Originally Posted by
Jim Kelly
The thing is the concept of the Manhunter from Mars has been evolving over time since 1955. Originally, he was from a peace-loving Mars, where they had no war for thousands of years. Then that was retconned so a war between two different types of Martians destroyed the planet and sent the Martians off looking for another planet to colonize and J'Onn joined them. Then that was all thrown out and J'Onn became much weirder--with his true form being revealed as something very un-human. And then we saw that he could switch sex in his Martian form. And then we get these more domestic stories of J'Onn having kids and a wife. Yet, if DC is looking to develop more out of the box characters, they have J'Onn as an obvious candidate. And since he's been retconned so many times, it wouldn't be unusual to take him in a different direction yet again.