A new type of Kryptonite next week

[Bored at 3:00AM]

Countdown to this Kryptonite being ignored in 3...2...1...

[theoneandonly]

I wonder if this is going to be kings attempt to write his version of Batman: venom or superbat the Batmanof Zur-En-Arrh

[JAK]

On one hand, I don't like the "one touch and it's permanent" part - it should be a "as long as it's touching your skin" thing, so if it gets knocked away, the powers go. But as it is, maybe Gold/Yellow K can strip them away again?

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But on the other hand...

Am I the only one that wants Alfred to grab it?

[Mistah K88]

They should grab all the Kryptonite colors, throw them in a blender and hit frappe to make the ULTIMATE Kryptonite...that does everything to you at once.

I also wonder if the other Kryptonite variations will affect you after you touch this version, getting all of Superman's powers, but all of his weaknesses as well.

[Superlad93]

This story looks nice. I like the narration choice here--very storybook. The new Kryptonite is pretty clearly a plot device for character exploration, and like a follow up to Batman telling Gotham Girl that he could fly if he wanted to, but he doesn't. This can also be interpreted as Batman at his lowest point because of all of the sh!t that's been going on in his life (what with his kid getting shot and his heart being broken).

On Clark's part, I'm 100% sure his intentions are good. He either A) Sees his best friend spiralling from one tragedy to the next, and his body is paying the price as his heart weakens, so Clark basically wants to insinuate and remove all possibility for physical pain while his heart mends, or B) He is a classic Superman "test his first to elicit personal growth in them" situation, and at a time where Bruce "the control freak" Wayne has maybe the least control over his life ever, Clark puts a test of self control in front of him.

Either way, the set up for the Kryptonite is so specific that I doubt it'll ever be a thing ever again, but it's great to see writers going back into the classic idea well of "strange one-off of a thing you know" because everyone's so scared of that these days, it seems. This kryptonite is destined to either float on a shelf in the Fortress as an Easter egg or sit in a vault in the Batcave as a, you guessed it, Easter egg.

[Jim Kelly]

They should grab all the Kryptonite colors, throw them in a blender and hit frappe to make the ULTIMATE Kryptonite...that does everything to you at once.

If I was a Superman villain, I'd collect all the different kinds of Kryptonite and make a utility belt with them.

[Dispenser Of Truth]

Gonna make my official guess before it drops tomorrow that Batman is in some way imagining this, induced or otherwise. Just has a dreamlike feel to it, especially Superman's behavior.

[Miles To Go]

Gonna make my official guess before it drops tomorrow that Batman is in some way imagining this, induced or otherwise. Just has a dreamlike feel to it, especially Superman's behavior.

To be fair, it is Tom King.

[James Hunter]

If I was a Superman villain, I'd collect all the different kinds of Kryptonite and make a utility belt with them.

Random thought, but if a villain *did* do that, wouldn't all the kryptonite's different effects canceleach other out??

[adkal]

If I was a Superman villain, I'd collect all the different kinds of Kryptonite and make a utility belt with them.

Didn't Lex do something like that in Last Son and Supergirl but with a gauntlet rather than a belt?

[Dispenser Of Truth]

spoilers:

Seems my theory was wrong, on the basis of...well, those 3 pages were it, nothing else from that in this issue. Seems it's being set up to be a plot element that plays out in the book proper rather than a one-and-done.

end of spoilers

[marhawkman]

This seems quite over-powered. I mean, all the multi-colored Kryptonites are silly in their own way, and silly can be good. I don't like to me too much of a stick in the mud with comics, they're supposed to be fun. But at the same time its just too much. There's no consequence or detriment that keeps it from being an unending deus ex machina.

I'd have it be a temporary effect, AND when its handled by a non-Kryptonian and touches skin, that specific sample disintegrates.

I'd make it last indefinitely, unless the person who used it is exposed to Gold K. modern Gold K doesn't permanently depower Kryptonians, but a person who was merely imbued with their powers?

Didn't Lex do something like that in Last Son and Supergirl but with a gauntlet rather than a belt?

Turned out the fundamental concept was flawed since it accidentally created an evil Doppleganger of Supergirl who smashed the gauntlet.

[Jim Kelly]

Modern gold K doesn't permanently remove powers? That's weak sauce. As a kid reading the old comics I was intensely scared of gold K, on the edge of my seat when it appeared in a comic because I knew the consequences should any Kryptonian be exposed to the substance. Its presence in a story immediately raised the stakes and had me very anxious for Superman and Supergirl.

If it's only temporary in a modern comic, what's the point of it? Hardly an inconvience.

[MajorHoy]

I was hoping King was bringing back pink kryptonite . . .

[Kuwagaton]

Modern gold K doesn't permanently remove powers? That's weak sauce. As a kid reading the old comics I was intensely scared of gold K, on the edge of my seat when it appeared in a comic because I knew the consequences should any Kryptonian be exposed to the substance. Its presence in a story immediately raised the stakes and had me very anxious for Superman and Supergirl.

If it's only temporary in a modern comic, what's the point of it? Hardly an inconvience.

I think the Same storyline that introduced it to modern canon, Last Son, claimed it to be both permanent and temporary.

*shrug*

Too bad it sounds like it'll be months before platinum is really unpacked