So, is this millerverse's jon kent? . As guy who has only read superman year one(it was pretty decent ) and dark knight returns (which was great). Will i be able to get into this without the other?Is this kid son of smww?has this kid ever been shown before? It's cool that we are getting so many versions of jon kent in this small amount of time. I mean, this is the third or fourth version of him. The Kid looks creepy and sinister though.i can't wait.
Yeah, this version of Jon was first shown in DKIII The Master Race as an infant. In this verse Superman and Wonder Woman had previously had another child as well and that's Lara, who was introduced in The Dark Knight Strikes Again and there was a teen. By now she's in her early 20s. Not knowing how this story is going to be framed I don't know if DKRII and DKRIII would be required reading but it certainly wouldn't hurt.
"They can be a great people Kal-El, they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you. My only son." - Jor-El
I heard about the sequal. It wasn't anything good. Would i regret reading it?i am just interested in this version of jon. Does the kid have substantial part in dk|||?or is it just baby appearance here and there. Gotta say millerverse is wierd. That jon looks like it could take over the world or something with its brain. It feels straight out of something like "the promised never land".
Ehhh...I'm not a big fan outside of liking the Lara character, and if all you're interested in is this version of Jon, I think its fine for you to skip if you don't have that much of an interest to begin with. And no Jon has no substantial part in DKIII, he's just a baby for the whole thing. His only appearances are being carried on Diana's back just chilling while she fights, lol.
The verse is definitely weird. There's stuff I think is really cool, stuff I think is just odd, and stuff I hate, lol. Definitely a strange Earth.
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"They can be a great people Kal-El, they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you. My only son." - Jor-El
Sooooo looking forward to this one. It's a shame it's only a 48 page one-shot ... but it still looks awesome nonetheless.
Ah I like how they do Jonathan. Grampa is not going for the usual cute look. I mean, he is cute with those large , luminous eyes etc but there is kind of zen and knowing in them you do not see in toddlers . I imagine it would unsettle many people to see such a child if he were real. An old soul in a child's body looking right through you. Sets up quite an interesting arc even for him as a character. I like how protective Lara look with him too. Also if this verse is linked to Year One, baby Clark himself had extra sensory abilities as well as being intelligent from the get go. What a shame we do not have a Lex Luthor to meet the kid. lol.
You don't think that AU stories have ever had a significant impact on the long term trajectory of a iconic character/team either culturally or narratively? And you believe most "status quo shifts" are gimmicky light switches? There's no gray area for you? No common ground? According to you, there's really never been an AU that had a negative effect and few changes in a character's status quo are organic. I'm sorry, that doesn't make any sense.
Miller writes a comic book about Superman and this comic has already been called the worst. ASBARBW he also wrote, and this comic book is even more hated. And there is no doubt that the GC will suffer the same fate.
Jim Lee decided to release the comic in the same month which will be released crossover COIE which will be the first live-action appearance of Jon Kent.
Most people know the difference between an AU take and canon - albeit some writers don't get it. And for every "damaging" AU story you have a good one that can repair, your All Star Superman and the like. It all balances out. The most damaging stuff isn't AU stories or canon stories, just bad stories.
And status quo shifts aren't all gimmicky or light. Some are god awful - I personally find making Superman a dad in canon to be one such example. Terrible status quo change, hoping for a hard reboot to end the experiment. I would much prefer something gimmicky.
Does it balance out? Because, despite your All Star Superman and other "good" AU stories, the same terrible ideas from awful AU books in the 80s and 90s are still popping up in pop culture hits of today. Bad stories, in my opinion, aren't damaging at all; they are typically forgotten. The most damaging AU's, however, are often the most popular. Even worse, one popular AU story from one author seems to give the same author carte blanche to keep telling terrible stories that just amplify and double down on the damage.
I don't think Nelliebly was referring to one's preference for a status quo change, but moreso whether or not the status quo change was rooted in organic storytelling. Clark and Lois having a son after several years of marriage is not a lightswitch development: it didn't come out of nowhere. Whether or not you like Jonathan or the idea of a canon child for Clark and Lois is really not the point.And status quo shifts aren't all gimmicky or light. Some are god awful - I personally find making Superman a dad in canon to be one such example. Terrible status quo change, hoping for a hard reboot to end the experiment. I would much prefer something gimmicky.
Ultimately, even if a status quo shift like Superman and Lois having a child isn't your thing, it's not as damaging to Superman as a character as popularizing him as a leader of dystopian nightmares, a conservative government lackey, or a broken man motivated to acts of great evil from tired women in refrigerator tropes. These are "gimmicks" that turn Superman into something he's not and shouldn't be, but a dad? A dad isn't a bad thing to be. Maybe dad stories suck for you, but Superman as a dad is better than a broken Superman.
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