I was in London, on the way to a family wedding, when the news broke last month. “Superman has a boyfriend,” the headlines read. Everyone from my own parents to relatives I hadn’t seen in over a decade wanted to talk to me about this. Maybe it’s just because I’m known as the comics guy in my family, but around me, this seemed second only to my sister’s nuptials in the conversation.
“What happened to Lois Lane?” they asked me.
“This is a new Superman,” I explained, patiently. “Jon Kent, the original Superman’s son. Lois is his mother.”
“But how did they even have a kid?” was their next question, some ‘70s thought experiment about metal and tissue paper not far from their minds.
“It’s a long story. But originally, he was conceived and born during a year when Superman was depowered and Metropolis was captured by Brainiac,” I answered, summarizing Jon Kent’s origins in 2015’s Convergence: Superman.
“Oh right,” my dad said, recalling his own Bronze Age Superman comic collection. “I remember Brainiac.”
“Okay, granted. It’s a new Superman and Lois is fine. Who’s the boyfriend?”
This was the point where I ran out of answers. Sure, we’d gotten a few glimpses of Jon Kent’s pink-haired paramour, smooching Superman in that splash page from Tom Taylor and John Timms’ Superman: Son of Kal-El #5. But who was he, really?
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