The Boys and Invincible are clearly kind of copycats of Superman, especially with Homelander and Ryan. My question is: how have Amazon, Garth Ennis, or Robert Kirkman not faced a lawsuit by DC yet? I know Viltrum is not Krypton, but come on—it’s a straight-up Superman story. Viltrum = Krypton, and the Viltrumites even have Kryptonian powers, minus the cold breath, X-ray vision, and heat vision.

Homelander and Ryan straight up have all of Superman’s powers, and Homelander even looks like Superman. How have they not faced a severe lawsuit yet?

Like, if I wrote a story about a kid named Kendall Knight and he’s bitten by an alien spider which gives him spider powers, and he lets a mugger go who then goes on to kill his girlfriend—and this motivates him to become a superhero named ‘Arachnid Man’—couldn’t I face a huge lawsuit, especially when he has Peter Parker’s powers?