Man of Sssssssteel
13th October 2021
Gay cards are being printed out faster than fake vaccine passports and now Superman is getting one. I know, stop the presses, another figure of the comic book universe is being stripped of his straight, white maleness and tossed into the volcano of intersectionality. It’s about as edgy and groundbreaking as a consumer product survey.
I was less surprised to learn Superman was getting pink washed than I was to find out Superman isn’t Superman anymore. There’s a new Superman, apparently, and it’s Clark Kent and Lois Lane’s son, Jonathan Kent. According to DC Comics sometime this month he’s going to kiss a dude and, poof, be gay, or bisexual, or whatever.
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a pillow-biter! What it isn’t, is believable.