The main problem with the existence of Obsidian and Jade right now isn't that Alan is gay. It's that he's still in his twenties with a lover who seems even younger. Even if they should decide to become parents, Jade and Obsidian as their fans knew them are effectively "in limbo."

Which I'm personally fine with. Part of "starting over" should be letting a great amount of accretion go, and all of Infinity Inc. were deliberate tack-ons, spin-offs, and additional material ladled onto the Justice Society as it existed back in the 80's. If the JSA is to start off from square one, all of that extra stuff has to go away.

Unfortunately, that extra stuff is somebody's favorite stuff, and they likely feel singled out by all of this. It's unfortunate, but unavoidable, unless "starting over" is to mean "everything's exactly the same" as in the cases of the Batman and Green Lantern continuities.

There is of course still the "hope" for fans of Jade and Obsidian that similar characters will arise at some point in the near future, perhaps as the grandchildren of Arion of Atlantis or members of an Even Younger Young All-Stars. They could travel back in time to the present from some future where they are the children of Alan Scott but dare not tell him for fear of erasing their own timeline, or somesuch...

This however would amount to blatant fanservice in my opinion. Post-Crisis writers were tripping over one another to show fans where each and every piece of the pre-existing puzzle "fit" into the new cosmology. Wonder Girl and Wonder Tot were reintroduced without the awkward device of existing at the same time as their adult self. Mer-Boy came back, but as a young Aquaman. Comet the Super-Horse was now a humanoid space alien. Members of the Global Guardians were still around, some of them in multiple incarnations as writers tangled up their story threads in the rush to re-establish everything that ever was, but "different."

What I'd like to see more from the NuDC would be some genuine invention. Rather than trying to come up with ways for Jade and Obsidian to exist again, come up with different characters altogether. And no, I don't mean to create "Todd" and "Jenny," two mysterious loner kids who work in Alan Scott's corporation somewhere and hide a deadly secret connection to the strange beings he fought last month who called themselves "Nephrite" and "Pitchstone."

Create someone's NEW favorite characters.

Oh, and...

"If it were true, I'd guess Tim Drake.( Robin )"

Robin is a mainstream character. Tim Drake is NOT. To be a "mainstream" character is a lot like what I have said about being "famous". When people ask me if I am "famous", I say "Have YOU ever heard of me?" To be "famous", one must be known by those who are not intimately familiar with their field.

To be a "mainstream" character, the character must be recognizable even to those who have only limited awareness of comics. Thus, say "Robin" to most civilians, and they know he's connected to Batman. Say "Tim Drake" and they'll say "Who?"

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With a pen. Pretty amazing, huh?

The font I created to use on NEXT MEN is based on the lettering in POGO. Very "bouncy" and distinctive.

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No idea.