Superman: Space Age

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Moment: Flash's ship-in-a-bottle gift gives Superman the idea to use Kryptonian crystals as an ark for humanity. Talented comic book creators Mark Russell and Mike Allred are teaming up for the first time in a brand new DC Comics prestige series, Superman: Space Age, which will explore the hero through the ages and see him confront humanity's march towards self-destruction.

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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Bruce retiring as CEO to focus on being Batman leads the unscrupulous Maxwell Lord to take over, directly leading to Gotham's gentrification and Bruce's own death years later. That's really what this story is about, and that is where the rest of the Justice League and the DC Universe comes into play. Adaptational Late Appearance: The Joker is normally one of Batman’s earliest enemies to show up, having debuted only a year after the Dark Knight, in the first issue of his ongoing series. Outliving One's Offspring: The origin of this continuity's Joker involves him wanting vendetta against Wayne Enterprises because of his daughter Tabitha dying in a fire that was caused under Maxwell Lord's ownership of the company. Freudian Excuse: The Joker targets Bruce Wayne because he lost his daughter to the fires the company set when Maxwell Lord was CEO.For many years Superman costumes have been a popular choice when it comes to dressing up for Halloween! It's about telling the truth, standing up to power and using our historic freedoms of the press, as real or imagined as they have been in the past, to mean something. Readers living through the climate crisis, the pandemic, and much more are sure to identify with the feelings of apprehension and helplessness that Superman is grappling with. Superman comics were published in the 1960s, but they didn’t lean into contemporary events the way this story does.

Superman: Space Age by Mark Russell, Michael Allred Superman: Space Age by Mark Russell, Michael Allred

You don't want somebody in power who doesn't have that ability to listen and to grow and to respect the wisdom of others. Unskilled, but Strong: Without formal training or even knowledge of what his powers are, Clark mainly uses brute strength and speed at first and is very confused when Jor-El's hologram mentions things like heat vision and super-intelligence. The series will also feature a pair of incentive variants, as Nick Derington ( Mister Miracle) drew Superman in the cosmos for his 1:25 cover.While it isn't his strongest cultural critique, Superman: Space Age has the potential to be an excellent take on what it feels like to watch the world set itself up for destruction without truly knowing when things will come to an end -- or if there is a way to fix things. Death Equals Redemption: Bruce lets himself be killed fighting the Joker to both stop his plan and atone for his own mistakes.

Superman: Space Age Confirms Humanity Is His Final Villain Superman: Space Age Confirms Humanity Is His Final Villain

Chekhov's Gun: Flash's stack of bombs he uses to practice defusing with help take out Brainiac's ship. Even with the extra characters, he is the focus, and the audience will be intrigued by the themes touched on in this book, especially when the art is so captivating and fresh. Taking You with Me: The Joker refuses to let the children he's holding hostage go unless Bruce wears a clown mask and lets the police snipers shoot him so he can make a clean getaway with a Bruce Wayne mask. The Man of Steel is an excellent figure to represent these feelings, as he is the sole survivor of a planet that went through something similar.

Meet Clark Kent, a young reporter who just learned that the world will soon come to an end (Crisis on Infinite Earths) and there is nothing he can do to save it. It's like giving Superman the challenge of figuring out what it means to be good in a world that is spiraling out of control. We wanted to show Superman as an evolving concept about how none of us come out fully formed as who we are. America experienced a Presidential assassination, the torrent of the civil rights movement, a high-stakes space race, and the always looming threat of nuclear war. While Allred's 1:50 cover features Superman standing in front of his iconic history through the years.