Superman kissed a boy and DC figured out Jon Kent’s purpose

When Superman came out as bisexual, the news was everywhere, and it has been reported that Superman: Son of Kal-El #5 has had sales around that top in interest. Now that the issue is out, it’s canon: Jon Kent, son of Clark Kent and Lois Lane, smooches guys, particularly Jay Nakamura, the pink-haired news broadcaster that combines the overpowering exploits of Jon’s father with his mother’s journalistic integrity Create one of the most talked about new characters in recent history.

DC Comics announced that in October Jon and Jay would lock their lips in response to many typically positive and negative reactions. “I’ve always said everyone needs heroes and everyone deserves to see themselves in their heroes, and I’m very grateful to DC and Warner Bros. for sharing this idea.” Son of Kal-El

Jonathan Kent first debuted in 2015 Convergence: Superman # 2. He made his first non-stop appearances on the main DCU timeline as a brave tween and befriended Batman’s son Damian Wayne – despite some initial personality conflicts – to become the junior superhero duo of the Super Sons. After that, Jon made a beeline for the Legion of Superheroes in the distant future and was lost in time and space for a while, allowing him to age into a teenager in real time in just two weeks, but that didn’t give it much space to develop outside of a few key arches.

That is, until now, and Son of Kal-El. The first issue has a beautiful cover that calls back to Action comics # 1, Superman’s much-acclaimed first appearance in 1938. Being the son of two of fiction’s most famous characters is all it is supposed to be, but Jon expects to cope with the incredible pressures of the rest of the world as well he becomes “the greatest hero the world has ever known”. With his father off-planet, he was pushed by his parents to take on the role of Superman.

Time has passed and Jon has inevitably matured quickly, but he’s still only 17 and most of his group of friends are his parents. Come in early Son of Kal-El, he holds out his hand Great sounds Co-star Damian Wayne, who easily blames him for having no one around he’s not related. As much fun as Jon’s character story was, he led a life surrounded by legends and little room to get to know himself. Damian asks Jon: “What should this symbol stand for?” And that has become the central question of the story.

Jon and Jay first met when the former tried for about five seconds to have a secret identity – another way to follow in his father’s footsteps. Jay was a masked reporter who represented the underground news site The Truth, but turned out to be a pink-haired teenager, Jay Nakamura. Interest in daring reporters seems to run in the family, and the two immediately hit it off.

As a refugee from the fictional totalitarian state of Gamorra Island, Jay is currently studying at Metropolis University. He’s a “post-human” created through experiments by the old school Wildstorm villain Henry Bendix along with his friends Wink and The Aerie (characters that Taylor used for his run on Suicide squad). This has given Jay the opportunity to become immaterial. That being said, his resemblance to Lois Lane is mentioned in the story as we see that he absolutely adores her and based his career on hers in many ways. Plus, they’re both really into Boy Scouts in Blue, and Jon and Jay share a kiss at the end of # 5.

Image: Tom Taylor, John Timms / DC Comics

The show’s creators, Tom Taylor and John Timms, have spoken publicly of their enthusiasm for introducing Jay, and despite some not insignificant hostility, the series reads a lot like a love affair. Fandom’s standard knee-jerk reactions accusing DC and Warner Bros. of making money introducing a bisexual superboy, Jon badly needed someone to shape his character if he wanted to keep appearing in the hilarious books.

In the unique position of being someone literally born a superhero, battling Jon from a creative standpoint would always result in him being accessible to readers. As a character who has only been around for six short years, the space to create a fuller personality was very much there, and Taylor and Timms rose to the challenge.

Over the past 80 years of comic book history, Superman’s heroism has rarely, if ever, been questioned, and so each generation of creators must find a new way to make the perfect man accessible to readers. Superman: son of Kal-El walks the tightrope of getting back to classic Superman as he breaks new ground, and readers pick up the book.

Taylor and Timms started the series by telling us that Superman can’t solve every problem. For all his might, the best he can do is try to set an example that we can follow. However, with a new love interest, an increasingly emotional relationship with his parents, and lots of superhero cameos, Jon Kent’s future looks bright.