#comic: new super-man and the justice league of china

[dcconfessions]

instead of SoKE we should have gotten a continuation of kenan & the jlc

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[dailydccomics]

Super-Man and the Justice League of China (and friends!) art by Bernard Chang

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[存档自用]欧美圈同人文合集

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/Vb70voc

by katakawa2

Words: 51354, Chapters: 18/?, Language: 中文-普通话 國語

Fandoms: Kingsman (Movies), James Bond (Craig Movies), Hannibal (TV), Person of Interest (TV), New Super-Man and the Justice League of China (Comics), World of Warcraft

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: M/M

Relationships: James Bond/Q, Harry Hart | Galahad/Gary "Eggsy" Unwin, Will Graham/Hannibal Lecter, Harold Finch/John Reese, Khadgar/Anduin Lothar

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/Vb70voc

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[存档自用]欧美圈同人文合集

read it on the AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/45543850 by katakawa2 Words: 114095, Chapters: 41/?, Language: 中文-普通话 國語 Fandoms: Kingsman (Movies), James Bond (Craig Movies), Hannibal (TV), Person of Interest (TV), New Super-Man and the Justice League of China (Comics), World of Warcraft, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Star Wars Original Trilogy Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: M/M Relationships: James Bond/Q, Harry Hart | Galahad/Gary "Eggsy" Unwin, Will Graham/Hannibal Lecter, Harold Finch/John Reese, Khadgar/Anduin Lothar, Armitage Hux/Kylo Ren, Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker read it on the AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/45543850

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[存档自用]欧美圈同人文合集

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/iw8zB2n

by katakawa2

Words: 114095, Chapters: 41/?, Language: 中文-普通话 國語

Fandoms: Kingsman (Movies), James Bond (Craig Movies), Hannibal (TV), Person of Interest (TV), New Super-Man and the Justice League of China (Comics), World of Warcraft, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Star Wars Original Trilogy

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: M/M

Relationships: James Bond/Q, Harry Hart | Galahad/Gary "Eggsy" Unwin, Will Graham/Hannibal Lecter, Harold Finch/John Reese, Khadgar/Anduin Lothar, Armitage Hux/Kylo Ren, Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/iw8zB2n

[secretlystephaniebrown]

Going to double down on the recs for Superman: Birthright and Superman Smashes the Klan! Also going to throw in "Superman: Secret Identity" as a good general vibe for Superman starter comics.

General Reading/Clark Kent Reading:

Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?

Superman Annual #11 "For the Man Who Has Everything"

World's Finest (1990)

Superman/Batman Annual #1

Action Comics #775 "What's so Funny About Truth, Justice & the American Way?"

Superman: Up, Up and Away

Superman: Last Son

Lois Lane Reading:

Lois Lane (1986) #1-2

Superman: The Wedding and Beyond

Detective Comics #824

Wonder Woman (1987-2006) #170

Jimmy Olsen Reading:

Harley Quinn (2000-2004) #14-19

Jimmy Olsen (2019-2020)

Krypto Reading:

Adventure Comics #210

Superman: Return to Krypton

Teen Titans (2003-2011) #7

Superman #712

Superman: Coming of Atlas

Superboy: The Boy of Steel

Kara Zor-L/Karen Starr Reading:

Power Girl (2009-2011) #13-18

John Henry Irons (Steel) Reading:

Adventures of Superman #500

Showcase '96 #1-2

Steel: Forging a Hero (Man of Steel #21-22, Steel #0-6, 8)

JLA #16

Superwoman (2016-2018) #1-18

Steelworks (2023)

Kon-El (Superboy) Reading:

Adventures of Superman #505-506

Superboy (1993-2002) #1, 5, 18

WF3: World's Finest 3

JLA: World Without Grownups

Young Justice (1998-2003) #1-6

Mae Kent (Supergirl/Matrix) Reading:

Supergirl (1994) #1-4

Superman (1987-2006) 80-Page Giant #2

Showcase '96 (1996) #8

Linda Danvers (Supergirl) Reading:

Supergirl (1996-2003) #1-12

Supergirl Plus (1996) #1

Supergirl (1996-2003) #75-80 "Many Happy Returns"

Kara Zor-El (Supergirl) Reading:

Supergirl: Being Super (2016-2017)

Supergirl (2011-2015) Vol. 1: Last Daughter of Krypton

Supergirl (2011-2015) Vol. 6: Crucible

Cir-El (Supergirl) Reading:

Action Comics #806-808 "Supergirls"

Kong Kenan (Super-Man)

New Super-Man (2016-2018) Vol. 1: Made in China

New Super-Man and the Justice League of China

Jon Kent (Superboy)

Superman: Lois and Clark (2015-2016)

Super Sons: The Polarshield Project

Superman (2016-2018) Vol. 2: Trials of the Super Sons

Super Sons (2017-2018) Vol. 1: When I Grow Up

Superman (2016-2018) Vol. 5: Hopes and Fears

Do you have any recommendations for Superfam, Wonderfam, Flashfam and Arrowfam comics? I read your Batman starter list and I'm working my way through it, but I also wanted to try something different. Thanks!

