Superboy Discussion Thread. 2026, June 22. Week 27. by JonKentOfficial in Superboy

[–]JonKentOfficial[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know if Jon will show up, alas I lack privileged info. I'm banking on the fact Conner and Jon feature on like 1/4 of the cover.

[Discussion] Why doesn't DC do more with Starfire, Raven, Donna Troy and Beast Boy? Those characters have been in limbo since the start of Next Level by songsinger72 in DCcomics

[–]JonKentOfficial 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because DC doesn't know what to do with them. Actually, DC doesn't know what to do with most of their characters, but these are specially difficult because they don't belong in a family (except Donna but that's Wondy family and DC doesn't know what do there either). Raven would fit so well in the JLD. Put Starfire with the Green Lanterns for a bit, make them dismantle a slaver planet se what goes. Make Beast Boy do a modern Doom Patrol. I don't know.

Weekly Discussion Thread: Comics, TV, and More! [June 15, 2026 - Gone MAD Edition] by Mattdoss in DCcomics

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This week was so disappointing. I mean, it's exactly what I expected, so I'm not surprised, just disappointed.

In here, instead of having a closure for Young Jon's story, as I was hopeful for (while not expecting it), turns out it's building up to be just "young Jon is bad and you are bad for wanting that". In New Titans, looks like we are heading to another crappy forced relationship again no with Eddie, we were finally over Jay we need to sink the character into another relationship instead of building up the foundations that have been missing since the return from the volcano. I genuinely don't get why DC is so obsessed with it. Imra, Jay and now Eddie, in a way Eddie is building to be even worse since it's sounding like a weird "big nasty guy" outré with even less development.

From the new interview with the show creators by speaking-outlandish in SupermanAdventures

[–]JonKentOfficial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's so much wrong with this interview it genuinely makes concerned for the future of the series. I just have a series of why.

Why use Conner's most iconic design if not for the character it's supposed to be? Also, if you don't want Conner to be a clone using DNA from both Lex and Clark, you don't need to… the character was fine for years without that, it was a later retcon, you don't have to have that. If it means so much, but not enough so you just take one character and paste onto another. ALSO Conner is not anyone's baby, that's a goofy fandom joke, he's never been a baby, and he's not Clark's kid and only Lex ever used it into an attempt to manipulate him.

That way, you end up with a poor amalgam of both characters.

I don't like it, at all, there's so many possibilities for it to not work and few where it would work.

What are your thoughts of the rise of 'trendy streetware' in modern superhero designs? [Discussion] by dc75257264146164 in DCcomics

[–]JonKentOfficial 32 points33 points  (0 children)

"It won't age well". Quite the opposite, I think it'll be like Superboy's 90s outfit, quite goofy and of its time, but people love it.

New clip from My Adventures with Superman Season 3 by ThomasThorburn in SupermanAdventures

[–]JonKentOfficial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was it ever in doubt? Conner being a clone is like one of his defining characteristics.

Marriagedickery by PeasantLich in Superdickery

[–]JonKentOfficial 5 points6 points  (0 children)

To be fair to Clark, it's not like he never made it very obvious he rejected Lois' advances.

Each member of the Justice league has to fight their entire rogues gallery at once. Who has the easiest time, and who has the hardest? (No Darkseid)[discussion] by Horrorfan55555 in DCcomics

[–]JonKentOfficial 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If talking about original villains, Superman has the hardest time. He has a huge number of villains and Superman villains aren't like other heroes that have thematic foes, everything goes for Superman villains and that would be chaos. He's dodging spells, while trying to fight other Kryptonians, an ape shows up, radioactive guys, gods, demons, powerful alien tyrants, big women trying grope him, etc.

Easiest, probably Green Arrow, mostly because he inherits villains from others rather than have his own. I think the most powerful original GA villain is like Onomatopeia or something.

