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Spoilers ahead forIcon and Rocket Season One # 3 !
WhileSuperman’sdeath in the main DC universe was ghastly , it is nothing compare to his death in theMilestone Universe . InIcon and Rocket Season One # 3 , readers see more of theenigmatic Icon ’s past , and acquire that his adversary , the mysterious Mr. Lord , once savagely polish off an alien bearing a strong resemblance to Clark Kent .
Icon was part of the first wave of title offer by Milestone Media in the early 1990s ; the line ’s end was to bring more diversity to comics by focus on BIPOC fiber . Icon is over 200 years older , an alien who smash - landed on a plantation in Northern Georgia in the 1840s , after the ship he was traveling on was attacked by terrorists . His escape pod was found by a slave twosome , and when they touched it , it reconfigured Icon ’s deoxyribonucleic acid to match that of a human . In Milestone ’s original incarnation , Icon did not regard himself in human affairs until he met his future tense sidekick Rocket , who challenge him to use his power to better the world . However , when the role returned as part of a refreshed Milestone earlier this year , his history was extensively rewrite . Now , lector learn , Icon had been active since arriving on Earth , covertly finish the Civil War , among other actions . But along the agency he has made some powerful enemies , including Mister Lord , who killed a vernal translation of Superman .
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InIcon and Rocket Season One # 3by Reginald Hudlin , Leon Chills , Doug Braithwaite , Andrew Currie , Brad Anderson readers learn that the terrorist who hijacked Icon ’s ship is still live and living on Earth . He run by the name Mister Lord and is employed by the CIA . Lord specifically deals with alien menace , eliminating them before they can go public . One of Lord ’s handlers reveals that in 1939 , he traveled to a small township in Kansas to get rid of an alien who had “ already embedded himself with the local . ” Readers then see a twosome cradle an babe near a crashed rocket ship . Later that night , Lord uses his shape - careen abilities to sneak into the farmhouse and kill the baby .
In gist , Mister Lordkilled Superman . Everything Lord ’s handler described : the downed rocket ship , the small township in Kansas , an baby demonstrating fantastic powers — are Greco-Roman element of Superman ’s origin . Yet here , Superman is killed in his crib by Mister Lord , add the Man of Steel ’s story to a stopping point before it can truly commence . Icon himself is a Superman pastiche , adding another layer to Lord ’s actions ; furthermore , Lord ’s body is made of the one nub that can truly ache Icon , cook Lord all the more frightening .
It now falls onIcon and Rocketto stop Mister Lord ’s reign of threat once and for all . Lord ’s list of crimes in theMilestone Universeare many , but savagely murderingSupermanin his cribbage might be the most grotesque .
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