Convergence Superman #2

History

The Convergence event was conceived in part to cover a two-month pause in DC's regular publishing schedule while the company relocated its editorial offices from New York to Burbank, California, to consolidate operations with Warner Bros. The event comprised a core miniseries and 40 two-issue tie-in miniseries spotlighting characters from timelines erased or altered by the 2011 Flashpoint event, with the premise of Brainiac trapping cities from various eras in domes on a planet outside of time. Dan Jurgens — already one of the most prominent Superman writers of the modern era, known for creating Doomsday and writing 'The Death of Superman' — was the natural choice to helm the pre-Flashpoint Superman tie-in, reuniting him with the classic Clark/Lois dynamic he had long championed. The creative team on issue #2 consisted of Jurgens on both writing and pencils, Norm Rapmund on inks, Brad Anderson on colors, and Tom Napolitano on letters, with cover art by Lee Weeks (regular cover) and a variant designed by Chip Kidd.

Trivia · 8 facts

• First appearance of Jonathan Samuel Kent (Jon Kent), the son of the pre-Flashpoint Clark Kent and Lois Lane, later to become Superboy and eventually Superman in DC continuity.
• Created by writer-artist Dan Jurgens, who also penciled the issue; Jurgens is the creator of Doomsday and Booster Gold, and a longtime Superman writer.
• Published May 6, 2015 (cover-dated July 2015), as part of DC's Convergence event — a 40-tie-in, two-issue-per-series publishing initiative running April–May 2015.
• The issue's central dramatic scenario features the Flashpoint universe's Kal-El (referred to as Subject One) kidnapping a laboring Lois Lane to the Flashpoint Batman's Batcave, where Flashpoint Batman — Thomas Wayne, a doctor — delivers the baby.
• Jon is named Jonathan Samuel Kent in honor of both his grandfathers: Jonathan Kent (Clark's adoptive father) and General Samuel Lane (Lois's father), as Lois proposes the name on-panel.
• The Flashpoint Batman's role in delivering the baby creates a poignant cross-continuity moment: Thomas Wayne, who lost his own son, helps bring a new Superman into the world and urges Clark to protect his child at all costs.
• Jon Kent subsequently appeared in the Superman: Lois and Clark miniseries (2015–2016) and became a central character in DC Rebirth's Superman titles, as well as the animated film Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons and the live-action TV series Superman & Lois.
• The issue also contains a backup story, 'Divergence: Doomed,' an eight-page preview of the Doomed ongoing series, which was also released separately as a free digital comic.

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