Comics Corner: Superman - Red Son 3



Title: Superman - Red Son
Issue Number: 3
Release Date: August 2003

Highlights
  • Superman is now in his sixties
  • Supman is utilizing Braniac to run his empire
  • Superman is reconditioning the Batmen freedom fighters
  • Lex Luthor has cracked the code of the Green Lantern Corps ring and has entrusted Hal Jordan with it - As a pawn in his plan to destroy Superman 
  • Braniac attacks Lex Luthor with the plan  to turn him into a robot, obedient to Superman
  • Superman attacks the United States
  • Hal Jordan leads an army of Green Lantern Corps into battle against Superman a lose almost immediately
  • Wonder Woman leads a group of Amazons against Superman and loses as well
  • The United States releases all of Lex Luthor's robot villains to attack superman; Doomsday, The Atomic Skull, Etc. (see issue 2 comments for a list)
  • Braniac reveals that he was never working with Superman and turns his attack on the Man of Steel when he tries to cease the attack
  • Story ends coming full circle - Centuries pass, and Earth's sun goes nova. In a last ditch effort, Jor-El and his wife send an infant Kal-El to a primitive world in an attempt to save him from their doomed fate - Everything begins a new
Low Points
  • Lex Luthor defeats Superman with a one sentence letter which sends the Man of Steel into full regret mode for all of his actions - Lame
  • Some parts of the epilogue seem silly at first until tying it all together at the very end
Oddities
  • None
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 bat symbols grading system)





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