2016 Comic Book News Archives

April 16, 2016: Gene Yang on the Dilemma of Naming the "New Super-Man"

New Super-Man DC Comics has published a blog by writer Gene Luen Yang, who moves from "Superman" to the "New Super-Man" book post-Rebirth, in which he discusses the challenges of writing the book and the dilemma in coming up with a suitable name for the character...

    New Super-Man is a DC Comics character. He has an iconic value that the average graphic novel protagonist just doesn't have.

    And he's going into an 80-year-old toy box. Hopefully, my book won’t be the only place where he shows up. Hopefully, other DC Comics writers and artists will want to play with him.

    What would I think if I were a casual comics reader and I encountered an Asian super hero named Kenji Kong as a supporting character in a couple panels of a DC comic, without any context for the name?

    I'd probably assume some non-Asian writer had confused Asian cultures.

Read more about the development of Kenan Kong, the New Super-Man, at DCComics.com.



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