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Supermanhas send some of the macrocosm ’s evilest villains to thePhantom Zone , and now DC has bring out the atrocious truth of the prison world . InAction Comics 2021 Annual , a numeral of Superman ’s posterity are whisk off to the ill-famed extra - dimensional prison house and learn just what just it is . The emergence is on sale now in print and digital .
The Phantom Zone was introducedin 1961’sAdventure Comics 283as a prison dimension where inmate exist in a ghostly phase ; they are capable to see the outside world but are ineffective to interact with it . The nature of the Phantom Zone has been modify over the years , as have the inmates in it , such as the Kryptonian supervillain General Zod and Doomsday . In one avatar , the Phantom Zone was the jutting of the knowingness of a dark god named Aeythr ; this version slipped into obscurity due to various reboots over the years , but now Aeythr is back inAction Comics Annual 2021 , write by Phillip Kennedy Johnson with art by Siya Oum and Scott Godlewski , colors by Hi - Fi and letters by Dave Sharpe .
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The House of El hasgathered for the wedding of one of their own , but it is disrupt by Pyrrhos , one of Superman ’s vicious boy . He produces a gadget that he calls a token of his ascendent ’s time - a Phantom Zone projector - and teleport his sibling there . In the Phantom Zone , they meet Hank Henshaw , AKA the Cyborg Superman . He tells them that the Phantom Zone was the projection of Aeythr ’s consciousness ; when Aeythor was asleep , the Zone was peaceful — a berth where cognisance could be and still observe the outside globe . Yet , Aeythr has rouse , and thistransformed the Phantom Zoneinto a live nightmare . The chemical group is only capable to escape the Zone thanks to a Mother Box .
The Phantom Zone has been a staple of theSupermancomics for 60 twelvemonth and some of his most infamous foeman have been trapped there . Supermanand other Kryptonians thought the Phantom Zone would be a humane place to institutionalize crook , but it is clearly not . Reintroducing the Zone as a projection of Aeythr ’s mind not only adds a sinister layer to the Zone , it also could calculate for the conflict in the various Phantom Zones over the years : its nature changes with Aeythr ’s genial states . The more serene , humane Silver Age version can now co - exist with the more nightmarish interpretations of recent year .
Previously , thePhantom Zonewas seen as a civilized place to sendthe universe ’s spoiled , but now DC has revealed its horrifying the true - that it is the protrusion of a gods ' cognizance , casting a whole new , nightmarish light on it .
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