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A common criticism leveled atSupermanis why he does not simply expend his marvelous powers to solve all the worldly concern ’s job . While fans and ethicists preserve this debate , DC has explained why he can not . InIcon and Rocket Season One # 3 , on sales agreement now in mark and digital , Icon , Milestone ’s Superman potpourri , begin stamping out the globose drug trade — a move that has serious and unintended issue .
Icon is an foreign who clang - bring down on a plantation in Georgia in the 1840s . After his ship was regain by a slave couple , it reconfigured his DNA to make him human in appearance . Icon would then live as a human , once in a while interfering in human affairs - such asending the Civil War- but mostly delay out of history ’s elbow room . All of that changes , however , when three young people ruin into his planetary house , wedge him to use his powers and reveal his secret . Later , one of the new hoi polloi , Raquel Ervin , returns to Icon ’s house and challenge him to apply his unbelievable powers to help people . Icon accepts and takes Raquel on as his chum , Rocket . Icon has an wallop almost instantly , cleaning up the street and making Dakota City safe again . But when he deal the fight to the global drug swop , readers can see why it is bestSuperman - level heroes like Icondo not try on to work the world ’s problem . The takings is written by Reginald Hudlin and Leon Chills with artistic production by Dough Braithwaite and Andrew Currie , with color by Brad Anderson .
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The issue open up with Icon and Rocket destroying a poppy battleground in Afghanistan , cut off a major supplying of heroin . Readers also learn the duo has destroyed installation all over Latin America as well as in Japan . Icon and Rocket ’s actions are send off ripples across the world — and many of the globular elite are not happy . The world thriftiness , being tat with the drug trade , has number to a screeching haltbecause of Icon and Rocket , and the elite desire the two of them out of the way .
Since Superman ’s introduction in 1938 , fans have wonder why , with all of the powers at his disposal , he does not single - handedly dispose of dictators or put down drug production facilities . Icon ’s dilemma in this outlet shows why Superman does not fix the world : the unintended consequences . skyrocket and Icon desire nothing more than to stop the stream of illegal narcotic , but when they do so they learn the backfire is vast . The drug trade is , unfortunately , part of the global saving , and when it was disrupted , it affected other sector as well . Icon and Rocket did not intend for this to find , showing why superheroes should not attempt to puzzle out some human problem .
Supermanis one of the most knock-down heroes in the DC Universe , and if he wished , could easily fix most of the world ’s problems . However , there are compelling reason for him not to , andIcon and RocketSeason One # 3shows why .
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