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SINSON IS JON KENT

Not metaphorically. Not philosophically. Canonically. Solicits dropped last week, and to my dismay, the description of Sinister Sons #6 mentioned no addition of a third kid joining the story as I had surmised previously. It took me a bit to figure out what it meant, but we got there. I have been convinced since March 2022 that DC was eventually going to pull the old switcheroo and reinstate the better™️ Jon Kent into the main canon after Tomasi's Superman & Robin Special gave us a really strange and kinda stilted adventure of Jon and Damian in the Fortress of Solitude. That book took me two months to figure out what it was saying: two versions of Jon Kent were coming. I didn't know when. I didn't know how, but I knew this promise would be upheld.

1. Vibe Check

Ever since Bendis was on the outs in 2020, DC has hinted very un-subtlely that everything he and Dan DiDio had planned was going out of the window from Drake to 5G. Super Sons megafans might remember that one time Bendis tweeted that your favorite comics were ass and the upcoming Legion book was the second coming of Christ. They might also remember that Challenge of the Super Sons opens with an inside joke mocking that very same tweet.

But Tomasi wasn't alone. Bendis himself would bemoan the future in his Justice League run, implying that nothing he had planned would come to pass.

The wheels of change were turning even back in 2020/2022. I was so confident in this that I wrote a gigantic essay (that I won an award for) before Dark Crisis had released, and I listed all of this out and much more before. At the time, I was convinced that we'd have two Jons by the time Dark Crisis ended. Alas, it's two years later, and no such luck. I still stand by the premise of that essay; that Superman: Son of Kal-El was an apology to readers for mistreating a fan-favorite character. I was incorrect in my assumption that the teenager Jon Kent we'd been told was the same one that had left Earth with Jor-El in Bendis's Man of Steel mini was actually the New 52 Superboy or his original, Jonathan Lane Kent. Although we have yet to be told his full name since Bendis essentially became the DC Comics showrunner, we are still supposed to assume our newest Superman is Jonathan Samuel Kent, but I know better. He's not the Jon born during Convergence. Son of Kal-El showed us he was born in the Fortress of Solitude like they showed off in Superman Reborn, not the Flashpoint Batcave. It's important to distinguish that these two are different and distinct characters. Really, the fact that Zod's son Lor hasn't found himself aged to match the newest Superman gives me suspicion enough that something is up.

2. "Last we left off..." - Matthew Mercer

Since I published my essay, Jon has been busy. He got his dad back. He announced he was going steady with his boyfriend to the entire world. He got his secret identity back. He went to another Earth to fight his tormentor of five years. Everything's coming up Milhouse for Jon.

And I'm bored.

Jon hasn't done anything self-motivated for what seems like years. No, it literally has been years. His boyfriend came to him and instigated their relationship. He didn't do anything to get Clark back. He didn't do anything to resolve anything with Ultraman. He left the man who brought him to that Earth in the Phantom Zone and was cross-faded back to his own after waggling his finger disapprovingly at the Injustice version of Clark. His scrappy impishness has left. His devil-may-care attitude towards his own safety is gone. Thankfully, Dan Jurgens and Lee Weeks made a sequel series to their mini that introduced Jon in the back-ups of Action Comics.

Lois & Clark: Doom Rising is in many ways Jurgens and Weeks' response to Brian Bendis' Superman stories. Set some time before the Kents moved back to Metropolis and well before his fateful encounter with Jor-El, Jon is approached by a mysterious space person who asks him to join them as they go into the cosmos to right wrongs, but instead of sitting idly as it became clear his life was in danger, Jon attempts an escape. Clark is kept occupied by a big bruiser so he can't come to Jon's rescue, but with Lois' help (incontrast to the complacency Bendis wrote for her) Clark eventually takes chase to rescue their boy. I got a lot of joy from that story. It also gave me another reason to believe my theory was still valid. After crash landing, Jon rescues his fellow survivor from the fiery wreckage but is severely burned in the process. I ask you: How can a boy who spent five entire years in a volcano prison leave unscathed if mere fire messed up his arms? (I'd also like to ask Bendis how his power of flight was sapped immediately under the volcanic ash plume but remained invulnerable for all five years, but I digress.)

