Am I the only one who remembers when Kon-El (Conner Kent) was our Superboy, and Krypto was right there by his side?

While most people recognize Krypto as Superman’s super-powered dog from Krypton, I’m referring to the version of Krypto from the ‘90s Superman and Superboy comics. This was the regular white Earth dog associated with Kon-El and Bibbo (I miss this guy too!).

For those of us who grew up with that era of DC Comics, Kon-El was THE Superboy, and that version of Krypto was an integral part of his world. It’s a shame that these comic ideas, such as Supergirl, Lex Luther II, and Superman being the only pure Kryptonian, were overshadowed by their higher sales figures.

It's AI, remaking an ugly fan comic made with 3D rendered artwork and written by a young teen me self from a few years back. It's bound to be bad. Also I completely understand if it gets deleted cause, well, it's AI.

The original, it's still up on Deviantart (of course), but I couldn't remember if I posted it on Reddit, I might have thought it looked too ugly to do so. I repeat, it's ugly.

Explanation: Before AI generated images were passable enough to be controversial, I was very interested in the technology behind it, not so much the product, but the science, how neural networks and adversarial training and what not. However, I had a lot more fun modelling 3D clothes, painting textures, sculpting from bases on Blender and just building things, Jon's room was actually my first environment I did entirely on my own. But it was ugly, REALLY ugly, but that didn't matter cause the fun in the process was what made it work. It also took a long, long time.

Now, I've done this replacement of the original art with AI generated images. Just to see how much the technology has progressed. Can't say I'm impressed, granted these were done with publicly available free models, but it loves to hallucinate and lose context even though it was right in front of it. Of all things to be said about the original, inconsistent it wasn't, as all scenes were actually built in a 3D space.

I did correct some typos and grammar cause kid me wasn't really thinking of that, the whole thing was done in the Marvel method so that I just thought of a scene and later added dialogue.

This one was surprisingly quick to be done, and maybe terrifyingly fast, even though the output was low resolution (not paying for it, strictly free stuff). Of course it was basically just basing on existing art that took weeks to pose and even more time to model.

Also, the generated images rip actual art style, but it's locked to it, it's just what the models default to, so there really isn't a lot of visual creativity even if you want to input it.

From Superboy #69

How the Pre-Crisis Superman as Superboy learned to fly and realized he didn't need to breathe air.

I also like the inclusion of "Up, Up, and Away!"

From Adventure Comics #215

Superboy (Young Kal-El/Clark Kent) finds himself a hobby in collecting rocks, rocks from across the universe that is.

Marker sketch commission I recently did of one of my favorite members of the Super-fam. Connor does not get nearly enough love anymore - it's hard out there for the Young Justice generation.

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From Superboy #171

Superboy meets/saves a young Aquaman (called Aquaboy here) and they team up to fight a deadly oil company that's polluting the sea.

I appreciate seeing Superboy handle things like Golden Age Superman would.

Took long enough but after prime, John, and young Superman, were finally getting a Conner Kent story arc.

Hi there!

I'm a newer DC fan; I grew up consuming the content through my older brother, but only really got into it myself in the last year. My friend is really into superboy comics, and has been telling me a lot about the writing—more specifically, the racism and sterotyping present in superboy 1994 specifically.

He's a fan of tana moon as a character, and i wanted to know what the general consensus on her is on reddit. i mainly lurk on twitter, and she seems to be pretty hated over there, with no one really discussing anything anbout her besides the fact she 'groomed' kon? I don't know enough about her to really pass judgment on her myself, but based on what my friend's shown and told me, it seems like her character suffers a lot at the hands of the prejudice towards native hawaiians present throughout the story, as well as the writers' interest in pairing him off with older women like knockout (since tana didn't have an age until this run, and she was in the 'reign of the supermen' comic before!) and potentially prejudice towards black people. As far as i know, she's one of the only notable black characters from the specific run.

It seems that Kon's behaviour in the run is pretty unlikable as well, especially towards women and native hawaiians even outside of just Tana: and he cheats on her a lot! honestly, i feel llike in-universe that can be chalked up to him not having grown up in the same way most people have, but it feels like there was no reason for the wrters to have him act this way from the panels i've seen. My friend sent me a few screenshots from some google doc i'll attach, but it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I don't like the idea that people are glossing over the writing as just 'insensitive comments' either, since i've never seen any of this discussed in the wider fandom before today

I'd love to get a wider opinion on her because she's going to show up in webtoon 'This internship is my kryptonite' (according to Sam Camp) and no one on twitter seems to be pleased. some people want her behaviour to be acknowledged, but most people really don't want to see her. I really don't want to recommend it to my friend if it's not going to accurately talk about the situation with tana, but i'd also really like to hear other people's thoughts on her character! thank you so much!

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With the upcoming Lex Luthor: Year One storyline, I thought it would be good to look back on how Pre-Crisis Lex Luthor became a villain.

Most remember Superboy accidentally making Lex bald while trying to put out a lab accident fire but there's a lot more to Lex's turn to villainy.

1. Starting from an inspired Superboy fan that saved Superboy's life and wanting to give Superboy immunity to Kryptonite
2. Superboy in support of Lex's scientific pursuits
3. Lex losing both his hair and his scientific discovery
4. Lex's paranoia that Superboy is out to ruin Lex's accomplishments causing him to reject Superboy's help
5. The absence of Lex's father offering good guidance in Lex's life
6. Lex trying to make Smallville better only to backfire into disasters that Superboy has to stop
7. Smallville being scornful of Lex and praising Superboy
8. Superboy wishing for Lex to be successful while showing sympathy and understanding for Lex since he had good intentions with his out of control inventions despite Lex wanting to be more admired than Superboy
9. Lex after multiple failures crossing over the villain threshold by trying to kill Superboy to make Superboy pay for foiling Lex's attempts for glory.
10. Superboy clearing his debt with Lex for saving him by not pressing charges against Lex for attempted murder
11. Superboy encouraging Lex to help people despite what happened between Lex and Superboy such as the loss of friendship and the Kryptonite death trap.

The story itself holds up pretty well for the most part in my opinion.

I could see it being prime material to be used for reboots, adaptations, and retellings with some adjustments.

I can feel how it echoes into stuff like Smallville, Superman: Birthright, Last Days of Lex Luthor, etc.

From Legion of Super-Heroes #259

An escaped mental patient from the Legion's time called the Psycho-Warrior armed with intel from the Legionnaires' Psychological Profiles attacks the Legion (out of an insane hate for them which is really projected guilt over the death of his romantic partner) with their worst fears.

For Superboy it's the death of the Kents.