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Warning ! Contains a trailer for Kneel Before Zod # 4 !
Joe Casey and Dan McDaid’sKneel Before Zodhas become a fan - favorite DC series as it has document the story ofGeneral Zod , one ofSuperman ’s bully foeman . The series has followed the scoundrel in his effort to re - establish Krypton through New Kandor . However , the honest-to-god bottled city has been left with a bleak time to come .
Kneel Before Zod#4will pick up after the end of Ursa , as shown at the end of the third subject , leaving the door open for a novel chapter in the liveliness of Zod . The tragical demise of the baddie ’s love at the men of alien attackers will press the Kryptonian general down an even darker path than readers are accustomed to . The miniseries follows Zod on his own cosmic odyssey , see him continue his evil part while also being cast in a somewhat heroic , openhearted luminance . His determination regarding Kandor is the latest reminder of the baddie ’s reckless , selfish nature .
Kneel Before Zodhasflipped many aspects of Superman ’s loreon its head , with Zod serve as DC ’s mirror look-alike , the malefic counterpart to Superman . As depict in the quaternary issue , this extend to his reckless treatment of valued share of Krypton ’s history – despite arrogate to treasure them .
Zod Might Have Just Doomed Kandor
The Bottle City of Kandor has played an integral role in Superman chronicle , as the last surviving slice of Krypton , as well as efficaciously a Noah ’s Ark of its survivor . The Man of Steel has long been caught in a dilemma as to the metropolis ’s fate , with it remaining in a miniature land for most of DC history . However , now in the deal of General Zod , the urban center has been post on a bleak , mysterious path . In a mistaken effort to ensure the safety and selection of his the great unwashed , the baddie ensured the geomorphologic integrity of the metropolis , only to jettison it into space .
The disparate intervention of Kandor illustrates a key conflict between Superman and Zod . Where the Man of Tomorrow is , at his core , a hero of Earth , he has been an ever - vigilant guardian of Kandor , always defending it from international threats . Zod , on the other hand , claims to value nothing above the safety and well - being of his fellow Kryptonians . This only get his decision to jettison the bottled metropolis all the more puzzling . It also exhibit the villain ’s own irresponsibility , with him see to it space as a good , safe selection for the urban center than keeping it under his shelter – or returning it to Superman .
Superman has a lot of amazing powers , but the Man of Steel set an accent on two shockingly drop powers that few mass ever remember .
Kandor Is Facing A Bleak Future
Although the DC Universe is a relatively populated one , the thought of rove alone in outer space is still a intimidating one . count that Kandor ’s habitant are in a DoS of stasis for the journey , it could afford the door to a Kryptonian resurgence in the far future . There ’s almost a sense of cosmic horror to the idea of being trapped in stasis for potentially millennia , let alone in blank space . The city could fall into the hand of just about anyone , from Darkseid or Brainiac to Lobo or Mongul . Whatever Kandor ’s destiny , General Zod ’s decision regarding the city leave the threshold undecided for a new fib inSuperman ’s hereafter .
Kneel Before Zod # 4will be available April 2 from DC Comics .