Sort of, yeah! I put together a Wonderfam starter recs list awhile back; you can find it here.

Flashfam....I'm not nearly as familiar with, but Mark Waid's Flash run and Jeremy Adams' Flash run (both starring Wally) are fantastic, as is Impulse (1995). The Arrowfam is also generally out of my capacity to rec properly besides recommending Titans (1999) for Roy, Birds of Prey (1999) for Dinah, and a few scattered Arrowfam comics here and there (like Hard-Traveling Heroes, Quiver, and the Green Arrow Rebirth run).

And of course Young Justice (1998) if you want to read more Bart Allen, Cassie Sandsmark, and Kon-El.

....honestly, I would ask @ectonurites and @secretlystephaniebrown for Superfam recs. I have my own favorites, but they both know infinitely more about the Superfam than me and would be able to give you a much better "starter recs" list than I would. I would personally recommend Superman: Birthright and Superman Smashes the Klan as good intro comics. Everything after that kind of depends on what characters you want to read more about.

[thevindicativevordan]

On Kong Kenan/Super-Man

It should've been him. He should've been the Superman of 5G/Future State/right now not Jon, and he should be the one getting an HBO Max series not Val. Hell he should be getting a movie!

God this dude is literally the best legacy character Superman has ever gotten, wholly his own person with his own lore and status quo while still building on the idea of "Superman". I am so pissed at DC for essentially just dropping him after his ongoing ended, what the hell Lee? You keep trying to make the Wildstorm characters happen, I need you to get my man Yang another Kenan book.

Have to admit I was a bit nervous at first about whether or not Kenan would be a worthwhile character. Yang's New 52 Superman run had been a disappointment to me overall, with only the the arc where Superman has underground wrestling matches against forgotten gods really sticking with me. Now he was introducing a brand new Superman? Didn't feel like he had "earned" that yet. But from the first issue I was hooked on this new character.

Kenan was unlike any other member of the Superfamily. He wasn't kind or sweet, he was an asshole! He was a bully! He was fantastic! Right from the start Kenan was set up to undergo a very different kind of character journey than the other members of the Superfamily. Empathy, humility, respect for people weaker than himself, these are all traits most heroes wearing the S-shield already posses by the time they first don the crest, but not Kenan.

Like all bullies he was even a bit of a coward himself at first, trying to bail on the experiment meant to give him Superman's powers right as it begins. After "saving" Lixin (the kid he bullies and steals lunch from every day) from Blue Condor he demands all the money Lixin has on him as payment. He's not courageous or selfless either at the start, Kenan is as much of an opposite of Superman as you can get short of being Bizarro. Learning the appeal of these traits formed the basis for his growth over the course of his series.

Seeing Yang bring in a lot of recognizable "Superman" elements in the series, but with a twist, was also great. Kenan is the one who bullies "Luo Lixin" rather than the traditional Clark/Lex friendship of Pre-Crisis and Birthright. Initially Kenan develops a crush on intrepid reporter for Primetime Shanghai, Laney Lan, but she dismisses him as too young and Kenan eventually ends up pursuing Avery Ho (Flash) instead. Baxi the Bat-Man of China has a similar relationship with Kenan as the traditional Superman/Batman in terms of being vitriolic best buds, however Baxi is the one who has the most respect for authority while Kenan is the rebel. Kenan is a part of the "Justice League of China" which does not meet with the approval of the already established Chinese superheroes, the Great Ten. That contrasts nicely with the good relationship the Justice Society and Justice League have, as well as seeing Yang lampshade the "Chinese copy" trope and incorporate that into his storytelling.

One of the funniest differences is how Kenan chooses to immediately reveal his identity as Super-Man to the world by taking off the compliance visor he was forced to wear, contrasting with Clark's choice to hide his identity. He was so eager to impress people that he never gave any thought to the danger he could put himself or his family in by revealing his identity until it was too late, something Clark is well aware of and has taken great pains to keep his identity secret. Was a missed opportunity for DC to have Kenan comment on Clark copying him for once when he outed himself under Bendis.

But one of the most poignant differences between Clark and Kenan is the gulf in separation between their relationship with their parents. Clark has a loving relationship with Ma and Pa Kent, trying to live up to their lessons as best he can. In contrast Kenan's mom was believed to have died in an airplane crash when he was just a child, and he never really knew her. His father was distant from him after that and the two weren't really close despite Kenan's attempts to impress him. So Kenan lacks that strong connection while still clearly loving both of them.

