Comic publisher DC not to be outdone by rival Marvel has outed the Green Lantern.

The news comes hot off the presses after Marvel announced that X-Men, Northstar, would be marrying his boyfriend.

Ever since DC made the announcement that one of its top-tier characters would be revealed as gay, fanboys and girls have been in a frenzy online over the sexual orientations of their favourite heroes.

It has now been reported with confidence that the hero DC would be reintroducing to its newly revised universe as gay is the original Green Lantern, Alan Scott.

Now I know what you are all thinking, does this mean the character Ryan Reynolds played in the onscreen Green Lantern will be coming out too?

Sadly no, the Green Lantern Ryan Reynolds played on the big screen last year is a different Green Lantern to the Scott Green Lantern.

That Green Lantern was Hal Jordan and is the most popular version of the character.

Alan Scott however made his first appearance in 1940 wearing only green pants and a green cloak and wielded a strange lamp that housed mystical green flame. He was also vulnerable to wood (no pun intended).

Scott isn't DC's first gay superhero, Batwoman came out as a lesbian in 2006 but he DC's first major gay character.

However, by choosing the original Green Lantern, not the one that most comic fans love, DC is playing a cynical game: it can proudly wave its rainbow flag without risking comic and toy sales or its movie franchise.

A sneaky move on their part, I was really looking forward to Ryan Reynolds in a ‘Brokeback Mountain-esk’ scene in the sequel to The Green Lantern!

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