The mini also ends on a line fit for canned laughter to follow as Jon says, "Awesome! Maybe I should get kidnapped more often!" in response to getting bacon and pancakes for breakfast as he returns home. They knew what they were doing. I admit that on its own, these things may not be indicative of anything. It may be the whims of Jon's creators to let off some steam and DC's corporate offices obliging, knowing there is an audience for the younger Jon Kent. Or that's what I would have said if the other story DC published starring the older Jon Kent didn't have a few nuggets of its own.

Tom Taylor wrote Adventures of Superman Jon Kent as a kind of epilogue to Superman Son of Kal-El to mixed reception to put it lightly. I'm not here to talk about the climax of the final issue as tempting, as that may be. Instead, I want to focus on the beginning when Jon is in the company of Val-Zod, the Superman of Earth-2. Jon states that he knows that Val is from another Earth because he can see the differences in his molecular structure. I believe this is a useful tidbit for later when Jon needs to identify his double is not from a different Earth than his. Then when they get to the Earth they've tracked Ultraman in response to Jon asking why they needed him specifically and not any other Jon in the multiverse, Val says that time is a constant across the multiverse which calls into question how Jon was thrown backward in time to an Earth-3 with a Crime Syndicate that the audience had seen die. Then, as if to disperse any lingering theory that Jon may be the son of Ultraman and not a true son of Clark Kent, Tom has Jon say, "I was never your Jon!" Finally, near the end of issue 5, Jon says he's been practicing sneaking up on Damian for years (plural) while holding the Lasso of Truth when he should only have had a single year between meeting Damian and getting lost in the vastness of space. Another potential plot hole if this were the same Jon that we knew before, which I hope to have convinced you at this point that he's not.

3. Pavlov's Orphan

And now to substantiate my Sinson claim. I suppose all of my previous theories have been fueled by vibes, but this more than the others feels that way, yet it feels the most salient. So, who is Sinson? He thinks he's the abandoned son of Thaal Sinestro left on some rock out in space. That's probably not true, just based on how much we've dwelled on how much Sinson wants it to be the case, but also because Sinestro already had a secret child that he hid out in space. Soranik Natu was created by Geoff Johns during his time on Green Lantern, but her big backstory reveal was handled by Peter Tomasi, notably one of the creators of Rebirth's Super Sons and writer for Sinister Sons. I find it very unlikely that he would purposely reuse a plot point he had already visited for another child of the same character. What's more, Sinister Sons has taken inspiration from the classic Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist. Sinson is in an orphan situation like when Oliver gets to London. He's encouraged to steal to line the pockets of the adult giving him food and shelter. This guy is called Nagaf, which is Fagin backward if you change a letter to avoid being dangerously close to a slur. Oliver Twist ends with Oliver going to live with a living relative he didn't know he had, another reason that Sinson likely isn't Sinestro's kid.

Nearly unprompted, Nagaf tells the boy that he was left at his orphanage six years ago by a woman who said she'd be back without leaving a name to call him by. "Oh, shoot. I guess that means he can't be Jon," is what an IDIOT would say! Two things: nothing is saying that that planet makes its full revolution around its star at the same rate as Earth does and in a metanarrative sense, six years ago irl from 2024 is 2018 which is the year that Bendis was Coming. Between Son of Kal-El, Lois & Clark 2, Superman & Robin Special, and Challenge of the Super Sons, all of those writers have more than happy to reply in kind to Bendis' multiple in-comic responses to fan discontent for his work. This would be Tomasi's third time and rightly justified since Bendis' infamous tweet directly insulted his work, and Tomasi clearly wasn't too happy about the decisions made when he was removed from Superman.

One of the more blatant times Tomasi would voice his dismay was later in Challenge of the Super Sons when Jon makes a comment that he didn't "instantly forget" some mental torture he went through in a subtle jab at the writing of the current Superman Jon Kent's ability to compartmentalize his own trauma. Really, this pair of panels may have held more foreshadowing than I initially caught.

So then why does Sinson look like he is from Korugar? My guess is he suffered some burns escaping from his volcano prison. Jurgens left us that little nugget last year, and his Jon certainly wouldn't have just sat in that crater for five years before trying to escape. Why doesn't he have the powers of a Kryptonian? When Lor-Zod gets to the planet Sinson lives, his Kryptonian powers disappear quickly. Why doesn't he seem to remember anything about who he is and where he comes from then? Why does he think his father is a villain? I'll say amnesia and mixing his time with Ultraman with Nagaf telling him he was from Korugar, but Sinson has more pathos hidden deep in his subconscious that betrays his true self.

