Planet Krypton

Where were the Green Lanterns when Krypton exploded?

Watching from a safe distance.

At first they werent even invented.
Now though there was 1 lantern attempting to save the planet but he was to late.

It was Tomar-Re's sector , he goofed because of a solar flare.

Why weren't Kryptonians all over the galaxy? Retcons eventually made so they knew they became physical gods under a yellow sun. There should have been Kryptonians everywhere no matter what laws they created.

No idea about DC's current continuity. I doubt even DC know. But historically it was because a renegade scientist called Jax-Ur blew up one of their moons and the colony on it. This made them abandon their space programme and stay grounded on Krypton. Which is why Jor-El had the only spacecraft and a test model only big enough for a baby at that.

I have not auctualy read the story yet but wasent the lack of cooperation from the science council also a factor.

Weren't kryptonians also really xenophobic? Or was that just the Daxamites?

Daxamites definitely are. Am 90% certain Kryptonians are at least in some modern interpretations as it would logically follow from Byrne who had them cold and emotionless. But no idea where it stands in current canon or what if they mainly were historically. DC continuity is such a fucking it's almost impossible to answer these questions one way or the other.

Tomar-Re considers not being there to help Krypton as his greatest failure as a Green Lantern.

I their own, seperate universe. The shared universe is a lie.

Krypton especialy has been portrayed in a lot of difrent ways over the years.

I auctualy get the feeling that maybe the supergirl writer wants to write a krypton story i hope they give it to him.

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Well, I didn't found any blacks in Man of Steel or in Superman, asians at best.

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Is that a lantern battery looks funny.

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at one point it was said that early on during the kryptonian species evolution, the guardians of the universe genetically modified them so they would die if they ventured away from krypton for too far or long.

They did this out of worry that the kryptonians would get too powerful. The guardians have enough of an issue stopping just Superman.
They wouldn't have had a chance against an entire worlds worth of solar power gods with limitless physical strength.

It's where they (and the daxamites, probably) get their xenophobia from. Leaving the planet was dangerous, so they stopped doing it.

Evolution eventually removed this trait from the species, but the fear still remained in their culture.

This was lost to continuity a gorrillion years back, but it's some of my favorite history.

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The introduction of superman into this story is really awkward.

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Am I on drugs or did the Guardians really let the whole thing slide?
Like, "for the greater good."

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Alright looking at
It gets retroactively better she was just trying to encourage his herorism.

Why he isn't smiling?

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Or not

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I have not seen a cover that unexpectedly not misleading since justice league of america volume 1 #1

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You all might enjoy this.

Superman was, at one point of canon, was the rings original choice for GL of earth.

He was not taken because it's not his species home sector.

Agreed

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Is this an elseworlds have they changed who was green lantern of the sector at the time or has tomar re got a massive redesign.

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Elsworld i think

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Why did he need to wipe his memory.

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Fuck..this whole adventures of superman series was magnificent. Would love to get it in a collection one day.

46, 47 and 48 are some of my all time favorite comics.

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Ah theres tomar re
I guess in this universe they had 2 lanterns at the time

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guardians wanting to keep the selection choice a secret I guess

if 2814 can have 6, I don't see why not.

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The tears in the first panel are a nice touch.

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Was the explosion natural or triggered by something the Kryptonians did to it?

Cuz if it was natural, why would they intervene? Its just the way the universe works.

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Hey O
We got Lobo!

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it's been both, several times.

And a little time out for 10-15 minutes

Wait a second is that fucking braniac in the robe

Depends on the author. Some write that the destruction was natural. Others say it was caused due to Kryptonians mining their planet's core too much.

DC doesn't have a static reason anymore from what I remember.

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Like most of krypton its been portrayed many difrent ways.
Anything works really but any story where its anything but hubris that is kryptons final downfall is shit (expect elseworlds of course earth ones story was great)

Im not into cape shit
but what the FUCK
the color yellow? is that for all green lanterns? they cant do shit to the color yellow?
ever?
what the fuck seriously?

