Source: Superman: Last Stand on Krypton (2003)
Type: Elseworlds
Continued from yesterday's issue of Reign... Steve Gerber returned to the Elseworld he created in Last Son of Earth three years later (for him) and 10 years later (for Kal-El). The Earth-born Kryptonian has led his birth planet to a new Golden Age thanks to Kryptonian tech, and Metropolis looks like this now:
And still, you've got jerks like Morgan Edge on the ruling council giving Kal crap. Why couldn't the same techniques that gave him powers work for others, etc.? Earth's lone Super-Man decides to return to Krypton to get the temptation out of the picture. Unfortunately, a recently escaped Luthor follows him in another Kryptonian craft, with Lois Lane as a hostage. When Kal-El reaches home, he finds the planet changed for the better. Vegetation and animal life has been restored by his father's group. Unfortunately, there's another, more conservative faction - first led by his grandfather and then by General Zod - that is against all these changes. They've harnessed "Kryptonium" as a weapon and mean to use it. Luthor allies with them, of course. He manages to get the jump on Kal-El and experiments on him with the different "flavors" of Kyrptonium. Pistachio hurts, but cherry, well cherry can have many different effects, including turning Kal-El into the Red Hulk:
This has the nifty effect of giving Kal powers on Krypton, and he uses them to rescue Lois Lane, soon outfitted with an exoskeleton so she can walk around. Luthor uses Kryptonian tech to boost his own mind, giving himself psionic powers, allowing him to take Zod's place at the end of the Kryptonian army. A pretty cool war breaks out in which Luthor's forces are trounced by, among other things, thought beasts charging from the Phantom Zone and freakin' flamebirds! Not digesting the loss, Luthor blows the planet's core, so Jor-El and his son put Lois and Lara into a spacecraft and send them to the safety of Earth.
The twist: Jor-El, in the face of all Kryptonian taboos, has made Lara pregnant. The legend, as they say, continues... (But not this story. Alas, Gerber never turned it into a trilogy.)
Type: Elseworlds
Continued from yesterday's issue of Reign... Steve Gerber returned to the Elseworld he created in Last Son of Earth three years later (for him) and 10 years later (for Kal-El). The Earth-born Kryptonian has led his birth planet to a new Golden Age thanks to Kryptonian tech, and Metropolis looks like this now:
And still, you've got jerks like Morgan Edge on the ruling council giving Kal crap. Why couldn't the same techniques that gave him powers work for others, etc.? Earth's lone Super-Man decides to return to Krypton to get the temptation out of the picture. Unfortunately, a recently escaped Luthor follows him in another Kryptonian craft, with Lois Lane as a hostage. When Kal-El reaches home, he finds the planet changed for the better. Vegetation and animal life has been restored by his father's group. Unfortunately, there's another, more conservative faction - first led by his grandfather and then by General Zod - that is against all these changes. They've harnessed "Kryptonium" as a weapon and mean to use it. Luthor allies with them, of course. He manages to get the jump on Kal-El and experiments on him with the different "flavors" of Kyrptonium. Pistachio hurts, but cherry, well cherry can have many different effects, including turning Kal-El into the Red Hulk:
This has the nifty effect of giving Kal powers on Krypton, and he uses them to rescue Lois Lane, soon outfitted with an exoskeleton so she can walk around. Luthor uses Kryptonian tech to boost his own mind, giving himself psionic powers, allowing him to take Zod's place at the end of the Kryptonian army. A pretty cool war breaks out in which Luthor's forces are trounced by, among other things, thought beasts charging from the Phantom Zone and freakin' flamebirds! Not digesting the loss, Luthor blows the planet's core, so Jor-El and his son put Lois and Lara into a spacecraft and send them to the safety of Earth.
The twist: Jor-El, in the face of all Kryptonian taboos, has made Lara pregnant. The legend, as they say, continues... (But not this story. Alas, Gerber never turned it into a trilogy.)
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