Away, away, and away

[laughing_tree]

World Without A Justice League: Superman #1...

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[blueprintstyles]

Why the Robin costume though?

[numeronone]

Laundry day.

[numeronone]

Coming from a former CIA goon, this issue really felt like some soft military recruitment propaganda. (Pages for that not shown here, but...yeah, it's a big "I have to go out and fight for freedom in a place far away from home, our enemies are just evil bad guys, for reals" energy).

Not what I'd let past the firsrt draft, if I were making those calls. That's all I'll say.

[blues32]

...what the hell is happening here? Orion is the LAST person who would ever say, "Daddy knows best." Why is Superman looking his Earth Two or Earth 22 version?

[numeronone]

In a world without a Justice League, according to King, Superman is only effectual at defending Earth by itself and has created a peace accord that says Darkseid's army can attack literally everywhere else, with no interference.

Because the thrust of the story is "Superman is old and tired and young Con is the young blood we need to defend freedom from the hordes of invaders out there", there ie no confirmation on how this affects J'onn, the Green Lanterns, etc. Or if they even exist - "World Without A Justice League" could mean there just aren't other heroes at all rather than them deciding not to form a team.

But to answer your question, because King doesn't believe in nuanced takes on villainy, in this world Orion is under his father's thumb. A useful thug type to show Superboy the stakes are real and to give Superman someone to hit.

[shakalooloo]

Superman, of all people, cut a deal with the God of Evil?

Nah. Nope.

[numeronone]

Yup. This Orion scene ends with Superman doing an Angry Speech about how Con has shattered this mighty truce he forged and now Darkseid is mobilising.

Are you surprised? From the writer of "Heroes In Crisis"? Again an ex-CIA goon?

[laughing_tree]

The previous poster’s description of the issue is somewhat reductive. Without going into spoilers, it makes more sense in context.

[laughing_tree]

The idea is this is an Orion who’s lost to and been corrupted by Darkseid. Superman looks older because he’s older.

[deh_tommy]

Wait, I thought this was meant to be a tie-in to Dark Crisis or something? Why is Superman even here?

[laughing_tree]

I haven’t been following Dark Crisis so I have no idea how or if this fits with that.

[thezmage]

I believe these tie in issues are about heroes put into various Elseworlds scenarios designed to keep them pacified or something. The solicitations for the Young Justice mini seem to be the same thing

[thanekos]

Orion, instance of the victory of " nature " in " nature vs. nurture ".

[zachbeacon]

I mean, even the "good" New Gods aren't that good. I sort of assumed that's why Barda and Scott ran off to the suburbs.

[superfangirl1]

So Clark deep desires was to watch Jon kent grow up. As he was robbed of it, because of his space travel field trip with grandpa Jor-el?

Also krypto look so adorable play with that space rock.