DC has been building to one of the critical points in Superman over the course of Absolute Superman first four issues, and now the event is finally happening. In Absolute Superman #5, Krypton’s fate ...

Absolute Superman #5 changes the story of how this Kal-El came to Earth and sets-up the possibility of his parents still ...

DC's Absolute Universe skews darker than the mainstream DCU. We're seeing that across all of the comics that have been ...

Tragically, DC Comics has found a way to make the destruction of Krypton even worse in the new Absolute Universe compared to the main DC timeline.

Just before the destruction of the planet Krypton, scientist Jor-El sends his infant son Kal-El on a spaceship to Earth. Raised by kindly farmers Jonathan and Martha Kent, young Clark discovers ...

Richard Donner Superman movie is considered the gold standard but one other Man of Steel adaptation manages to drastically ...

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Superman’s biological father has been depicted in previous cinematic iterations; Marlon Brando played Jor-El in 1978’s Superman: The Movie ... a critical moment for Kal-El’s arc.

The series is centered on Clark Kent, a Kryptonian from the planet Krypton whose birth name is Kal-El. Superman resides in the city of Metropolis, where he works as a journalist for the Daily ...

It's the latter we're here to talk about today, with March 12's Absolute Superman #5 ... board Lara and Jor-El's escape ship. As the planet explodes, young Kal-El even feels an unexpected sense ...

The series is centered on Clark Kent, a Kryptonian from the planet Krypton whose birth name is Kal-El. Superman resides in the city of Metropolis, where he works as a journalist for the Daily ...