Jeff Lemire, be mine.
But what about Superboy himself? What do I hope to say about the character of Conner Kent anyway? What makes him unique, other than the where he lives? Well, to me Kon-el is the ultimate outsider. He never had anything resembling a childhood, or a real family or parents. He was born in a lab and missed out on all of that. And as a result he’s never had anyplace to truly call home. So, as our series starts, he’s finally trying to allow himself to find both of those things, family and community, in Smallville.
-Jeff Lemire
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I’ve been trying to remain calm about this new series, and not anticipate too much; I think Jeff Lemire is fantastic and I trust him, I do, but well. Favourite lunkhead, new book — sometimes it goes badly, you know?
Well, those days are behind me now. GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME.
Joe Kelly: still my hero. Kon and Cass were so great together, but we can’t talk about Bruce and Clark’s conversation about parenting and ‘keeping that thing out of Gotham’ because I might actually blow a blood vessel and really, let’s all just think about Kon’s pregnability instead, and what that means for his future relationships. With … people.
(Superboy #85)
There’s been a recent trend around these parts of comic book fans ignorantly and/or maliciously asserting their privilege (be it as straight fans, white fans, male fans or straight white male comic book fans) and it’s troubling; it’s the 21st century and we should be moving forward and opening ourselves to new things and ideas, and not looking back and saying, well, let’s bring back all those characters from the 60s and 70s to deal with modern issues because hey, those were enlightened times. Instead of progressing, many mainstream comics are regressing, and people are accepting it — and telling others to shut up and deal with it — for the sake of nostalgia. I don’t know about you, but these stories about death and manpain and White Lantern rings aren’t the comics I want to be reading.
Neither, apparently, does Fuck Yeah Longbox. For that (and their picspam of Kon as one of the sexiest characters in comics), fuckyeahttk! is reccing them as one of our favourite tumblrs. You should too.