Pa Kent's death is one of the most tragic examples of Clark's love for his parents, and I've always been a fan of takes where Clark promises his father to fight for the powerless on Pa's deathbed. Kenan gets a similar scene at the start of his career, his dad "dies" (after being exposed as Flying General Dragon, a pro-democracy "supervillain" from the Chinese authorities perspective) and wants Kenan to promise he'll fight for Truth, Justice, and Democracy. But because Kenan's dad never really bonded with him, Kenan doesn't know what those mean, and can only promise that he never wants to see people die, something his father takes comfort in at least. In classic comic book fashion it's revealed that Dr. Omen, Kenan's "boss" and the one who gave him his powers, saved Kenan's father, because she is Kenan's mother! Kenan's relationship with his parents forms a lot of the crux of his character arc, and seeing how Yang utilizes the classic Superman concept of family kept the storytelling exciting.

Yang's brilliant exploration of the concept of "Superman" through the prism of Chinese culture was a great way to differentiate Kenan as well.

I absolutely freaking love how he tied to the concept of Qi to the S-shield in particular. Connecting the shape of the shield with the way Kenan has acquired his powers along the path of the Bagua (eight trigrams used in Taoism that represent the fundamental principles of reality), with his octagon S-shield outline representing all eight principles together, was mindblowing! So was the idea of restricting Kenan's access to his powers unless he was actually acting in a Superman manner, that tied his character growth to his power growth in an entertaining manner. There were so many characters and concepts that meshed Chinese and DC lore together, like how Emperor Super-Man was Kenan's "Doomsday", they even recreated that iconic dual kill shot! The Chinese Wonder Woman Peng Deilan, being based on the Chinese Legend of the White Snake! There was even some Korean mythology referenced with the Aqua-Man member of the JLC "Dragonson".

Yang also managed to do a Superman Blue/Superman Red story with Super-Man Yin/Super-Man Yang!

Shameful that it took me a while to realize what Gene Yang was doing but once I caught on I was touched. You can tell how much Yang loved Superman and his mythology, and how he was excited to incorporate as much from Clark as he could, while still using it in a way that was solidly Kenan's. And not just Superman's mythology, but the history and lore of the entire DC Universe. I-Ching got to be brought in, fleshed out, and used as Kenan's mentor! The "Yellow Peril" villain from Detective Comics #1, the comic DC gets its name from was brought in and revamped as I-Ching's twin brother All-Yang! Hats off to Yang for taking a racist caricature and attempting to make him into something more.

This series was a beautiful attempt by Gene Yang to build a space for Asian heroes and villains where they could be more than stereotypes, Kenan himself being a defiant mold-breaker in every regard as the complete opposite of most Asian characters in Western media (a jock, a bully, loves his dad but not on great terms with him, a powerhouse as a hero, etc). So much thought and hard work was poured into this by Yang and his team of artist collaborators.

Especially the costumes, man Kenan had so many great looks. From his starting outfit (which is my favorite Superman variant not worn by Clark himself), to the one with the Yin/Yang shield he acquired later on, to his Super-Man Yin & Super-Man Yang outfits, Kenan looked damn cool. Part of me is bummed they didn't go with the Chinese character shield they toyed around with, but I loved how Yang used the "s-shield" as a plot point, so I'm not too broken up over it.

All that great work Yang did to build that space up has been more or less forgotten sadly. It was nice to see Kenan in the DC Asian Month Celebration issue. Avery is going to be in Justice Incarnate at least (unsurprising considering she was created by Williamson). So fucking bummed that Superman Family Adventures cartoon didn't happen, they were going to have Kenan and John Henry Irons in it! Would've been a dream come true for me to see Irons in animation again, and Kenan making the jump to outside media! Maybe that would've encouraged DC to let Yang keep writing New Super-Man, or at least encouraged them to use him elsewhere instead of allowing him fall into Limbo.

Unfortunately I'm not sure what the future holds for Kenan. Jon is being pushed as Clark's replacement in the comics, with DC keeping all the other contenders such as Kon benched. Calvin is leading the Justice Incarnate team likely due to the upcoming Coates reboot that will make Clark black. Val will probably get something once Taylor leaves Jon's book or once they officially announce the HBO Max show is happening. So where does that leave Kenan, my new favorite PoC legacy hero? Currently my only hope is that Yang is working on something for DC involving him. Yang left Batman/Superman, where I was hoping to see a Baxi/Kenan team up, to go work on "exciting other opportunities" per his Twitter. So fingers crossed that there's something in the works for Kenan!

One day I hope he gets his day in the sun again.

