In November’s “Superman: Son of Karl-El” #5 (written by Tom Taylor and written by John Tims), Clark’s son Jonathan Kent will have a boyfriend. DC Comics hide caption
In November’s “Superman: Son of Karl-El” #5 (written by Tom Taylor and written by John Tims), Clark’s son Jonathan Kent will have a boyfriend.
Yes: Superman, the champion of the downtrodden, Iron Man, the man of tomorrow, the last son of Krypton, the Blue Giant Boy Scout, not the bird but the plane himself.
We are not talking about the classic original formula Clark Kent/Kal-El Superman, which has existed since the first action comic #1 released in June 1938 on the stands. It is not Superman who penetrated into the global spirit of the times through comics, serials, radio, television, movies, toys, roller coasters, and the sheets I got on Christmas 1979, and became part of our collective consciousness.
No, it was his son Jonathan Kent. His precise backstory in the comics was ruthlessly hit by a series of restarts, retests, space missions, time travel, and rapid aging, making it so incomprehensible that it even made diehards like me hurry. Hurriedly ran to the nearest wiki.
He will appear as a bisexual in the November 9th issue of “Superman: Sons of Karl-El” #5, which was written by Tom Taylor and written by John Tims. Timms) creation. Jonathan and his male friend Jay, introduced earlier in the series, will share a kiss.
In the current DC Comics continuum, Clark Kent married Louise Lane. They have a son named after Clark’s father Jonathan. A lot of things have happened to Super Teck, including but not limited to the narrative convenience and rapid aging experienced by many sitcom puppets. Now he is a 17-year-old boy with all the power of his father. (In the comics, some people say that the combination of Krypton and human DNA might somehow make him stronger than Superman. This doesn’t make much sense on the surface, but if a superhero can defy the law of gravity, why not Greg Mendel’s Law?)
Although Jon Kent is the son of OG Superman, he has been called Superman until now, but in the page of “Superman: Son of Karl El”, he assumes the mantle of Superman, and his father goes to the depths of infinity Period of space.
(Not for nothing, but it should be noted that Taylor and Tims did well in “Superman: Son of Karl El”. In a few issues, they portray Jon Kent more clearly than anyone else. His mentality and personality were able to do it before. Basically: He is a child who has spent his life in the shadow of his father’s power. When Superman recently revealed his Clark Kent identity to the world, this state was even more complicated. This made Jon not only Seeking a secret identity, but also trying to find out the personal reasons: he is well-intentioned, but restless, he tends to simply extinguish the literal and figurative flames of his father rather than using his powerful power to solve the systemic nature that caused them The tendency of the problem is annoying.)
This should be. We have been here before, recently. In fact, just two months ago, DC Comics announced that the role of Tim Drake will be a boyfriend. Tim Drake is the Robin who served as the “Red-breasted Chief Intern” for Batman. One of s. It made the news of course: Unlike many other queer superhero characters owned by DC and Marvel, Robin is a household name. (Sorry, Coagula. This is true.)
Yes, this is true. Big-name superheroes are officially queer. The name that even your most hesitant and out of touch uncle will recognize: Robin, Wonder Boy! Superman, the original superhero! The first one is also the best!
But when you take a step back, the shrewd strategy DC Comics uses here will become clearer. After all, they are not questioning their core role-no, those intellectual property nuggets that have been heavily licensed resist meaningful changes because they have to do so, especially if they are to continue to pay dividends, among other things. Printed on the child’s bed sheet.
As a result, publishers have introduced much-needed, long-overdue progress on the fringe—here is a compassionate villain, there is a supporting role. They reintroduced substitute characters that hadn’t appeared in any comics for decades, and slapped them with their same-sex couples.
Finally, they started to weed out some top characters from the closet-but always be careful not to send them out without first attaching a very important asterisk, as a defense against any strong from gay readers (and/or shareholders) Fortress of opposition:
*Not the original Robin, nor the current Batman’s partner Robin, but Tim Drake Robin, the third character to receive this title.
This is a kind of release valve, that asterisk. This means they can say things that will definitely attract attention (“Superman is out!”)—in fact, attract attention in the form of this article—but they can always relieve the pressure by tapping that valve, And point to those very important asterisks.
As early as July 2016, DC Comics character Aqualad revealed that he has a boyfriend. It didn’t cause a sensation at the time (hehe), because I mean…it was Aqualad.
Even this news has its own asterisk: this is not the original Aqualad launched in 1960, but another character, Jackson Hyde, who won this title in 2010.
So, if you score at home, it’s Batman, Superman, and Aquaman-the three main DC players who have recently introduced very intimate, even intimate, queer contact in their stories.
Progress is being made, and here, it’s just a smaller and more type of progress than the DC Comics press release and most of the subsequent reports suggest.
Of course, in terms of representation, this is a pure Good ThingTM. As the world depicted on the comic page begins to look more like the outside world, and as more members of different reader groups of the comic have the opportunity to see their own version on this page, the inevitable result is more and better stories . A richer and deeper story that contains more voices, opinions, experiences and cultural touchstones.
(In addition, the result of the mathematical calculation. Considering the hundreds of superhero characters owned by DC and Marvel, the fact that a few of the big names may be queer is just an inevitable demographic significance. When you consider the superhero The hero belongs to a small group of people who wear tight clothes and show off their over-developed muscle tissue so that their belly looks like a relief map of the Black Mountains of South Dakota-yes, scan.)
This is progress, and it follows the same arc as any marginalized community—women, people of color, queer, disabled people—have always followed in popular media.
The first stage: We are the villains; we threaten the status quo, and the hero’s job (heterosexual, white, cisgender, male) is to punish us and maintain the status quo. We exist only to advance the story of heroes.
The second stage: We are victims; we are weak and vulnerable, and it is the hero’s duty to punish those who hurt us. Our existence is to establish the hero’s selflessness and nobility, but we are still part of his story.
The third stage: We are partners-fashionable friends, wingmen. Our existence is to complement the hero’s story, provide support and encouragement. But this is still his story.
We are getting there, slowly. Although these recent comic developments seem to be able to cleverly enter the fourth stage, this is not the time for any laurels to rest.
So the obvious question is: Which major DC hero will be the next to get a layman queer version of himself?
Let us remember that Wonder Woman comes from a woman’s island. They have been together for thousands of years, and there is nothing to stare at except each other. As she herself often sums up, in her comic slogan:
No, the real question that needs to be answered is: next summer, where will these versions of Superman, Robin, and Sea Fighter get a timeshare-Fire Island or P-Town?
Post time: Oct-12-2021
