Thank you for being a trendīack in July 2016, the DC Comics character Aqualad revealed he had a boyfriend. It means they can say the thing ("Superman comes out!") that's certain to attract attention - attention in the form of this very article, in point of fact - but they'll always be able to ease the pressure by hitting that valve, and pointing to those all-important asterisks. It's a kind of release valve, that asterisk. *Not the Clark Kent Superman, but his recently-introduced son. * Not the original Robin, or the Robin that's currently Batman's sidekick, but the Tim Drake Robin, the third character to assume the title. They re-introduce deep-bench characters that haven't appeared in any comic for decades, and slap 'em with a same-sex partner.įinally, they start nudging a few top-tier characters out of the closet - but are always careful never to send 'em out without first attaching an all-important asterisk, as a bulwark against any backlash from homophobic readers (and/or stockholders): So instead the publisher introduces much-needed, long-overdue progress along the edges - a sympathetic villain here, a supporting character there. They haven't queered their core characters, after all - no, those heavily licensed nuggets of intellectual property resist meaningful change because they must, especially if they're to keep paying out dividends by, among other things, getting printed onto kids' bedsheets. Superman's son, and has gone by the nomme-de-cape Superboy until now, in the pages of Superman: Son of Kal-El, he's assumed the mantle of Superman, while his father heads off to deep space for an indefinite period of time.īut when you take a step back, the canny strategy DC Comics is employing here comes into sharper focus. (There's been some talk, in the comics, that the combination of Kryptonian and human DNA may somehow make him somehow even more powerful than Superman, which doesn't make a lot of sense on the surface, but then, if a superhero can defy the Law of Gravity, why not the Laws of Gregor Mendel?)Īnd while Jon Kent is the O.G. Lots of stuff happened to the super-tyke, including but not limited to the kind of narratively convenient rapid aging that a lot of sitcom moppets undergo, and now he's a 17-year-old with all of his father's powers. They had a son, named after Clark's father, Jonathan. In current DC Comics continuity, Clark Kent married Lois Lane. It's still Clark and Lois, not Clark and Louis Jonathan and his male friend Jay, introduced earlier in the series, will share a kiss. They consist of Robin (Batman's sidekick), Starfire (alien from the planet Tamaran), Cyborg (also a member of the JLA), Raven (the daughter of the devil from the dark planet of Azerath), Beast Boy (a green kid who can shape into any animal he wants), Wonder Girl (Wonder Woman's sidekick and Superboy's girlfriend), and Kid Flash (AKA Impulse ).He's slated to come out as bisexual in the pages of Superman: Son of Kal-El #5, written by Tom Taylor with art by John Timms, which will published on November 9th. The Teen Titans were a group of young superheroes. So, Superman's suggestion was to join the Teen Titans. So, just about everyday, he skips school do use his powers, like flying around Smallville, or sometimes saving people. So, as a result, Superman ordered him to go and live in Smallville with Ma Kent under the alias Conner Kent, cousin of Clark Kent.Ĭonner Kent goes to Smallville High, where his cousin went. The two battled side-by-side, but sometimes, Superboy could be a little troublemaker. He eventually (accidentally) brought Superman back to life. When Superboy (Lex calls him Experiment 13) was created, he escaped and tried to find his way with absolutely no memory of what was going on. But the human mixed with Kryptonian also cancels out some of his power, such as super-hearing, x-ray vision, and arctic breath. The two bloods, both a Kryptonian and human mixed together, disoriented his body, making him have mostly Kryptonian powers, but also another power, telekinesis, which means, he can move things with his mind (this power really comes in handy). He took the blood of Superman and the blood of his own to create him. And Lex Luthor (see Villains) wanted to recreate Superman, but accidentally made him younger. When Superman (briefly) died, the world was in chaos. Superboy is a genetically created Superman.
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