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DC is still dragging its feet and hemming and hawing over a trade release of the 1992 Straziewski-Parobeck "Justice Society of America" run. They promised it years ago and have never delivered - and...

More than a year later, and still - nothing.

At this rate I don't believe we ever will see a collected trade of the 1992 series. Which is a shame, as those issues were delightful - light-hearted...

No, but notice how Madame Fatal, that I alluded to earlier, was handled. He (yes the character was male) had no love interest whatsoever, the only female in his life was his young daughter, he lived...

DC has been there and done that already, long ago. It was toward the end of the Green Lantern/Green Arrow run, when Alan Scott stories were sometimes added as backups. Chang the Sorcerer (from...

Basically, yeah. But I don't trust DC to do right by the character, because of their LOOOONG track record of making arbitrary and capricious changes without thinking things through.

By the way,...

And Superman and Lois Lane, and Batman and Catwoman, and, and, and. The number of Golden Age superheroes who were introduced with girlfriend is a lot smaller than that of those who acquired one...

Bzzzt - WRONG!



True enough. They've been even more the red-headed stepchildren of DC than the JSA have, and with far less reason (except getting too closely tied to the Super-office and...

True...but when a character has been 102% straight in the shade for 80 years and never a shadow of a doubt about it, it's awfully wrenching (and HORRIBLY BAD writing) to be told "Ha ha, now he's gay...

Because no one has ever changed it, no matter how many times it was retold. Bridge; train; test run; sabotage causing train wreck; magic lantern saves only Alan. That's the nub of it, even now.
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"Has Alan Scott had his appearance or personality changed? No."

Wrong - YES. He's been up and down the age-alator several times, first naturally (aging normally - for Earth-2), then magically...

I second that. Todd and Jennie-Lynn were two of Roy Thomas' most inspired creations, and they've both been through DC's sausage factory multiple times.

I would even, as I mentioned, settle for...

Because I am not willing to elevate the first two pages of Alan Scott's origin story over the entire rest of his career and claim that nothing counts but those two pages?



It is when you have...

Then why would DC bother to put any effort into him, if he is so utterly unimportant?



Constantine is, first and foremost, weird. That, and not his orientation, is his defining characteristic....

Doesn't mean it is, either, unless that's all you care about, that it check off the right IdPol boxes.

Have you ever bothered to read the Golden Age Green Lantern Archives? Or are you just...

There you go trying to have it both ways again. Either this is the original Alan Scott who did appear in those stories and did have that 80-year history - or it's a brand-new character who wasn't in...

Damned poor choice, since his real orientation was an open secret all around Hollywood.

If DC wants to trash 80 years of Alan Scott's history, that's on DC. It's also a helluva rotten anniversary...

He could have - if his history, and particularly his early history (pre-Rose, pre-Molly) wasn't explicitly set out as 102% str8 in the shade. There's no explaining away Irene Miller.



He didn't...

They probably won't this time either - if they even go through with it and don't write it off as "out of continuity".

Thanks for the comments, but I still think the only way it could work is what I outlined: Alan being mostly-straight with a one-off exception that he doesn't talk about and would rather other people...

DC is dangerously close to AT&T shutting them down as it is. Everything they've done for years has been increasingly desperate attempts to keep their doors open, and they don't understand why they...

I sincerely hope "out of continuity" stays the case - but you know DC just loves to screw around with their characters. (The Alan Scott story in GL 80th wasn't even very good, and got off on the...

What you're not getting is that his fans care. What DC is not getting is that they can't afford to drive away any more readers than they have already lost.

If they go through with this, THEY. WILL.

If you're going to argue that point, you have to argue it for every other Golden Age JSA member as well. Any of them might theoretically have been "in the closet" - except Wonder Woman, who never...

Alan Scott/Green Lantern is a Big Name, so it's OK to make him have been Gay All Along; Alan Scott/Green Lantern is NOT a Big Name, so it's OK to make him have been Gay All Along.

Do you lot ever...

But that's just it - it CAN'T.

A "closeted homosexual" Alan would not have gotten involved with Irene Miller at all - he might have helped out her brother, but then goodbye, sayonara, sorry,...