No, Tom Taylor did not queerbait us with Superbat
I can already tell this is going to potentially piss off a lot of the angry shippers so let me clarify a few things first. 1. I am queer 2. I'm not defending Tom Taylor as a person nor his previous actions 3. I casually ship superbat
After the release of DKoS #1, many angry shippers took to Twitter, Tumblr, and other social media platforms to bitch Tom Taylor out for making Bruce and Clark half-brothers in the comic. People are citing his August 20th tweet as evidence of how he allegedly promised us Superbat but then didn't deliver.
As you can see from the tweet, no where on there did it say Superbat was going to be the queer part of the comic. So if you're trying to use that tweet as evidence for him queerbaiting us specifically with Superbat, you are completely wrong.
That being said, it is far to early to determine if we got queerbaited or not. We only have 1 issue of the comic out so far with 11 more to come. For all we know, he could be referring to a relationship or something that gets revealed in the 6th issue for example.
So stop throwing the word queerbait around and attacking a writer over something he didn't do. As a queer person, I'm really tired of people throwing the word around in situations it doesn't apply to. It's not Tom's fault that people saw the cover for the comic and Bruce and Clark on the same page and automatically assumed Superbat would be what he was referring to. He did nothing to suggest that Superbat would be a part of this comic so it's wrong to attack him for you not catering to your assumptions based on the previews.
So did he queerbait us in general? It's way too early to say. Once all 12 issues are released then we can see if the tweet really was a lie, but for now the shippers need to calm down and stop throwing words around.
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