Might catch flak for this but as a minority, based on the up and coming GL writer's recent comments, I'm glad he won't be writing Hal.
Might catch flak for this but as a minority, based on the up and coming GL writer's recent comments, I'm glad he won't be writing Hal.
What did he say?
My name is Wally West. I"m the fastest man alive. I"m the Flash.
Favorite Heroes - 1-Flash/Wally West, 2-Superman, 3-Green Lantern/Hal Jordan, 4-Nightwing, 5-Hawkman, 6-Firestorm, 7-Supergirl/Linda Danvers, 8-Zatanna, 9-Robin/Tim Drake
To be fair I'm personally less concerned with Geoff Thorne(I will check out the new book since it feels unfair to write it off without even giving it a chance) and more concerned with the fact that Hal is nowhere to be found in this new DC direction. I will reserve judgment about how he appears to have been aged up again for no logical reason in the final pages of Death Metal, but DC's radio silence about him likely isn't indicative of having a lot of plans for him.
Last edited by Johnny; 01-20-2021 at 06:40 AM.
I mean he seems woefully unaware of the history of policing of minorities (which have been done under the exact pretext that he offered). Kind of crossed the line for me when he tried justifying surveilling and tracking them because that hits too close to the real world. And with the policing themes present in GL already (which I think Morrison has wonderfully subverted in small moments), I don't think I want a person espousing such views to be writing Hal.
The problem with this take again is that the policing of minorites has always taken place under the pretext that they were an internal threat to the body politic of society (and hence, society must be defended, etc). Look up something like the Criminal Tribes Act in India for instance, passed under colonialism and targeting the hijra population. The "justified" reason for xenophobia he provides is the exact same reason that has been bandied about historically. There is no a priori reason to assume that people who possess powers (especially in the world of comics - where practically everyone possesses potentially world-destroying powers) are inherently a threat to the rest of us. This is without even going into bits and parts of his thread that talk about mutants posing a danger to the demography of the human population. I don't think I need to point out which road that kind of "we're an endangered demography because of the increase in numbers of a minority population" rhetoric leads down.
I'll agree with him that the MLK/Malcolm X comparisons are not in good taste. But not with a single word of anything else he said.
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