Sinson chooses this name for himself which could be a really on-the-nose descriptor of his truth that he is Sinestro's son or it could be Jon's impetus for leaving with Jor-El coming out, that there is something wrong with him and that's why the Teen Titans rejected him. To this point, throughout the backups in Green Lantern where he was introduced, Sinson has soliloquies revealing that he begs to be taken seriously by his peers. When he overthrows Nagaf, he quickly builds a Sinestro Corps from his fellow orphans and paints big ol' "S" shapes on all of their chests (and shoulders like the current Superman family's jackets). He is good with technology enough to build a taser and a rocket, which again Jon is also known for. The opening scene even parallels Superman #8 with the boys using that sci-fi engineer zappy stick to make or fix something. He's able to futz with Lor-Zod's Kryptonian space pod very easily which presumably would not be easy for a boy who is unfamiliar with that flavor of technology. He has an affinity with dogs which Jon is known to have. He's cocky and fallible like Jon. He's got long hair like Jon, though much longer than the last time a story was published about him. All of the issue covers give him glasses that he doesn't wear in the story proper as if they're trying to imply that this is a secret identity i.e. Clark Kent. Sinson and Sinestro are not drawn with the same shaped ears in the mini, either. What I think is most significant, though, is that throughout the backups, Sinson acts more similar to Batman than to Sinestro. He's not going around causing fear to assert his dominance over the seedy underbelly he's robbing. He's righting wrongs. He's stealing drug money to skim creds off the top for his rocket, sure, but he's also returning organs to the hospital they were stolen from. This is the work of a kid who wants to do good, but his words do not match his actions. It's going to take a journey inside a giant TIME-TRAVELING SPACE WHALE (wink wink nudge nudge) to sort it all out. The cover and solicit for the sixth issue promise as much.

I didn't even have time to mention this time the chalkboard in Flashpoint Beyond that Jeremy Adams worked on promised that a supposed "he" would find "his son" and that the Time Masters were warned not to interfere, or that the recent Flash issue 797 implied that the Super Sons cameoing in the issue were from the main universe and had just finished their battle with Rex Luthor in Adventures of the Super Sons and how important that mini is to the continuity of this theory. I also could have brought up that every Tom King miniseries since Batman/Catwoman has led to an element he wrote end up in the main canon of the DCU, and that he's currently writing Super Sons in the backup feature of his Wonder Woman run. Everything is coming back around, and I feel confident we'll see its fruition come June or July.

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OH?!

"And can" what?

Travel great distances/the multiverse by generating worm holes? Worm holes that may give off a temporal signature that someone's science grandpa might misinterpret as coming from the worm hole itself? Wormholes that would appear seemingly out of nowhere, catching a diligent man of science off guard? Wormholes that could separate a kid from his guardian, and, after disappearing into that giant toothy maw of a mythical temporal beast unseen, a man of science may spend the next few years searching for the kid he lost throughout space and time, ending up on Earth-3, and assuming the older kid he found is the same one that he lost despite frequent multiverse pilgrims knowing traveling the multiverse doesn't slide you up or down the timeline?

Is this the promised moment of two different yet nearly identical Jon Kents hinted in Tomasi's last Super Sons comic book by an omniscient being of immense power finally coming back around?

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What makes more sense, the proud son of Dru-Zod seeking help from a no-name orphan after getting put in space-timeout or Jon posing as Lor because through some cosmic mishap "he" not only grew 6-7 years, he also created the government that is preventing him from getting home? And now he must find any way to return home through the blockade that was transitively put in place by someone who took his place on Earth, leading him to the Space Orphan King, Korg "Sinson" Sinestro. Jon takes Lor-Zod's identity for any small amount of protection and marginally more believability that brings than being the universe-famous Son of Superman known to be on Earth. And what purpose would the real Lor-Zod have for getting to Earth? To seek help from his father's sworn enemy and draw more of his ire? He'd be more interested in staying in Dru's good graces.

I no longer trust DC's assertion that the Kryptonian kid here is Lor-Zod. I think it's Jon in disguise.

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I no longer trust DC's assertion that the Kryptonian kid here is Lor-Zod. I think it's Jon in disguise.

