Yes. This is a Tom Taylor rant again. So I read the original interview.
And I'm going to skip the question and just focus on Taylor's responses.
>"I've always said everyone needs heroes and everyone deserves to see themselves in their heroes. Today, Superman, the strongest superhero on the planet, comes out as bisexual." >"I knew replacing Clark with another straight white savior could be a real opportunity missed." >"Given the hundreds of superhero characters owned by DC and Marvel, the fact that a handful of the biggest names among them might be queer just makes a kind of inevitable demographic sense." >"They said it's a bold new direction, I say they're bandwagoning,"
What I'm getting from this is that it was 100% his idea. And that the editors just folded.
Writers are hired to pitch ideas and direction for a character. Why would making Jon be bisexual be any different from say Batman "dying" under Morrison or Superman getting married or Roy Harper becoming a junkie?
Lucas Martinez
Being gay isn't the problem, superboy's problem is that he's still boring. To this day there are people arguing about super boy prime, no matter how shlocky he was it was the only time superboy was relevant.
Henry Hernandez
All of those can be undone, Jon being bi cannot.
Lucas Jones
But it's an irreversible change. Batman can come back to life, Red Arrow can get his life together.
But you can't really get back from making a character homosexual or transgender. So what happens if it doesn't work out?
Adam Garcia
Weird how you think whom people find attractive has to be "reversible".
Parker Ward
After all of the news articles, twitter wars, etc. it kind of is.
Owen Long
Liberals are like spoiled little children that throw tantrums being annoying until they get their way.
Levi Foster
Easy, it was never John.
Asher Turner
It's kinda easy to phase out Jon's boyfriend, the issue is more about it now being required to bring up that Jon likes men if he gets a GF.
Otherwise ya just get "THEY MADE HIM STRAIGHT" kvetching
Imagine having to hammer in that Guy Gardner or Peter Parker liked girls every so and so just so viewers didn't get upset. That's basically what writers will now have to deal with for superman, and that's annoying. Way easier to just keep him gay.
Carson Murphy
They've set up Jay as this Lois-clone. They're both reporters, freedom fighters, etc. and they even admire each other.
David Martinez
>the fact that a handful of the biggest names among them might be queer just makes a kind of inevitable demographic sense Does it? I don't think that's how that works
Alexander Parker
Has anything ever been discussed regarding this character outside of the fact that he's gay now or that silly panel where he's protesting climate change?
I feel like I'm looking at some Twitter artist spamming drawings of their OC kissing his boyfriend with zero character, story, or meaning attached at all.
Have people here read jon stories? They are lame as fuck, nothing happens and he faces c-tier character. jon has become a female character, he is a second class character.
Logan Cooper
What's so wrong about being bisexual exactly that it has to be reversed?
Isaiah Mitchell
>the issue is more about it now being required to bring up that Jon likes men if he gets a GF.
He likes men and women. Why is that an issue? It's who he is. It ought to be mentioned.
Parker Reed
As a member of a critically endangered species, Clark has a moral obligation to not be a faggot
They have the technology for it. Jon can even be a mother
Lucas Cooper
>Yes. This is a Tom Taylor rant again. Never too many of those. He's the worst "name" in comics right now. I actually consider him worsr than Austen because he's ruined more and bigger characters and Austen HAS written a handful of at worst inoffensive comics.
Dylan Jenkins
It eventually leads to nazism.
Aaron Nguyen
Also you say editors but DC fired all of their editors in 2020 so they're left with a skeleton crew made up of people who have no business being even assistant editors or interns. There's not really anyone to rein him or the rest of DC's writers in which is how you end up with the current shit state of the DCU where everyone is gay and fighting omniversal threats and none of it fucking matters.
