{"id":295234,"date":"2026-01-21T04:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T04:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/295234\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T04:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T04:47:09","slug":"dc-brings-back-the-younger-jon-kent-in-a-2010s-style-superman-unlimited-this-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/295234\/","title":{"rendered":"DC brings back the younger Jon Kent in a 2010s-Style Superman Unlimited this April"},"content":{"rendered":"

It can\u2019t be easy being Jon Kent. The son of two of comics\u2019 most iconic characters \u2014 Superman and Lois Lane \u2014 he\u2019s been a pre-teen superhero, kidnapped to an alternate reality where he grew up imprisoned by an evil version of his own dad, and then mind-controlled and turned against his friends in 2024\u2019s Absolute Power storyline<\/a>. This April, his story looks set to get another twist when he\u2026 gets de-aged back to the way he was back when he was one of the Super-Sons along with Batman\u2019s kid?!? Wait, what is going on exactly?<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll have to wait until the release of Superman Unlimited #12 for the answer to that question. For now, all we have to go on are the covers for the April 15 chapter of the \u2018Reign of the Superboys\u2019 storyline \u2014 for those who don\u2019t remember, Superman is going missing after the events of DC K.O. and multiple Superboys are showing up to take his place<\/a> \u2014 as well as the following description of the issue from DC itself: \u201cLittle (super) boy lost! Tomorrow Man has a shocking surprise for Lois Lane. His name is Jon Kent, and he\u2019s just a little boy. The Reign of the Superboys continues! (And, possibly\u2026 the reign of a super\u2026 monkey?)\u201d<\/p>\n

Okay, let\u2019s table the super-monkey for right now. (Could creators Dan Slott and Lucas Meyer, who\u2019re writing and drawing the issue respectively, be bringing back Beppo<\/a>? Really?) Instead, let\u2019s take a look at the covers for the issue by Taurin Clarke, Karen Darboe, Guillem March and Salvador Larroca below \u2014 because that really, really looks like the younger Jon Kent in them, even if he looks a little (okay, a lot) angrier than he used to:<\/p>\n

But then, who\u00a0wouldn\u2019t be mad at going from a young adult back to a little kid? And if this change is for real and permanent, what does that mean about what certainly looked like a Jon Kent appearance in the new Titans line-up moving forward as seen last month\u2026?<\/p>\n

All \u2014 or at least more \u2014 will be revealed when Superman Unlimited #12 hits stands April 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It can\u2019t be easy being Jon Kent. The son of two of comics\u2019 most iconic characters \u2014 Superman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[3126,7472,18,117,19,17,327,928,146713],"class_list":{"0":"post-295234","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-comics","9":"tag-dc-comics","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-superman","16":"tag-superman-unlimited"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115931279681003047","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}