Alan Scott: The Green Lantern is a queer mainstream superhero story like few others
Alan Scott, the Golden Age Green Lantern, made his comic debut back in 1941. But thanks to the modern story development of Alan Scott coming out as gay, he remains surprisingly relevant to the DC Universe. And now, he's taking the spotlight in his own limited series as part of DC's New Golden Age.
The New Golden Age revisits the histories of classic DC heroes of the '40s and '50s, adding in new elements that connect them more strongly to the legacy of the DC Universe. For Alan Scott: The Green Lantern, writer Tim Sheridan and artist Cian Tormey are leaning into that concept, bringing Alan Scott's previously unseen enemy the Golden Age Red Lantern back into his timeline while also exploring Alan's sexuality and what that meant for someone in the '40s.
With Alan Scott #1 now on stands and #2 scheduled for release on November 28, Newsarama spoke with Sheridan about how he's integrating new elements into Alan's classic story, and digging deeper into the more personal untold history of the hero.
Newsarama: Tim, first off, I want to say I really enjoyed this first issue of Alan Scott. I think it's interesting to go back to his origin with the context of the modern day. That said, this is a bit of a different take from what we've seen before. How does the concept of the New Golden Age inform Alan Scott as a character, and this title as a whole going forward?
Tim Sheridan: Geoff Johns and I were working on Flashpoint Beyond, and he started talking about some of his ideas that would relate to the New Golden Age, having some characters that were removed from the canon being placed back into the timeline. That was so much fun, and after we planted those seeds in Flashpoint Beyond, Geoff called me and said, "I think you need to do
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