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Icon , Milestone’sSupermanpastiche , single - handedly ended the American Civil War , but the average citizen does not screw it . InIcon and Rocket Season One # 2 , on sale now in print and digital , the curtain is pulled back on Icon ’s account and readers learn that he has been involved in human affairs for much longer than in the beginning thought .
picture is one of the most brawny hero in the Milestone Universe . Like Superman , Iconis an stranger from another planet who crash - landed on Earth ; only Icon happened to land on a plantation in Georgia in the 1840s . He was regain by a slave yoke , and when they concern his leak trade , the fomite reconfigured his desoxyribonucleic acid , giving him a human show . The couple raised him , and over the centuries , he has passed as a human , waiting for his probability to return home . In the present day , he is Augustus Freeman IV , a highly successful defence mechanism lawyer in Dakota City . His life sentence changes when Raquel Ervin and her protagonist attempt to fleece his house , force Icon to usehis powers . Raquel is stunned but feel Icon can do so much more ; she challenges him to be the hero the community needs .
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Now , inIcon and roquette : Season One # 2 , by Reginald Hudlin , Doug Braithwaite , Andrew Currie , Brad Anderson , and Andworld Design , Icon has made skillful on his promise to clean up and root on his biotic community . Not everyone is proud of , and in Washington DC , two governance agent play a inscrutable agency are discussing Icon . One of them , a man identify Benedict Lord , reveals Icon ’s secret history : he grew up a slave on the plantation , but his powerfulness rise too much for the overseers , and he lead a revolt , burn down the plantation . Icon then declared it a complimentary state of matter , angering the locals even further . They marched on the former grove , butIcon is easy ableto stop them . settle to finish the trouble once and for all , Icon travels to Richmond , Virginia , the Confederacy ’s capital , and kills its president Jefferson Davis . Lord , who is also long - lived , divulge he was there and was able to ostensibly wipe out Icon . All of this was later cover up up , and no one roll in the hay what really happened . Now in the nowadays , he realise Icon is back and mean to finish the job .
No entropy is given on Benedict Lord ( other than that he ’s long - lived like Icon ) or the agency he works for , but his revelation thatIcon killed the Presidentof the Confederacy and effectively ended the Civil War bestow new layers to the character reference . In the originalIconseries , he never use his power in human liaison , favor to keep a low profile . In this reboot , however , there is much more to Icon than readers originally call back — the first issue teased he had a heroic career in the 1920s and now fans learn he helpedend the Civil War .
IconisMilestone ’s Superman , and he was able to do something that has eluded the Man of Steel for years : bar a warfare .
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