Couldn't get to the Whore Times article without crashing my computer
(the computer at least has good taste -- yours is the only site it pulls up
consistently with no problems), but it appears that the Gray Bitch is about
as accurate on the comics scene as it is about the unfunny character
occasionally stopping by the White House.

There have actually been six Earth-sector Green Lanterns in the DC mainstream,
and a handful of "what ifs?" that include a ghostly female and a samurai.  And,
of course, the Galactic Green Lantern Corps had some million members at
any one time or another.

Alan Scott, the original Green Lantern, is now known as Sentinel, and
still wears a red shirt instead of an all-green outfit.  He has a daughter,
Jenny Hayden, also known as "Jade" for her green skin, who has been
a Green Lantern off and on.

The first "modern" Green Lantern, test pilot Hal Jordan, is dead several times over,
and now appears as The Spectre, the embodiment of "God's Justice."  So far his major
accomplishment has been resurrecting Green Arrow.  (The original Green Arrow,
Oliver Queen, was killed in an airplane explosion.  He also has a son, Connor Hawke,
who was Green Arrow for a time, though his forte is martial arts rather than bow work.
Connor may or may not be gay -- he grew up in an ashram, and never knew about girls,
so isn't sure himself.)

Hal Jordan's successor was John Stewart, "the Black Lantern," in the painfully
socially-correct days of the 1960s.  John Stewart ended up destroying an inhabited planet,
becoming a social worker, and now hangs out with a blue-skinned alien woman.

John's replacement was Guy Gardner, a foul-mouthed jerk with an orange bowl haircut
nd about as politically incorrect as they come.  Guy is now a half-alien semi-superhuman
who shows up for comic relief and whenever an excuse for a mindless fight is needed.
He may or may not have been killed in last year's annual summer destroy-the-universe
multi-crossover.  Guy is the only member of the Justice League whom the entire rest of the
Justice League, including Superman, Wonder Woman, and Martian Manhunter have all
told to SHUT UP, sometimes simultaneously.

Then there was a confused period where the Corps was destroyed, the Green Lantern
planet blown up, eight of the nine immortal Guardians of the Galaxy murdered, and so on
until no one read the comic anymore.  It was resurrected with the sole remaining ring being
given to Kyle Raynor, a young professional artist.  Kyle is not gay -- his first girlfriend was
murdered when he first got the power ring, leading to all kinds of Peter-Parker (Spiderman)
type guilt angst, and he has since slept with Donna Troy (Wonder Girl, later a Darkstar)
and the aforementioned Jade -- but his teenage production assistant, who handles the
computer work for his art career, is openly gay, and in fact had a crush on Kyle until he
found out about Jade.

Who says comics are just for kids?  But I dropped most of the titles I used to collect,
including Superman (the "art" is ATROCIOUS), because one damn comic book costs
as much as a week's supply of cat food.