Chapter Summaries

After defeating the Kryptonians, Jino Luthor became a celebrated human hero, then attended a congressional hearing designed to question the danger metahumans posed. He demonstrated his heat vision to reporter Lois Lane and revealed that it was how he killed Zod.

• Faora asked Jino when he would begin reviving Krypton, and he said the matter should be consensual before teasing her.
• Jino ordered a message announcing his victory to be sent to Earth, prompting worldwide celebrations and concern among American politicians about his power.
• Lionel told Jino to attend a Washington hearing on the dangers metahumans posed, and Jino decided to go challenge the lawmakers.
• Jino crashed through the congressional chamber’s ceiling and announced that he had arrived.
• Lois Lane asked Jino how he defeated the alien invader, and he used his heat vision to burn a painting, explaining that he killed Zod that way.

Jino Luthor confronted the politicians who summoned him, then announced his plan to form the Justice League and build a space station to protect Earth. After his speech spread worldwide, Bruce decided to join the League, while Oliver considered Jino’s proposal.

• Jino silenced the senators’ demands to restrain him by warning them not to use moral blackmail against him.
• Jino asked Lois Lane to use the media to tell the world that Earth needed more superheroes.
• Jino announced that he would create an alliance without politicians, build a space station, and invited people to join the Justice League.
• Bruce watched the speech, suspected Jino’s motives, and decided that Batman had to join the Justice League.
• Oliver reflected on the need for superheroes and considered Jino the right person to bring them together.

Jino took over LuthorCorp and turned it into Justice League Tower, trading Lionel a life-extending potion for the building. Bart asked to join the Justice League but Jino refused because of the timeline, while Diana went to meet Bruce Wayne after receiving his message.

• Jino ordered LuthorCorp employees to take the day off and told Lionel he planned to make the building Justice League headquarters.
• Jino offered Lionel a life-extending potion in exchange for Luthor Tower, and Lionel agreed, making LuthorCorp Justice League Tower.
• Bart asked Jino to let him join the Justice League, but Jino refused because Bart had not joined it in the future and might disrupt the timeline.
• Jino paid Bart to deliver a letter to London, then considered hiring an assistant to help manage the Justice League.
• Diana found a parcel from Bruce Wayne with an old photograph and a message asking to talk, then left to find him.

Clark asked Jino to help him join the Justice League, and Jino named him Superman. Meanwhile, Diana used the Lasso of Truth on Batman, exposing his plan to use her to test Jino and gain entry to the League.

• Clark told Jino that his parents supported his wish to become a hero and join the Justice League.
• Jino said Clark needed a codename, rejected Clark’s suggestions, and named him Superman.
• Diana confronted Batman after a fight and bound him with the Lasso of Truth.
• Batman confessed that he had used a photograph to test Diana’s relationship with Jino and planned to use her to test Jino and secure a place in the Justice League.
• Diana remembered Jino’s warning from eighty-three years earlier to stay away from Batman.

Batman told Diana he distrusted Jino and believed his money made him useful to the Justice League. Back in Smallville, Lex shared his discovery of another universe with Jino, who left after learning Diana had entered his office.

• Diana used the Lasso of Truth to make Batman explain that he monitored Jino because he feared Jino's power and ambitions.
• Batman said he could join the Justice League because he had a great deal of money, and explained that Jino's wealth and dislike of management made his own resources valuable.
• Jino returned to the Luthor Factory and found Lex's laboratory holding a Kryptonian Warship and a bolt of lightning in a glass case.
• Lex told Jino he had found signs of another universe separated from theirs by a barrier he did not know how to break through.
• Jino learned that Diana had forced her way into his Metropolis office and vanished to meet her, telling Lex she was about to join the alliance.

Jino explained why he had invited Batman to join the Justice League and offered him responsibility for its operations and recruitment. Before they could discuss details, Singer reported an explosion at the Luthor Chemical Plant, and Jino raced there with Lex's condition unknown.

• Diana questioned Jino about bringing Batman into the League, and Jino explained that Batman's planning and management skills would be useful.
• Jino traveled to Gotham City, where Batman stopped a jewelry store robbery.
• Jino invited Batman to join the Justice League and manage its daily operations and recruitment, and Batman accepted.
• Singer reported a serious explosion in the underground laboratory at the Luthor Chemical Plant and said Lex's condition could not be confirmed.
• Jino flew to the factory at super speed to investigate.

Jino investigated the laboratory explosion and discovered that the man posing as Lex was from another universe. The alternate Lex revealed that he had fled his world because its Superman had gone mad, while Jino’s brother had apparently switched places with him.

• Jino extinguished the fire at Luthor Factory and found Bizarro distressed in the ruined laboratory.
• Singer told Jino that an unknown energy had opened a spatial tunnel and likely swept Lex away.
• Jino found a suspiciously clean-coated Lex, took him into the woods, and exposed him as an impostor.
• Jino threatened the impostor until he admitted that the real Lex had probably switched places with him and gone to his universe.
• The alternate Lex said he had wanted to escape because the Superman in his world had gone mad.

