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fae-morrigan · 2 months ago

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I was thinking on it and like, a lot of people point to L&C letting jon go to space during the age up era as ooc compared to previous runs, but like. Is it...? During Tomasi's tenure, they let him hang out with Damian (who kidnapped him and also dragged him into a dangerous mission without alerting ANY adults), they let him BE SUPERBOY (something that got him almost killed numerous times and brainwashed and too many things to list tbh), and if you accept adventures as canon, they had already let him go to space FOR MONTHS lol

if anything, what makes it OOC is this time Lois actually went with to supervise. And this time they actually argued about whether it was even a good idea! Thats the whole emotional plot of Man Of Steel (2018) more or less

#I think we kind of gloss over how much child endangerment is required to make the supersons premise like. work #Which would ordinarily be fine #There has been much said about how part of what makes childhood fantasy work is you have to suspend your disbelief around adults a bit #Buuut. The problem is Tomasi has said he did not write Supersons for a child audience!#Not only did he write it for 'everyone' and the book was rated teen #But there were numerous other points in the story (namely supersons of tomorrow) where suddenly child endangerment WAS a real threat & issu #That the audience was expected to treat with weight and concern #It makes it harder to swallow when these issues come up #supersons critical #my meta #jonology #jon kent #dc #dc comics

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