Superman: Last Son of Earth
DC · 2000 · 2 issues
About the series
In this two-issue Elseworlds tale from DC, writer Steve Gerber and artist Doug Wheatley reimagine the Man of Steel’s origin with a chilling twist: Kal-El’s rocket lands not in Kansas, but in the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Raised as a weapon of the state, this Superman must grapple with a world where his powers serve a totalitarian regime rather than truth and justice. A provocative alternate-history take, the series explores the dark implications of nurture over nature in the making of a hero.