Recaps

Solomon’s Precognition showed him being repeatedly killed by an overwhelming power after he tried to control Atlantis’s inhabitants. He escaped, suspected Poseidon had attacked to protect his followers, and returned to Kent Farm to recover.

• Solomon foresaw a mysterious power killing his Clones and Main Body, even after his Biological Immortality revived him twice.
• Solomon teleported away from Atlantis before an ancient psychic power swept through the city and oceans.
• Solomon escaped to space, destroyed his exposed Clone, and waited until he believed the threat had passed.
• Solomon suspected Poseidon had attacked because he tried to control hundreds of thousands of Atlanteans, and decided to avoid Atlantis and Themyscira for now.
• Solomon returned to Kent Farm, where Clark greeted him and invited him to dinner.

After surviving a brush with a powerful sea god, Solomon found comfort at Kent Farm and agreed with Clark to stop taking reckless risks. A month of quiet farm life ended when a massive black spaceship entered orbit around the Moon and began hacking Earth’s satellites.

• Martha welcomed Solomon with dinner and comforted him when she noticed his exhaustion.
• Solomon told Clark that he had found Atlantis and encountered a real god, nearly dying in the deep sea.
• Clark urged Solomon to avoid acting alone until they were strong enough to face the ancient beings, and Solomon agreed.
• Solomon spent the next month working at Kent Farm and occasionally visiting Diana in Metropolis.
• A gigantic black spaceship entered synchronous lunar orbit and breached humanity’s satellite defenses to collect data.

General Zod announced that Earth had twenty-four hours to surrender Kal-El or face destruction. Clark and Solomon investigated how Zod had found Earth, and Jor-El revealed that the scout ship had broadcast a distress signal when Clark reactivated it.

• Zod and Faora searched Earth’s networks for Kal-El, then Zod ordered an ultimatum broadcast to humanity.
• Zod appeared on screens worldwide and demanded that Kal-El surrender within twenty-four hours.
• At Kent Farm, Clark asked Solomon how Zod had survived, and Solomon explained that Zod had been imprisoned in the Phantom Zone.
• Clark suspected the scout ship had led Zod to Earth, so he and Solomon flew to it and activated Jor-El’s hologram.
• Jor-El examined the ship’s logs and explained that Clark’s reactivation had broadcast its long-dormant distress signal, allowing Zod to track it to Earth.

Solomon rejected Clark’s plan to surrender to General Zod and arranged a trap at a remote location, with the battle to be broadcast worldwide. Lex Luthor began promoting the event, telling reporters that Earth was not near its end.

• Jor-El explained that Zod and his followers had survived Krypton’s destruction in the Phantom Zone and warned Clark and Solomon that Earth’s survival depended on them.
• Clark proposed surrendering to Zod to protect humanity, but Solomon slapped him and insisted they would fight instead.
• Solomon told Clark to return to the farm to comfort Martha, then teleported to Vought International to meet Lex Luthor.
• Solomon ordered Lex to announce that Kal-El would appear at a remote location the next day and to arrange a worldwide live broadcast of the battle.
• Lex held a press briefing, telling reporters to put away their farewell letters because Earth was nowhere near its end.

Lex Luthor announced that Vought International would present Kal-El and its Supes in Nevada’s Blackstone Desert to confront General Zod’s threat. When the military tried to arrest him, he used the danger of derailing the plan to force Washington to accept it, leaving the desert under military control and the Supes’ performance set for a live broadcast.

• Lex Luthor told the press that Vought’s Supes would bring Kal-El to Blackstone Desert the next day and defeat the alien invaders live.
• A Department of Defense general arrived with special forces to arrest Lex Luthor for contacting hostile extraterrestrials and acting beyond his authority.
• Lex Luthor warned the general that arresting him could make the military responsible if the aliens attacked Earth after the plan failed.
• The general ordered his troops to lower their weapons and consulted the Department of Defense’s highest command center.
• Washington agreed to support Lex Luthor’s plan, while the general placed Blackstone Desert under military control and threatened to destroy the site if the Supes failed.
• Lex Luthor accepted the military’s presence as security and left the press conference passage without being arrested.

