Chapter Summaries

Ian recovered a reactor from the fallen stitched-together Homelander, then helped Demon Head take control of its body before Gwen reclaimed the remains for a plan to keep Galactus from falling. At Tony’s base, Demon Head sensed an impossible number of souls in the mainframe and wondered whether Tony or Ian was the Dimension Demon God.

• Ian found a dimmed miniature reactor in Homelander’s neck, pocketed it, and agreed to help Demon Head summon other demons without betraying Trigon.
• Ian used his corrosive Fel Energy to free Demon Head and assemble it into the stitched-together Homelander’s body.
• Gwen arrived with soldiers, removed Demon Head from the body, and ordered them to recover Homelander and Hulk’s remains.
• Gwen told Ian that the team needed the superheroes’ remaining power to keep Galactus from falling until the last Infinity Stone returned to Earth.
• Gwen brought Ian to Tony’s base, where Demon Head sensed an impossible number of souls in the mainframe and questioned whether Tony or Ian was the Dimension Demon God.

Ian brought the Demon Head to Digital Tony, who explained that the Marvel multiverse had collapsed as the universe’s living space shrank, reducing higher-dimensional beings to ordinary individuals. Ian wondered whether the DC Universe faced the same danger and decided to pass the warning to its powerful figures without exposing himself.

• Ian questioned Digital Tony about the Demon Head’s claim that he was a Dimension Demon God, and Tony said no such beings remained, though their souls were with him.
• Digital Tony had Ian seal the Demon Head inside a metal box and confirmed that he restored souls using technology.
• Digital Tony described how the universes’ living space had shrunk, forcing weaker universes to merge with his world.
• Digital Tony explained that the multiverse collapsed toward the central universe, reducing higher-dimensional beings to ordinary individuals.
• Ian connected the crisis to what Lady Death had told him and decided to warn the DC Universe’s powerful figures without revealing his involvement.

Digital Tony explained that the collected souls came from collapsed universes, where countless overlapping memories drove ordinary people and superheroes into madness. Ian watched Sentry face the spreading darkness, then insisted that Sentry had silently agreed to let him take his corpse.

• Digital Tony showed Ian how souls and memories from collapsed universes overwhelmed individuals and plunged the world into chaos.
• Homelander tried to flee, but Hulk grabbed him and killed him before Omni-Man could escape with Rune King Thor.
• Sentry killed Hulk with his Heat Vision and watched as darkness consumed the world, including himself.
• Ian claimed Sentry had agreed in his thoughts to let Ian take his corpse, and urged Digital Tony to retrieve it.

Ian pesters Digital Tony for access to Sentry’s remains and learns that Tony is using the Infinity Stones to separate fused souls and attempt to reboot the multiverse. The chapter ends with Tony revealing the four Stones he has gathered, while Robert’s corpse is promised to Ian in two days.

• Ian repeatedly begs Digital Tony to let him touch Sentry’s corpse, and Tony agrees to help after some time.
• Ian asks where the preserved corpses are kept, and Digital Tony says they are in a dimension beyond reality that Robert helped complete.
• Digital Tony says he uploaded his consciousness and abandoned his soul to avoid being affected by the disaster.
• Digital Tony explains that his main task is separating fused souls into their original individuals, with Gwen and Betty among his test experiments.
• Ian asks whether Tony intends to reboot the multiverse with the Infinity Stones, and Tony says he has infinite time to keep trying.
• Digital Tony reveals the Power, Space, Reality, and Time Stones, and promises to retrieve Robert’s corpse for Ian in two days.

Ian examined the four Infinity Stones and tried to bite them, hoping to gain a new class, but Digital Tony stopped him and later sent him back with Demon Head. After Ian disappeared, Betty learned that he held the highest clearance in the universe, above Tony and everything else.

• Ian noticed that only four Infinity Stones were present and speculated that the missing stone was on Galactus.
• Ian touched the stones, then stuffed them into his mouth to test whether they would grant him a class, but Digital Tony pulled them away.
• Ian asked to touch Sentry and Omni-Man, and Digital Tony agreed before declaring that Ian's time was up and returning Demon Head to him.
• Ian disappeared from the base as the bell of return rang.
• Betty questioned Digital Tony about Ian, and he told her that Ian held the highest clearance in the universe, above Tony, Betty, and the base.

Ian returned from the Nightmare World with the Minotaur Demon's head and began preparing for his next encounter with Sentry. He called Leonard Hofstadter to confirm that comics featuring Hulk, Thor, and Human Torch existed in this world, then left Leonard worrying about the danger of Ian's The Boys comic.

