#and why clark seemingly doesn't pay too much attention to this kid wearing his colors who is getting exploited to hell and back

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can i say something that might be a bit controversial idk.

listen as much as i'm aware of and appreciate how much more to kon there is than just the plot thread of him being a clone of clark and lex & i do find it annoying that dc harps on that as his main struggle ever since the john's retcon-

i also do think that if dc editorial at the time (the 90s) hadn't been so insistent on the whole 'there can only be one last son of krypton and it's clark kent' thing, kon would have been a clone of clark from the very start/it would have been revealed he was actually a clone of clark a lot sooner than it was.

#like a lot of 90s super comics there's this huge undercurrent of well they want more kryptonians #but editorial mandate says there can only be one so they got creative with how these guys are totally not kryptonians #(but they're definitely kryptonians.) #actually the whole last son of krypton thing also lends to so much of how isolated kon's story in the 90s is #and why clark seemingly doesn't pay too much attention to this kid wearing his colors who is getting exploited to hell and back #anyways idrc about the lex aspect of the cloning thing it's just i think clark definitely would have been if they could've