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by **Punchy** » Mon May 21, 2012 9:37 am

Timbales wrote:
Jimmy.jpg

Wasn't the actor who played Jimmy in the 1950s TV show one of those secret old-school Hollywood gays? It's been done!

by **e_galston** » Mon May 21, 2012 10:03 am

well since it says introduced, its someone who hasn't been seen yet, so Jimmy, Alfred, all the robins, Wonder Woman, and pretty much EVERY suggestion that's been thrown about can't be right.

Maybe its Donna Troy.

by **Timbales** » Mon May 21, 2012 10:08 am

Punchy wrote:
Wasn't the actor who played Jimmy in the 1950s TV show one of those secret old-school Hollywood gays? It's been done!

You are correct, Jack Larson was gay

by **Grayson** » Mon May 21, 2012 10:19 am

Sitebreaker wrote:well since it says introduced, its someone who hasn't been seen yet, so Jimmy, Alfred, all the robins, Wonder Woman, and pretty much EVERY suggestion that's been thrown about can't be right.

Maybe its Donna Troy.

So that leaves pretty much anybody they are set to introduce in Earth 2 or somebody like the new Green Lantern from Trinity War.

by **mrorangesoda** » Mon May 21, 2012 10:29 am

Sakie wrote:
So that leaves pretty much anybody they are set to introduce in Earth 2 or somebody like the new Green Lantern from Trinity War.

That's certainly an odd way to define prominent.

by **chap22** » Mon May 21, 2012 10:34 am

The more I think about it, the more I think it's gonna be Earth 2 Hawkgirl. Splitting the Hawks up makes little other sense rather than to set up that publicity stunt

by **Grayson** » Mon May 21, 2012 10:35 am

mrorangesoda wrote:That's certainly an odd way to define prominent.

Not really, I mean Earth 2 is going to be filled with new takes on the classic JSA characters like Alan Scott, Jay Garrick, Al Pratt, and Hawkgirl. Depending on how they intend to use these characters, they could all be considered prominent. Then, you have this mysterious new Green Lantern who is set to debut. We don't know who he is but ever since Rebirth, Green Lanterns have been a very prominent fixture of DC.

This is all speculation of course and we are all trying to interpret what was said. I am still convinced that Wonder Woman is a very strong possibility.

by **e_galston** » Mon May 21, 2012 1:25 pm

Sakie wrote:
So that leaves pretty much anybody they are set to introduce in Earth 2 or somebody like the new Green Lantern from Trinity War.

uh.. if they are re-introducing a prominent character as gay, how in the hell is it the new GL? all the big GL's are already around, so it can't be any of them... if it was the new one, it would be "introducing a NEW character" not a prominent...

by **Timbales** » Mon May 21, 2012 1:39 pm

I miss the good old days when all comic heroes where straight white men, blacks couldn't vote and it was ok to strike a woman.

by **Zero** » Mon May 21, 2012 1:41 pm

Timbales wrote:I miss the good old days when all comic heroes where straight white men, blacks couldn't vote and it was ok to strike a woman.

So the south?

by **Grayson** » Mon May 21, 2012 1:45 pm

Sitebreaker wrote:uh.. if they are re-introducing a prominent character as gay, how in the hell is it the new GL? all the big GL's are already around, so it can't be any of them... if it was the new one, it would be "introducing a NEW character" not a prominent...

You're assuming that we don't already know who this Green Lantern is. Its entirely possible that he is an existing character who gains a power ring.

by **Starlord** » Mon May 21, 2012 2:26 pm

chap22 wrote:knowing Didio, it'll be Nightwing.

Granted even I wouldn't want to see Richard become suddenly gay, but at the same time, gay doesn't mean evil either. :smt102

by **e_galston** » Mon May 21, 2012 2:42 pm

Starlord wrote:

Granted even I wouldn't want to see Richard become suddenly gay, but at the same time, gay doesn't mean evil either.

not if you ask conservative republicans.. we are what's wrong with the world in their eyes...

by **chap22** » Mon May 21, 2012 3:22 pm

Starlord wrote:

Granted even I wouldn't want to see Richard become suddenly gay, but at the same time, gay doesn't mean evil either.

i didn't mean it like that. i just meant it would be the least logical choice based on past history, and a name big enough to generate publicity. Dick fits both those categories, and since Dan has already proven time and again that he has no idea what to do with the character (the rape, wanting him dead in IC, "you're a m-m-m-metahuman," retconning him into fucking Babs the night before his wedding to Kory, Battle for the Cowl, etc etc etc), this would fit right into his m.o.