Convergence Superman #2

History

The issue was produced as part of Convergence, a nine-week publishing event conceived largely as a logistical bridge while DC Comics relocated its editorial offices from New York to Burbank, California to consolidate with Warner Bros.; during the hiatus all regular monthly titles were suspended and replaced by forty two-issue tie-in miniseries. DC tapped Dan Jurgens — who had already co-written the Convergence #0 framing issue and whose Superman tenure included 'The Death of Superman' — to write and pencil the Superman tie-in, a deliberate choice to reunite the pre-Flashpoint Clark and Lois with one of their most celebrated architects. Norm Rapmund inked Jurgens's pencils (replacing Lee Weeks, who had inked issue #1), with Brad Anderson on colors, Sal Cipriano on letters, and Marie Javins as editor. The issue carried a cover date of July 2015 and was published on May 6, 2015, running forty pages and including a bonus preview of Scott Lobdell and Javier Fernandez's Doomed series.

Trivia · 7 facts

• First appearance of Jonathan Samuel Kent (Jon Kent), the biological son of Clark Kent / Superman and Lois Lane, created by writer-artist Dan Jurgens — confirmed across DC's official site, Wikipedia, DC Fandom database, and multiple collector resources.
• Jon Kent was named after both of his grandfathers: his adoptive paternal grandfather Jonathan Kent and his maternal grandfather Samuel Lane; Lois initially proposed 'Jor' (for Jor-El), but Clark insisted on a human-sounding name.
• Written and penciled by Dan Jurgens, inked by Norm Rapmund, colored by Brad Anderson, lettered by Sal Cipriano, and edited by Marie Javins; cover art by Lee Weeks, with a variant cover designed by Chip Kidd.
• The Flashpoint version of Batman — Thomas Wayne, the father who lost his son Bruce to a mugger — assists in delivering Jon in the Batcave, creating a scene that contrasts profound paternal loss against new birth; Thomas charges Superman to protect the child at all costs.
• The Flashpoint antagonists in the story include Captain Thunder (Flashpoint's Captain Marvel), Abin Sur (Flashpoint's Green Lantern), and Cyborg, all of whom battle the pre-Flashpoint Superman under Telos's mandate that only one city can survive.
• The issue was collected and reprinted in Convergence: Flashpoint Book 1 (December 2015, DC Comics) and in the Brazilian edition Convergência: Superman (Panini Brasil, March 2016); a bonus Doomed preview story was later reprinted in Doomed #1 (2016).
• Jon Kent's introduction in this issue directly seeded the 2015–2016 limited series Superman: Lois and Clark, and then DC Rebirth's flagship Superman title (2016), in which he became Superboy — and eventually, years later, assumed the Superman mantle himself in Superman: Son of Kal-El.