Superman comes out

So much for the damsel in distress. Today’s superheroes, it seems, aren’t all that interested in women.

To be more inclusive, DC Comics announced its current iteration of Superman, Jonathan Kent, will come out as bisexual in the next issue of the comic series. As he struggles to protect and save the world, DC explained that Kent, the son of Clark Kent and Lois Lane, turns to his male friend, reporter Jay Nakamura, for support, and the two become romantically involved.

Superman is just the latest hero to come out. A couple of months ago, DC Comics also revealed that Robin, Batman’s sidekick, was bisexual. And in March, Marvel Comics, DC’s rival company, unveiled a new Captain America who is also gay.

Apparently, this departure from the superheroes we grew up with is necessary to ensure “more people can see themselves” in the comics.

“I’ve always said everyone needs heroes, and everyone deserves to see themselves in their heroes, and I’m very grateful DC and Warner Bros. share this idea,” Jonathan Kent’s creator, writer Tom Taylor, said in a statement.

But this won’t be enough for the woke Left. Activists who applauded DC Comics’s character changes have already begun to suggest the company has not done enough, saying the DC Multiverse should include more people of color, as well as more transgender people and lesbians. They won’t be satisfied until every heterosexual superhero has been replaced.

And that’s fine. No one wants to read about a Superman who fights climate change instead of evil villains anyway.

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