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My muse is calling again

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Oh, he's gone. It's just no one's closed all of his story loops yet.

Adventures of the Super Sons: still incredibly important literature.

I don't have any hard evidence, but I have a strong suspicion that AotSS was written under the promise that 2018's fiddling with Jon was going to be impermanent, but that was broken when Dan "Sisyphus" DiDio began to execute on his grand plan to reboot again. Gleason left Young Justice 2019 and DC Comics pretty abruptly after 4 issues: 4 months after Jon came back from space. Something happened, and given Brian's directly condescending attitude towards fans wanting more Super Sons or Jon not being 17, there's a line that can be drawn.

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Adventures of the Super Sons: still incredibly important literature.

I don't have any hard evidence, but I have a strong suspicion that AotSS was written under the promise that 2018's fiddling with Jon was going to be impermanent, but that was broken when Dan "Sisyphus" DiDio began to execute on his grand plan to reboot again. Gleason left Young Justice 2019 and DC Comics pretty abruptly after 4 issues: 4 months after Jon came back from space. Something happened, and given Brian's directly condescending attitude towards fans wanting more Super Sons or Jon not being 17, there's a line that can be drawn.

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"Dad! I met one of your arch nemeses out in space, and he taught me about being a man 'n stuff!"

[Clark not listening, reading The Planet] "That's nice, son."

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This little shit exists SOLELY to interact with tweenage Jon, and SOMEONE screwed the pooch on that five years ago. There's NO reason to keep him around if Jon is nearly an adult. Just bring back Chris at that point.

And that's another reason why a small Jon Kent is coming back.

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Okay.

Maybe I'm insane, but it's suddenly become incredibly likely in my mind that Sinister Sons is about to show us Jon Kent (age 12) and Lor-Zod fighting over the soul of Sinestro's bastard son, Korg.

Like, they're laying it on pretty thick in the solicits and variant covers that this kid is supposed to be a sort of surrogate Damian out in deep space (where a younger version of Jon is likely to still be), but for some reason felt it necessary to push Korg's character introduction out of his mini-series and into a backup story in Jeremy Adams' Green Lantern. Why? What does that 32 pages, a veritable extra issue of the upcoming title, free up to allot the book proper? Is Jon about to break the internet and prove my maniacal ramblings of a grand conspiracy to finally be confirmed with a dynamic entrance of his own?

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Jon Kent's character progression:

Scrappy kid -> 10-year-old Libertarian -> troubled youth -> trauma 🌈 -> lol jk, he's fine -> pious, armchair activist fuck up who thinks he can do no wrong because he went to a future where he was lauded as the Legendary Super Saiyan. Literally just cruising through life because everything is going fine for him: his love interests came to him, his abuser is dead, he's got to have processed his trauma, and the thing he was worried about (his dad's death) resolved without him doing anything. Privilege, much?

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The fact that this was actually the intention is super frustrating that Jon is just skating through life fuck up after fuck up with no consequences.

Egads! I want to have Jon talk down Ultraman from being evil, but I don't know how to do that because being evil is written in his genetic code. But what if I were to use another evil Superman who might be able to change? [Chuckles] Delightfully devilish, Thomas!

- Injustice Superman?

- Old family recipe!

- Before the first game.

- Yes!

- Yes, and you used Injustice Superman at this point in his life despite the fact that we know he'll still fry Billy Batson's brain in a few months.

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We used to be a country. DC made fun in comics illegal in 2018. We've been repealing legislation since 2020, but we're not done yet. Vote Jon Kent for President to stick up for the little guy.

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An analysis of Lois & Clark 2 :

The story opens just after the Death of Superman Special and Doombreaker's attack on Metropolis. This must happen between Rebirth runs and Bendis with Jon's ability to fly on full display, though no mention of other canon makes it unclear. A lot of this book is Jurgens trying to rekindle the magic of the before times. He's not the first writer to do this, but as Jon's creator, this seems long overdue. It also takes the parts of Man of Steel 2018 and The Unity Saga and remixes them for a better story.

