Jon Kent/Superman/Superboy Appreciation 2022

[garazza]

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[Vordan]

[Superboy-Prime]

I can't wait for the moment in Dark Crisis where the entire hero community acknowledges Jon Kent as the Superman of Earth. After everything he's been through in Son of Kal-El, he's just really earned it.

[Matt Rat]

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Come back one true Prince

[Superboy-Prime]

The present and future of Jon Kent as Superman is bright and exciting!

[Jackalope89]

Ah, what could have been...

[Superboy-Prime]

Krypto and Superman! Together again!

[Vordan]

[Blue22]

Oooookay. Guess page 23 is just the photo album page lol


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[Matt Rat]

Imagine a world in which the Jon Kent Superman wasn't rapidly aged to the young adult he is now, but instead matured normally and served as a Robin-like sidekick to his father.

Dark Crisis: Worlds Without a Justice League - Superman #1

Dark Crisis: Worlds Without a Justice League - Superman #1 (Image credit: DC)(opens in new tab)
That's the apparent premise of Dark Crisis: Worlds Without a Justice League – Superman #1, a DC July one-shot special that serves as a tie-in to writer Joshua Williamson's 'Death of the Justice' and the subsequent Dark Crisis seven-issue event series.

With the main Superman story written by Tom King with art by Chris Burnham, Dark Crisis: Worlds Without a Justice League – Superman is a "tribute" to the Man of Steel, who dies in April 26's Justice League #75(opens in new tab) in a story set in "a bit in the future" of the DCU (a detail DC has never officially announced).

When Superman is killed along with his Justice League teammates at the hands of Pariah and his Dark Army, according to DC, "all hope is lost."


The July special is described by the publisher as a "look at a world of dreams he would never have thought possible while alive."

Tom King explains...

"Superman is maybe my favorite character to write, and Chris is one of my favorite artists in comics, whom I've been dying to work with for years, so this project is an absolute joy," the writer says in DC's announcement. "It's an important and emotional story about what Clark missed when he missed Jon's teenage years, the pain and the glory of seeing your boy grow up."

"Where there's life there's hope," DC's description of the story continues, "and with that hope comes a deeper unraveling of the tapestry of DC Universe's biggest event of 2022!"

The special will also feature an Aquaman tribute story by writers Brandon Thomas and Chuck Brown and artist Fico Ossio, and DC says additional Dark Crisis: Worlds Without a Justice League announcements are coming.

Trying to unpack something of an enigmatic description, Dark Crisis: Worlds Without a Justice League (notice "Worlds" is plural) seems to be stories set in 'dream worlds' - alternate realities in which the Justice League characters don't die in the Dark Crisis near-future, but also diverge from current DC continuity as Jon rapidly aged to adulthood well before the events of Justice League #75.

But - and this is speculation here - these 'worlds of dreams' appear to not just be one-off imaginary stories, but could play a meta-narrative role in the overall storyline, with the "hope" the stories represent playing a part in the overall "tapestry" of Dark Crisis.

In other words, in the very-meta 2022 DC Universe in which all stories are in continuity and the characters are somewhat self-aware their existence is part of a constantly edited narrative, the Worlds Without a Justice League stories may play a role in the eventual resolution of Dark Crisis and what's likely the eventual resurrection of the Justice League heroes.

Whew!

At least that's our best guess.

As for the first-time pairing of King and Burham, the artist had this to say...

"I've been a fan of Tom since his days on Grayson, so although he's probably better known for his 12-issue 'war-is-hell' epics, I still primarily think of him as writing fun formalist done-in-ones," he says. "I've got two young boys who haven't quite figured out what a knucklehead their old man is, so it's fantastic to be drawing a story about Superman trying to live up to the high standards of his own father. I loved drawing the adventures of Batman and Robin in Batman Incorporated, and it's been extra fun to draw Superman with a Robin-esque Superboy."

The 40-page Dark Crisis: Worlds Without a Justice League – Superman #1 goes on sale July 12 with a cover and variant by Burnham and an additional variant cover by Steve Beach.

Look for DC's July 2022 later in April on Newsarama.

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[Blue22]

I....don't know what to expect from this. But the cover, plus the fact that it's just a one shot, plus the fact that it's being helmed by Tom King....I should be gearing myself up for disappointment.

[Superlad93]

Holy ****! Jon Kent written by a very good writer with some world class art? Hot damn, I'm about to buy a comic again this summer, huh?

[Matt Rat]

[Blue22]

Yeeeeah...I'm definitely waiting to see some previews before I make a decision on this. Not the biggest fan of King, but I hear his Supergirl run was actually decent so...who knows?

[sifighter]

Yeeeeah...I'm definitely waiting to see some previews before I make a decision on this. Not the biggest fan of King, but I hear his Supergirl run was actually decent so...who knows?

Not just Supergirl, also his Superman up in the sky miniseries as well.

As someone whose read a fair amount of King, good and bad, he’s got a strange reverence for Superman family characters that he doesn’t mess with. I admit that it’s weird to say given his track record but he does a really good Superman.