#superboy (2010)

[azyushka]

call me home, is anybody out there at all?

[cryptocism]

the sillies

dialogue from here if you want a blast from the year 2010

[implusle]

adding this to the bartkon compilation📸

[ebenelephant]

mmm. clark having to figure out what to do with conner without a justice league to look out for him. thinking a young justice 2010 esque origin, but really early days so he doesn't really know any other heroes. assimilating this into my battinson headcanons. clark's like 26 and the closest thing bruce has to a kid is jim's teenage daughter, so he also has no idea what to do. the kid has the powers of superman (ish) and the only one who can reasonably stop him is clark, who feels a bit sick just looking at him, and doesn't trust him at all. he could try and hand him off to ma and pa kent, but they could only handle him because he was a good kid, what if the clone hurts them?

[megalithical]

dick: make no mistake. not only am i party rocking, but i am also in the house tonight.

wally: but are you shuffling?

dick: everyday.

conner: what language are you two speaking??

[thatsandwichguy]

You have to watch Young Justice every now and then to keep your heart pure.

[fishyfcuk]

superboy: man of tomorrow #1

[vertigoartgore]

2017's Superman Vol.4 #26 cover by cover artist Lee Weeks.

[redsupulse]

what - if any - pop culture knowledge do you think they gave conner while he was in the tube. especially for like a modern era superboy (thinking mid 2010s for his “creation” year)

because he does have some generic knowledge in his early appearances, but these are also like at least 35 if not older scientists creating what wasnt intended to be a teenage boy so its not like they would have cared about teaching him what snapchat was

do you think they taught him about hamilton

[have-you-read-this-comic]

[magenta-somethings]

superboy plays mtg confirmed??????

(from superboy (1994), issue #18)

[misterlemonzmen]

07-23-25 | Tom Welling. via angrypirateglitter. MisterLemonzMen.tumblr.com/archive

[thefaeriefeatherdark]

I do think the wildest part of the Skyrocket/Connie concept is that Visaggio seemed to legitimately believe that Kon-El is like... a D-List superhero. Which is just like, a wild thing to believe considering the Comic Kon won in a fan poll hadn't even finished coming out at the time she pitched her idea.

[heroesriseandfall]

Superboy (2010) #6

Superboy: The Man of Tomorrow #1

Kon in 2011: I just wanna find a city where I can be the only hero around.

Kon in 2023: apparently not even the pacific ocean doesn’t already have a hero. I guess I’ll just have to go to space!

[ambwosialive]

on gabe: ghosts, grief, and wants.

before i get started: this is all my opinion! i've been into n2n since 2010 so i've had a lot of time to think about this (thank you dunmar warehouse thank you) the thing that those who are pro-poltergeist/demon/ghost/etc gabe don't consider, i think, is that i'm alive tells us everything that we need to know.

he is not just want diana wants him to be. he's what natalie wants him to be, he's what dan wants him to be, he's even what dr. madden wants him to be.

one of the reasons why he takes the melody in superboy and the invisible girl is (aside from the absolute juiciness narratively of her brother that she's singing about overshadowing her in her own song about him overshadows her) because natalie in that moment wants to feel validated, like she's correct in assuming that gabe Is More Acknowledged Than Her and in fact Is An Asshole, which is why he's smiling and bragging so much. (in my opinion!!!)

(as far as the text goes it is widely interpreted that) he isn't able to be seen by dan for most of the show, because that's exactly what he wants him to be: invisible. not there. going off of this texted based interpretation it can be argued that the reason why he sees him at the end (other than the acknowledgement of grief as a larger symbol and made into a tangible form) is because some part deep inside of him wants someone at that moment; diana is gone, natalie is too. he wants to feel held, so he gets held. in the case he can see and hear him and he is just ignoring him this changes. (in my opinion!!!)

dr. madden knows him as a baby who died, which is why in make up your mind / catch me i'm falling he's cradling himself in his mother's lap, why his voice becomes more childlike. (in my opinion!!!)

the problem is we are trying to define an abstract concept in simple terms, which is just not possible. not only is gabe a symbol of grief, he very much is a hallucination of diana's, and tends to side with her for that reason. (in just another day, diana is talking about how beautiful the day is, and the only one who agrees with her is gabe- "birds are singing, things are growing", etc.)

and then, of course:

guys, that's the point.

poltergeist? ghost? hallucination? symbol of grief? abstract? that's the point. we aren't supposed to know what gabe is. it's paradoxical. "what you want me to be / your worst fear", "i'll hurt you / i'll heal you", "your wish, your dream come true / your darkest nightmare too". that's how grief is. you don't know exactly what it is. is it love without a place to go? is it anger for losing them? anger at yourself for letting them be lost? gabe can be more than one thing.

especially with theatre! every gabe is going to be different! aaron's gabe is different than jack's gabe is different than kyle dean massey's gabe is different than a community theatre somewhere's gabe! that's the point! some gabes may play him as the all american football throwing jock, some may play him as an evil poltergeist, some may play him as a whiny child who needs his mom. that's the point! the interpretation means what it means to you and how you see it! he means what he means to you! we can discuss all day long about what is the objectively correct opinion on who or what gabe is (i am guilty of this. look at the previous paragraphs), but at the end of the day…

he is what YOU want him to be.

[lesliemeyers]

back at it again with hero redesigns + mock comic covers!

i know Craig & Tweek's hero names are spoofing Superman and Wonder Woman but as a Comic Nerd™️ myself they always remind ME more of Superboy & Wonder Girl so this is based on an Adventure Comics cover of those two & they were the main influence for the design tweaks i made <3

closeup + extras ↴

first of all closeup:

second of all, i spent way too long on the mock logos (graphic design is my passion) so here they are on their own:

third of all, a lil looksie at my design sketch (mostly bc tweek's shirt is pretty covered in the actual thing lmao). i didn't bother coloring craig in because well i had a solid idea of what i was doing with the colors and didn't need to plan them as much

then FOURTH of all (so many alls) a fun lil fact is that several years back i had done SC & WT redesigns based on Kon & Cassie (older looks of theirs than the ones above, the above are based on like 2010-2013 stuff, the below are based on 90's stuff) which i don't think ever made it out of discord, so here's that hehe: