Preview: JSA Kingdom Come Special: Superman

When I was younger I helped manage a comic book shop. It was one of the most fun times in my life. I also collected about 30 titles for several years, and I appreciated the medium more with every great story that was released. I keep an eye always fixed on the comic book industry, looking for new great stories to be written and drawn.

One of those great stories in the medium is Kingdom Come by Mark Waid and Alex Ross. Originally released as a four-issue comic book mini-series in 1996, it is a story set in the future DC Universe where the retired superheroes we all know (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, etc.) must once again come together to fight evil and tyranny in the form of a younger group of superheroes who are mostly amoral and who lack the responsibility their power has given them. It has many echoes to the Book of Revelation in the Bible and the story and painted artwork are just brilliant. Like Watchmen by Alan Moore and The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller, Kingdom Come is one of those literary graphic novels everyone should read.

Since 1996, DC Comics has tied the futuristic world of Kingdom Come into some of their titles, but Alex Ross—who originally came up with storyline’s idea—had barely a hand in any of them.

Now that has changed, as Alex Ross has written and done the illustrations for JSA Kingdom Come Special: Superman, a stand alone comic book that tells the story of the older and cursed Kingdom Come Superman suddenly thrust into the present day DC Universe still bearing the haunted weight of being unable to save his own world from destruction.

Click HERE for a preview from JSA Kingdom Come Special: Superman!