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It's some stupid rock paper scissors dichotomy born out of writer laziness.

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Called it

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when the power source for the rings was first created, the guardians (guys who made them) trapped the embodiment of fear in the willpower 'battery'.

The willpower is enough to beat all fear, but by keeping it there, those who use the willpower via rings are also tainted by fear.

It just so happens that fear is yellow, as will is green.

The GLs removed the fear entity many years back and now only rookies suffer this.

It's the whole 'overcome your fears' thing.

dont listen to this guy, he's a spastic.

This gets stated on Cred Forums essentially daily. I don't understand how people still freak out in autistic rages like you did.

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Supes looks like hes having a hearty chuckle here

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Side comment, is Superman the only hero that is properly able to fight against Brainiac without dying?

He seems way OP compared to other JL members and forces out in space.

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Thats pretty cold supes

In a 1v1 I'd say supes is the only one who could, if only from experience.

Brainiac is a multiversal entity, higher up on the scale than most gods even realize things exist.

>when you punch a guy so hard that alternate universe versions, that no longer even exist to feel said punch, still get knocked the fuck down

Single best page from the new52 era.

thanks mate. Enjoyed it.

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That was great. thanks for storytiming.

thank you! where is this story from?

the adventures of superman

Thanks!

What a fucking baby. Superman is being too nice to this guy.

I'll can never take Brainiac serious after this.

>Superman
>too nice

I don't understand

Superman is trying to calm him down and reason with him instead of punching his stupid, irresponsible ass to the sun.

>tries to kill himself
>doesnt try a yellow knife or someshit

Why didn't the Guardians want to save Krypton?

Caused the galaxy nothing but trouble in the past.

Because the kryptonians were dicks, and the Guardians knew how powerful they could be under a yellow sun.
They didn't need super powered dicks trying to take over the universe, any more than usual at least.

I love this. I got turned off by the early stories new52 but I might have to give it another chance if it improved this much.

Some of the early stuff, like Demon Knights was good, but things really picked up after Forever Evil.

That's from Futures End, set about 5 years in the future from the time it ran. It was a mixed bag, but I liked most of it.

That's how we got the viltrumite empire
It's just a worst case scenario of kryptonians

Yeah the Science Council were always assholes.

If it only works for rookies, then how come batman and robin literally covered themselves and a whole room in yellow paint and kid Robin almost killed Hal?

This is great

This art looks incredibly similar to that one porn comic where the blonde guy fucks his dad.

I love that look for Brainiac. The mexican skull paint's a great touch.

Thanks for the storytime, I really enjoyed it.

Thank you.

underrated

ASBAR is not canon and was written by Frank Miller who became a hack by then in his batwank

wow i knew they did something similar to the martians though supresing the burning martians was a way more understandable situation, those fuckers would had spread like locust if they were unchecked.

SIlver age common character trait that required that the more powerfull the character the more common and mundane the weakness is, same reason why Martian Manhunter is weak to fire.
If it bothers you don't worry yellow stopped being a weakness since the late 80's, this story is a reference to classic GL corp and is why the weakness is kept here.There is also an explanation of why they were weak to yellow but I'm not sure it would make it any less silly.

There was an annual a few years back, before Flashpoint, that explained it. Kryptonians started an empire, and Daxamites were some mixture of humans and kryptonians, I don't remember specifically, but the whole point of the backstory was that kryptonians have been on Earth before in prehistory.

Because of this, they both ended up getting some kind of genetic manipulation. Daxamites got vulnerability to lead, and Kryptonians would die if they ever abandon Krypton. This and some other events caused both races to become planet bound and extremely xenophobic. In the case of Krypton, they also had a civil war over clones.

The reason Kryptonians did not launch an exodus was for two reasons:
- their planets core was going nuclear, and it caused kryptonite radiation that killed them en masse even before the core exploded.
- their genetic defect made them die if they leave the planet.

Jor-El managed to remove that defect from Kal before he was born, which is why he survives.

Of course you have 8 decades worth of retcons spliced into this story, so Kryptons origin story is probably completely different by today.