DC’s main Superman to cross over with the Injustice game universe

DC Comics has announced the Monday appointment of Tom Taylor as the lead writer for the wildly popular DC Comics. InjusticeComics are coming back to you Injustice: Gods Among Us universe — a setting he put on the map — within the pages of his own Superman comic, Adventures of Superman: Jon Kent.

In the world of video games, NetherRealm Studios’ Injustice: Gods Among UsBoth the 2017 sequel to it and their predecessor are fondly recalled as entertaining and competitive. The comics world is a completely different place. InjusticeThis comic is considered to be one of best tie-ins. Taylor was still a relatively unknown author when he was assigned to write the back story for 15 issues. This was in 2012. The game featured all of DC’s heroes and villains. When the last issue came out, Taylor was a relative unknown. Injustice2018 was the last issue of arc. It had been running for more than 170 issues. Taylor and his creative collaborators InjusticeTaylor continues to be a part of the team, writing his beloved runs All-New Wolverine, NightwingPlease see the following: Superman is the son of Kal-ElThe latter has created the conditions for his return. Injustice.

Taylor’s Adventures of Superman: Jon Kent will see the son of the main DCU’s Superman hunting a killer through the multiverse when an evil alternate Superman takes it upon himself to kill every version of Jon’s father, Kal-El. That adventure will take him to the realm of Injustice, in which Batman leads a resistance against Superman, who was driven to global takeover after the Joker murdered Jon’s mother, Lois Lane.

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Taylor pointed out many obvious surprises to come for Jon as well as the characters. Injustice. It’s a world in which Lois’ unborn child died with her, and to that world’s broken Superman, Jon himself is a glimpse of what might have been. It’s also one in which Jon’s best friend, Damian Wayne, joined the bad guys.

“InjusticeThis is an extremely difficult time for me. That book was so fun. Obviously, I was on it for years,” Taylor said in DC’s news release. “But there’s a lot about InjusticeThat is what irritates me. I don’t believe Superman, no matter what happens to him, can become that person. I don’t believe Wonder Woman becomes that person. So, for me, it’s a really interesting Elseworld.”

What happens when Jon Kent — the optimistic, maybe even innocent son of an unimpeachably good man — confronts the dictator his alternate universe father has become? To find out, you’ll have to start following the “Road to Injustice” with Adventures of Superman: Jon Kent#1 will be available on digital and physical shelves starting March 7.