The monster created by Bertron 300 years earlier was featured in stories that prophesied that the last knight of the House of El would travel to a new world to become its protector, fighting to defend it from Doomsday.
The Kryptonian word, Shik’lrith, is similar to the English term “urban legend.” However, in the case of Doomsday, “urban truth” became more accurate. On a beautiful Kryptonian spring day…
Krypton had grown arrogant and lazy. The generation before us had hunted the beasts and tamed the wilds of our world…
And then, Colonel Zod appeared, wearing the ancient armor of Krypton’s warrior founders
Because of Zod, some lived…
…but thousands more died as the city crumbled.
This event became known as “Remembrance Day.”
Doomsday was imprisoned in the Phantom Zone, an inter-dimensional realm outside the normal space/time continuum where one day he would once again encounter Zod…
Batman/Superman #3.1
Nov. 2013 (Sept. 25, 2013)
$3.99
“Tales of Doom”
20 pages
Writer: Greg Pak
Penciller: Brett Booth
Inker: Norman Rapmund
Editor: Mike Cotton
CODEX OMNIVERSA 