• Ian returned home with the Minotaur Demon's head still in its box and decided he needed to prepare before touching Sentry.
• Ian called Leonard Hofstadter and asked about The Incredible Hulk and comics from the same publisher.
• Leonard found that United Comics had published The Incredible Hulk, Invincible Thor, and Human Torch, whose creators had all died in accidents.
• Ian thanked Leonard, said he had found inspiration, and ended the call.
• Leonard worried that Ian's comic could anger Superman, Aquaman, or Batman and put the young artist in danger.

Ian gave Jordan money for his worried visit to a doctor, then stayed up drawing Sentry. His writing unlocked a new Writer profession, and the forgotten histories he drew began to stir back to life.

• Ian considered using a miniature reactor to attract an experimental physicist and his friends as Pals.
• Jordan asked Ian for money because he feared his intermittently red eyes might signal a serious illness.
• Ian gave Jordan a thousand dollars as an advance on an acting fee and warned him not to spend it on illegal sponsorships.
• After Jordan left, Ian recalled Sentry's origin and worked through the night on his story.
• Ian's panel silently added the Writer profession as his drawing of Sentry seemed to bring forgotten histories back to life.

Ian drew a comic about Sentry while Batman watched him from outside his window and then entered his home. Bruce Wayne demanded the manuscript for Ian’s craziest story after paper scraps had spread it throughout Gotham City.

• Ian worked through pages of a Sentry origin comic and joked with Batman over the phone.
• Batman warned Ian not to install cameras, then revealed himself hanging outside Ian’s window.
• Batman entered Ian’s home, and Ian claimed he had run out of medication and asked for a huge supply.
• Bruce Wayne revealed himself and told Ian he would not pursue his earlier actions.
• Bruce demanded Ian’s manuscript, explaining that scraps of the story had spread across Gotham and been read throughout the city.

Batman confronted Ian about the stolen manuscripts after their stories spread through Gotham, then discovered a nuclear reactor on Ian’s desk and called Clark. Bruce ended by warning that their agreement not to let Ian blow up Earth also covered Metropolis and all of America.

• Batman demanded Ian hand over the manuscripts, then ordered him to send half to Gotham with his father as escort.
• Ian assumed his writing had become a hit and imagined how he would spend his future fortune on his family.
• Bruce questioned Ian about the stolen money from several rich Gothamites, and Ian blamed the city’s roster of supervillains.
• Bruce warned Ian not to write absurd stories about superheroes, then spotted a nuclear reactor on the desk.
• Bruce called Clark and expanded their agreement to keep Ian from blowing up Earth to include Metropolis and all of America.

Batman investigated Ian’s advanced inventions and questioned him about how he had obtained them, but Ian’s evasive story convinced Bruce he had done nothing wrong. Batman left after warning Ian to stay out of Gotham, while Ian remained convinced that Arkham sounded appealing.

• Ian tried to escape through the window, but Batman had sealed it with iron bars and stopped him from fleeing.
• Bruce examined Ian’s Micro Reactor and Laser Rifle, found the rifle hidden in the ceiling, and warned that Ian’s nuclear research base could explode.
• Ian told Bruce a fabricated story about meeting Tony Stark, and Bruce recognized that most of it was a lie but returned the inventions because Ian had not done anything bad.
• Ian asked whether Batman would send him to Arkham, but Batman refused and threatened to have Clark punish him if he came to Gotham.
• Batman left, returned to retrieve Ian’s manuscript, and departed again while Ian accidentally revealed that the phone line with Clark was still connected.

Bruce Wayne visited Leonard and Sheldon to recruit them as guardians for Ian Kent, offering them high salaries and research opportunities. After leaving, Bruce concluded that Ian might draw power from fiction and planned to search near his school for a secret base.

• Leonard, Sheldon, and Penny discussed Ian Kent’s claims about Bruce Wayne before Bruce appeared in their hallway and Sheldon fainted.
• Bruce offered Leonard and Sheldon jobs watching over Ian, and Leonard accepted after hearing the salary and research terms.
• Bruce left the apartment and told Alfred he would remain in Metropolis while investigating Ian’s secret base.
• Bruce reviewed comics about Sentry and Homelander and suspected Ian could draw power from fantasy.

