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Warning : SPOILERS for Justice League # 19
IfSupermanfans ever wonder how much wiser , more muscular , or how bearded the succeeding Man of Steel would one mean solar day become , then wonder no more . DC has revealed the evolved Superman of Tomorrow … and he is glorious .
It should go without saying that the canonical , " official " Superman living decade , century , even millennia into DC ’s future tense is always subject to variety . And the better the story , the more imaginative the Man of Steel . What ifSuperman had to drink down Batmanin a future gone awry ? What ifSuperman was truly immortal ? All deserving seeing in the physique , but the up-to-the-minute edition promise something greater , something more … tremendous to behold .
Thanks toJustice League # 19breaking the wall between this dimension and the single above , buff can see who Superman will become - in the time to come where the heroes ultimately won .
Superman Enters the Sixth Dimension
We wo n’t dive into the entire taradiddle of the currentJustice Leaguecomic serial thus far , since the reveal ofthe unfeigned Almighty of DC ’s realness , the goddess Perpetua , is a spate to summons . All effortless fans need to have intercourse is that the Justice League need more assist than their dimension can bid - leave them with Superman ’s classic nemesis , Mr. Mxyzptlk , a being of the mental imagery - fueled Fifth Dimension . He ’s uncoerced to help , too , by granting Superman memory access to the Sixth Dimension above his own .
Even Mxy is n’t sure just what can be found in that Sixth and , presumably , final dimension . As he briefly describes to the rest of the Justice League , the creation they get it on is part of the Third Dimension . The Fourth is time , and the Fifth is how own , created and shape by imagination . But the Sixth ? That ’s effectively the doorway out of DC ’s world , and into the spaces inhabited only by the select forgers of realism itself ( The Monitor , The Anti - Monitor , and Perpetua before her imprisonment ) .
The Future Superman Returns in Seconds
Since Mxyzptlk live outside the confines of time , he unwrap that this terrible crisis , and the League ’s asking of his help was all anticipate by him long , long before today . And to prepare - he claim - he has messed with Superman to soak him with enough Fifth Dimensional energy to really hold up a trip into the Sixth Dimension ( where even Mxy does n’t make bold locomotion ) . Seeing no other selection , the League has no choice but to catch as Superman walks out of their own sheet of universe , and into a higher one . Well , one two level higher , in reality .
Superman is only gone for a few secondment to their senses . But the hero who come up back through the room access to meet his Friend , having developed a solution through means and trial run they ca n’t yet savvy , is the Superman of Tomorrow as he ’s never been suppose before …
Here ’s your last warning to say the issue for yourselves , beforeSPOILERSstrike .
Page 2 of 2:The Glorious Future Superman is Revealed
DC’s Future Superman Finally Revealed
The Kryptonian who stroll out of the doorway has plainly spent the last decade psychoanalyse each of a billion different consequence , though only moments have passed for thosenotexisting beyond time , in the Third Dimension ( a whimsy that seems to weird out all of the heroes , except for the visibly tire Flash ) . But all devotee are going to need to spill about is the now older , now more witting , and hopefully more crystallise Superman explaining these development .
The monolithic ‘S ' on his chest is fortunate , since it would be hard to recognise Superman without it . Fans have seena future , whiskered Supermanbefore , but the white hair’s-breadth , blanched robes , and aureate headpiece seem more befitting a daemon from another world than Clark Kent . Or , to be fair , a version of Superman hailing from a hereafter in which he develop to a high attribute of cognition and understanding .
Despite the difference or likelihood of conjuring trick , Martian Manhunter informs the quietus of the Justice League that this really is their Superman , as best as he can say . Whether or not this one-time , greyer Man of Steel seems like the veridical deal , Batman is a morsel apprehensive when invited to make the same journey he has .
Leaving Mera and Starman behind to watch over the world as they espouse their friend , the Justice League zep enter through the same portal Supes used to ascend himself ( now change to allow their deadly body to make the misstep ) . But what they discover beyond the limits of their own attribute is n’t what anyone - including the readers - are going to expect .
The Justice League of The Future Revealed, Too?
alternatively of seeing entirely impossible - to - comprehend visions of realism , the League is met with a familiar sight : their own Hall of Justice , although set against the backcloth of what front to be an idyllic imaginativeness of the hereafter . And to top it all off , they ’re satisfy with their own future self , similarly ' evolved ' to a newfangled shape . John Stewart , the Gren Lantern now a gleaming , omni - Lanternas he was always subject of being . The Flash , peradventure occupyingmore than one formsurrounded by Speed Force electrical energy . curiosity Woman likewise get on and complicate in dress . J’onn and Kendra handwriting in hand , with what may be a child in the other .
And Batman … in a black cloak ( strangely still on - brand for the Dark Knight ) . As Superman immediately explain - without explaining to the lector at all - he has n’t justseenthe future where the hero of Earth manage to defeat the total threats and succeed the day . He may really have been living there . But what that imply for his premature self , or these other doppelganger are interrogative that will only be call for in the next issue . For now , fans can remain in awe … and desire this sight of the future is really the one DC ’s Earth is destined to become .
Justice League # 19is available at your local comic account book store , or straight off fromDC Comics .