Lois & Clark 2 is a linear story, unlike Man of Steel 2018, but the story structure is roughly the same regardless. The B-plot is given to our Rogol Zaar stand-in, Doombreaker, as he distracts Clark from Jon being enticed and abducted by the Jor-El replacement, Gylanna. Doombreaker, like Zaar, is a redo of previous Superman stories, but unlike Zaar, he isn't pretending to not just be Doomsday 2.0. Doombreaker is direct in his purpose and effectively menacing because the reader understands it. No convoluted backstory or drawn-out mystery here. Gylanna's story is like what the aftershocks of The Oz Effect should have been. She gets Jon on her side only to reveal that she is a menace secretly vying to get Clark to be her enforcer out in space.

Jon returns to being a mischievous little scamp that caused Doombreaker to find his family at their first house, impulsively solving problems by causing more, and getting himself out of trouble when he identifies the danger, unlike when Bendis had Jon sit around for 5 years. Clark doesn't let Jon get off world without a fight despite failing when Doombreaker gets in his way. Lois, too, has a chance to show off how dedicated she is to her son instead of running away at the first sign of alien side-eye.

But there's something else: it doesn't seem like Jurgens is writing the same Jon who was able to sit unscathed in a volcano for 5 years without sunlight when he's easily burnt by fire. It seems jet fuel *can* melt steel skin. Just before the Knight Terrors break, Jon was placed in a box underground where no one could find him. This could be a metaphor for his current status quo where he's been able to make noise while trapped in the toybox with various minis and one-shots, but he's slowly suffocating. Now, we're still a month out from the conclusion to this, but if y'all know me, you know I have been on this case for years. This version of Jon is on the way back, and this story seems to be just another in a long line of stories heralding that conclusion. For now, I wait.

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Things Jon Kent did at age 10:

- 4 comic runs

- Went to the moon, multiple alternate universes, and deep space

- Beat Mxy, evil Tim Drake, Vandal Savage, and Felix Faust

- Saved the Justice League twice

- Generally was in the driver's seat for his own narrative the whole time

Things Jon Kent did at age 17:

- 3 comic runs, the second sneakily recapping the events of the first

- Conquered trauma and homophobia by existing

- Obtained a boyfriend through osmosis

- Went to another universe as an annoying, pious missionary

- Became a passive observer

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The updated running theory

History of the Hypercube and How it Saved Jon Kent From a Volcano

Superman (2016)

#8 & 9

After a vivid dream, Jon Kent constructs a device that when completed assimilates Kryptonian knowledge and reconfigures itself into a cube.

Krypto attacks the cube and it warps Clark, Jon, Krypto, and itself to Dinosaur Island. It is a place outside of time where they find countless extinct species and Captain Storm, a Golden Age war comic character from Our Fighting Forces that ran from 1954-1978.

They spend the next issue finding the cube so they can return home. Captain Storm sacrifices himself so the Kryptonians get home safely.

Superman Reborn

Mr. Mxyzptlk warps reality around the Kent family causing the timelines of Post-Crisis Superman and The New 52 Superman to merge into one.

The next few issues of Action Comics would explain how this all works and moves Jon Kent’s birth to Earth-0, but later in Infinite Frontier #0 The Spectre, God’s Hand of Vengence, would reinforce Jon’s original origins from the Convergence Earth and hint that this teen may become like a tyrant.

Special #1

The final issue of the run sees Clark use the cube to open another portal to Dinosuar Island to rescue Captain Storm.

They assume the cube itself came from Manchester Black as he had technology that was controlling the beasts of the island and on monsters he used to attack Hamilton County.

Adventures of the Super Sons

In the final two issues, Jon and Damian are trapped inside the cube by the main villain of the series, Rex Luthor. Inside is a white void, not dissimilar to how The Source has been protrayed. The Source is more or less DC’s in-universe mythos of the paper its stories are printed upon. Earth 2 Society and Dark Crisis Young Justice are some examples of The Source being manipulated.

The Hypercube itself manifests in the place and explains to Jon and Damian that it has existed in one form or another since the dawn of time in the DC Universe. Finally unable to stand being used as a prop for someone else’s story, it began to move and create under its own command. 

Cube admits it created the galaxy the villains of the series came from, and it seems to imply it has knowledge of all things that have happened and will happen as well as that they are in a comic book but spares the boys of that burden.

Cube takes The Puppeteer, a villain killed earlier in the series, and brings him into itself with Jon and Damian alive as if nothing had happened to him. The boys use his technology to break out of the cube. It seems the only limitation to Cube’s phenomenal cosmic power is his box-shaped lamp.

