Almost 30 years ago, Mark Waid and Alex Ross invented a fan-favorite potential future for the DC Universe in their critically acclaimed miniseries Kingdom Come. Set in an era where Superman retired after the public chose to embrace a deadly wave of new antiheroes, this concept introduced audiences to the bitter and deadly Magog.Following the massive success of Kingdom Come, DC presented fans with a series of potential origins for Magog over the years, all of which now appear to have been swept under the rug with Mark Waid’s return to Earth 22 in recent pages of Batman/Superman: World’s Finest. In other words, DC has finally perfected and refined the backstory to one of their greatest threats.When his planet was moments away from destruction, David’s parents placed him in a bleedship and set him to Earth Prime (otherwise known as Earth 0), where Batman and Superman discovered him. The duo quickly realized that David’s biology gave him powers much like Superman’s, who then took David under his wing as his protégé, Boy Thunder.
Almost 30 years ago, Mark Waid and Alex Ross invented a fan-favorite potential future for the DC Universe in their critically acclaimed miniseries Kingdom Come. Set in an era where Superman retired after the public chose to embrace a deadly wave of new antiheroes, this concept introduced audiences to the bitter and deadly Magog.
Following the massive success of Kingdom Come, DC presented fans with a series of potential origins for Magog over the years, all of which now appear to have been swept under the rug with Mark Waid’s return to Earth 22 in recent pages of Batman/Superman: World’s Finest. In other words, DC has finally perfected and refined the backstory to one of their greatest threats.
When his planet was moments away from destruction, David’s parents placed him in a bleedship and set him to Earth Prime (otherwise known as Earth 0), where Batman and Superman discovered him. The duo quickly realized that David’s biology gave him powers much like Superman’s, who then took David under his wing as his protégé, Boy Thunder.
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