I am going to try and look into the future;  we are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.

E-2 GL #1:Does well in sales, maybe even exceptional sales.  Is regaled as a raging success!

E-2 GL #2:More than a %50 drop in sales.  DC says is to be expected, will get footing.

E-2 GL #3-8:Sales continue free fall.  Not a peep from DC, too busy planning and executing next stunt.  E-2 GL will make many guest appearences to promote failing title.

E-2 GL #9:Title is quietly cancelled with no fanfare.  Sales around 6500 units sold.

Legacy:Will permanently embed homosexuallity of every GL in the consciousness of the public at large.

And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future.

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Didn't know about this one. But, of course. Jay was originally introduced as a BMOC and -- horrors! -- a jock! Can't let that stand, if we're going to pander to the perceived audience!

Once again, we are most definitely NOT talking about the 1940's Golden Age Green Lantern as used to be the custom on Earth-2.

The nu52 rebooted everything. No more 1940's super-heroes. No more World War II era JSA. Everything's nu.

This will of course be difficult to explain to the general public who are just today hearing that the Original Green Lantern is the one who's been outed. Those who are willing to put in the study time to figure out a difference between Alan Scott and Hal Jordan will still be hard-pressed to figure out a difference between Alan Scott and Nu-Alan Scott.

Jay is a particular favorite of mine as the cover of Flash #229 is key in my gaining an appreciation for the kinds of stories super-hero comics told. I really really liked the idea of an older generation of heroes who actually were published back when my dad was a kid. It blew my shoes off (usually tried to get away without putting on socks...) to think that I could read stories about the same guy my dad had read stories about. Just impossibly cool to my young eyes!

The new racing eyesore version of Jay was shown in the first issue of "Earth 2" to be a perrenial mope who's girlfriend is leaving him because she actually has a future and Jay is simply never going to amount to anything. Then the god Mercury falls out of the sky in front of him and we're off to the races...

The original Jay was the team "scrub" and a "leadfoot" as I recall who had trouble getting the coach to put him into a game. His girlfriend berates him for not applying himself to football and making something of himself. Once he gains his powers, wins the game, and becomes the "Hero of the Day", things are different, of course, but then his college career goes by in a flash and he's graduated in the next panel, with only his previously scornful girlfriend Joan wise to his super-speeding ways.

Unfortunately, with comics storytelling being... soooo... muuuucchhh... ssslloowwwwerrrr.... nowwww, Jay is likely be a "scrub" and "an old washwoman" for years or the length of the book's publication run, whichever comes first. The latter almost assuredly...

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Whatever mythology DC might be spinning about all this, you know this is the real reason Alan got elected. DC would never do this with Superman, Batman or Wonder Woman (despite what so many people assume about Diana), but Green Lantern is currently a character civilians know. And, since they DON'T know there are "multiple earths", this allows DC to pull the same con I noted earlier with Superman and Lois' wedding issue in ACTION -- a flashback to the marriage of the couple from Earth 2.

"Green Lantern is Gay now" will get some people into the shops who might never otherwise have crossed the threshold.