The DC Comics Thread

[TheGoatLantern Beta-Lantern Find all posts View Profile Close TheGoatLantern]

Damn that cover gave it away too.

[Jay Burg American Bad Ass Find all posts View Profile Close Jay Burg]

"One of the things that bothered me about the reboot and about the Justice Society being young again was that there were some characters that would no longer exist. One of those characters is Obsidian, Alan Scott's gay son. So from then on I started to think about it and it seemed like a logical leap to make Alan Scott gay."

... really? This is the reason for turning a straight guy gay? Cause his gay son is missing and you couldn't use him?

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Those previews make this far worse than I originally thought it would be. Jesus Christ, I don't care if Alan is with a girl or a queer, that dialogue is horrific.

I really don't like Robinson, at all. Gay for Justce is right.

[JohnnyV Pictionary Master Find all posts View Profile Close JohnnyV]

Is anyone else as offended by the ham-fisted dialogue in those preview pages as I am?

[SD80MAC Not a True Fan Find all posts View Profile Close SD80MAC]

I can't help but wonder if gay comic fans actually find this insulting and/or pandering. I know we've got a few on this board; what say you?

[Lantern A-train Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Lantern A-train]

Honestly I'm still trying to decide myself....

[CaptainFrxz Green Lantern Find all posts View Profile Close CaptainFrxz]

Called it!!
Victory coke shall be enjoyed now

[Tazer That Evil, Yellow Bastiche Find all posts View Profile Close Tazer]

Yo.

^^^ Q: has any1 noticed that on top of making him gay, that theyve *also* made Alan a flamer??

juuuust wondering.....




Tazer

[Mister Ed Horse of a Different Color Find all posts View Profile Close Mister Ed]

Is anyone else as offended by the ham-fisted dialogue in those preview pages as I am?

Don't know if I'd say "offended". Not impressed, certainly.

[JohnnyV Pictionary Master Find all posts View Profile Close JohnnyV]

Don't know if I'd say "offended". Not impressed, certainly.

True, but bad storytelling en lieu of trying to make progressive decisions just offends me. Be gay, but don't tell us a shoddy story on the way. Of course, these are just preview pages, but in two pages it made me roll my eyes instead of be excited about it.

[Mister Ed Horse of a Different Color Find all posts View Profile Close Mister Ed]

True, but bad storytelling en lieu of trying to make progressive decisions just offends me. Be gay, but don't tell us a shoddy story on the way. Of course, these are just preview pages, but in two pages it made me roll my eyes instead of be excited about it.

Perhaps I would have been more offended if I had been planning to actually buy the title.

I'm not sure, though, what the non-awkward way to show a previously straight character as suddenly being gay would be. He may have just been wanting to get that transition out of the way in as unambiguous a way as possible (leading to ham-fisted dialogue) before the, quite likely I think, event of Alan's romantic interest being killed in a train crash.

(On an unrelated note, have you checked your PMs lately? )

[TheGoatLantern Beta-Lantern Find all posts View Profile Close TheGoatLantern]

Damn that cover gave it away too.

Yo.



^^^ Q: has any1 noticed that on top of making him gay, that theyve *also* made Alan a flamer??

juuuust wondering.....




Tazer

Yes.

[IonFan Forum Member Find all posts View Profile Close IonFan]

well that was dumb

[JohnnyV Pictionary Master Find all posts View Profile Close JohnnyV]

Perhaps I would have been more offended if I had been planning to actually buy the title.

I'm not sure, though, what the non-awkward way to show a previously straight character as suddenly being gay would be. He may have just been wanting to get that transition out of the way in as unambiguous a way as possible (leading to ham-fisted dialogue) before the, quite likely I think, event of Alan's romantic interest being killed in a train crash.

(On an unrelated note, have you checked your PMs lately? )

Yeah, which is why I find it odd that these are the preview pages they wanted to release as selling points for the book. If this isn't what's going to be the focus of the story, then why release them as such? To make "the statement"; if so, then that's silly.

As for the draft, I shall remain truly objective, but it's hard not to vote for Jeff Bridges as Green Arrow.

[Darth_Andrea Owned by Natu Find all posts View Profile Close Darth_Andrea]

Robinson and DC did this for one reason and one reason only. To draw in female yaoi fans. If you don't know what that is there is this magical thing called GOOGLE, ask it a question and you get a answer. I'm not explaining it here.

But given the amount of female generated yaoi fan-fic and art in the US, I can see DC honestly trying to draw that crowd in. And the Dialogue on those preview pages prove it. It reads just like every yaoi i have ever seen.



Darth_Andrea