Solomon outlined his plan to defeat General Zod’s Kryptonian soldiers and bring them under control, with kryptonite as a fallback. The next day, Zod’s ship landed in Nevada, and Faora-Ul emerged before the assembled military and media.

• Solomon told Clark that Lex Luthor now worked for him and that he planned to confront Zod’s group.
• Solomon proposed letting the Kryptonians absorb solar radiation before defeating them in a fair fight, while keeping kryptonite as a backup.
• Clark agreed to follow Solomon’s plan and felt reassured by the kryptonite.
• The next day, military forces and global media gathered in Nevada’s Blackstone Desert as they waited for Kal-El.
• Zod’s landing ship descended before the military positions, and Faora-Ul stepped out in Kryptonian armor.

Clark Kent arrived in the desert to face Faora, refusing to surrender or leave Earth with her. Though Faora initially outmatched him with her combat skill, Clark endured her attacks and struck her into the ground with overwhelming strength.

• Faora threatened to kill everyone in the desert unless they handed over Kal-El, then Clark descended and landed before her.
• Faora introduced herself as Zod's deputy and invited Clark to the mothership, but Clark refused and demanded that Zod come down to speak with him.
• Faora revealed her plan to take Clark away so the Kryptonians could attack Earth freely, then launched a forceful assault when he refused to cooperate.
• Faora's superior fighting technique let her dodge Clark's punches and batter him, but her strikes left him unharmed.
• Clark took Faora's airborne punch without flinching, grabbed his opening, and punched her into the ground at supersonic speed.

Clark was overwhelmed by Faora and two Krypton Warriors until Solomon intervened. Solomon defeated all three Kryptonians, leaving them unconscious while Clark was saved from the coordinated assault.

• A Krypton Warrior struck Clark from behind, and two others joined Faora to trap and batter him with coordinated tactics.
• Solomon watched Clark struggle, recognizing that Clark was holding back and failing to use the combat techniques he had taught him.
• Solomon put on his nanotech combat suit and descended into the fight at overwhelming speed.
• Solomon punched Faora into a distant dune, then smashed the other two Krypton Warriors’ breathing masks together.
• The three Kryptonian elites lost consciousness from sensory overload after their masks shattered.

Solomon forced the Kryptonians to retreat and challenged Zod to meet him, while Zod learned that Earth’s yellow sun empowered Kryptonians. Zod chose to make his soldiers adapt to Earth and brought the mothership down into the atmosphere.

• Solomon defeated three Kryptonian soldiers, returned them to their landing ship, and sent Zod a challenge to meet him in person.
• Lex Luthor recognized Solomon as the alien mastermind behind Vought and watched him reunite with Clark.
• Zod learned from the Chief Scientist that Earth’s yellow sun might explain Solomon and Clark’s strength, and Faora confirmed that Earth’s atmosphere and sunlight had overwhelmed her senses while filling her with power.
• Zod set aside his convictions about Kryptonian purity and ordered his combat personnel to enter isolation chambers and adapt to Earth’s atmosphere and radiation.
• Zod brought the Kryptonian Mothership down through Earth’s clouds and entered an isolation chamber as Earth’s atmosphere and sunlight flooded inside.

Zod and eight Kryptonian warriors removed their life-support masks and endured the sensory overload as Yellow Sun radiation transformed them into powerful superhumans. They descended toward Earth to retrieve the Codex and punish the traitors, while Solomon and Clark watched from the Blackstone Desert.

• Zod removed his life-support mask, endured Earth’s overwhelming sensory input, and began absorbing Yellow Sun energy.
• Faora and seven other Kryptonian warriors entered isolation chambers, endured the pain, and transformed under the Yellow Sun radiation.
• Zod and the eight warriors emerged with immense strength and flew toward Earth to retrieve the Codex and crush anyone who resisted.
• Solomon and Clark watched the Kryptonians descend over the Blackstone Desert, and Clark worried about facing their enhanced strength.
• Solomon saw that Zod’s attributes had risen to level 5.9 and the other warriors’ to around level 5.5.

Solomon faced General Zod and eight Krypton Soldiers while Clark rejected Zod’s plan to destroy Earth to rebuild Krypton. As human forces prepared to attack, Solomon challenged Zod and his warriors to fight him, offering the Codex and Earth’s fate if they won.

