Fanclubs, Tabloids and Other Thoughts

SallyP's post mentioning Hal Jordan having a teenaged fan-club (which I second as being an awesome idea) got me thinking a few mostly unrelated thoughts.

1) If this is a universe where young girls put posters of superheroes on their walls like girls here do musicians and the like, which hero would be the preteen draw?

I mean, thinking specifically of the "pre-teen heartthrob types" I remember, they all tended to be rather non-threateningly pretty, not-quite-androgynous-but-not-remotely-"manly" types. You know, like the boy-bands or Leonardo DeCaprio or...um...gosh, I have no idea what young girls are into nowadays. Anyway, that sort.

I mean, acknowledging of course that there's an element of cookie cutter boyscout-ness to most of the superheroes, I'm not really sure I can think of a whole lot of heroes that would suit that particular fanbase. Nightwing maybe? But he IS a Gothamite, and they're kind of intimidating. He may also be too overtly sexual. Hal is certainly out. Kyle MAYBE, but I dunno there.

Maybe Connor Hawke. He's cute, young, only barely not-virginal and monkishly non-threatening. I bet his hospital room's filled with tons of flowers and teen girl tear-blotched "Get well soon" cards. Aw.

2) I'm also reminded of one of the Black Circle arc comics where a girl sees Kyle fly off and boasts that she banged him (identifying him as Guy Gardner, heh.) But it got me thinking of the tabloid industry in the DCU (or Marvel Universe for that matter). Not so much the Star or Enquirer types, I'm sure they have plenty of fodder. ("Superman's secret fling!" "Is the Flash gay?" "Batman v. Aquaman, the feud no one wants you to see!")

But what about the REAL tabloid rags. You know, like Weekly World News or the Sun or that sort. The "I'm having an alien's baby", "Satan lives in my shoe" or "Scientists clone encephalitic ebola monkey".

I mean. In the DCU, that's gotta be like..."My mother slept with the mailman" or something. Fairly earthshaking on a personal level, but ya know, fairly ho-hum to the rest of the world. Who doesn't know someone who hasn't gotten knocked up by an alien? Sheesh!

What do you use for wild and crazy news when that sort of thing is positively mundane?