Showing posts with label Alan Scott. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alan Scott. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

SuperQueeros! for August 1st, 2012

And just to match last week's week of beginnings (Shout out to the schoolies!), this week is a week of good-byes: to a great series that I was JUST getting into, to all the DCnU books, to the queerest Academy ever to grace the pages of comics, and to Strong Guy's "good guy" image. See for yourself:

i, Zombie #28
The final issue!!! (Great cover too!) I guess it's true what they say, you can't face an elder god without losing either your mind or your continuing series. That's what's happening with Gwen: The soul-sucking, Innsmouth-generating space-Cthulu (Xitalu for short) that's menacing the planet has arrived and started chowing down on Earthlings. Luckily, Gwen has a plan. Unluckily, it involves filling herself up with so many (living) souls that she is essentially a Giant Gulp of spirits (last Friday night), then feeding herself to the space monster so that it will take a nap (food coma!). Unfortunately for the plan, however, her friends and family's penchant for sticking together in times of trouble has landed all of them in Giant Gulp ground-zero. Is saving the world worth it if you have to kill everyone you love to do it? And, more importantly, will the were-terrier get the guy before it's too late to ride off into the sunset (of existence)???

Avengers Academy #34
Thanks to AvX the Academy is closing down and, for the next four months, the kids have to decide if they're going to follow Veil to Jeremy Briggs' rival academy or... do some... other thing? It's very unclear. Their only other choice appears to be homelessness. Anyway, pressing social issues aside, Briggs has promised the kids a release from their powers! Whoo! Hazmat and Mettle might get some happiness! But there's always a cost, and this time it might be paid with lives... 

(But it will probably just be paid with angst and weird deformities. #spoilers)

Stormwatch #12
All endings are beginnings too, especially with next month's issue zeroes for the DCnU books. This week Martian Manhunter breaks up with Stormwatch, ending the first era of the Stormwatch epoch. But, because he wears a cape, he has to do it the only way superheroes know how: with a knock-down, drag-out brawl! In space! 

Also, later this month Stormwatch guests in I, Vampire, the village bicycle of crossovers. #RelevanceThroughForcedInteraction

X-Factor #241
Strong Guy's been dumped. And, as we all learned in Teen Wolf this week, when you die and come back your a soul gets replaced by a hottie-cidal fury that makes you exact indiscriminate vengeance on every Tyler you come across! Using a Colton Haynes!!!! 

I mean, Strong Guy will probably use his fists and incredible intellect, but... I still have my fingers crossed for a Colton Haynes! #Kanima

Earth 2 #4
Bottom billing for killing minority characters. Boo! I just really hope Solomon Grundy or Rose/Thorn is Sam reincarnated... I want conflicted gay romance between equals!!! Like Catwoman!!! #AnneHathawayDreams

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

SuperQueeros! for July 4th, 2012

Independence Day! Buy some indie comics AND Earth 2 #3!

Earth 2 #3
GREEN LANTERN ORIGIN STORY! I AM SO EXCITED!!!!!!!

Stormwatch #11
The Engineer takes on the shadows! Are Apollo and Midnighter broken up???

X-Factor #239
It's field trip time! The crew has split up for a series of quests, and first up is Banshee against... a banshee?!??!

Hack/Slash #17
Vlad fights his family.

Thursday, June 7, 2012

Scarlet Betch Episode 66



Hey Betches!

We're back with another great episode. This week we discuss the two big queer comic news points this month that everyone seems to be talking about: Northstar's impending nuptials and the newly queen Alan Scott aka the original Green Lantern!

Let us know what you think! Plus, any comics you think we missed in our coverage let us know! Send us a tweet @ScarletBetch or by email at scarletbetch@gmail.com


Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Alan Scott Better Be a 'Queero!


Alan and Obsidian, His Gay Son
There are no queer characters featured in comics this week. Please prove me wrong (please!), but as far as I can tell no comic coming out this week has a single queer character. And there are at least half a dozen AvX-tie-in titles out this week. You'd think that out of the two premiere Marvel super-teams there'd be ONE bi-curious or gender-transgressive character. But zilch.


Thorn, Alan's Baby Mama
And that's why I'm STOKED that Alan Scott, the Green Lantern of Earth 2, is going to be a 'mo: because losing Obsidian was one of the worst blows that DCnU dealt, because this will be the first core JSA character to be queer, and because I now have my fingers crossed that Rose/Thorn will be a transsexual character like Ben/Glory from BtVS or Xavin from Runaways. And that would be AWESOME.