• Solomon revealed his strength advantage as General Zod and eight Krypton Soldiers landed in the Blackstone Desert.
• General Zod questioned Solomon’s House of El armor, then demanded that Clark hand over the Codex so Krypton could be rebuilt.
• Clark asked what would happen to Earth and its people, and refused to help destroy the planet after Zod said sacrifices were necessary.
• General Zod argued that humans would always fear Clark, while the U.S. military ordered its forces to combat readiness and prepared missiles.
• Clark vowed to stop Zod, who prepared to activate the World Engine, but Solomon interrupted and challenged Zod and all eight warriors to fight him.

Solomon defeated Faora in a one-sided aerial fight after Clark agreed to let him speak for the Codex. Zod then set aside his pride and ordered the remaining Kryptonians to attack Solomon together.

• Clark trusted Solomon to speak for him and agreed to hand over the Codex if they lost.
• Faora attacked Solomon, but he evaded her strikes and defeated her with a single punch that sent her crashing into the desert unconscious.
• Solomon challenged Zod and the others after his victory over Faora.
• Zod ordered the remaining Kryptonians to attack Solomon, and he and seven Krypton Elites charged at him.

Diana Prince joined the battle against General Zod and the Kryptonian Warriors, rescuing Clark and disrupting their attack on Solomon. As three warriors descended on her, Diana raised her Bracelets of Submission to meet their assault.

• Clark rushed to help Solomon, but two Kryptonian Warriors intercepted him and pinned him down in the Blackstone Desert.
• General Zod and five other Kryptonian Warriors surrounded Solomon, who held back while Clark endured their allies’ beating.
• Diana Prince used the Lasso of Truth to drag two warriors away from Clark and two more away from Solomon.
• Solomon forced General Zod back, then landed beside Diana, who explained she would not let the Kryptonians gang up on anyone.
• Three Kryptonian Warriors charged Diana as another went after Clark, and Diana crossed her Bracelets of Submission to unleash a golden shock wave.

Solomon overwhelmed General Zod until Zod's desperate resolve drove his stats to level 6 and sparked a devastating midair clash. As the battle kept the other Kryptonians at bay, Clark used Solomon's training to fight back against three attackers.

• Clark rose from the sand pit, dodged a Krypton Warrior's punch, and launched him into the clouds with an uppercut.
• Solomon attacked Zod, broke his armor, and drove him into a crater with a series of powerful blows.
• Zod's stats suddenly rose to level 6 across the board, and he charged Solomon with enhanced Heat Vision, beginning an earthshaking clash.
• Shock waves from Solomon and Zod's battle forced the remaining Krypton Warriors away, so they targeted Clark and Diana instead.
• Clark caught one attacker's calf and swung him into another Krypton Warrior, knocking the two together.

Clark and Diana gained the upper hand against the Krypton Elites while Solomon overwhelmed General Zod. Watching the battle, Lex Luthor injected Compound V despite its deadly risk, and Solomon began turning the fight toward its end.

• Clark fought off three Krypton Warriors, while Diana held her own against four with her shield, Godkiller Sword, and Lasso of Truth.
• At the military defensive line, the commander refused to launch missiles, and Lex Luthor decided he could not wait to use Compound V.
• Lex Luthor injected himself with Compound V and convulsed in agony as he declared that he would become a god.
• Solomon unleashed his full level 6.2 power, struck Zod out of the sky, and smashed him into the desert.
• After sending Zod away from the battlefield, Solomon appeared behind a Krypton Warrior and struck him into the ground.

Solomon defeated the Krypton Warriors surrounding Clark and Diana, then stopped General Zod from attacking the human forces. Zod ordered the Black Zero to bombard the battlefield, forcing Solomon to choose between protecting the civilians and surviving the barrage.

