With comics, he was either gonna be PAWGing or be the gayest Kyrptonian the DC Universe ever saw.
This opens the floodgates for that first black female Kryptonian, too.
Bet she's gonna have a whole arc where a nikka woos her, then tries to sell her out to some offshoot of Lexcorp. Then she'll end up burning down half a black community just to get to him. When the firefighters arrive, some blond hair'd blue eye'd dude is gonna catch her eye. She'll fall in love on the spot while nikkas be burning to death in the background.
Black love (that isn't seated in fakkitry) is simply beyond the mainstream comic companies.