Superman & Lois Officially Reveals The Secret Origin of 'Evil Superman'
Warning: The following contains SPOILERS for Superman and Lois season 1 and Earth-Prime#2.
The second issue of the Arrowverse tie-in comic Earth-Prime tells the tale of just how the Evil Superman of an alternate Earth from Superman and Lois season 1 came to turn upon humanity.
The Evil Superman was a shadowy presence in Superman and Lois season 1, with a man dubbed the Stranger claiming to have come from another Earth where Superman went mad with power under circumstances that seemed likely to repeat themselves soon on Earth-Prime. Thankfully the Stranger (who was ultimately identified as John Henry Irons, aka Steel) came to recognize that Earth Prime's Superman had not yet been corrupted and joined him in the fight against the real architect of the plot against humanity, Superman's half-brother Tal-Rho. The question of how the Superman of John Henry Irons' Earth fell from grace was a point that the series did not have time to explore, given the more immediate concerns of Tal-Rho's war on Earth-Prime. Nevertheless, some Super-fans did wonder how it was possible for any version of Superman to wind up leading an army of angry Kryptonian personalities in human bodies in a battle against Earth.
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The answer is finally revealed in «Controlled Burn,» the final story contained within Earth-Prime: Superman and Lois #2. The comic comes from Jai Jamison, Adam Mallinger, Andrew W. Wong, and Tom Grummet. To say that the Kal-El of this Earth did not enjoy the same loving home-life as the Superman of Earth-Prime would be putting it mildly. In this reality, Kal-El was found by the Kents, but they died in a car crash when he was young. This resulted in Kal
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