secretlystephaniebrown:
okay real talk? I don’t read much Superman. I love what I’ve read (a few solo issues, 52, and Death of Superman are the ones that come immediately to mind), but I’m always wary of long-running titles like Action Comics, unless I know for sure there’s a solid run to engage with.
Superman’s mythos has always enchanted me; heroes like Superman are wonderful to me, and I love Lois Lane, and have adored what I’ve seen of his supporting cast.
But it always felt like… a cast, instead of the kind of tightly wound found family vibe I always got from Batman and the Bat Family.
I’ve been picking up Super Sons lately and been enjoying it, but it still hadn’t done much to dissuade me from my internal image of well… a more traditional family, with Kon and Kara as cousins who swing by every now and then. I know there’s more characters, but they’re not ones I’ve necessarily engaged with much.
But Christopher Kent.
Clark and Lois, continuing the cycle of adoption that Ma and Pa Kent started? Lois saying “it will be dangerous and hard, but I want to try”. A child rejecting his blood family and finding a new home, away from his abusers and finding love and acceptance and hope?
My eyes have been opened to possibilities. This is the kind of narrative for Superman I’ve been needing. And Chris Kent might as well have been gift-wrapped with “tropes that I love”.
I still love Jon, but man I hope DC wises up and lets Chris Kent join the family. If Batman can have five sons, a daughter, a cousin, and several other proteges and allies besides that?
Well.
Why can’t Superman have two sons?