Source: Action Comics #812 to Superman vol.2 #203 (2004)
Type: Hoax
In the "Godfall" story arc, the bottled city of Kandor was advanced 100 years during which it built a society that saw Superman as a god, and Metropolis as Heaven, a deeply divided society with Kryptonians on one side, and alien dregs on the other. Kal-El wakes up in this world one morning, with no memory of ever having been anything but a low-level undersecretary for the Kryptonian Council, having fallen far short of his heroic father's promise. He's married to a sexy alien called Lyla and has a son called Kon-Lar. When he starts to manifest dangerous super-powers and apparently kills his son, he's forced to turn to Lyla's energy-sapping abilities for help, even as the cops bear down on him.
But what's real and what isn't? Turns out it's all a scheme engineered by his faux-wife - brainwashing, illusory family, hired thugs, and leaked-in yellow sun energy - to drain his power, get big, and take on Heaven herself as a goddess. Also, an opportunity to put Superman on a Akira bike:
Worthy enough reason for a story arc. That, and the creation of Preus, a Kandorian antagonist with a car-like name who'd come back to plague Superman. I'm just wondering if Supes actually cheated on Lois with Lyla. Or doesn't it count? Man, superhero lives are complicated!
Type: Hoax
In the "Godfall" story arc, the bottled city of Kandor was advanced 100 years during which it built a society that saw Superman as a god, and Metropolis as Heaven, a deeply divided society with Kryptonians on one side, and alien dregs on the other. Kal-El wakes up in this world one morning, with no memory of ever having been anything but a low-level undersecretary for the Kryptonian Council, having fallen far short of his heroic father's promise. He's married to a sexy alien called Lyla and has a son called Kon-Lar. When he starts to manifest dangerous super-powers and apparently kills his son, he's forced to turn to Lyla's energy-sapping abilities for help, even as the cops bear down on him.
But what's real and what isn't? Turns out it's all a scheme engineered by his faux-wife - brainwashing, illusory family, hired thugs, and leaked-in yellow sun energy - to drain his power, get big, and take on Heaven herself as a goddess. Also, an opportunity to put Superman on a Akira bike:
Worthy enough reason for a story arc. That, and the creation of Preus, a Kandorian antagonist with a car-like name who'd come back to plague Superman. I'm just wondering if Supes actually cheated on Lois with Lyla. Or doesn't it count? Man, superhero lives are complicated!
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