Get off my lawn!
On Mon, Oct 11, 2021, 7:09 PM Domingo Pichardo <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Give them an inch and they'll take a mile... WTF, they can't even come up
with their own original heroes! Liberalism is a runaway train without
brakes! This is all part of The Great Reset!!! "We will cut your balls and
you'll be happier for it!" [image: Emoji]
Superman <https://www.theguardian.com/culture/superman>
DC Comics reveals latest Superman as bisexual in new issue
The Man of Steel will be in a same-sex relationship while combatting the
climate crisis and protesting against the deportation of refugees
[image: Jonathan Kent, the new Superman, with love interest Jay Nakamura]
Jonathan Kent, the new Superman, with love interest Jay Nakamura. Photograph:
DC Comics
Benjamin Lee <https://www.theguardian.com/profile/benjamin-lee-film>
Mon 11 Oct 2021 12.28 EDT
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Jonathan Kent, the new iteration of Superman, is bisexual, according to DC
Comics <https://www.theguardian.com/culture/dc-comics>.
The traditionally heterosexual superhero will embark on a same-sex
relationship with a friend in a new comic. Kent, who is the son of Clark
Kent and Lois Lane, started his tenure in July.
“The idea of replacing Clark Kent with another straight white savior felt
like a missed opportunity,” Tom Taylor, the series writer, said in an
interview with the New York Times
<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/11/arts/superman-comes-out.html>.
His new love interest is Jay Nakamura, a reporter who cares for him after
he “mentally and physically burns out from trying to save everyone that he
can” in an issue of Superman: Son of Kal-El #5, to be released in November.
Nakamura is also revealed to have special powers.
Kent’s sexuality is not the only way in which the character has been
updated for a new audience and time. Recent issues have seen him protesting
against the deportation of refugees, stopping a high school shooting and
trying to put out wildfires that were the cause of the climate crisis.
“I’ve always said everyone needs heroes and everyone deserves to see
themselves in their heroes and I’m very grateful DC and Warner Bros share
this idea,” said Taylor in a statement. “Superman’s symbol has always stood
for hope, for truth and for justice. Today, that symbol represents
something more. Today, more people can see themselves in the most powerful
superhero in comics.”
The news follows other recent attempts to add queerness to the world of
comics. In August, it was announced that the latest version of Robin
would have a boyfriend
<https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/robin-bisexual-batman-1234995541/>
while
in March, Marvel also made the decision to pass the mantle of Captain
America to a gay character
<https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/marvel-reveals-its-first-gay-teen-captain-america-4151751/>
.
But the big-screen worlds of Marvel and DC remain less progressive. Tessa
Thompson’s character in Thor: Ragnarok was only revealed as bisexual in a
tweet <https://twitter.com/TessaThompson_x/status/921876958673113088> while
Deadpool’s sexual fluidity
<https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/feb/11/deadpool-the-pansexual-superhero-who-has-never-had-a-non-heterosexual-experience>
has
yet to be fully explored. This November’s Eternals is set to change things
<https://ew.com/movies/2020/02/15/the-eternals-lgbtq-kiss/> with the
Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first LGBTQ+ kiss between Brian Tyree Henry’s
Phastos, the first openly gay superhero in a Marvel movie, and
<https://ew.com/tag/haaz-sleiman/>Haaz Sleiman, who plays his husband.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/oct/11/superman-bisexual-dc-comics
A true lover of wisdom has hands too busy to hold on to anything! He
learns by doing and every pebble in the path becomes her teacher! Oink
