Moved by Superman's sentiments, Batman tells him that Captain Marvel is under Luthor's control and is on the way to the Gulag. However, Superman knows that Batman will act, because his entire crimefighting life is based upon the desire to prevent the loss of human life.
Batman tries to justify inaction, saying the world would be better off if all the metahumans destroyed each other. While Wonder Woman leads the Justice League to the prison riot, Superman confronts Batman. Batman's forces ambush Luthor and his conspirators, but are unable to restrain Batson, who transforms into Marvel and flies off.
When the inmates riot and kill Captain Comet, Luthor unwittingly reveals to Batman he intends to use the brainwashed Batson to break open the Gulag. Batson, as Captain Marvel, is the only metahuman capable of matching Superman's power. Batman quickly discovers that an adult Billy Batson is under Luthor's control. Luthor plan is to exacerbate the conflict between the League and Gulag's inmates. Batman and his Outsiders seem to ally themselves with MLF against the Justice League. Meanwhile, Superman learns that Wonder Woman's ardent militant stance may be influenced by her recent exile from Paradise Island: in the eyes of the Amazons, her mission to bring peace to the outside world has failed, and she has thus been stripped of her royalty. With hostile heroes and villains locked up together, pressure builds. Superman works to persuade the inmates that their methods are wrong-headed and dangerous, to no avail. Superman's Justice League gathers more captives than converts, and his prison (nicknamed "the Gulag") is quickly filled to capacity. The MLF works to take control of the world from the heroes. The MLF is secretly a group of Golden Age villains and third-generation villains like Ra's al Ghul's successor, Ibn al Xu'ffasch, who is Bruce Wayne and Talia al Ghul's son. Lex Luthor organizes the "Mankind Liberation Front". Trusted veterans, such as Green Arrow, Black Canary and Blue Beetle, are chosen as lieutenants. In response to Superman's Justice League, Batman activates his own network of agents, the "Outsiders", made up largely of younger second and third-generation heroes. Batman warns him that his idealist notions are outdated and his violent interference will only exacerbate the world's problems. The most prominent exception is the Batman, who resents Superman for leaving the world 10 years ago. Coaxed back into action by Wonder Woman, Superman returns to Metropolis and re-forms the Justice League. As a result, much of the American Midwest is irradiated, killing millions and destroying a large portion of the United States's food production. The Spectre appears to McCay and recruits him to help pass judgment on the approaching superhuman apocalypse.Īn attack on the Parasite, led by Magog, goes awry when Parasite tears open Captain Atom. They engage in destructive battles with little distinction between "heroes" and "villains." The narrator, minister Norman McCay, receives apocalyptic visions of the future from a dying Wesley Dodds. In the ensuing years, a newer generation of superpowered metahumans arise.
KINGDOM TALES GRAPHIC TRIAL
In this Elseworlds story, Superman and the Justice League abandon their roles as superheroes after the rise and strong public support of a superhero named Magog, who has no qualms about killing-notably the Joker, on his way to trial for the mass murder of the Daily Planet staff, including Lois Lane. Ultimately, Ross teamed with writer Mark Waid, who was recommended by DC editors due to his strong familiarity with the history of DC superheroes. Ross wrote a 40-page handwritten outline of what would become Kingdom Come and pitched the idea to James Robinson as a project similar in scope to Watchmen (1986–1987) and Alan Moore's infamous "lost work" Twilight of the Superheroes. When comic book artist Alex Ross was working on Marvels, published in 1994, he decided to create a similar "grand opus" about characters from DC Comics.
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