Chapter Summaries

Solomon stopped fighting Clark and convinced him that they were both Kryptonian survivors, spinning a story about Krypton’s destruction. Clark believed him enough to ask about his name, Krypton, and his biological parents.

• Solomon broke off his mental attack and kicked Clark hundreds of meters across the cornfield.
• Clark recovered without injury and prepared to attack, but Solomon called him a Kryptonian, leaving Clark confused.
• Solomon identified Clark’s hidden spaceship as a Kryptonian escape pod and claimed they came from the same distant planet.
• Solomon lied that Krypton had been destroyed when its leaders overexploited the planet’s core, and said he had followed Clark’s ship to Earth.
• Clark felt a sense of kinship with Solomon and asked his name and what Krypton and his biological parents had been like.

Solomon told Clark a fabricated account of Krypton and his own escape to establish himself as a fellow Kryptonian, while leaving Clark uncertain about his parents. Clark brought Solomon home, and Martha welcomed him as family after learning his story.

• Solomon told Clark that Krypton had been destroyed after its leaders ignored warnings from Jor-El, and claimed his own parents had died there.
• Clark comforted Solomon and invited him back to the farmhouse, saying they were fellow Kryptonians.
• Martha saw Clark’s torn clothes and worried that Solomon had badly hurt him, but Clark reassured her.
• Clark explained Solomon’s identity and Krypton’s destruction to Martha, who set aside her suspicions and invited Solomon to stay as long as he liked.

At dinner, Clark told Solomon about the loving guidance of his adoptive parents, while Solomon shared how he had survived alone on Earth. Solomon explained that Earth’s yellow sun gave Kryptonians their powers and told Clark that he would begin training him the next day.

• Clark changed into clean clothes and joined Martha and Solomon for dinner at Kent Farm.
• Clark credited Jonathan and Martha with teaching him to control his strength and choose what kind of person he became.
• Solomon told Clark and Martha that he had arrived on Earth alone, and Martha welcomed him to think of Kent Farm as home.
• Clark asked whether Kryptonian powers came from sunlight, and Solomon explained how Earth’s yellow sun energized their cells.
• Solomon criticized Clark for suppressing his potential and promised to train him in combat and control starting the next day.

Solomon trained Clark to control his Kryptonian strength and combat skills, then showed him how to use Heat Vision. Clark’s first attempt spiraled out of control, and Solomon forced his eyes shut to stop the beams.

• Solomon taught Clark to stop restraining his strength and trained him in combat techniques.
• Solomon demonstrated Heat Vision by melting a rusted tractor and explained how Kryptonians released the energy.
• Clark focused his energy and used Heat Vision to slice a water tower in half.
• Clark lost control of the beams, which carved a burning trench toward a hay-filled granary.
• Solomon blocked Clark’s sight with his hands and clamped his eyelids shut to halt the Heat Vision.

Solomon taught Clark to control his Heat Vision and fly, rescuing him from a dangerous fall as he learned. While Clark soared freely over Kansas, Solomon planned to find kryptonite and use it to harvest Clark’s growing abilities.

• Solomon guided Clark through calming and controlling his Heat Vision, then taught him to compress its energy before using it.
• Solomon explained how to fly using the Biological Field, and Clark lifted off for the first time.
• Clark lost control while trying to accelerate and plunged toward the ground, but Solomon caught him and brought him back into the air.
• Under Solomon’s corrections, Clark mastered flying and raced through the clouds over Kansas.
• Solomon considered how to find kryptonite, reasoning that it came from irradiated fragments of Krypton’s core and had already fallen across Earth.

Solomon's clone discovered that Sulfur Teleportation could not work in the DC Universe, so he decided to establish Vought International and take over LexCorp's tower. He appeared in Lex Luthor's office, where Luthor calmly guessed that he was an alien.

• Solomon's clone tried to teleport to meteorite impact sites but realized the DC Universe had no Brimstone Dimension.
• Solomon's clone decided to have a new Vought International collect the meteorites and chose LexCorp's skyscraper in Metropolis as its headquarters.
• Solomon's clone recalled Lex Luthor's role in Superman's death but decided not to worry about Luthor or the possibility of Doomsday being created.
• Solomon's clone appeared in Lex Luthor's office and announced that the tower was perfect for Vought International's headquarters.
• Lex Luthor offered Solomon's clone a drink and reasoned that he was either a superpowered being or an alien.

Solomon offered Lex Luthor control of Compound V and persuaded him to turn LexCorp into Vought International, with Lex remaining CEO and chief scientist. Lex agreed to search for green meteorite ore, but Solomon made clear that Lex would serve as his subordinate.

• Lex Luthor deduced that Solomon was likely an alien and invited him to state his business.
• Solomon revealed Compound V and proposed acquiring LexCorp to create Vought, a Supe talent agency and research company.
• Lex Luthor was captivated by the serum and the plan to make Supes into controllable commercial assets.
• Solomon gave Lex a vial of Compound V and tasked him with finding green ore at meteorite impact sites.
• Lex agreed to search for the ore but questioned the need to rename LexCorp, and Solomon told him the name change would remind him who was in charge.