The Flash #797

Apparently, moments after defeating Rex Luthor, Jon and Damian find themselves in the future on another Earth to help Jai and Irie West and Maxine Baker beat some multiversal baddies.

I assume Cube was attempting to save the boys from the events of Teen Titans 2018, Superman 2018, and beyond into what was going to be 5G by skipping them past it. The boys return to their proper time, however.

Action Comics #1054

In chapter 4 of "Lois & Clark 2," Jon is badly burnt by a flame. This story takes place between the handoff from Jurgens, Tomasi and Gleason to Bendis in Superman and Action Comics. This is somewhat of a discrepancy if this Jon is intended to be the same Jon who survives in a volcano for 5 whole years.

Injustice #1

The Joker nukes Metropolis killing Lois Lane and her unborn child. 

Cube takes this child from the currently unknown Earth-49 and recreates the abandoned Superman: Reborn composite timeline for this version of Jon and Lois to live and grow.

The Man of Steel 2018

Jor-El picks up Jon and Lois for a little space road trip.

Superman 2018

Everything Jon explains to his father about his experience happened to him, however the Jon that returned to Earth-0 is truly the Jon from Earth-49 the alternate timeline from "Superman Reborn" with most of the memories of Earth-0 Rebirth Jon in place including those up to Cube’s wormhole the black hole. The amount of time Jon was out with Jor-El as described by in Superman #8 is now a completely useless measurement of time. Jon and Jor-El may truly have only been in space for three weeks by the Earth-0 clock before encountering the wormhole.

Jor-El tracked the only Jon Kent in the known multiverse through time and space to Earth-3 in the universe and hypertime he now found himself where Cube placed him five years in the past. Earth-0 Jon would fall through Cube’s time and space wormhole to a world that was currently uncharted but known to exist, Earth-49 the world of Injustice. 

Having scanned all possible futures, Cube opens a portal for Rebirth Jon to escape through. This is why Jor-El thinks that Jon ran from him before they fell through the black hole. A version of him did, just not the one he ended up with. 

Superman: Son of Kal-El

Jon is shown on a world that does not conform with the reader’s knowledge of past events in multiple flashbacks. His birth in the Fortress of Solitude is similar to the events in Action Comics #978 but not the same. Dick is wearing his New 52 outfit at a time when he should be presumed dead and acting as a secret agent or back in blue. Jon claims he was able to fly at age 9 when the bare minimum amount of reading comprehension would tell you he couldn’t fly until he was 10. Jon remembers his grandparents farm house after its destruction in a way the audience has never seen before. Not only were his grandparents not alive when that book was published, but these panels are reminiscent of the New 52 Superboy’s origin story.

Pa Kent would later describe the events of Superman 2016 #1. This is notable because it seems to again reinforce that this world was not changed during Superman Reborn and that Jonathan Samuel Kent was not the one to reiterate these events.

Superman & Robin Special

As Jon and Damian remind the reader of Superman 2016 #8&9 and Adventures of the Super Sons, Cube demonstrates its power once again by opening a door through space for an alien that ages years in minutes and through time for a platoon of Nazi soldiers. 

This serves a double purpose to show the reader what is in store for these two. Damian is no longer destined to become like Hitler. Teen Jon will find his double and return with him to where they came from. Teen Jon has a younger double lost out there somewhere.

Adventures of Superman Jon Kent

Jon states it is easy for him to see when someone is from another universe by looking closely at their molecules. 

Val-Zod states that time moves at a constant rate. Jumping from one multiverse to another alone would not throw the traveler through time as well. More importantly, Val-Zod then states that in the whole multiverse, there are many Jon Kents that are children and only two that are old enough to be able to assist with their mission.

Ultraman recognizes Jon confirming the volcano imprisonment did happen. 

Injustice Clark makes a double-take at Jon and claims he has his mother’s eyes, implying that this Jon is his own biological son.

This mini should see the Earth-0 Jon perhaps around age 12 at most appear on this Earth.

In the final issue of the mini, Jon states that he has practiced sneaking up on Damian for years while holding the Lasso of Truth, yet for this would be a stretch to be fact. Jon met Damian at 10 and left Earth at 11 making their friendship truthfully less than a year in length before Jon became much older.

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Me when there's a 5% chance Sinister Sons is going to be the return of Rebirth Jon Kent so I bug DC HQ.