• Solomon knocked out the three Krypton Warriors fighting Clark and gained enough of their abilities to raise his Kryptonian Physiology to +4.
• Solomon defeated the four Krypton Warriors surrounding Diana, increasing his copied Kryptonian Physiology to +7 and his attributes to level 6.7.
• General Zod saw his eight elite soldiers defeated and decided to attack the Earth Army and reporters as a desperate way to gain leverage over Solomon.
• Solomon intercepted Zod above the human air defenses and punched him away before he could reach the troops.
• As Zod was hurled back, he ordered the Black Zero to open fire, and its cannons targeted Solomon and the civilians across the Blackstone Desert.

Solomon survived the Black Zero’s energy cannons unscathed and defeated General Zod, then insisted that Zod and his people would belong to him under their wager. He promised to rebuild Krypton but rejected Zod’s demand to leave with the Codex, and produced a special lead box.

• Solomon charged into the Black Zero’s energy cannon blasts and emerged unharmed, prompting cheers from soldiers and viewers worldwide.
• Clark and Diana recognized Solomon’s overwhelming strength, while Zod realized that using the mothership’s main cannon would destroy Earth and thwart Krypton’s revival.
• Zod accepted defeat and asked Solomon to keep his promise to rebuild Krypton.
• Solomon promised to rebuild Krypton but told Zod that Earth was not a viable location and that other powerful beings lived there.
• Solomon refused to let Zod and his people leave, declaring that their lives belonged to him under their wager and that Zod would govern the rebuilt Krypton.
• Solomon took a specially made lead box from his Personal Space.

Solomon used kryptonite to defeat General Zod, who then swore allegiance and accepted Solomon as Krypton's supreme military commander. With the Kryptonian forces withdrawn and Earth celebrating its victory, Solomon prepared to announce Vought International’s superheroes, while Diana declined to join and left.

• Solomon exposed Zod to kryptonite, suppressed his mind, and revealed that he had held back the weapon to defeat him fairly.
• Zod admitted that Solomon was a leader stronger and more worthy than himself, then swore loyalty to him as Krypton's supreme military commander.
• The commander and people around the world celebrated as Zod ordered his soldiers aboard Black Zero and sent the ship into orbit.
• Solomon reunited with Clark and Diana, then invited them to join him in announcing Vought International’s superheroes to the world.
• Diana told Solomon she had not agreed to join Vought International and left instead of appearing before the media.

Diana agreed to join Vought after Solomon warned that Ares might return, then Solomon discovered that Major General Calvin Swanwick possessed extraordinary abilities. The chapter ended with Calvin effortlessly catching Solomon’s punch, revealing that he was no ordinary human.

• Solomon told Diana that the Sea God had overwhelmed him and argued that Ares might still be alive, prompting Diana to reconsider how she had defeated Ares.
• Diana agreed to join Vought, and Solomon, Clark, and Wonder Woman flew toward the welcoming American forces.
• Major General Calvin Swanwick introduced himself as the commander of the extraterrestrial contact incident, and Solomon’s Energy Vision revealed his remarkable abilities.
• Suspecting Calvin might be Ares in disguise, Solomon attacked him, but Calvin caught the punch with one hand.

Solomon exposed Calvin Swanwick as a green-skinned alien who claimed to have secretly protected humanity for decades. When Solomon attacked, Calvin turned intangible, but Solomon disrupted his ability with a mental attack and blasted him away with Heat Vision.

• Diana drew the Godkiller Sword when she suspected Calvin was connected to Ares, and Calvin asked Solomon how he had seen through his disguises.
• Calvin revealed his alien form and said he had always been Calvin Swanwick, using the name as an alias rather than replacing anyone.
• The soldiers and reporters panicked at the revelation, while Diana lowered her sword after sensing that Calvin was not Ares.
• Solomon accused Calvin of infiltrating the military and attacked, but his fist passed through Calvin's intangible body.
• Solomon struck Calvin's mind with psychic power, disrupted his intangibility, and hit him with Heat Vision, sending him crashing through two sand dunes.

Solomon and Calvin escalated their fight after Calvin’s powers proved able to counter Solomon’s Heat Vision and psychic attacks. As Calvin’s shifting abilities briefly forced Solomon onto the defensive, General Zod watched from orbit and reconsidered the danger of trying to conquer Earth.