Solomon forced Luthor to accept a partnership, then revealed that he was human before flying out through LexCorp’s window. Convinced Solomon proved his theories about human evolution, Luthor ordered a search for green meteor rock and opened a dossier containing photographs of a woman who had fought in 1918.

• Solomon threatened to rewrite Luthor’s mind, and Luthor agreed to rename LexCorp Vought International and search for green ore.
• Solomon warned Luthor that he could read his thoughts and revealed that he was a human from Earth.
• Solomon smashed through the 108th-floor window and flew away, leaving Luthor thrilled by the revelation that a human could possess such powers.
• Luthor ordered Mercy to convene an emergency board meeting and sent the company’s exploration teams and intelligence networks to find green meteor rock.
• Luthor opened a secret paper dossier containing photographs of a woman in battle armor and a 1918 photograph of her beside World War I soldiers.

Lex Luthor renamed LexCorp as Vought International and set plans in motion to counter powerful Supes with ancient gods. After receiving a warning that Ares had appeared in Metropolis, Diana Prince left the Louvre and flew there to investigate.

• Lex Luthor reviewed records about the Amazons, the Old Gods, and Ares, then resolved to pit legendary beings against Supes.
• Lex Luthor announced that LexCorp had been renamed Vought International, startling markets and governments around the world.
• Diana Prince received an anonymous note at the Louvre stating that Ares had appeared in Metropolis.
• Diana recalled killing Ares in 1918, but decided to investigate the warning and left for Metropolis with a sword.
• Lex Luthor deployed exploration teams to search meteor impact sites worldwide for the past thirty years.

Lex Luthor secured a fragment of Kryptonite after his search team found the crystal, while Solomon arrived to claim the main piece. Solomon revealed that he knew Lex had secretly contacted Diana Prince, leaving Lex exposed but still free to scheme at his own risk.

• A mercenary team found glowing Kryptonite in a buried meteor crater in Maine and sent it to Lex Luthor.
• Lex tested the Kryptonite, secretly cut off a small fragment, and stored it in his private vault.
• Solomon appeared in Lex's laboratory and took the remaining Kryptonite into his space.
• Solomon told Lex he knew about his secret contact with Diana Prince, and Lex claimed he had only been assessing whether to recruit her for Vought.
• Solomon said Lex could continue scheming against him if he was willing to bear the consequences.

Solomon ordered Lex Luthor to recruit Supes and prepare the world’s media for Vought’s rise, while Lex secretly resolved to trap Solomon in a maze of fabricated memories. At Kent Farm, Solomon introduced Clark to kryptonite, hoping to break through Clark’s remaining inhibitions and unlock his full power.

• Solomon told Lex Luthor to bring Supes into Vought and ready the world’s top media outlets for an announcement.
• After Solomon vanished, Lex Luthor felt overwhelmed but decided to hide a logically airtight mental trap among false and true memories.
• At Kent Farm, Solomon judged that Clark’s training had improved but had not removed his fear of losing control.
• Solomon told Clark that they would skip training and presented a Lead Box containing kryptonite.
• Solomon explained that kryptonite came from mutated fragments of Krypton’s core and could weaken, damage, and eventually kill Kryptonians.

Solomon exposed Clark to Kryptonite and used his weakness to mentally suppress him, defeating him and acquiring kryptonian physiology. The new ability sent Solomon’s attributes soaring past level 6, while Clark recovered after Solomon sealed the Kryptonite away.

• Solomon warned Clark about Kryptonite and opened the Lead Box, exposing him to the glowing green ore.
• Clark’s strength collapsed under the Kryptonite radiation, leaving him unable to resist Solomon’s psychic suppression.
• Solomon defeated Clark and acquired kryptonian physiology, then shut the Lead Box and released his mind control.
• Solomon examined the new physiology’s many powers and discovered that all his attributes had surged beyond level 6.

After gaining Kryptonian Physiology, Solomon discovered that sunlight steadily increased most of his attributes. He told Clark he was leaving to investigate an ancient alien spacecraft buried in the Arctic that might have come from Krypton.

• Solomon concealed the kryptonite and reassured Clark after the stone weakened them both.
• Solomon noticed his attributes rising over time and realized his transformed body was absorbing energy from Earth's yellow sun.
• Solomon considered how copying Kryptonian Physiology from other Kryptonians could multiply his growth rate.
• Solomon told Clark he was leaving to search for a crashed spacecraft beneath the Arctic glaciers that might be a relic of Krypton.

Solomon brought Clark to the Arctic to search for the Kryptonian ship while his Main Body tested solar-energy absorption in space and concluded that more Kryptonian Physiology was needed to improve his growth rate. After Clark located the buried ship, Solomon melted a passage through the ice, and the ship’s defense system activated as they approached its hatch.