[docgold13]

365 DC Comics Paper Cut-Out SuperHeroes - One Hero, Every Day, All Year…

July 10th - Super-Man / Kong Kenan

Kong Kenan had been a teenager growing up in Shanghai whose parents were both involved in the Freedom Fighters of China program.   Following his mother’s untimely death, Kenan often acted out, yet he showed bravery and a degree of promise that didn’t go unnoticed by the mysterious figure known as Dr. Omen.  Dr. Omen arranged for Kenan to be subjected to a number of tests where he was imbued with a specialized type of Kryptonian radiation.   This resulted in the young man being bestowed with super powers approximating those possessed by Superman.  After some initial stumbles, Kenan had his powers taken away (or rather suppressed by way of a special device Dr. Omen had instituted as a safeguard).  Even without his powers, Kenan didn’t hesitate to jump in when civilians were being attacked by the villain called Sunbeam.  Sunbeam shot Kenan with a bolt of solar radiation which inadvertently had the effect of reactivating the young man’s powers.  Once re-empowered, Kenan had little difficulty in defeating Sunbeam.  Having proven himself, Kenan was made the new Super-Man of China, joining Bat-Man and Wonder-Woman in becoming his country’s own version of The Justice League.  The hero first appeared in New Super-Man #1 (2016).  

[mathysphere]

Octobit Day Three: Teenagers

Been on a big comics kick recently, and absolutely fell in love with New Super-Man-- it’s wicked good! Love this team of undersupervised superpowered teenagers

The backstitching for their faces is very prototype, if I ever get the time to stitch this I’d probably make a lot of tweaks. :)

[heroicadventurists]

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

SUPER-MAN 

Full Name: Kenan Kong

Team Affiliations: Justice League of China

[thecomicsnexus]

NEW SUPER-MAN #11-14 JULY - OCTOBER 2017 BY GENE LUEN YANG, BILLY TAN, HAINING, GADSON, KARD, HI-FI DESIGN, TAKO ZHAN AND YING ZHAN

SYNOPSIS (FROM COMIC VINE)

“THE ZERO ULTIMATUM” part one! Dr. Omen’s deadly first experiment, the original New Super-Man of China, frees himself! Kenan Kong may be learning to control his super abilities, but to survive an encounter with Super-Man Zero he’ll need to learn faster! Plus, the shocking origin of the ultra-powerful All-Yang reveals a surprising connection to Kenan’s teacher—Master I-Ching!

“THE ZERO ULTIMATUM” part two! New Super-Man and the Justice League of China must take back Shanghai from the current emperor—the original super-powered creation of Dr. Omen! While the battle may be winnable, a devastating secret comes to light and shakes the young Super-Man to his core.

“SHANGHAI UNDER SIEGE ” part one! Shanghai falls—and Emperor Super-Man rules the ashes! With an army of super-villains on the streets, the Justice League of China leads the movement to take the city back. New Super-Man’s head isn’t in the game upon discovering the shocking secret of his mother’s true identity, and Wonder-Woman has been transformed and Bat-Man is overwhelmed! It’s up to I-Ching and the New Flash of China to snap Kenan out of it and save Shanghai!

"SHANGHAI UNDER SIEGE" part two! The Justice League of China retains one final chance to rally its forces and begin a counterattack in villain-occupied Shanghai as Emperor Super-Man conquers the city. As Kenan fights to save his city and its people, a final casualty shakes the young hero to his solid-steel core.

REVIEW

It is very hard to figure out what was the original plan for this title. In a way, I understand when they changed the name to a more plural Justice League of China. But while the themes and plots remain Chinese oriented, they still seem to imitate american heroes, which seems very unlikely. In fact, some of these characters take the same paths of their american counterparts. I would have started the series this way and then move away from the american identities and embraced more regional identities (like Wonder-Woman in these issues, revealing she is actually a snake... do we need to keep calling her wonder-woman?).

Doesn’t matter, this is what we’ve got. And it’s not bad. It just relies too much in binge-reading the whole series (as there are too many characters to follow). At least they try to surprise you in every issue. I think this title had a lot of potential, but they made the heroes look like knock-offs, and now they fight knock-offs of themselves.

The art looks good, I would have preferred a more Asian look in the characters, but the style certainly fits the title.

I give these issues a score of 6

[hellyeahheroes]

Pushed myself and made the second video the same day. Meaning that I have 4 days to finish the last two. This time I give the spotlight to five team books that ended in 2018.

- Admin

[dailydccomics]

Super-Man and the Justice League of China by Philip Tan

[dicktripwire]

DC Comic Wallpapers

[draconian62]

New Super-Man and The Justice League of China #22 

[clairedsfield]

NEW SUPER-MAN: DEILAN AND AVERY