The 5G Files Chapter Six

In 2020, DC Comics deliberate two storylines for the principle DC Comics titles, as a part of their deliberate 5G initiative The Last Days Of Batman and The Last Days Of Superman. And we’re reporting what they’d have contained right here for the primary time. We’ve checked out Batman, now it is Superman’s flip. Because Bleeding Cool is publishing The 5G Files, trying on the aborted-but-not-quite relaunch/reboot deliberate for DC Comics in 2020 dubbed 5G or Fifth Generation. Planned by then-publisher Dan DiDio, it could have seen the principle characters of the DC Universe, Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne and extra, aged up and changed by newcomers to the roles of Superman, Batman and extra, the fifth technology of DC superheroes. Welcome to The 5G Files and The Last Days of Superman: Chapter Six.

Superman: Last Days was a Superman occasion comedian collection that will have adopted the occasions in Death Metal: Dark Crisis (because it was then envisaged) earlier than the Changing Of The Guard occasion we talked about earlier. As the brand new DC Timeline is established, Superman would now be in his sixties and was discovering that his powers had been fading. The collection would see him passing the Superman position onto his son, Jon Kent, as Clark Kent and Lois Lane depart Metropolis, and America as an entire, to relocate to Africa. Truth, Justice and the African Way? Clark Kent would have needed to have change into a “super” hero of a really totally different flavour.

Of course, 5G was completed away with, however parts of this story remained. Future State Jon Kent as Superman of Metropolis, with Clark Kent Superman having been imprisoned on Warworld. Later we noticed Superman within the sixties with JFK, rewritten to be time journey, a Superman with gray hair however seen as a part of his powers fading after an alien assault, and gathering a brand new group, The Authority, to battle Warworld – and it was that call what divorced him from the Justice League, somewhat than the superhero identification situation. And author Phillip Kennedy Johnson employed for Superman 5G, now writing the Superman titles, the key identities are again, Superman is extra highly effective than ever earlier than, and Jon Kent continues to be a Superman. Dan DiDio is now the writer of Frank Miller Presents, based with Frank Miller, writing the collection Ancient Enemies, and has a superhero YA novel Hide or Seek to be printed in April.

Keep checking the 5G Files tag for extra… and for Lying In The Gutters followers of outdated, take into account this story having a inexperienced visitors gentle.