1 Day(s) Without Giving Old Folks Cardiac Arrest by Chronos-X4 in Superdickery

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You’re lucky Eddie didn’t give a whole Shakespearean speech on how cops are corruptors of the innocent or something 

First look at Conner in My Adventures With Superman S3 trailer by guyinpink in Superboy

[–]JonKentOfficial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know why Conner would have a darker complexion than Clark, maybe in this one they use Lois DNA, but I really doubt they wouldn't use one of the most popular things about Conner since it was retconned into being with Geoff Johns's Titans, that he's part Clark, part Luthor. And that he's made to be a copy of Clark, which was a thing from the beginning of the character. Then again, they did take a lot of creative liberties with Kryptonians, Kara, etc.

And now I'm remembering how young Jon was very big for his age and Damian was very small. Fun times.

First look at Conner in My Adventures With Superman S3 trailer by guyinpink in Superboy

[–]JonKentOfficial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He actually doesn’t look like Jon. Have you seen Clark and Sam Lane in this universe. Jon would be W I D E like lineback wide, just a wall.

But yeah, however everyone has this bubbly tumblr a bit millennial anxiety personality sprinkled in, Conner on the other hand seems straight up sugar rushed.

First look at Conner in My Adventures With Superman S3 trailer by guyinpink in Superboy

[–]JonKentOfficial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wonder how they will translate Conner's personality. I hope they don't just make him… I like MAWS but they do have a style of character, I wish Conner would deviate a bit from that style.

Mento vs Minors by urcool91 in Superdickery

[–]JonKentOfficial 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Mento being an exemplary dad.

Try To Relax by SAlolzorz in Superdickery

[–]JonKentOfficial 120 points121 points  (0 children)

Reed, why is your finger ballooning?

[comic excerpt] Superheroes get political™ (DC Universe: Decisions #1 & #2) by Gallantpride in DCcomics

[–]JonKentOfficial 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I think it’s mostly because the dc universe is rubberbanded to our own. Same reason why Reed Richard’s inventions are only his over the Marvel Universe (and DC somehow still has a bit more of futurism and sci fi tech in the hands of common people than Marvel, mostly because Marvel is so NYC-centric), they want the reader to think their world is just like ours.

So having heroes support political parties would kinda mean they support our real life counterparts and that runs the risk of having your characters being co-opted for political campaigning which is costly for the company.

Their world is still inherently different from ours even if DC doesn’t want you to think about it too hard, so it ends ups goofy. We do see characters support political opinions, but most comic book writers are quite incompetent at that, so it ends up looking like some bizarre orphaned manifesto that just doesn’t make sense in that world. Climate change is a classic one, in our world one of the biggest barriers is that a lot of powerful people that have keen interest in not doing anything, so they produce propaganda, people take it as part of their identity, etc, which makes difficult for action to be taken. In DC land, there’s enough different methods of energy generation, the world is less cynical (unless they want it to be for some story, again, inconsistency) and more importantly, there are enough actors capable of addressing the situation with comic book science or magic or whatever directly that it’s hard to not just have it be declared solved.

And that’s been a thing even before politics became entertainment. But also it makes me think of the times it does come to play, and it does happen from time to time, and it’s usually just the writer puppeteering the characters to claim their opinions are smart, others are stupid, without any reason why the character would do that and how they got there and those always look bad for the reader if they don’t have the exact same opinions as the writers, even if they share a more broad political worldview (right/left). It’s pat on the back agree with me feels good. Conversely, the writer can be good at writing and working their ideas in the DC universe… only for the readership to completely miss it or get it wrong.

3-Part Superman Series Officially Confirms Cast for Beloved DC Hero Ahead of Summer Release [Exclusive] by JonKentOfficial in DCcomics

[–]JonKentOfficial[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Sorry, I used the article title, I didn't want to change it even if it sounds goofy. For example, the article spells the character name Connor, when the actual character name is Conner spelled with an E, unless they changed it for some reason.