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Post by Mutant Couch on May 23, 2012 18:41:17 GMT -5
Is this DC's answer to Northstar marrying his boyfriend?
It HAS to be Green Lantern. His super power comes from an accessory. Seriously, he has to accessorize to be super. Guy Gardner would be perfect. I'm already confident that he's gay. They just need to announce it, really.
They'll probably cop out and make it Alfred or Jimmy Olson. Both of which we already know are gay.
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Post by Brandon on May 23, 2012 18:43:00 GMT -5
Yeah, Alfred is definitely in the closet cave.
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Post by jayzero42690 on May 23, 2012 18:51:13 GMT -5
I say Flash. Aquaman is too easy tbh. He already gets seaman jokes.
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Post by Brandon on May 23, 2012 18:52:00 GMT -5
Whoever it is, I hope they get a cute makeover.
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Post by Mutant Couch on May 23, 2012 20:00:52 GMT -5
I was looking for evidence of the sexual tension between Batman and Guy and this came up. I think it would be best if they just brought Guy and Batman out as a couple, really. They've had years of will they/won't they. I avoided the obvious instances of domestic violence.
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Post by Tarry on May 25, 2012 14:58:10 GMT -5
After finding out what happens to Katie in Kick-Ass 2, I think I'll give it a miss. I just don't think that's needed in Kick-Ass, it's basically been included to cause more controversy than they really need.
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Post by Astrozombie on May 30, 2012 5:01:25 GMT -5
I swear, I can never find this thread whenever I want to post in it. Anyways I'm pretty close to finishing up The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, which is actually a decent read. It's about this girl whose best friends were killed inside an asylum (the building collapsed), and she was the only survivor, but basically she starts to go cray cray. It's pretty angsty, but it's also kinda romance heavy. And then tomorrow after I work I plan to go get Dreamless (sequel to Starcrossed, I know. I read the girliest shit). But thennnn I was searching around on amazon and apparently there's a book called 'Of Poseidon' and it's a YA book about mermaids. I'm trying to decide if I should give it a shot, I read the first page and the writing is meh, but mermaids. I've yet to determine whether or not this is a new low for me.
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Post by jayzero42690 on Jun 1, 2012 6:10:10 GMT -5
And DC's new gay Superhero is.....THE GREEN LANTERNComing out of Kapow!, headlines formed across comic book media when Dan Didio made an off-hand remark at a panel about the introduction of a new gay character in the DC Universe – an established, “iconic” character that used to be straight. DC Comics has officially revealed that character to be Alan Scott, the original Green Lantern and current cast member of James Robinson and Nicola Scott’s Earth 2 monthly series. Earth 2 #2, hitting stores Wednesday, holds the reveal (shown below) – though it should be noted that DC hadn’t really planned on making the announcement the big deal it became. I talked to Robinson earlier in the week to talk about the situation, who said, “I thought it would just come out in the book – I’m surprised I’m even doing interviews. Now that I’m doing it, I’m very happy to and I’m glad for the attention because obviously I want my book to be successful, and the attention will hopefully lead to that." Robinson explained that the genesis of Alan Scott’s homosexuality came to him at the very start of planning out the series. He said that he realized the New 52 would be losing Obsidian – Alan Scott’s biological son, who was actually gay himself – and so his solution was to bring that trait to Alan. Of course, many fans have accused DC of trying to snag headlines through a character’s debut as a gay man, due mostly to the news breaking just as Marvel announced the marriage of Northstar to his boyfriend Kyle. Robinson responded, “The thing is, I first came up with this idea 8 months ago when I started putting the team together. Dan Didio made an off-hand comment at a panel; it wasn’t a big ‘We’re doing a gay character!’ thing. It was the media that ran with it. So in terms of DC headline grabbing, I think they’ve been handed headlines. I can’t speak for Dan Didio, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he wasn’t as surprised as I am about all the attention that it has gotten.” For her part, artist Nicola Scott said, “Before starting work on #1, the first document I had to work from was the character breakdowns for our primary players. With Alan the brief was very clear. He needed to be a big, strapping, handsome man that everyone would instinctively follow and love. No short order but right up my ally. Alan strikes me as an incredibly open, honest, and warm man, a natural leader and absolutely the right choice to be Guardian of the Earth. His sexuality is incidental. Every time I draw him I love him even more.” But the surprising attention hasn’t affected Robinson’s approach to the character or the series. Of the sudden spotlight, he said, “I was looking at the finished printed book yesterday, so you can’t change anything and it is what it is. If this had happened 5 months ago when I was writing it, maybe it would have changed things. But at this point, I’m busy thinking about the next arc of the book.” Alan Scott debuted in All-American Comics #16 in 1940, and has little to do with the Green Lantern Corps mythology that most have come to know. Scott’s abilities aren’t based in science/technology but magic, though we have yet to see how his origin as Green Lantern plays out in the New 52 world. Despite the “new” Alan Scott being gay, Robinson assured readers that he’s staying true to the character’s roots in the Golden Age of comics. “Alan Scott back then was an engineer but very quickly he became a radio broadcaster, then he owned the radio station, and then got into television. He was always this dynamic Type A personality; very heroic, very brave, very honorable,” said Robinson. “That’s who Allan Scott is – and yes, a facet of him is that he’s gay, but there’re many, many other facets to the character." Robinson brought up other members of the Justice Society as well, teasing what’s to come in future issues. “Jay Garrick was this guy straight out of college, very young, very open eyed with a very positive attitude. That’s what this Jay Garrick is. And Ted Grant is a fighter; the essence of who he was in the 1940s. You’re going to see that when you finally see that character.” He continued, “While I’m updating them and making them younger and changing them in some ways, I’m also trying to be very protective and continue my love of these characters that I’ve always had. When readers see what I’m doing I think they’ll realize that these are still the characters they love.” Robinson said he isn’t fazed by the controversy and discussion that now surrounds his book. “I did the first gay kiss in comics back in 1998 in Starman, so it isn’t like I haven’t been doing this sort of thing for a while. It just makes good, rounded characters and good, rounded teams. It can be about diversity, but for me, it’s just about the realism.” He concluded, “If you live in New York or Florida or San Francisco or London, it’s different races, different sexualities. It’s just how the world is, so I’m just trying to reflect that.”
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Post by Mutant Couch on Jun 1, 2012 13:11:25 GMT -5
That totally explains why his power ring was powerless against wood.
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Post by Brandon on Jun 1, 2012 18:36:09 GMT -5
Lord, they're stereotyping Green Lantern already, calling his ring ~fabulous.
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Post by Mutant Couch on Jun 1, 2012 21:50:24 GMT -5
Just wait until his power ring is no longer only green, but rainbow colors. It'll happen.
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Post by Tarry on Jun 6, 2012 11:38:49 GMT -5
This was my reaction when this came through the letter box this morning. The first issue wasn't as good as I thought it would be tbh. It started off with The Borg & The Cybermen attacking a planet, and then jumped to The Doctor, Amy, and Rory in ancient Egypt, then it ended with the three of them walking into a bar in 1940's San Francisco where The Doctor spotted Data. Hopefully the second issue is better.
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Post by Tiarnán on Jun 9, 2012 16:26:18 GMT -5
I finished The Mill for Grinding Old People Young. Some parts were really brilliant, but I was just rushing through it at the end.
I'm going to start The Great Gatsby again. I never actually read beyond the first chapter back when we had to read it at A Level and just used an online synopsis for the exam (and somehow managed to get my best result ever by sheer luck). I never really gave it a chance, but I know people who wouldn't ordinarily read that much who swear by its brilliance.
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Post by Astrozombie on Jun 11, 2012 9:34:03 GMT -5
Have you guys heard about '50 Shades of Grey' yet? Basically it's a book written by an author whom was inspired by Twilight, and incorporated her Twilight fan fiction into it and got that shit published.
I die.
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Post by Tiarnán on Jun 11, 2012 17:36:22 GMT -5
The Great Gatsby is a lot better than I ever expected it to be, but I don't think I like ANY of the characters. I mean, 'don't like' as in I don't find any of them endearing or likeable. They're certainly interesting.
I need something else to read now.
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