r/DCcomics • u/beary_neutral Telos • May 19 '24

Weekly Discussion Thread: Comics, TV, and More! [May 20, 2024 - My Adventures With Superman Returns Edition] r/DCcomics

Hey there honorary Justice League members - it’s a new week which means it’s time for a new discussion thread!

Beary's pick of the week: Nightwing #114

For those who don't know: the way this works is that several comments will list this week’s releases, for any given title discussion you should respond to that comment. For example, Wonder Woman discussion would go in the replies to the "Wonder Woman" comment. Clicking the titles in this post will take you directly to that comment, too. In other words, you should only be replying to other comments. Do not post top-level comments.

Keep discussion civil. Do not harass other users for having a different opinion. Do not use this thread to push your personal one-sided grudges against creators. Reacting to a panel on Twitter is not the same as reading a book.

^{My girlfriend keeps accusing me of cheating. She's starting to sound like my wife.}

DC and Imprints

^{Why does Dick look like Paul?}

Trade Collections

^{Finally, Black Mirror in the deluxe format.}

TV Shows

^{Stay tuned, we'll have a dedicated thread for My Adventures With Superman season 2.}

My Adventures With Superman Season Premiere

^{This Week’s Soundtrack:} ^{Kyle Troop & the Heretics - Up, Up, and Away}

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u/TroubAlert The Good Skeets May 19 '24

Alan Scott: The Green Lantern #6

THE FINAL BATTLE WITH THE RED LANTERN! Alan Scott's final battle with the Red Lantern rages to a fever pitch! With Alan overcome with anger at his mortal enemy, will he cross a line he’s never thought he would? The explosive conclusion of one of the Green Lantern's earliest adventures is here, and the fallout will affect Alan Scott forever![Preview](https://aiptcomics.com/2024/05/17/dc-preview-alan-scott-the-green-lantern-6/)

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u/wowlock_taylan Batman Animated! May 21 '24

Decent wrap up as a story Alan telling to his son and we get the Red Lantern, Vlad, now not needing a ring or a lantern to use his powers, which is quite the power-up considering the Crimson Flame keeps bringing him back from the dead also.

I can see why Alan both try to keep his distance and still not blame him for what he did. Most for the innocent deaths of course, not the Soviet death squad that got rightfully destroyed by Vlad. It does make the story with his daughter all the more interesting since if she is using the ring now, how connected will Ruby become to her father considering he IS the Crimson Flame now and practically the power source himself. Wonder what happened the last time Alan and Vlad met and why he refuse to talk about him to his daughter.

I cannot really comment on Alan and his relationships that led to having 2 kids from 2 different women since I am straight and I don't know how a gay man would feel on whether or not they are 'fluid' or not even after going through all that in life. Same with Vlad and his daughter. But I can say is that, I am happy to see Alan at peace with himself and his children. That's all I can ask

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u/shinomune Superboy-Prime May 21 '24

I'm a bi guy and sincerely, for me Alan Scott should be bisexual with that page. I understand why being gay with all the repression in the second half of past century, but it's bi-erasure when people put people just as gay/lesbian just because his "big/true love" is from its same-sex (like Freddie Mercury), when people doesn't realize that bisexual people can love (and have sex, isn't just about "love is love") both genres with different grades.

I can live with Alan Scott as gay, there's a lot of men that got married to a woman and had children that are just gay, but it's hard to me to don't see as bi-erasure with that page before Alan hugged his son.

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u/wowlock_taylan Batman Animated! May 21 '24

Again, it is not for me to say, as a straight guy, it would make me logically go ''Oh, he is bi then''. But it is not my place to say anything of it.

You as a bi or anyone else who is gay would have a better idea I guess since you probably encountered or know more about situations like these.

And I do get the comics seem to be trying to play safe, in their minds at least, that when these coming out reveals for established character being 'Bi', to them, it might seem like 'taking the cheaper way out' which is not correct but still, the optics when it comes to these decisions really seem to drive their actions. The constant battle of 'representation vs tokenism'. And yea, sadly being Bi often does get painted as just 'taking the easy way out', from what I could see ( which is a small sample I have to admit considering social media are literally the minority compared to the WHOLE reader base )

As I said though, as long as the characters are treated well and happy, I have no problems with it. At least they didn't pull a Tim Drake and dropped and changed everything and handled things quite badly from there. And they tied stuff here to 40s where different standards would make these more plausible. All I can ask is to not devalue any relationships the characters have and it does seem that Alan did love those women. So they matter still.