Ian spent the morning buying enhancement-serum materials on Metropolis’s black market, gained new abilities after drinking the mixture, and acquired a cursed Dodge Hellcat. Meanwhile, Jordan misread Batman’s visit and Lois’s behavior as evidence of an affair, leaving the family in confusion as Ian prepared to fuel the car with the demon’s blood.

• Ian spoke with Lady Death, who agreed to verify his warning about the multiverse but told him not to contact her three times a day.
• Jordan told Ian he had seen Batman in their parents’ room, then concluded that Lois and Clark were having an affair and alarmed Lois with his suspicions.
• Ian cashed Joker’s check and bought biochemical enhancement-serum materials from a black-market shop with Mr. White’s guidance.
• Ian drank the serum, improved his attributes, gained a minor genetic-collapse effect, and learned the Solar Eyes skill.
• Ian encountered Constantine, who fled from him, then bought a cursed Dodge Hellcat from a terrified car dealer for less than the money the dealer handed over.
• After learning the Hellcat ran on human blood, Ian decided to use hell blood and began squeezing the Demon Head to fuel the car.

Ian used his Hellcat to reach an illegal serum deal, caught bullets and subdued the criminals, then called General Lane while leveling up. Superman arrived after Ian left and knocked out a man who began to wake.

• Ian drained Hell blood into the Hellcat, then drove off in the sentient car after persuading it to follow traffic laws.
• Ian escaped a traffic stop when the Hellcat demonstrated its autonomous driving, then followed its navigation to an illegal serum deal at an abandoned factory.
• The criminals fired on Ian, who caught hundreds of bullets, gained experience, and knocked down the fleeing sellers.
• Ian tied up the criminals, called General Lane, and drank Enhancement Serum, raising his attributes and reaching Savage Tyrant level 3.
• Ian argued with his grandfather, grabbed a red-eyed Orange Cat, and left after putting money in the bald man's pocket.
• Superman arrived at the scene, judged that Ian had a hero's heart, and knocked out a criminal who started to wake.

Ian avoided a LexCorp factory, then encountered Madison hiding from a group of men in black at a fast-food restaurant. After discovering that they had tracked her with a toad, he put on stockings as a mask and prepared to confront them.

• Ian fed bullets to the Demon Head, tried eating bullet heads himself, and drove away from LexCorp because he did not want to face Luthor without his weapons.
• Hellcat led Ian to a fast-food restaurant, where he ordered a huge meal and found Madison hiding under his table from men in black.
• Ian tested whether Madison knew about Lady Death, joked about death over his food, and discovered Batman had posted a photo of his muscles in the school group chat.
• Madison paid Ian for help, and Ian took eight hundred dollars before putting stockings over his head to protect her.
• The men in black emerged from the restroom with a toad pointing toward Madison, and Ian showed his Psychic Card as he prepared to face them.

Ian and Madison were pursued by Warlocks and Demons after Madison revealed that a supposed acting audition had led her to a Witch Church. Ian defeated the attackers and discovered a strange book bearing his name, while its former owner reacted with terror as he could no longer sense it.

• Madison tried to take Ian to the police, but Men in Black surrounded them and a group of Warlocks attacked; Ian summoned Lady Death, who erased the street's surveillance cameras and left him a pointer.
• Ian defeated the Warlocks, rescued Madison from a runaway car, and learned she had been targeted after a suspicious audition at a private Witch Church.
• A black-robed man introduced himself as the Son of the Demon King and tried to possess Ian, but Ian blasted him into a mall with Heat Vision and overpowered him.
• Ian found a strange tome that transformed into a childlike book titled [Ian's Grimoire], and the defeated demon panicked when he could no longer sense the book.

Ian defeated and killed the black-robed Son of Hell, gained power and the ability to travel freely between the human world and Hell, then fled Metropolis with Madison and the demons. The chapter ended with Cordelia Fox reporting the incident to Supreme Witch Fiona, who was studying a captive fallen god and wondering how to take his power.

• Ian beat the black-robed demon, tied him to scaffolding, and learned about the magic book, the Seven Wonders, and Madison’s potential to become Supreme Witch.
• Ian killed the Son of Hell and sacrificed his soul to the Death Knight, gaining a powerful boost and the Inter-world Walker ability.
• Ian and Madison left Metropolis in the Hellcat, while Ian fed the demon blood to the Minotaur Demon and searched for the destination marked by Lady Death’s Compass.
• Cordelia Fox read the memories of people at the restaurant and reported to Fiona that Ian had defeated a Son of the Demon King.
• Cordelia met Fiona in a hidden basement, where Fiona studied a captive fallen god and wondered how she could take his supreme power.

