Vol. 5Volume 5

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Chapters 405–492 Read from Ch. 405

Arc 17From Flashpoint to Kansas

Luke stopped Sinestro’s attempt to seize the Speed Force, escaped the collapsing Flashpoint timeline, and entered the Watchmen universe before returning to an earlier Earth. There he began training Clark Kent while Dr. Manhattan resumed observing the multiverse and Barry delivered a letter to Bruce Wayne.

  • Luke defeated Ares after Penthesilea helped frame Atlantis for Hippolyta’s poisoning, then spent the night with Diana before leaving to help Barry.
  • Luke killed Sinestro, helped Barry catch Reverse-Flash and restore the timeline, and said goodbye to Diana as the Flashpoint timeline collapsed.
  • Dr. Manhattan sent Luke to Mars in the Watchmen universe, where Luke encountered Rorschach II and Adrian Veidt and helped stop the nuclear missiles.
  • Luke gave Adrian Veidt a Green Lantern ring, supplied him with Sinestro’s ring, and used the modified Owlship to travel to a time before Flashpoint.
  • Luke met Clark Kent in Kansas, discovered that Lana’s kryptonite necklace weakened him, and watched Clark rescue Lex Luthor after a car crash.
  • Luke told Clark that he was his long-lost brother and claimed Clark was a Saiyan named Kakarot sent to Earth on a mission.
  • Luke began arranging daily training for Clark, while Barry appeared in the Batcave and gave Bruce Wayne a letter.
Chapters 405–43025 summaries Read

Arc 18Superman and the Kryptonians

Luke guided Clark into becoming Superman, then brokered a deal between Clark and Zod that spared Earth and brought Zod’s forces under contract. Luke left with the Kryptonians, arriving on Sakaar, where Zod challenged the arena champion Beta Ray Bill.

  • Barry restored the Justice League timeline, asked Batman to find Luke, and left him Thomas Wayne’s letter, while Diana resolved to find the unidentified man in her photograph.
  • Luke trained Clark, who stopped a bank robbery and became a local hero, and Luke helped him embrace his powers and named him Superman Reserve.
  • Clark patrolled Metropolis as Superman, but Black Kryptonite corrupted him until Luke subdued him, and Clark later declared himself Superman at a Vought Corporation press conference.
  • Bruce returned to Gotham and targeted Falcone, while General Zod broadcast an ultimatum demanding that Earth surrender Carl-El.
  • Luke activated the Kryptonian spaceship, revealing Earth’s location to Zod, then helped Clark resist Zod’s demand for the Codex and negotiated with him.
  • Clark and Zod exchanged their captured people and agreed that Zod would leave Earth, and Luke transferred his businesses to Clark and Lex before departing with Zod and his warriors.
  • Luke sent the Kryptonian ship through the Source Wall to Sakaar, where he encountered Scavenger 142 and watched Beta Ray Bill defeat the arena’s Korg warriors.
  • Zod confronted Beta Ray Bill in the arena, shattered his arms with a punch, and declared that no one there could stop him.
Chapters 431–45625 summaries Read

Arc 19Superman Returns

Luke secured resources and allies for Krypton, then returned to Earth and exposed the Skrull infiltration. He left the captured Skrulls for S.H.I.E.L.D. to interrogate while Peggy was away.

  • Luke destroyed the Grandmaster’s fleet, negotiated for planets, ships, and labor, and led Zod and the Kryptonians to Knowhere.
  • Zod defeated Ronan and Luke defeated Gladiator, winning a resource planet and gaining access to more worlds and workers.
  • Luke met Talos, agreed to shelter the Skrull refugees on Earth, restored Carol’s memories, and helped her defeat Yon-Rogg and Starforce.
  • Luke and Carol arrived in Wakanda, where Luke summoned Bast and carried away a vast vibranium vein after T’Chaka granted him permission to take what he wanted.
  • Luke returned to Earth, met Peggy at S.H.I.E.L.D., and killed two Skrulls disguised as her Nightingales after Peggy initially mistook him for one.
  • Luke announced his return at a press conference, prompting Skrull leaders to order their agents to withdraw and seek his cryogenic chamber.
  • Luke sensed the Skrulls across Earth, found their underground stronghold, overwhelmed them with a psychic wave, and delivered unconscious Skrulls to S.H.I.E.L.D. for imprisonment.
Chapters 457–48325 summaries Read
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