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monition ! plunderer ahead forSuperman : Son of Kal - El # 6
In the latest issue of DC Comics’Superman : Son of Kal - El , Jon Kent is about to look an entire country of make up metahumans created by his Modern foe . With his father Clark Kent having entrust Earth indefinitely to liberate Warworld and remove Mongul from his throne , Jon has hire over the mantle as the Superman of Earth . However , because he ’s half - human the new Superman has more agency to take stronger posture in world thing , a fact that has put him in a dangerous place againstPresident Bendix and his nation of Gamorra .
In previous issues ofSuperman : Son of Kal - El , Jon Kent decided to rescue refugee flee Gamorra and its president . When Bendix demanded that the refugee be sent back , the new Superman took a point of view alongside others protest against him . While Bendix has already react by blowing up the Kent Farm and nearly killing Jon ’s mother Lois and his grandparents , it looks as though he intends to punish Superman further with a master design he calls " The Rising " .
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InSuperman : Son of Kal - El # 6from author Tom Taylor and artist John Timms , Superman ’s boyfriend Jay Nakamurareveals his past populate in Gamorra where his female parent was the previous Chief Executive before Bendix arrived and took over the nation . Under Bendix , the total country was metamorphose into a elephantine manufacturing plant grow metahumans where its citizens were either workers or being experimented on to become the production . moreover , while Superman manage to arrest the Gamorra embassador who was help in the snatch of several more innocent to be turned into metahuman puppets , the end of the issue reveals that the ship full of victims Superman saves was only the tip of the berg for what ’s come his way from Bendix and " The Rising " .
Clearly , Bendix has been building a massive USA of metahumans in arcanum , and Jon Kent probably wo n’t be prepared for the sheer levels of ability the tainted Gamorran chairperson has at his disposal . The Rising feels verysimilar to Lex Luthor ’s Everyman Projectseen in DC Comics'52where he offer superpowers to volunteers . While Luthor pretended his labor was altruistic to practiced mankind , it was really to have a volume of test topic before administering the appendage on himself . However , Bendix ’s Rising looks to be far more aboveboard as he builds an army of metas he ’ll in all probability be able to moderate , attempt greater power beyond his modest island nation .
Considering how much of an excitation Jon Kent has been to Bendix in past military issue , it wo n’t be all that surprising when the new Superman becomes one of the chair ’s first targets once The ascend begins . Having an entire country full of metahumans , it ’s become decipherable that Bendix has much more exponent than Jon Kent knows . As such , it will be interesting to see howSupermanresponds to this new threat , especially when many of the metas trying to kill him will be doing so against their will .
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