• Clark insisted on joining Solomon to search for the Kryptonian spaceship, and they said goodbye to Martha before leaving.
• Solomon left a Clone behind and teleported into space, where he found that unobstructed sunlight replenished his energy but did not speed up attribute conversion.
• Solomon's Clone and Clark flew to the Arctic, where Solomon instructed Clark to use Super Vision and X-ray vision to search beneath the ice.
• Clark spotted the buried ship, and Solomon used Heat Vision to melt a passage through more than three hundred meters of ice.
• Solomon and Clark landed on the ship and approached its hatch, triggering its dormant defense system.

Solomon and Clark entered the ancient Kryptonian ship, where they found the remains of its crew and evidence that one Kryptonian had escaped. The ship’s hologram revealed Jor-El as Clark’s father and told him his Kryptonian name was Kal-El, leaving Clark asking whether Krypton had been destroyed by rebellion.

• A metal robot attacked Clark, but he used his pendant to deactivate it and open the ship’s sealed doors.
• Solomon and Clark found rows of dead Kryptonian crew members and an empty stasis pod that showed someone had left the ship earlier.
• Solomon identified a figure guiding them through the ship as Jor-El and activated the central console’s diagnostic program.
• The ship sent a distress signal and projected Jor-El, who told Clark he was his father’s recorded echo and that Clark’s name was Kal-El.
• Clark asked Jor-El whether Krypton had suffered a rebellion and been destroyed.

Jor-El questioned Solomon about his unrecorded Kryptonian genes, and Solomon claimed he was naturally born, concealing his true origins. After Solomon left, Jor-El told Clark about Krypton’s collapse and presented him with the suit, urging him to bring hope to Earth.

• Jor-El scanned Solomon and questioned why his Kryptonian genes did not appear in the Codex records.
• Solomon claimed he was the only naturally born Kryptonian in centuries, and Jor-El revealed that Kal-El had also been born naturally.
• Jor-El asked about Solomon’s parents, and Solomon said they were dead commoners who had secretly defied the Genetic Codex.
• Solomon left the ship, and Jor-El waited until he was beyond sensor range before explaining Krypton’s rebellion and collapse to Clark.
• Clark asked why Jor-El and Lylla had not escaped Krypton with him, and Jor-El said their lives were bound to their homeworld.
• Jor-El revealed Clark’s suit and urged him to guide Earth and bring its people hope.

Jor-El warned Clark that Solomon might be General Zod’s agent seeking the Central Codex and gave him a black suit with a hidden restraint program. Clark struggled between his father’s warning and his deep trust in Solomon.

• Jor-El showed Clark the House of El crest and urged him to carry its hope and protect humanity.
• Clark said he would share the responsibility with Solomon, but Jor-El warned him that Solomon’s unexplained origins made him dangerous.
• After hearing what Solomon had told Clark about Krypton, Jor-El suspected Zod had sent him to find the Central Codex.
• Jor-El explained that the Codex could be used to breed Kryptonians and warned that Zod’s followers might destroy Earth to rebuild Krypton.
• Jor-El revealed a black combat suit with a hidden program that could restrain Solomon, and Clark wrestled with whether to trust his father’s warning or his friend.

Clark took Jor-El’s combat suit to deliver to Solomon, while General Zod’s crew detected a Kryptonian distress signal and set course for Earth. In Metropolis, Diana Prince met Solomon, who recognized her as Zeus’s demigod daughter.

• Clark accepted Jor-El’s combat suit but insisted that Solomon would decide whether to wear it.
• A Kryptonian navigator received a distress signal from a scout ship, and General Zod ordered his ship to the signal’s coordinates.
• Diana searched Metropolis for Ares but found no sign of war and grew suspicious of Vought International’s sudden renaming.
• Solomon introduced himself to Diana, and their handshake revealed her extraordinary attributes and demigod heritage to him.

Solomon told Diana about Vought International’s plan to recruit supes and revealed that he was the company’s new director. He invited her to join as a superhero, while Diana wondered whether he knew her true identity.

• Solomon invited Diana to coffee and explained that Vought had replaced LexCorp under a new director.
• Solomon said Vought would focus on finding and gathering supes to protect the world.
• Diana recognized that Vought’s vision matched her own ideals and asked whether Solomon was the new director.
• Solomon confirmed his role and invited Diana to join Vought as a superhero.
• Diana asked whether Solomon had sent the letter that brought her to Metropolis, and he denied it.

Diana learned that Solomon knew her identity and past, but accepted his warning of an approaching crisis and decided to remain in Metropolis. Solomon then met Clark, whose attributes had broken through to level 6, and the two returned to Kent Farm after Clark called him family and gave him a Kryptonian combat suit.

• Solomon revealed Diana's identity as Wonder Woman and urged her to stay in Metropolis to witness an approaching crisis.
• Diana set aside much of her suspicion and decided to remain in the city.
• Solomon left Metropolis and met Clark, whose attributes had broken through to level 6 after his self-suppression ended.
• Clark told Solomon he had brought him a Kryptonian bio-nanotech combat suit and said Solomon was family.
• Solomon and Clark returned to Kent Farm, where Solomon found the suit and quickly changed into it.