Queer Superman, or Why I'm Subscribing to Comics Again

[stevenpiziks]

I read comics obsessively until I was in my late 20s. I subscribed to a couple dozen books. I stopped because the writing standards went down, and the prices went up. I picked up the odd issue here and there out of idle interest, but read nothing regularly, and last year I sold my collection.

Now, for the first time in 25 years, I've subscribed to a comic book again. Here's why:https://www.npr.org/2021/10/11/1044002955/superman-son-comes-out-queer-dc-comics

I can't tell you what this would have meant for me if this had happened when I was a kid. Seeing it on the page made it possible, made it =real=. More than that, seeing Superman with a boyfriend, made such a thing . . . not just acceptable, but DESIRABLE. Something it was okay to want.  The world's greatest hero wants the same thing you do.

So I'm reading.