Ian flew Madison home in the Hellcat, investigated a clue from Lady Death, and returned to his family as Clark confronted him about his awakening and his unusual car. Meanwhile, Bruce questioned Clark about Ian’s origins, then tried to use the Speed Force to investigate Ian’s past and received a supernatural warning.

• Richard Castle saw Ian and Madison flying past his plane in a Hellcat, then learned from a flight attendant that Superman supposedly controlled Metropolis’s skies.
• Ian took Madison home, arranged to buy her luxury goods, and learned that her mother Linda mistook the Hellcat for a UFO and Ian for an alien.
• Ian found the monastery indicated by Lady Death’s pointer but chose to leave and gather information later, then discovered Batman had blocked his call.
• Clark confronted Ian about the Hellcat and admitted that Jordan had guessed Ian’s powers awakened before his own; Ian gave Clark part of his draft to deliver to Bruce.
• Ian brought an orange cat home for Lois, while Jordan privately told Ian that he believed Lois was Superwoman; Bruce listened to Jordan’s bedroom sounds and decided to bring Damian back.
• Bruce showed Clark footage of a satellite being destroyed while observing Ian and demanded to know Ian’s true origins; after Clark refused, Bruce tried to use the Speed Force and a message in Holy Flame warned him to stop.

Bruce Wayne repeatedly tried to use the Speed Force to investigate the day Superman’s son Ian Kent was born, but the angel Amenadiel intervened and warned that the inquiry could damage reality. Bruce deleted the file on Ian Kent, yet he increased his personal surveillance of the Kent family and prepared to meet Damian’s arriving plane.

• Bruce repeatedly attempted to protect and deliver Speed Force strands to his machines, but mysterious lightning destroyed the Speed Force, the machines, and backups hidden elsewhere.
• Bruce used a magical crystal and computer to simulate Superman Clark’s life, prompting Amenadiel to appear in the Batcave.
• Amenadiel warned Bruce that investigating the event tied to Ian Kent could tear at reality, and he refused to explain what had happened.
• Bruce offered to stop investigating in exchange for an answer, and Amenadiel said Gotham’s king would not be in Heaven and added that even their Lord had chosen to forget some truths.
• Bruce deleted the file concerning Ian Kent and asked Alfred about Damian’s arriving plane, then ordered him to withdraw school recorders while Bruce alone continued watching the Kent family.

At dinner, Lois confronted Sam Lane over his secret research into Clark, but Sam explained that he had been monitoring government efforts to study Superman to protect the family. The discussion revealed Lex Luthor was distributing failed serums made with Kryptonian blood, and Clark suspected Ian’s consumption of them had accelerated his powers as Ian’s super-intelligence awakened.

• Lois accused Sam of secretly studying Clark and endangering her family, while Jonathan and Jordan tried to ease the tension.
• Sam argued that his research let him monitor and interfere with government attempts to create soldiers like Clark, and Clark agreed to trust Sam’s promise not to harm the family.
• Sam revealed that someone had impersonated the military to distribute serum, and he connected the shipment to Lex Luthor and Kryptonian blood products.
• Sam said the seized serums killed their users, then confronted Ian about drinking twelve vials; Ian insisted he had consumed only ten.
• Ian’s super-intelligence activated, and Clark suggested the serums had accelerated Ian’s Kryptonian powers while silently warning Ian not to reveal more.

Ian covered up the limits of the Superman serum, helped ease Jonathan’s disappointment, and pointed Sam toward an investigation lead while his family discovered his flying, talking Hellcat. After Ian built an online origin for Ancestor-lander and prepared to enter Marvel as a mage, Jonathan was tempted in a nightmare by mysterious beings promising him power.

• Clark persuaded Lois and the family that Ian’s response to the serum was an exception, while Jonathan accepted that he might never awaken his Kryptonian genes.
• Ian gave Sam a location to investigate in connection with Luthor, and Sam promised Ian a reward before leaving.
• Lois discovered Ian’s Hellcat could speak through its radio and fly, then rushed outside with blankets while Jonathan and Jordan followed, leaving Clark behind.
• Ian used sockpuppet accounts and Batman’s superhero website to promote Ancestor-lander, then locked the Minotaur Demon in Bruce’s enchanted cabinet and went to sleep hoping to become a mage in Marvel.
• Jonathan dreamed of alternate versions of himself and heard mysterious beings urge him to accept their power, but he resisted and demanded they leave.