Lex told Jino how Clark’s happiness over Lois’s pregnancy preceded the events that turned their universe into an inferno. The story then shifted to an older Clark confronting Lex in an unfamiliar world and questioning whether his actions had been right.

• Jino asked Lex to explain how Superman had gone mad, and Lex began recounting events from a year earlier.
• Clark learned that Lois was pregnant and celebrated the news, which he saw as a continuation of Kryptonian blood and a symbol of their love.
• Clark left Lois to stop a robbery and encountered Batman, who was investigating Joker’s arrival in Metropolis.
• Joker’s men shot Jimmy and knocked Lois unconscious at the docks, and Joker declared that he and Harley had found their baby.
• Lex found himself in a high-tech room with an older Clark, who asked whether everything he had done was truly right.

Jino learned how Lois’s death turned another world’s Clark into an authoritarian ruler and gathered the Justice League to rescue the people there. With Diana, Clark, and Batman agreeing to go, Jino declared the League’s first operation underway.

• Jino stopped Lex’s account and summarized how Lois’s death drove the other Clark to kill Joker and impose his version of peace.
• Jino knocked Lex unconscious and planned to use the coming operation to train the newly recruited superheroes.
• Jino gathered Diana, Clark, and Batman in Metropolis and told them their world had been invaded by versions of themselves from another world.
• Jino explained that the other Superman ruled Earth and that his brother had been pulled into that world during Lex’s attempt to cross dimensions.
• Diana, Clark, Batman, and Jino raised their hands or fists to join the rescue mission, and Jino announced the Justice League’s first operation.

Jino led the Justice League through a dimensional passage to Gotham in another world, taking Lex along as their guide. After splitting up to investigate, Batman and Clark reached Wayne Manor, where an alternate Batman confronted them.

• The Justice League questioned Lex about crossing between worlds, and he explained that material energy had brought him to their world and that he knew the coordinates.
• Jino used a blue energy cube to open a passage, and Diana, Jino, Clark, Batman, and the captured Lex traveled through it to Gotham.
• Diana and Jino flew off to investigate while Batman and Clark headed to Wayne Manor, where Batman entered the password “Martha.”
• Batman and Clark entered the manor and were attacked by Batarangs, but Clark deflected them before an alternate Batman emerged from the shadows.

Jino Luthor and his companions arrived at Wayne Manor to enlist Batman’s help rescuing Lex Luthor, whom this world’s Clark had kidnapped. After Jino proved Green Kryptonite could not harm him, Batman agreed to share what he knew about Superman in exchange for Jino handing Clark over after the rescue.

• Batman explained that he and his companions had come from another world to help oppose this world’s tyranny, but the local Batman questioned whether he should trust them.
• Jino crashed through Wayne Manor’s ceiling, declared that rescuing Lex was his main goal, and demanded that Batman either work with him or leave.
• The local Batman attacked Jino, while the other Batman tripped him with a grappling line; the fallen Batman threw Green Kryptonite at Jino.
• Jino caught the Kryptonite and crushed it without being harmed, shocking both Batmen and Clark.
• Jino removed Batman’s cowl, revealed Bruce Wayne, and demanded information about this world’s Superman, offering to use magic if Bruce refused.
• Bruce agreed to tell Jino everything about Superman but demanded that Jino hand Clark over after rescuing Lex.

Jino and his companions reached the Fortress of Solitude, where Tyrant Clark confronted Lex and nearly killed him. Jino rescued his brother, broke Clark’s wrist, and kicked him flying beyond the horizon.

• Jino led the group to the Fortress of Solitude, where Batman identified Superman’s haven.
• Superman questioned Lex, realizing he was not the Lex of that world, and reached to kill him.
• Lex struck Superman with Golden Lightning, blasting him through the glass, but Clark recovered and grabbed Lex by the neck.
• Jino appeared, declared Lex his brother, and broke Clark’s wrist with a punch.
• Jino kicked Tyrant Clark through the air and beyond the horizon.

Jino Luthor fought Injustice Superman above Metropolis and overwhelmed him with illusions, then blinded him with a lightning-fast attack. Superman crashed through buildings and lay in a crater, blind and awaiting Jino's arrival.

• Batman watched Jino and Superman fight while Diana prepared to help, but he stopped her, unsure whether Jino needed them.
• Jino conjured countless duplicates that Superman destroyed with Heat Vision, only for more to appear and exhaust him.
• Superman attacked Jino with Heat Vision, but Jino calmly walked through the beams and made Superman feel afraid.
• Jino vanished with Speed Force lightning and drove two fingers into Superman's eyes, blinding him.
• Superman's Bio-Force Field dissipated, and he crashed through buildings into a crater as Jino approached.

Jino defeated and taunted Injustice Superman while American officials launched nuclear missiles at Metropolis. He destroyed the missiles in midair and descended over the city, demanding that everyone cheer for him.

