
That time Kyle took Alan to a gay dance.
I remember this was one of the parts of the Winick run that seemed off. Alan was always very stiff and reserved and a bit conservative, but Winick interpreted marrying a supervillainess to mean he was perfectly comfortable in gay night-clubs and had no problem with Kyle and Jenny sleeping together.
Now… Naw, it still doesn’t work for me. He’s for those quiet, classy sit-down, wear fedoras and and listen to jazz night-clubs and I still insist he was just pretending to be okay with it to keep the peace and was holding back secret judgmental anger at Kyle after they told him this.
Alan Scott has to be to be most uptight gay character ever, even as a young thirty-something. If he isn’t, then Robinson fucked up and the next writer will return him to proper Alan “I am judging you and your entire generation*” Scott form.
*No, he never said this but I challenge you to read JSA without getting the impression he is thinking this every time he talks to someone under 60.
I mean, dude, the first time he met Kyle was on the night Kyle’s girlfriend died. Kyle was a bit upset, so Alan decided what he needed was to be smacked around a bit, given a green flame info-dump illustrating what happened to Hal Jordan, the Green Lantern Corps, and basically the whole premise of Zero Hour, and told to man up and save reality from his predecessor.
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