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Mae Kent & Kon-El Reading List/Timeline:

this is a list of all comics Mae Kent (pre-fusion) and Kon-El have a significant interaction in and a guide to their storyline!

- superman: the man of steel #23: mae decides to go looking for him under lex’s encouragement.

- adventures of superman #502: mae interrupts some of kon’s showboating. he stares at her chest. lex pushes her to invite kon over for dinner. kon says he never plans ahead and agrees to go. lex, kon, and mae have dinner later in the issue. kon agrees to join lexcorp easily before having to leave to meet tana. they agree to meet again the next day. rex & roxy leech then coerce kon into signing an exclusive contract with them, against what he’d previously informally agreed to with Lex and Mae.

- action comics #689: kon and mae work to manage a bridge disaster. kon vows revenge against the person who caused it. mae points out that they both have reason to hate the guy, and that with lex’s resources, tracking him down will be easy. that kon’s joining the team luthor family, and they’ll work together. kon then reveals his signing of the exclusive contract. ma and pa disapprove of all of this.

- action comics #691: lex attacks kon, shouting and demanding to know where mae has gone.

- superman #82: mae asks if the world can handle two supermen. kon says he’s not superman for the first time in response.

- adventures of superman #505: mae and kon rush steel & eradicator to safety. mae kisses steel on the mouth of his metal suit. kon says “hey— you never kissed me like that!” she says “you’d take it the wrong way.”

- action #700: mae says she doesn’t have any brothers. kon asks if she’s still dating lex, and when she says no, he invites her to a beach in maui. she says they’re too busy and they go back to dealing with the main plot.

trial of superman: this arc contains a lot of general superfamily content. i’ve listed most of the ones they both appear in, but i’ll only be elaborating on ones where they have specific interesting interactions.

- adventures of superman #529: marcus aelius invites mae, kon, and steel to help him save superman. mae and kon sit next to each other on the space ship

- action comics #716: kon teaches mae how to play magic the gathering.. with playing cards?

- superman: the man of steel #51: mae and kon are standing next to each other. then later while fighting, kon and mae begin to argue about whether or not alpha centurion is the cyborg superman in disguise.

- superman #107: mae and kon sit next to each other on some kind of rock-ship that steel created. they continue to argue about whether or not marcus aelius is a bad guy. they all climb into a tiny space ship they come across together. they then crash said ship and are confronted with the cyborg superman. the cyborg superman beats them up.

- superman: the man of steel #52: he leans in and makes a silly comment to mae after clark saves the day.

- superman #108: mae and kon watch together as clark seems to be launched to his certain death.

- adventures of superman #531: clark is shockingly not dead. they go home!

- superboy #28: kon implies he’d recognise mae’s chest anywhere. mae says she heard about the beached whales kon is helping from his friends she’s spoken to recently. mae brings up that she’s heard about kon and defending knockout. she says anyone wearing the S-Shield shouldn’t be evading the police. he brings up superman’s recent trial- she points out he isn’t clark and doesn’t have as long as history of doing good. knockout rushes in and attacks her. they start fighting. kon points out mae shouldn’t judge him for associating with knockout, because she dated lex luthor. she says that experience is how she knows kon is doing wrong. after some more arguing, she uses her telekinesis to rip the logos off of his suit and jacket. she says basically that if he’s not going to listen to her or the law, he shouldn’t carry superman’s symbol. she then flies off.

shortly after this, she would fuse with linda danvers in supergirl (1996) and would never lead a properly independent life again. her and kon never really got along after this.

here is my recommended mae & kon comics in fun graphic form so you can share them more easily!:

[thataroaceghost]

MaeKon taking Polaroids together for day one of Maekon weekend Cameras/Flight

[sectofsupergirl]

maekon ficlet / drabble, find on ao3 here

“I don’t want you to think I’m not still mad at you.” She whispers by his ear as she begins pulling his jacket down off his shoulders. “But it’s— in the past.”

“You’re still mad at me?” Kon frowns, incredulous, but he helps her take his jacket off all the same, and once he’s free of it he trails his hands up her sides. “I gotta say, you’re giving some mixed signals.”

“Can’t you just pretend we’re human and come make a mistake with me?” She could easily just melt away her shirt, but she pulls it off over her head anyways, savoring the sensation of air on her human skin, dropping the telekinetic field she usually uses to protect herself.

“I’ll come, but I’m not sure I’d call that a mistake.” He grins, wide, and the joke is so stupid and so un-Lex that she pulls him in to kiss him again. His hands settle on her hips, and she feels a little like she’s in the weirdest teen movie for about ten seconds before she registers what he’s said and jerks away.

“I’m not- we’re not- I just wanted to kiss for a while, is all.” She just wants to feel human for a moment, and maybe she shouldn’t have gone to another non-human for that, but she thought maybe he’d understand. She swallows synthetic saliva with her synthetic mouth and her synthetic body and moves her synthetic hands away from him.

“That’s cool- we’re cool, it’s cool.” He placates, hands up and facing out. Mae finds herself grinning and she feels stupid but it’s fine because they’re both stupid. It’s fine. They’ll be stupid together, just this once, and then they can go back to being— helpful.

“I do think you’re cool,” she says, hesitating for a moment.

[mae-kent]

maekon .. toxic teen heroes under the control of exploitative capitalists .. a supergirl and a superboy who never got to be just a girl and a boy …

[mae-kent]

maekon collage! maekon weekend is june 20-22nd, find info at @konmae !! these silly teen superheroes have me obsessed as per always

[mae-kent]

adventures of superman #502 and action comics #689 are just this (aka maekon)

[mae-kent]

mae kent and kon-el in action comics #689 by stern, guice, and rodier. part 2 of 2.