{"id":132144,"date":"2016-12-02T08:01:51","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T15:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/02\/reign-of-the-supermen.html"},"modified":"2016-12-11T16:29:26","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T23:29:26","slug":"reign-of-the-supermen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/02\/reign-of-the-supermen.html","title":{"rendered":"Reign of the Supermen"},"content":{"rendered":"

With Hank Henshaw — the "real" Hank Henshaw — showing up on Supergirl<\/i> as "Cyborg Superman" (which sounds a lot dorkier just picked out of the ether), I had to stop a moment and explain to the family about the Reign of the Supermen, the four individuals claiming the mantle who showed up after Superman "died" fighting Doomsday in 1992.<\/p>\n

Which set me to gathering up some images of them, thus this collection, which I might as well post publicly as just flag for +<\/span>Kay Hill<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

The four were named (mostly) from other nicknames for Superman: <\/p>\n

"The Man of Tomorrow"<\/b> – Known more prosaically the Cyborg Superman, this was secretly previous Superman villain Hank Henshaw, a sort of weird variant on Reed Richards in the DCU, who blames Superman for the death of his wife and friends, and … is a cyborg … and … destroys a city … and it gets complicated. Anyway, this is the fellow who (sort of) showed up in Supergirl<\/i> a few weeks ago. [https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hank_Henshaw<\/a>]<\/p>\n

"The Man of Steel"<\/b> – John Henry Irons, genius engineer and inventor who invents an armored super-suit and, inspired by Superman's legacy, tries to fill in for him. He is later known as just Steel, has had his own comics, and was one of the more successful characters to come out of all of this. [https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steel_(John_Henry_Irons)<\/a>]<\/p>\n

"The Metropolis Kid"<\/b> – He hates being called Superboy, though everyone does, and eventually he goes along with it. He's actually a Cadmus-created clone mixing Superman's genes with … Lex Luthor's. (So, yeah, where they got that shtick for Young Justice.)<\/i> Aside from having a very, very<\/i> 90s look (which was eventually fixed of course), he's one of the few heroes ever to be based in Hawaii for a while. He was killed (by another Superboy, really long story), but, as universes have rebooted, got better. [https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Superboy_(Kon-El)<\/a>]<\/p>\n

"The Last Son of Krypton"<\/b> – A cold-blooded killing vigilante who's a Kryptonian alt-right type, kinda-sorta, and also an energy\/robot construct called the Eradicator who shaped Kryptonian history, and, um, yeah, it's even more complicated than that. Anyway, he still shows up in the DCU on occasion (or did, at last, pre-New52). [https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eradicator_(comics)<\/a>]<\/p>\n

The storyline ends with the real Superman coming back (of course) with stylish long hair (until it became unstylish), and leading three of the replacements against the fourth, the villainous Cyborg Superman, who just destroyed Green Lantern's home town of Coast City (leading to cross-over events to come).<\/p>\n

Thus Endeth the Lesson.<\/p>\n

More on the Reign of the Supermen:
https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Death_of_Superman#Reign_of_the_Supermen.21<\/a>
http:\/\/superman.wikia.com\/wiki\/Reign_of_the_Supermen<\/a>
http:\/\/dc.wikia.com\/wiki\/Reign_of_the_Supermen<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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With Hank Henshaw — the "real" Hank Henshaw — showing up on Supergirl as "Cyborg Superman" (which sounds a lot dorkier just picked out of the ether), I had to stop a moment and explain to the family about the Reign of the Supermen, the four individuals claiming the mantle who showed up after Superman … Continue reading “Reign of the Supermen”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,11,852],"tags":[1017],"class_list":["post-132144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-comics","category-dc-cinematic-univese","tag-reign_of_the_supermen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Reign-of-Supermen5B15D.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45950,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/15\/dc-fleshes-out-its-movie-schedule.html","url_meta":{"origin":132144,"position":0},"title":"DC fleshes out its movie schedule","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 15-Oct-14 11:27am","format":false,"excerpt":"DC and WB are filling in the gaps and blanks in the movie schedule they previously announced. 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