Originally Posted by
Superlad93
My big take away was "Superman: House of El is practically NOTHING BUT Easter eggs, both for other Future State titles and for literally everything I have planned for the upcoming year and beyond. We're playing the long game with the Superman titles for the foreseeable future, and the Future State: Superman titles are very much a part of that."
That's pretty big to me. House of El functions as both a speculative future, and a double sized comic full of hits for the next year and over of Superman comics. I imagine it'll be a really good idea to continue to look back at that story as PKJ's run presses on. Reminds me of the dreams Clark and Zod both had in Bendis' run. Both ended up pointing towards more than a few things in both Superman and Legion.
So, in the interest of some speculation based on what little we know and see, I'm gonna make a guess: the young black woman (who may be a half Kryptonian) that Jon is holding in his right arm on the cover for Action Comics will be set up as Jon's love interest within PKJ's first year. I'm thinking this because House of El features Jon's direct descendants (one of whom is the new Superman, and I think that's a clear hint towards Jon being the next Superman) the twin brother and sister, Rowan and Ronan Kent, as being black. Yes, clearly it's been 1000 years and having someone in a family line be a whole other race isn't much of a leap, but, as PKJ said, these are hints, so I'm taking them more along those lines.
Now to piss some people off....
In the sprit of the semi "New 52.0" vibe they're somewhat evoking with Jon, that young black possibly half Kryptonian may be the in-house "Wonder Woman" DC's been looking to transplant into the Super office since 2011. As before, follow me on this one: fish out of water, possibly temperamental, has likely killed before and is willing to do so again (seems to be from the fighting pits where Clark is now), and the crown jewel of it all, "we're not like them over there, or them over there. We're something in between" which closely echoes the roof top "we're not like the gods or the mortals" scene between New 52 Clark and Diana in JL.
And with Jon having what is likely the most first hand experience being a powered up half Kryptonian that's been trained by multiple full bloods, and if she's going to be sticking around Earth like it seems, he's in the position to help her adjust, and to do it with a level of intimate first-hand knowledge that was never had by any of his teachers. And once again, that echoes how New 52 Clark would teach Diana about man's world sometimes.
It's also possible that we're looking at our next Supergirl. With the show ending DC doesn't have to keep Kara as Supergirl to keep the brand up. They can flat out move her up to Superwoman. That would really set in stone that she's just as powerful as Clark (well as Clark was before he weakened), thus making her top dog. So that leaves the Supergirl IP up for grabs, and Jon being a Superman who trains a fresh-of-the-boat Supergirl who proves that he's not the only one of his kind is a nice remix on the classic take. But in this version they're not related, so they can--you know. Plus, she'd also conjure comparison to New 52 Kara along with Diana.
And to tie a pretty bow around the whole thing, THIS may be what Jon's been "searching" for. That's in reference to PKJ explaining that Jon is a character that's "unmoored" and "without and anchor" because he's (and go ahead and see if you can guess where I'm going with this) grown up in several different places and time periods, and now feels like he doesn't know where to call home. You know who else might feel like that? A literal intergalactic slave who has been traded across the galaxy her whole life. As PKJ pointed out, "to be a kid going through all of that". Plus, PKJ has brought up the whole surviving on Earth-3 after being tormented by an evil version of his dad. That's likely not hard to relate to surviving on War World and being tormented by Mongul. They could be the two people that really, actually get the particular brand of f%&ked up the others life has been.
*self high-five*
But screw all that Clark Diana shit, IT'S SORTA KINDA TOM STRONG Y'ALL, SO I'M HYPE!!!!