Read on Twitter
apparently a bunch of chuds decided i hated jinny hex because i said in an interview i went in hoping for superboy.
like bruh i *love* jinny hex i just already had ideas for superboy
like bruh i *love* jinny hex i just already had ideas for superboy
and to be honest, a lot of the work i did in Jinny Hex started in Superboy -- my obsession with breaking legacy and charting ahead. My superboy pitch started with "what does it mean to be the clone of the best human in the world?"
to give you a sense of why i wanted superboy, my Jinny pitch started out as a freewheeling time travel adventure that was more about the supporting characters than Jinny herself, because I didn't know her very well. I needed Bendis to tell me I was allowed to redefine her.
Suddenly, I saw the connection: Jinny wasn't trying to finish something Jonah had started (the original story) -- she was trying to start her *own* life anew. To do that, I knew I needed to engage with what happened in YJ and with the Hex family legacy.
Which was already my starting point for Superboy and *his* heritage and legacy. Conner hadn't had the spotlight like this in over a decade, so I wanted him, right out the gate, to slam into what Superman meant to the worlds present and future.
the more time I spent with Jinny, the more I realized how similar a position she was in, grappling with a history she didn't really understand. So I knew we needed her to crash into it and come out the other side changed.
So Three-Eyed Jack, who was *always* intended to be her ongoing nemesis, suddenly shifted into her *father*, a wrinkle in the Hex story that changes who and what she is now and forever.
