Superboy's status?

[WildWing]

I don't keep up much with DC, but is Superboy really dead? I was looking for his "costumography" on Google and came across all this stuff about "Match" on Wikipedia. I had high hopes for Superboy, hopefully that article is outdated and he's back...

 

[GoldenAgeHero]

he's dead.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, he's dead and he's staying that way, by all indications. DC had some legal problems with the "Superboy" name, which was a ******ed reason to kill him because most people just called him Kon-El or Conner by the time he died anyway.

 

[fifthfiend]

"DC had some legal problems with the "Superboy" name"

?

F'real?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

F'really realz:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superboy#Legal_status

 

[fifthfiend]

Oh wow, that's cock-diculous.

I mean what the hell, Time ****ing Warner doesn't have a spare pile of million-dollar bills somewhere they can't throw the Siegel family?

 

[WildWing]

Why doesn't Time Warner just settle out of court and buy the "Superboy" name and rights? Then again, I wonder how many of us actually miss Superboy?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I miss him. He was just starting to get really interesting thanks to Teen Titans when they killed him off, too.

Oh wow, that's cock-diculous.

I mean what the hell, Time ****ing Warner doesn't have a spare pile of million-dollar bills somewhere they can't throw the Siegel family?

It's the principle of the thing, man!

Plus, it's just cheaper to just call Clark "Superman" even when he was younger and kill off the other Superboy. 'Cause that's actually free.

 

[fifthfiend]

Principles are priceless, but money can be exchanged for goods and services!

I wonder if this means the Siegel family can go publish their own Superboy now. Maybe they can sell the rights to Marvel.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

That would actually be really funny.

 

[fifthfiend]

They could make him the Sentry's sidekick.

 

[Kebab gud]

They could make him the Sentry's sidekick.

hope that was a lame joke

 

[TheCorpulent1]

No, it was actually a moderately amusing joke. Because, you see, the Sentry is a Superman rip-off, so making Superboy his sidekick would be like making Superman a sidekick to a second-rate version of himself, which is confusing and ironic and therefore funny.

 

[fifthfiend]

Thanks, I was actually kinda proud of that one.

 

[shapeshifter]

No, it was actually a moderately amusing joke. Because, you see, the Sentry is a Superman rip-off, so making Superboy his sidekick would be like making Superman a sidekick to a second-rate version of himself, which is confusing and ironic and therefore funny.

and if that happened the universe would implode just out of sheer confusion

 

[storyteller]

Dc is cleaning house right now. I mean really its not a good period to be a sidekick. They killed off the new flash after a year. I swear i think robin is next(all three of them)

 

[Kitsune]

Well DC has been killing off a lot of people, so I wouldn't be surprised that anyone else was next. On the other hand, DC has also been hinting that they were going to kill other characters off, like Animalman, only to save them (thank goodness)

 

[Manic]

Oddly enough, Green Arrow's sidekicks are all still alive. Batman's lost 2 Robins, Superman lost Superboy, Wonder Woman lost a Wonder Girl, and we've just lost a Kid Flash. But the Speedys are all still alive and kicking.

 

[jaydawg]

Well, Green Arrow died.

 

[Manic]

Yeah, but Green Arrow is hardly anybody's sidekick. Unless you count him constantly humping Dinah's leg.

 

[Conan]

Yeah, but Green Arrow is hardly anybody's sidekick. Unless you count him constantly humping Dinah's leg.

For a while during the Pre-Crisis days he was almost like Hal's sidekick.

 

[yenaled]

Principles are priceless, but money can be exchanged for goods and services!

I wonder if this means the Siegel family can go publish their own Superboy now. Maybe they can sell the rights to Marvel.

Actually, Superboy is a trademarked name of DC. Seigal family just own the rights to "a young Superman called Clark Kent calling himself Superboy" but they couldn't actually use the name Superboy because DC trademarked the name.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Actually, Superboy is a trademarked name of DC. Seigal family just own the rights to "a young Superman called Clark Kent calling himself Superboy" but they couldn't actually use the name Superboy because DC trademarked the name.

So what was the problem with Kon? He wasn't a young Clark Kent and, like I said, barely anybody even called him Superboy anymore.

 

[Kebab gud]

Oddly enough, Green Arrow's sidekicks are all still alive. Batman's lost 2 Robins, Superman lost Superboy, Wonder Woman lost a Wonder Girl, and we've just lost a Kid Flash. But the Speedys are all still alive and kicking.

its kinda funny really
Roy: Drug addict, shoot 5 times in the chest and stuff like that
Mia: Drug addict, hooker, shoot, blown up bla bla bla , ok she is dying but shes not dead yet!

 

[Brian Braddock]

Hmm, I did wonder when watching the Legion of Superheroes why Superboy was constantly being referred to as Superman.

I guess now I know.