• Solomon attacked Calvin with Heat Vision, but Calvin blocked his punch with telekinesis and answered with his own beams.
• Solomon’s stronger Heat Vision overwhelmed Calvin’s, but Calvin turned intangible to escape and used his mental defenses to repel Solomon’s psychic assault.
• Calvin launched a coordinated close-range assault using shapeshifting, density control, telekinesis, and psychic interference, forcing Solomon to retreat and defend himself.
• Soldiers and reporters watched in shock as Major General Calvin revealed himself to be a powerful green-skinned alien who could fight Solomon.
• Aboard the Black Zero in Low Earth Orbit, General Zod watched the footage and realized Earth held dangers beyond what he had imagined.

Solomon defeated Calvin Swanwick by exploiting his fear of fire, then took control of him and acquired Martian Physiology. The new power pushed Solomon’s energy and mental attributes above level 7, leaving him to wonder whether more Martians remained in the universe.

• Solomon overwhelmed Calvin’s defenses with his superior physical attributes, but Calvin turned intangible and strengthened his mental defenses.
• Solomon hid his flaming fist from the spectators and cameras, triggering Calvin’s terror of fire and knocking him out of his intangible state.
• Solomon punched Calvin hundreds of meters underground and engulfed him in flames, leaving him unable to resist.
• Solomon used Mind Control to conquer Calvin’s consciousness and acquired Martian Physiology.
• Solomon examined the Martian abilities and saw his energy and mental attributes rise above level 7.

Solomon’s attributes broke through to level 7, and he gained restricted Kryptonian physiology and immunity to Kryptonite. After defeating Calvin, he announced Vought International’s ultimatum and invited law-abiding Supes and alien survivors to join it, then left with Clark, Diana, and the captive Martian Manhunter.

• Solomon’s mental attribute reached level 7 after merging with Calvin’s attributes, and his other physical attributes neared level 7.
• Solomon examined the limited Kryptonian physiology gained from General Zod and his group and planned to use the Codex and Genesis Chamber to produce Kryptonians.
• Solomon emerged from the crater carrying Calvin, whose mind and powers had been broken by Solomon’s flames.
• Solomon told the global media that Calvin would be taken to Vought International and warned hidden extraterrestrials, mutants, and powered criminals to abandon their schemes.
• Solomon invited law-abiding Supes and alien survivors to join Vought, and Lois Lane asked for the names of the three heroes.
• Solomon named Clark and Diana Superman and Wonder Woman, then flew away with them and the captive Calvin.

Solomon brought the surviving Kryptonians aboard Black Zero and encountered Martian Manhunter, J'onn J'onzz, who revealed that he was the last Martian. After J'onn objected to Solomon’s plan to settle Mars, Solomon abandoned the idea and said he would find the Kryptonians another planet.

• General Zod and the other Kryptonian warriors saluted Solomon, who told them to call him Boss and left Zod in command.
• Solomon told the apparently unconscious Calvin to get up, and Calvin revealed that he was Martian Manhunter, J'onn J'onzz.
• J'onn said he had become stranded on Earth and was probably the last Martian because his people and their civilization had been wiped out.
• Solomon proposed moving the Kryptonians to Mars, but J'onn fiercely opposed anyone disturbing his home and the resting place of his people.
• Solomon let go of the plan to settle Mars and said he would find the Kryptonians another suitable planet.

Solomon recruited Martian Manhunter and questioned General Zod and Jor-El about rebuilding Krypton and cultivating a new population. After learning the two ships could produce 200 newborns, Solomon ordered both Genesis Chambers activated, but Jor-El warned that raising them on Earth under a yellow sun could unleash disaster.

• J'onn J'onzz asked to join Vought International, and Solomon accepted him on the condition that his account was true.
• General Zod explained that the World Engine needed a planet with strong ecological resources and said the Black Zero's Genesis Chamber could cultivate 100 newborns in ten months.
• Solomon sent Clark to retrieve the scout ship, whose Genesis Chamber Jor-El confirmed could also cultivate 100 people.
• Solomon ordered both Genesis Chambers activated to cultivate 200 Kryptonian newborns.
• Jor-El objected, warning Solomon that cultivating Kryptonians on Earth under a yellow sun risked catastrophe and that New Krypton needed a planet under a red sun.