With immense courage, DC Comics is in the process of fundamentally changing the origins and interpersonal dynamics of its two iconic superheroes. Superman and Batman are you actually brothers? The shocking reveal in the first installment of the new Dark Knight of Steel comic series.
The myth of the Man of Steel and the Dark Knight will change forever. The two iconic DC Comics heroes are more than friends and colleagues, they are actually brothers. However, this shocking revolution is exclusive to Tom Taylor’s Dark Knight of Steel, a new comic series that takes the duo into a medieval fantasy.
The first volume goes back to the origins of Superman and completely revolutionizes them. In this new story, Jor-El and his wife Lara Lor-Van manage to Escape from Krypton on a rocket and lands on earth. However, the two Kryptonians do not come into modern times, but into the Middle Ages. Here Lara gives birth to her Kal-El.
With a leap in time of almost two decades, readers discover that Bruce Wayne lives in El Castle, but not the son of two tycoons, but only the son of two former rulers of Jor-El’s family in the meantime. As Bat Knight, Bruce’s job is to protect Prince Kar-El from the threat of rival King Jefferson Pierce.
One day after Bruce Wayne fought off an attack by a banshee played by Black Canary, Bruce Wayne suffers a severe backlash. When King Jor-El sees him in utter confusion, he confesses a shocking and terrifying truth. Bruce he is not the son of Thomas Waynebut from Jor-El and Martha Wayne, who had a secret relationship with the king.
So in this medieval multiverse Batman and Superman are brothers. What do you think of this gimmick? We leave you in the dark secret of Dick Grayson, Batman’s first Robin.
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