• Jino beat Clark and rejected his claims that he had been wronged.
• American generals launched several nuclear missiles toward Metropolis, hoping to kill Superman and reclaim America.
• Alfred warned Batman that the missiles would reach Metropolis in one minute, and Diana asked Jino whether the city should be evacuated.
• Jino left Clark behind and flew into the sky to intercept the missiles.
• Jino destroyed the nuclear warheads in midair and descended through the fiery glow, telling the people of Metropolis to cheer for him.

Jino Luthor’s Angel Magic inspired Metropolis to cheer his name while the defeated Injustice Superman lay in a crater. After the group debated whether to execute him, Jino left the decision to Clark, who chose to face death.

• Jino’s Pilgrimage Technique filled Metropolis with cheers praising his name and achievements.
• The defeated Clark asked whether he had lost and admitted that losing Lois Lane and their child had left him an empty shell.
• Diana called for Clark’s execution, while Batman asked Jino to honor his leader’s promise to leave Clark for Batman to handle.
• Jino held a vote, and Diana supported execution while Batman opposed it; the local Clark struggled to choose.
• Jino told the defeated Clark to decide for himself, and Clark stood and said he was ready to face death.

After the Living Tribunal sentenced Ancient One Yao to death for losing the Space Stone to Jino Luthor, it gave him one chance to recruit help and recover the gem. Ancient One used the Time Stone to gather superheroes from across his universe’s timelines and told them their universe was dying.

• The Living Tribunal condemned Ancient One Yao to death for allowing Jino Luthor to take the Space Stone, but accepted his plan to recruit powerful beings and reclaim it.
• Ancient One returned to Kamar-Taj, took the Time Stone, and used its power to summon superheroes from different timelines.
• Iron Man, a red-haired woman, Thor, and other confused heroes appeared in the hall, including Steve, who had lived to a hundred in this timeline.
• Ancient One told the gathered heroes that their universe was dying because Jino Luthor had stolen the Space Stone.
• Steve volunteered to help save the universe, and more heroes stepped forward after him.

Clark visited the Smallville Town Sanatorium with Lana Lang and let Cassandra show him a vision of a possible future. He saw Martha dead and himself killing in grief, then vowed to protect his family.

• Clark accompanied Lana Lang to the sanatorium because he was bored and could not return to school without attracting attention.
• Lana Lang introduced Clark to Cassandra, who claimed she could show him part of his future.
• When Cassandra grasped Clark’s hand, he saw Martha dead amid ruins and witnessed himself fighting alongside others across a battlefield.
• Clark rejected the vision as impossible because Jino was present, and the scene faded away.
• Clark recovered and decided that he would not allow anyone to hurt Jonathan or Martha.

Lex underwent Erskine’s Super Soldier Serum experiment and emerged with enhanced strength, while Clark found a mysterious book at Ms. Cassandra’s nursing home and considered telling Jino about his visions of the future. Back at his estate, Jino met Lois Lane, who wanted to interview him, and introduced her to Clark Kent.

• Jino warned Lex that the Super Soldier Serum experiment carried risks, but Lex chose to undergo it so he could defend himself.
• Lex survived the experiment and emerged with a powerful, muscular physique, confirming that it had succeeded.
• At the nursing home, Clark found an old book with mysterious markings, but its first page was blank, so he returned it to the shelf.
• Jino drove back to his estate after Lex’s successful experiment and encountered Lois Lane, who had been waiting to interview him.
• Jino introduced Lois to Clark Kent when Clark arrived at the estate.

Clark told Jino about a vision in which Avengers from another universe killed Martha, and Jino promised to handle the threat. After Batman received a warning that the visitors had arrived, he went to the Justice League Hall, where Jino was waiting.

• Clark met Lois Lane at Luthor Manor and asked Jino to speak with him privately.
• Clark told Jino about the old woman's prediction and his vision of Martha being murdered by a group from another universe.
• Jino identified the visitors as likely being Iron Man, Thor, and the Scarlet Witch, then assured Clark he had everything covered.
• Bruce Wayne received a message saying the visitors had arrived and decided to contact Jino.
• Batman traveled to the Justice League Hall, where Bart recognized him and directed him toward the conference room as Jino called him in.

Batman and Jino investigated Batman’s gruesome death and identified Heat Vision as the cause, while Jino suspected a Superman from another universe. As the Avengers arrived on Earth, a Superman-like attacker killed Thor, and Clark discovered Thor’s body in Smallville, matching the figure from his prophecy.

• Batman examined his severed corpse in Wayne Manor and found a U-shaped mark carved into its palm.
• Batman and Jino concluded that Heat Vision had killed Batman, and Jino suspected the killer was not this universe’s Superman.
• Ancient One opened a portal that brought Thor and the Avengers to Earth.
• A Superman-like figure ambushed the Avengers and fatally wounded Thor before he could warn his companions.
• In Smallville, Clark found Thor’s body inside a café and recognized him from the prophecy.