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Warning : SPOILERS forJustice League # 21
Supermanhas guide on the bad of DC ’s villains in his life , but he may finally have met his lucifer … now thatthe Supermanof the futureis trying to down him .
Yes , beforeJustice Leaguefans even stimulate the probability to really enjoy the comer of Superman , saintly and godlike in his more highly acquire , grey - haired , sixth - dimensional shape , the truth has been revealed . As incredible asthe Justice League of DC ’s futuremay be , and as impressive as this honest-to-god Man of Steel may seem , their succeeder came with a Leontyne Price . That ultimate , mysterious cost has yet to be revealed , but one affair is for sure : it apparently includes murdering Superman , since that ’s been the older Superman ’s planall along …
The Future Superman Seemed Perfect
In hindsight , readers really should have known that the other shoe was bound to omit in Scott Snyder and Jorge Jimenez ’s " The Sixth Dimension " plot line . When all seemed lost andthe malign creator of the DC Universe , Perpetua , had been unfreeze to destroy it once more , a solution presented itself . The unlikeliest answer conceivable for Superman , as it turn out : the infamous trouble make imp Mr. Mxyzptlk . But as problem - qualification as he has proven to be over the course of DC history , he ’s a resident of the Fifth Dimension . And if the Justice League stand any fortune of gain the upper hand on their current calamity , ill-treat up into a higher level of sympathy seemed their only shot . Oh , how jerky these heroes turned out to be .
As the only submarine physically equal to of evensurvivingthe ascension to the Sixth Dimension , Superman decided to entrust in hope , and maltreat volitionally into the unknown . When Mr. Mxy manifested a doorway through dimensions , Clark Kent reassure his friends that when he return , everything would function out fine . So when the honest-to-god , wiser Superman stepped back through that doorway draped in white and gold just second later , it all seemed to make perfect mother wit . Supermanwouldfind out how to carry through the cosmos . And hewouldbring the full League forward to meet their future selves .
For once , it looked like Superman ’s ability to do the out of the question had returned , after years of unequalled calamity . Maybe that ’s why the League of the current , present - solar day universe of discourse never discontinue to ask for proof that the Superman who revert was the same one wholeft .
The Future Justice League is… TOO Perfect
You love what they say about affair thatseemtoo right to be on-key ? Before long , Batman ’s shrewish flavor that there ’s something they ’re not being told grows to a siren . He has n’t get wind the truth about what happened to the version of Superman they called their friend … but the lecturer have . And think us , it is n’t pretty . When the older , wondrous , evolved , sixth dimensional Superman stepped out of his cosmic door and into the regular DC Universe , the Justice League strike what the readers did : that this was the true Superman , just older and wiser .
But before sports fan got to worry that their darling , bare - faced Man of Steel was lose forever , the comic ’s final pageboy revealed the far darker , far graver , far moregruesometruth . When the real Superman walk out of DC ’s Universe and through that door , he did n’t journey to any ' mellow dimension . ' He fell straight into a trap , left for him by the succeeding variant of himself . MinorSPOILERSfor the beginning ofJustice League # 21incoming .
Page 2 of 2 : Superman is Being Slowly Killed By His Future ego
Superman Was Tricked By His Future Self
Sadly , it seems the exact kind of trap that could only be lay by Superman himself , forhimself . fall into a world bathed in total darkness , Superman soon learns that there is nothing waiting to guide his agency . Nothing but a belittled , dusty planetoid covered in the dry out corpses of countless other Supermen who preceded him . And just as Superman begins to realize that he is ineffective to leap far enough off of this cloud-covered , hopeless rock to escape it … his future self arrives to talk . uncalled-for to say , the smile is completely integral while observing his weak , younger self .
The future Superman treats Clark to a goodly dose of nefarious soliloquy , observing the younger hoagie ’s repeated attempts to escape the eye socket of this prison planet , and reach the gleaming light of his acquaintance ( barely visible in the distance ) . The last pages ofJustice League # 20leave their encounter a dangling cliffhanger . The Superman DC fans know and love clenching fists in furious anger , as the honest-to-goodness version looks on unguarded , a smile playing at the turning point of his mouth .
Before typeset foot on the dusty surface , the ' high form ' of Superman claims that Clark ’s life was all lead right away to this power point , presumptively on this human race , present the version of himself from the time to come . In the realm of funny books , that ’s not that difficult a pill to unsay . But thanks to a trailer ofJustice League # 21courtesy ofCBR , fans have an advanced look at how this meeting develops . The short answer ? Superman immediately begins throwing punches at the future version of himself who cursed him to such a twisted portion ( and apparently did the same to the other Superman corpses littering the planet ) . And it turns out the older Superman still believes he is doing the ripe thing by tossing the Man of Steel into a cold corner of the universe to give out
The Justice League’s Greatest Threat is… Superman?
regrettably for both the Man of Steel and his fan , the entire battle , down to Clark ’s Logos , has been lived through by his captor too many fourth dimension to calculate . Even worse ? He ’s doing it out of belief or knowledge that the only way to save the entire DC Multiverse is to verify Superman is n’t around to mess up it up .
With so many secret still in playing period – what did the Justice League in reality have to do in edict to " win " so completely ? How does this Superman subsist if he ’s ostensibly the hurdle to that victory?–the door is wide overt for the older Superman to justify his actions . No matter his motivations , the post is most dire for the Clark Kent left behind . On a cold world , with powers failing … surrounded by the bodies of every version of him that come before .
It ’s a tantalizing twist in an already compelling storyline , and with Superman ’s fate leave completely in jeopardy ( not to cite that of his Justice League teammate ) , the entire publication ca n’t get here soon enough .
Justice League # 21will be available at your local comic book store on April 3rd , 2019 or direct fromDC Comics .
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