How I loathe the world as remade by the “woke” Left.
Ewan Somerville reports for the (UK) Telegraph, Oct. 11, 2021:
A director once described Superman as the “most heterosexual character”. But the writers at DC Comics clearly disagree after giving the great American superhero a male love interest in an official sequel….
In the new Superman: Son of Kal-El series of comics, Jonathan Kent, the son of Lois Lane and Clark Kent who has disappeared off into deep space, assumes the protagonist role and begins a romantic relationship with a male friend.
Superman’s coming-out, announced on Monday by DC Comics, will appear in the new issue of the sequel released on November 9, as Jon Kent progresses from Superboy to Superman and assumes his father’s powers….
Since the Superman: Son of Kal-El series made its debut in July, Jon Kent has been deployed to battle several contemporary issues including wildfires sparked by climate change.
A trailer for the upcoming comic says that “just like his father before him, Jon Kent has fallen for a reporter”. The plot charts his friendship with Jay Nakamura, a budding journalist, blossoming into a same-sex relationship….
Artwork for the comic by John Timms shows the pair embracing in a passionate kiss, with Superman donning his iconic blue and red uniform.
The diversification of the iconic superhero comes amid a broader shift in the comic world towards 21st century social and cultural challenges.
In August, DC Comics also revealed that Batman sidekick Tim Drake, one of several Robins, would get a boyfriend, while a new Aquaman comic stars a gay Black man who is set to become the hero….
In 2018, a TV adaption for CW, a US channel, saw Batwoman become the first live-action superhero series with an openly gay lead character.
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Well just call me an old fogie, but I remember the TV Clark Kent (Superman) changing clothes in a phone booth circa 1950’s. I am left wondering how many people will buy into these updated superheros. For me it is a B-I-G yawn! I won’t be tuning in.
Remember The Equalizer on CBS in the ’80s (“Got a problem? Odds against you? Call the Equalizer… “)? It got re-booted from an old white guy in the ’80s to Denzel (a black guy) in the movies in 2014 to a fat black woman (Queen Latifah) in 2021. What audience are they trying to make secret agent stuff appeal to?
To me there is just no doubt but what some of the “old stuff” is pure gold–and attempting to “update” it just ruins it for those of us who remember the originals.
How TTHHHUUUPPEERRRRRR!!
Dean Cain, who played Superman on TV a few decades ago, has a terrific take on this.
https://www.rt.com/usa/537354-ex-superman-dean-cain/
Dean’s right, but of course they won’t take him up on his challenge. Cowards they are.
Barf! 😛
Makes me sick, actually. And I was never big on comic books.
Everything has been weaponized.
The destruction of American icons (America’s marxist-mao cultural revolution) continues. Interesting how these diverse, feminist, and homosexual “stakeholders” can’t seem to come up with anything of their own. They have to “reboot” and twist beloved institutions to suit their “reality”. So lame, no one watches their crap. No one wants it. They are bullies.
SJH . . . I find your comment, “feminist, and homosexual “stakeholders” can’t seem to come up with anything of their own. They have to “reboot” and twist beloved institutions to suit their “reality.” to be absolutely spot on. Aren’t these moves akin to “plagiarism?” It’s just ridiculous–let them come up with their own ideas.
I ditto Gracie’s sentiments, but OTOH, inventing a new homosexual super-hero is not the aim of these people—but destroying our concepts of our OLD HERO “culture” and everything in it IS the aim….so they MUST steal our old characters and twist them into the “essentially changed America” of Obama-Biden and the Far Left of the country. You can’t convince or entice people with new characters that they don’t identify with or trust….but you can come in with the Trojan horse of the comfortable character that is “tweaked” to become “woke” and appeal to a generation that has been prepared to receive it by our government and public schools.
I am a public school teacher of ages 11-13…and not a day or even one class period in a day goes by EVERY SINGLE DAY that I don’t’ overhear these babes of tender years discussing “gayness” or “transgendering” or similar…OR worse, that I am notified that a certain female on my roll has decided, at age 12, that “she” is a boy now and I must call “her” either “they or them” and by the name of “Gus” now……AND I have to keep it secret from the parents. Californicated law. I have been called into the admin office and reprimanded b/c I’ve called roll using the officially registered name on my roll, and not the one the “transgender child” wants me to use. (DAH….like I know or remember this BS in the first weeks of school when I’m meeting EVERYONE for the first time…..I just call out the roll in front of me until I get to know the kids and have a seating chart!) Eventually, like most teachers…so I don’t make a mistake, I just end up NOT calling kids ANYTHING but “YOU” these days.
I’m living these days, IMO, in the 7th grade novel, “The Giver.” If you’ve never read it…do so……..It’s short..&, you will recognize the thought & speech “police” as a form of government control of thought & speech, & behavior, to the point that people are bred to NOT be able to see color at all. You will recognize the drive to make everyone colorless androgens, and only nominal family “members” (children birthed by “birth mothers” are “assigned” to arranged “families,” without a higher “spiritual” power above the “Giver” (the government) who defines the limits of what you can and will become…including the “lowly” role of “birth mother.” …..You will recognize by the names and outcomes of the characters a Biblical parable, where, the one child, JONUS, breaks out of this oppressive world into “elsewhere” to escape to a place that he understands awaits him…with a baby he takes with him, Gabriel, ……..Let me know if you read it and what your take on the message is……