Superman will show his bisexuality in the next opus

In a comic book to be released in November, the new Superman, the son of Clark Kent, will fall in love with a man and assume his

of

, announced Monday, October 11, the publisher DC Comics, a subsidiary of Warner Bros., new illustration of the adaptation of American comics to changing mores.

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"I always said that everyone needed heroes and had the right to represent themselves in these heroes"

, explained the author of the comic strip, Tom Taylor, quoted in a press release illustrated by a drawing by the artist John Timms , where Superman's son Jon Kent kisses a young man, a journalist named Jay Nakamura, on the mouth. The DC Comics ad is headlined:

Tom Taylor believes that

(and)

.

In an August issue of Superman, Jon Kent, son of Clark Kent and journalist Lois Lane, befriends reporter Jay Nakamura.

In the issue to appear on November 9 in the United States, this relationship will turn into a romantic romance.

This summer, the rumor of a “gay Superman” and of a “coming out” of the superhero had agitated the specialized publications and the sites of fans.

And this is not the first time that American comics want to be more in tune with the diversity of society: the Aquaman series had highlighted this summer a black and gay superhero, while in the last edition of the comic Batman, Robin also portrayed himself as bisexual.

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For Ben Saunders, professor and specialist in the study of comics and cartoons, the times are

and it is

.

" queer ", estimates the researcher.

In this new Superman series titled

, Jon Kent is a superhero with different concerns than his father: he is very involved against social injustices, climate change and the refugee crisis.