DC has so many queer superheroes right now it’s almost not a big deal
This is going to make me sound like some grandparent talking about how they used to walk 15 miles to the comic shop just to see that X-Men was already sold out but… this week I read a comic where a character currently in the role of Superman teamed up with a character currently in the role of Aquaman and only about 70% of the way through did it occur to me that they both canonically had boyfriends.
I’ve been writing about DC Comics a long time, but you don’t have to be a dedicated reader to remember when this sort of thing would have been extremely notable. I remember when Batwoman became the company’s first gay character to headline a book in 2009, and Midnighter became DC’s first solo series for a gay man in 2015, and the long stretch of the 2010s when Wonder Woman, and Harley Quinn, and Poison Ivy, and John Constantine were finally allowed to be irrevocably queer.
And after so much time spent intently following each appearance of each queer superhero in both Big Two universes… I’ve realized there are so many of them I don’t even keep track.
What else is happening in the pages of our favorite comics? We’ll tell you. Welcome to Monday Funnies, Polygon’s weekly list of the books that our comics editor enjoyed this past week. It’s part society pages of superhero lives, part reading recommendations, part “look at this cool art.” There may be some spoilers. There may not be enough context. But there will be great comics. (And if you missed the last edition, read this.)
Jackson Hyde and Jon Kent, the son of Superman, team up to turn an innocent, if cranky, leviathan away from Metropolis. In the romantic realm, both of them are following in their mentors’ footsteps, with Jon dating a radical investigative reporter and
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