Would you be interested in a flashback maxi-series focused on Jon's childhood?

[Bored at 3:00AM]

Jon Kent has had a peculiar childhood in that it's been largely defined by giant time jumps in order to get him at whatever age creators wanted him to be for their stories. So, as a result, he went from being a baby to boy to teen in only a handful of years, while also being retroactively inserted into DCU history. The upside of this is that Jon's fast-forwarded timey-whimey youth leaves a lot of room for development. It might be an interesting premise for a maxi-series to chronicle the ever-changing history of the DCU through the eyes of Jon Kent, with each issue giving a snapshot from each year of his life.

What do you think? Is this something that you would be interested in reading about?

[Tzigone]

Probably not. I'd just get more and more irritated the more I read and rail more at the OOCness of his mother ever leaving him there with Jor-El. I'd end wanting to the throw the book across the room. Since I prefer to read digital, that would be a problem. I just don't think I could ever enjoy something like that.

And that's before the generally "downer" tone of it and of Jor-El not speaking to him at all for while and all the "losses" (as opposed to "wins" for peace and life-saving and heroics and so on) Jor-El caused. Definitely not my thing.

[Sacred Knight]

Not really. For me, the damage has already been done as far as his screwed up and contrived introduction into the mythos. And considering DC's track record with trying to retroactively fix their previous retroactive decisions, at this point trying to fill in the blanks would probably only make things more confusing and lore-breaking.

[Ascended]

I'd be interested in seeing Jon's childhood and the adjustment Lois and Clark went through in being new parents (especially Clark, since I dont think fatherhood would come naturally or easily to him), but I'm not dropping a chunk of money for the story.

If it were told in the main title/s, either as a arc unto itself or through a series of flashbacks, sure. I'm already reading the books so why not. As a mini? Not interested enough to justify the expense.

[Vordan]

Lois and Clark was pretty much exactly that, same with Super-Sons and Tomasi’s Rebirth run. But yeah if it was good I might pick it up. Not really sure what’s left to explore at this point though.

[Jon Clark]

As a fan of the Pre-Crisis Superboy and Superbaby tales, it feels contradictory to say, but such a series would be anti-climactic for me.

Despite so much of Jon's life being a blank slate, I know where he is at 10 and at 17. I know he has no powers to speak of during his early life. That one of his two best friends is someone he's know for maybe a year and the other kept her hidden nature from Jon until recently. So there isn't a lot of untapped story potential in Jon prior to his intro at age 10. No JLA/DCU (didn't know dad was Superman), no Damian, no powers...

And between 10 and 17. I'm not even sure how that works. Did he spend 7 years on Earth-3 trapped by Ultraman? Did his body age several years somehow without his actually experiencing that much time passing? One of those two seems to be the takeaway from his return. The options are seeing Jon on Earth-3 "alone" for years being a prisoner/hunted, seeing those same years with just Jor-El as supporting cast, or assuming he lost most of seven years without experiencing them. None of those are something I want to read.

Maybe the next Crisis will give us baby Jon and let him age on panel over a few years. Til then I'd rather we just looked forward with his life.

[Yoda]

The Lois & Clark series kinda did cover this a bit. The interesting stuff would be him getting his powers and when he finds out his dad is Superman (probably have to keep it from him for a bit so he doesn’t blurt it out at daycare). Lois & Clark, Rebirth Superman, and Super Sons already hit all the highlights of that.

I’d rather a Jon Kent: Lost in Space series with his travels with Jor El, and the time after the volcano which I think is left open enough that it can truly be expanded on. For instance, there’s no reason Jon’s Earth 3 travels couldn’t take him off world and back before heading to the Hall of Injustice. It’s really an era ripe for exploration.

That said, I’d love an updated version of the whole Lois & Clark relationship, marriage, and Jon’s birth & younger years. The current continuity is the Triangle Era more or less, so it exists, but it’s still 30 years old almost at this point. It could do for an update.

I really don’t care if it doesn’t all fit cleanly. If it’s a good story I want to read it.

[KC]

Not really. I am not interested in Jon ages 0-9.

[Celgress]

A miniseries which hits the "high points" of Jon's early days perhaps an ongoing series featuring a pre-nine-year-old Jon as its focus not so much.

[rpmaluki]

I actually want a series, mini or maxi, of Jon's adventures after he escaped the volcano on Earth 3.

[Soubhagya]

Lois and Clark was a pretty good story chronicling his childhood, even though it focused less on Jon himself. I love it. Now its out of continuity with its broad beats in Jon's backstory. I don't see what one can get by writing another story like this by writing the same story in the present continuity.

Maybe write a whole new one with Jon having powers right from his birth. Or say make it something like Yotsuba!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yotsuba%26!

Make it humorous and quirky. I am a fan of Jon. But i don' t think i want the same thing all over again.