Quote Originally Posted by Robanker View Post
Don't bring writing proverbs into this because then I gave up bring up "is this the most interesting part of your character's story, and if not, why aren't I reading that?"

In a medium of retcons and reboots and trying to use one another to correct each other, you can't even trust everything on the printed page. We're always doing some mental gymnastics to fix mistakes or correct aberrations.
Oh gods now *I'm* getting flashbacks of professors grilling me on my writing! Okay, you're right, let's leave the college lessons alone!

And applying lit analysis to comics is indeed a weird ass challenge. Not only do you have the continuity problems you mention, but also the change of eras. How do we interpret something from, say, the 50's? Maybe it was progressive then, but is regressive now. Do we read it with the intent of the original authors, or do we read it against modern values?

Half the reason I still love comics, I think, is because it's so hard to nail stuff like this down.

Quote Originally Posted by Agent Z View Post
The only one of these that I'd say is objectionable was Lex and as you said, that was beyond his control. Clark wasn't in a position to raise Kara himself. The thing with the Amazons is weird due to Jeph Loeb but Clark did know about them through Diana.
Clark had a steady, well paying job and housing, which is more than a lot of real parents can say. He was absolutely capable of taking Kara in. He decided to leave her with foster parents he barely knew, or a bunch of Amazons, of which he really knew only one of them (who didn't even live there).

Clark didn't dump the kid on someone else because he was never his responsibility, at least until they found out he was cloned from Clark. Kon was initially just a science experiment who wore Clark's symbol.
Letting the kid wear that symbol and use the name makes him, at least partially, Clark's responsibility. Let's be real here, we have seen Clark save children and spend more time and effort finding their families than he spent ensuring that Conner was being taken care of properly. He left Conner with a dude who looked and acted like a greasy porn star from the 80's trying to cash in on any quick trick he could lay his hands on. I'll concede that originally Conner had no biological ties to Clark, but the amount of f*cks not given are astounding.

I don't what would be objectionable about this depiction here.
I'm not saying anything was objectionable. I don't recall the story well enough to say.