On the rare occasions something comes up from this series I’m worried I’m giving them free promotion while trashing an ad campaign that fails. This time I’m just kind of annoyed personally and want to see if anyone else shares my pain. I mean, I know I’m not the only one who hates those Dr. Squatch ads on principle alone, and don’t even want to follow the guy doing the ads to other products. You don’t get to decide what makes me a “man”, dude.
Instead we’re looking at a series of ads from the latest entry in the banking app craze, Zelle. What is Zelle? Honestly that’s all I know about them. They help with banking and it shows up in other banking apps, but I do very little banking over the computer or through apps. I’m old…which fails as an argument because my dad has no problem with it and he can’t even work his tablet. I will give the ad creators credit for having what I assume is a white man marrying a black woman and accepting her kids. At the very least he’s living there and nobody seems to care. The kids don’t look interracial so I’m assuming they’re from a previous relationship. It’s a rare thing to see, but good on them. It’s still more acknowledgement of interracial relationships not being a weird thing than anything else on TV. It’s too bad these two adults are way too obsessed with their product.
The REAL Problem With Bisexual Superman Jr.
We need to get this straight (no pun intended) right now for those of you who only follow Superman outside of comics and are hearing that Superman is now bisexual. It isn’t the regular Superman, Clark Kent, who DC comics has decided is now into both dudes and chicks but his son, Jon Kent. If you only know Jon from the CW show…well that your mistake. Being more Superman than Zac Snyder’s version still isn’t Superman enough. Clark and Lois only have the one son, who was slowly getting superpowers like his dad, and has now been aged up because shenanigans and taken over the name Superman. Now that we’re all on that page, let’s get into the real problem.
First off, I want to go on the record with my stance on Jon Kent’s “coming out” at the hands of the writers and possibly either DC editorial or someone at WarnerMedia. My personal official opinion as a long time Superman fan is…I honestly don’t care. The Jon Kent I wanted to read about was left behind when Brian Michael Bendis decided to age the character up for no good reason. The stories and friendship with fellow Super-Son Damian “Robin” Wayne (no, he’s not the Robin that also went bisexual recently) was tossed out the window. Tales where Superman teaches his son how to use his powers were shredded. Family moments with the Kents or Jon growing up and having his own circle of people in school and life issues as both Superman’s son and his own developing powers got hit with Kryptonite. What DC is shelling out now is a namesake, a replacement for the real Jon Kent. I have shown how this can be fixed.
I guess older Jon needed a GPS to his home dimension.
However, DC isn’t going to do that. So what’s the real problem to me if I don’t care what they do to I-Can’t-Believe-It’s-Not-Jon-Kent? That DC Comics is using the representation shield to, and this is going to sound like a conspiracy theory but here me out, hide what their real game is…and the internet is falling for it hook, line, and sinker.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on October 12, 2021 in Death of DC and tagged commentary, DC Comics, DC Universe, Jon Kent, Superman.
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