#14), Shining Knight a.k.a. Ystin informs a female comrade who’s seemingly taken a “shine” to the mystical hero. “I think you like one… aspect of who I am,” the Knight explains. “But I’m the other too. I was born this way. I’ve kept saying, whenever anyone asks. I’m not just a man or a woman. I’m both.”
We met Earth-2‘s Alan Scott and his loving boyfriend Sam who was unfortunately doomed to be the emotional loss that drives Green Lantern as a hero and Avatar of “The Green.” During his first heroic battle (vs a reimagined Grundy as an avatar of “The Grey”) he is given a chance to be with an illusion of Sam, but overcomes temptation. After the fight he blows off Flash and Hawkgirl, saying he doesn’t need them. Bullshit. Without them Grundy would have smashed him into paste while his psyche was busy mentally snuggling with a mushroom shaped like Sam.
Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Season 9 introduces a multitude of BtVS fans th "Billy the Vampire Slayer" who is not only the first male character to take on the name of "Slayer," but also the first GAY male "Slayer." Not before you tell me a "Slayer" has to be female – according to the Legend – you are right. Billy has NO "Slayer" powers. He is a bullied teen who started training to defend himself but stepped up to defend his home town from a scourge of "Zompires" – I’ve not been following Season 8 before Billy – but they seem like slow stupid Vampires? More details soon.
Wiccan and Hulkling will appear in the Marvel NOW! January 2013 title Young Avengers alongside original teammate Kate Bishop. Rounding out the roster are teen Loki, Marvel Boy (Noh-Varr A.K.A. “Protector”), and Miss America Chavez. I’m really glad to see Noh-Varr taking off his Protector cowl and joining YA. but I still miss Stature and young Vision and also wish Wiccan’s twin “Speed” was going to be along for the ride.
The “mystery” is over… it’s OFFICIAL, Earth 2′s sole Green Lantern Alan Scott is gay and has a boyfriend named Sam. This is happening, so if we want to see more inclusion on this level, LGBT comic fans (myself included) should try to get past our petty complaints about how he’s not good high profile enough or “what about his kids and wife” and embrace Alan Scott so whole-heartedly that people google “who is Hal Jordan?.” It’s bad enough that thinly veiled hate groups like inaccurately named One Million Moms are saying LGBT adults don’t need Gay Superheroes – as if we spring fully grown from nowhere. Whether or not LGBT adults need gay superheroes, LGBT kids do. There ARE LGBT kids out there who need this. Who the HELL are OMM to tell the LGBT community what we need? Lets make this Green Lantern bigger than Batwoman.
I know many feel let down… That Alan Scott is not “A” list enough. But to those who thought Iconic meant Superman, Batman, Hal Jordan, Flash or even Superboy or Robin – that was NOT going to happen and could have caused more damage than good. It would have pissed off the straight fanboy demographic too much and given too much ammunition to the religious right hate groups. Despite some definite downsides to this direction for Alan Scott (loss of Jade and Obsidian), a gay hero in the captain’s chair (so I hear) of Earth 2′s premier super-squad, the Justice Society is still pretty damn cool. The progress in LGBT empowerment by the comics industry JUST in the 4+ years I’ve been blogging as HeroesNHunks are really amazing.
you can’t fault Earth 2 writer James Robinson’s motivation and aside from temporarily turning Tasmanian Devil into a rug he’s been an ally. Here is his explanation for retconning Alan Scott’s sexual orientation…
In Alan’s prior version, he had been an old man with a gay son [Obsidian]. And removing that character from the DC Universe bothered me — the fact that we were taking a gay character out of circulation. And it occurred to me: Why not just make Alan Scott gay? He’s still interesting, he’s still a dynamic hero, a great man, but he happens to be gay. So I suggested that to Dan, and to his credit, there wasn’t a moment’s hesitation. He was like, “Yeah, sure, that sounds great.” So there wasn’t a huge editorial think tank; it was just an idea that got put forward and was accepted.
Below are a few more panels from Earth 2 #1. Note Alan’s eagerness to get to China (where Samuel meets him at the Hong Kong airport). I hope they don’t kill off the boyfriend as part of Alan’s requisite “inciting tragedy”.
Hopefully at some undisclosed point in Earth 2′s future, emotionally unstable villainess Rose Canton (a.k.a. Rose & Thorn) will become sexually obsessed with Alan and capture him (her plant-based abilities could kick his ass if he is still vulnerable to wood – lets hope not, that was always stupid). Once she has him in her clutches she can take what she needs to grow twins Todd and Jennie. If Nightwing can get raped by a girl, so could Alan Scott. Or she could have been his prom date and he was a late bloomer. Then Obsidian and Jade could arrive along with the rest of their time traveling friends in Infinity Inc.
From the sound of the “magical” country vacation Alan and Sam have planned, it sounds like his origin may or may not still be centered around the mysterious mystical “green flame” that fell in ancient China and was eventually identified as the Starheart , but it won’t be related to the central power battery of an interstellar Green Lantern Corps.
I thought I would celebrate the upcoming June 17 debut of Ryan Reynolds as the silver screen Hal Jordan with a gallery of the hottest celeb fakes I could find on him. The obvious standout of the bunch would be the Green Lantern themed first image by the ever talented demon48180. Other notable regular JustUsBoys fakers with work featured here include: foodandart, maleeropainter, Ravenswood, JCeeee, GáTa81, man91433, qwerty36, Fabrizio23 a.k.a. FakeHim, TeamPolo, anavar and CFoBan.
I’ve collected these images from a number of male celeb fake sites, they are NOT my own work. As always I’ve included the name of the artist in the caption if I could identify them. If you recognize someone’s work, PLEASE leave a comment with the image # and name of artist. THANKS!
This NEW Green Lantern trailer hits the nail SQUARE on the head and drives it all the way in. Both the epic scale of OA and the Green Lantern’s mission are truly captured and I’m far more excited than I was before to see this!!! And I was pretty psyched already.
This is an excellent (if simplified) explanation of the origins of the Green Lantern Corps and introduction to Parallax. I think many of the plot points from Geoff Johns’ recent retelling of Hal Jordan’s origin will make for great cinema. I’ll be interested to see how influential his retconned additions are to the screenplay. I think this looks so good I’m already hoping there is a sequel introducing MORE of the Spectrum. Hmm Blake Lively as Star Sapphire? Can she fill out that outfit?
The very first Green Lantern Trailer was too “funny.” It focused more than it should on Ryan Reynolds ability to crack a quip, which made the movie seem less serious than it should. I don’t think I was alone in that feeling. This is an intergalactic peacekeeping force we are talking about. The fate of the ENTIRE universe often depends on the outcome of their battles. Its not a night of stand-up at the Laugh Factory. I’d heard there was some “retooling” after the initial fan reaction, and if the trailer above is any way to judge, I must have heard right.
Posted in Comics, SFW on 03/23/2011 01:49 pm by fanboi
Not that things were slow in any of the Green Lantern titles, but DC’s turned up the heat and brought the whole thing to a boil. The Guardians ordered Hal Jordan’s arrest last issue because he’s a loose cannon with his own agenda.
“War of the Green Lanterns” ignites with part 1 of the blockbuster event that’ll burn into the summer! A malevolent force has usurped control over all the power batteries, leaving the Corps powerless except for a select few members. Now it’s up to Hal Jordan, Guy Gardner, Kyle Rayner, John Stewart and Sinestro to regain control – but can these warriors overcome their differences in time to save the univers
I DON’T think Hal will be going quietly. He’s too busy saving the universe to bother with the little blue fascists.
Posted in Comics, SFW on 12/14/2010 11:41 am by fanboi
The final page of last month’s Green Lantern #59 showed us that the Parallax entity had taken over Barry Allen (The Flash). As if that wasn’t enough to wrote about, Hal Jordan is going to have his hands full in issue #60, defending himself against a cosmically possessed speedster while safeguarding that same speedster from whoever has been targeting the entities from each color of the power ring spectrum.
DC claims we’ll learn the identity of this cloaked mystery figure – and he’s not from Earth and NOT A GUARDIAN! So who could it be? Any of you heavy-duty Lanternophiles have any ideas as to who this could be? Let’s hear it!
Here is the first look at the official trailer (as seen on E!) for the upcoming 2011 Green Lantern film starring People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive 2010 – Ryan Reynolds as the first human member of the Green Lantern Corps… Hal Jordan.
I’m torn. Hate to say it didn’t really knock my socks off – but it didn’t. I like the costume better than I thought I would, but still seems off without the white. I DO love the look of planet Oa. And I bet there is still a bit of post production to be done to a few of those shots. I’ll be seeing it – no question. I just hope it’s better than Iron Man 2 – that doesn’t set the bar too high.
Be sure to tune in to Entertainment Tonight, but not tonight – Tuesday night! They’ll be giving the world it’s first in-depth look at Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan, Earth’s first Green Lantern.
I wasn’t too sure about his costume when I saw the first pics, but in these fleeting glimpses it looks good. I’ll have to get a better look on Tuesday.
Comic Con 2010 has left me with more news than is fit to print. Lets start with the revelations about the Green Lantern movie. The logo and first set of movie posters have been officially released. Other tidbits include the dropping of some Green Lantern names to be included in the film: Sinestro, Tomar-Re, Kilowog and Bzzd (who is dead in current continuity).
This YouTube clip of the Green Lantern mivie panel at Comic Con 2010 is exceptionally slow to load – so walk away and let it download and play in its choppy manner – than replay it after.
These images gives us a bit more to go on than the scant few published a few weeks ago in Entertainment Weekly. The cover image is thus far the only shot we’ve seen of the Green Lantern costume. While some hardcore fanboys are crying foul (as is want to happen whenever a 4 color hero goes live-action for the silver screen) because of some obvious differences between the traditional GL togs and what Ryan Reynolds is sporting in the photo. The familiar white gloves and black sleeves are gone, replaced with a muscle hugging GCI suit made of light. When asked about the differences, Reynolds said the following…
The white gloves aren’t there, and I think that’s fine because, specifically, they’re lame. Truthfully, we’ve only seen a tiny glimpse of the suit. We haven’t seen it in motion, and we haven’t seen the full suit as well.
Posted in Comics, SFW on 03/22/2010 05:30 pm by fanboi
I’ve been dying to see what happens now that we saw Sinestro grab the white ring. What has he become? What does the White ring do? Can he retain the power? How far will Hal Jordan do to take it from him? Why was the White Lantern source entity hidden for so long?
GREEN LANTERN #52, the penultimate chapter of BLACKEST NIGHT featuring the universe’s most surprising White Lantern on its cover, courtesy of writer Geoff Johns and artist Doug Mahnke.
