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DC ’s newSupermanseries is drawing parallels to another famous forefather - son superhero series , Invincible . Superman : Son of Kal - Elchronicles the life of Clark Kent ’s sonas he becomes his own gentleman’s gentleman while following in the footstep of his fabled father . Preview pages for the 2nd military issue have been released good manners of AIPTcomics , and they draw measured comparing to Robert Kirkman ’s democratic comedian - with all the accompanying import therein .
Jonathan Kent , the son of Superman , has adopted his father ’s image and title as he makes a name for himself as a superhero . He ’s already face a wildfire in California , stand between the military and a pyrokinetic metahuman , and fought off ninjas withBatman ’s son Damian Wayne- but he also wants to live a normal life outside of his wedge responsibility . Thus , preview images forSuperman : Son of Kal - El # 2show Jonathan taking the next footmark in aliveness : college .
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Jonathan lead off the day wearing a light-haired wig and a sweatshirt that conceals his Superman cause - but it appear that both will be lost in some sort of accident , and hissecret individuality subsequently becomes public knowledge . It ’s at this point that Superman , with nothing give to shroud , picks up his car rather than drive it and fell to one of the few places he knows where no one can possibly trouble him : the moon . But even Superman ca n’t be given away from his responsibility - or his father , as the two contribution a conversation on the lunar surface while looking at the distant Earth below .
This seems to be a measured nod to a memorable early view inInvincible , in which the titular submarine converses with Allen the Alien on the moon . Invincible also has plenty of scenes where Mark Grayson talks to his nigh - invulnerable father Nolan about the duties and responsibilities of someone with powers far beyond the realms of mortal humankind . Of course , inInvincible , Nolan ( called Omni - Man by the rest of the world ) also turns out to be an evil emissary of the Viltrumite Empire , and is tempestuous when his son refuses to conjoin him , resulting in a roughshod one - sided fight . It ’s highly unlikely that this series will follow a similar secret plan pointedness ( though evil Superman is quite popular among writers when alternate universe are concerned ) .
Along withSuperman and Lois , it appears that the Superman mythos is eventually interpret to harness beginner - son kinship . Clark has never lacked in maturity , but him being a father bestow a new attribute to the Man of Steel . Along withInvincible , the superhero genre as a whole is mature up . Perhaps that ’s because the writers who begin their vocation at a vernal agehave finally become parent themselves . But what lesson will the newSupermanlearn from the honest-to-god ? Readers will find out whenSuperman : Son of Kal - El # 2releases on August 24th .
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