'I hope this isn't a headline in a few years' time. 'He is as powerful as hope, faster than fate and able to lift us all and he's a very new hero finding his way, fighting things his father didn't as much,' Taylor said.
Jon Kent also cares about climate crisis and refugees. 'People are saying for the first time ever they're seeing themselves in Superman - something they never thought was possible.' 'I'm seeing tweets of people saying they burst into tears when they read the news, that they wished that Superman was this when they were growing up, that they could see themselves,' he added. Reactions have been mostly positive, Taylor said. 'I think that's a really important distinction there.' 'We want this to be, 'Superman finds himself, becomes Superman and then comes out.' 'We didn't want this to be, 'DC Comics creates new queer Superman,'' the Melbourne-based Taylor said. The news was announced on National Coming Out Day, October 11, which is observed to support lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. 'When I was offered this job, I thought, 'Well, if we're going to have a new Superman for the DC Universe, it feels like a missed opportunity to have another straight white saviour.'' 'It's not a gimmick,' the comic's Australian writer Tom Taylor said. The young man kisses reporter Jay Nakamura in issue five of the comic book Superman: Son of Kal-El, which will be released on November 9.
