DC Comics and Challenge Of The Super Sons #5 Spoilers and Review follows.
Damian Wayne Robin and Jon Kent Superboy Vs. Vandal Savage and Felix Faust In The Past, But Why?!
The Super Sons have travelled to the past and are now trapped by the immortal Vandal Savage and the mage Felix Faust.
The boys are trapped with Faust’s assistant Aurora, but…
…they escape as Superboy was feigning weakness…
…yet they didn’t escape clean as Aurora was awake!
The Super Sons encounter and invisible wall and…
…are greeted by a monster who seems to overmatch them until…
…he/it just vomits them out?!
Damian Wayne Robin and Jon Kent Superboy Actually…
…HELP Vandal Savage and Felix Faust?!
The book opens in the distant past including 1520 C.E. where Felix Faust seeks out Vandal Savage.
They are working together…
…to allow, it seems, Faust to try to unlock the secret of Savage’s immortality and in turn Faust would reveal secrets of the future to Savage.
As the two villains riff, Robin and Superboy arrive in the past…
…as Faust immediately seems them as a threat.
The Super Sons are hit in the face with the stench of the past as…
…Vandal Savage attacks them first and…
Jon Kent Superboy and Robin Damian Wayne Vs. Wonder Woman?!
The Doom Scroll says Wonder Woman is next to have doom befall her.
The dynamic duo find her mid super-heroing and their weapon is a reverse Lasso of Truth that was in Batman’s arsenal of contingencies to take down the Justice League.
Damian Wayne uses it and…
…it works on her as…
…the Minotaur that threatens her…
…surprises our heroes.
…defeat it as…
…they plan to consult Rora on what is next in the Doom Scroll saga influenced by Felix Faust and Vandal Savage.
The Pulse:
A fun issue with great banter and chemistry between the two leads. Mystery deepens in action-packed issue. Whimsical art to go with the story.
Superboy – Conner Kent and Jon Kent – Get Sorted…
…As Superman Family Is Whole!
Jimmy Olsen is the new owner of the Daily Planet as his family is tied to Lex Luthor’s family…
… so 1/2 the riches are his family’s; Olsen gives Perry White creative control over the Daily Planet, but he still wants a cubicle.
Next, we learn that Conner Kent, a clone of Superman and Lex Luthor, will lose…
…his superpowers one day, but he is remains real despite…
…being tangible evidence from a past incarnation of the DC Universe.
He has a family on this Earth, with Ma and Pa Kent in Smallville and the rest of the House of Kent aka Superman Family.
Damian Wayne Robin and Jon Kent Superboy Are Back…
…Dealing With… Doom?!
The book opens in the future with elderly Damian Wayne and Jon Kent playing video games as their respective grandkids…
…find a book of a “Doom Scrolls” adventure involving the two retired super-heroes.
So, this is a flashback story set in DC Comics core continuity, but…
…it’s anyone’s guess who the post Dark Nights: Death Metal finale and post DC Future State new multiverse and new Earth impacts all this; will this be set on an alternate Earth or the core Earth? Stay tuned
After finishing the school at their private school…