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word of advice : SPOILERS forLegion of Super - Heroes # 5
As the world ’s first superheroSupermanchanged the face of forward-looking myths , launching an age of hero in both the DC Universe and the literal world . But now , DC has divulge the one hero who follows his lead in the far - off hereafter … to ultimately become"the one unfeigned Superman . "
DC Comics lately threw fans a curveball or two , introduce what seemed to bethe immortal , develop Superman of tomorrow– later revealed to be an faker . But now thattheLegion of Super - Heroeshas returnedthe true future tense of the DC timeline has been confirm , even if fans may scoff at the idea of anyone evenmatchingthe legacy of Kal - El , let alone exceeding it . But make no mistake : Clark Kent may hold out for centuries , but the hero known to the universe as ' Superman ' a thousand years from now will not be the orphan boy sent from Krypton to Earth … butthe son he raisedto become an even bang-up Hero of Alexandria than himself .
This bombshell revelation about Jonathan Kent – son of Clark Kent and Lois Lane , and current Superboy – load down more than just jolt economic value . In the in style storyline from author Brian Michael Bendis , it was Jonathan who came up with the thought of the passive alliance known as the United Planets . A naive opinion , perhaps , but whenthe Legion of Super - Heroes arrivedto celebrate the moment their future was preserved , his property in cosmic history was set in stone .
Fans of sentence traveling logic questioned the Legion ’s move , since it paradoxically win over leaders to agree to the alliance ( having their doubts rub out by the positive proof that it would , in fact , deliver the goods ) . But that seemed to be Bendis ' nod to the original Legion , who come back in metre to meet untried Clark , whose heroic lesson exalt their succeeding military mission . The homage continued whenthe Legion invite Jonathan to get together themin the future tense being offered a glimpse of the future he would work to produce , just like his father had . But thing have gottena lotmore complicated since he arrived .
Superboy drop the first four issues reject to watch the Legion ’s " orientation course TV " design to institute him up to speed , but he lastly concede inLegion of Super - Heroes # 5 , and see how the Legion first formed . include the memory of Brainiac-5 , establish only to him … explicate why Jon ’s grandness is n’t just due it who he is … butwho he will become :
I believe it imperative to the wellness of the world and our place in it … that not only do we bring this Legion of Super - Heroes together like a shot … but the Legion needs to bring United Planets founder Jon Kent here to be part of it . He is the one to instruct us everything we need to love to invigorate a proper raw age of hero . We need to have him experience this future and all we have build . And we require to set him for his coming part as the one dependable Superman .
Needless to say , Superboy is more than a little knocked out to expose the secret that ’s been kept from him all this time . It ’s bad enough to learn the time to come of all reality depends on you , but as he restfully respond , he has"never even think about"taking up the name of his own Fatherhood . And considering how much grounds be to suggestSuperman is fundamentally immortal , fan will wonder what would have to take place for Jon Kent to accept the drape . But it stay to be see if that entropy will be offered to Jon , as well . Either way of life , the next issue ofLegion of Super - Heroescan’t get here soon enough . Luckily , readers can still catch up on the series now through digital political program .
Legion of Super - Heroes # 5is available now fromDC Comicsand throughcomiXology .
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