Superman #3 (2016)

Written by Patrick Gleason, Peter J. Tomasi
Penciled by Mick Gray, Patrick Gleason

Cover by Kenneth Rocafort
Release Date: Jul 20, 2016

   While Clark and Lois' son Jon-El has superpowers, and as the previous 2 issues in this series  have been explaining how they're trying to hide that, Jon is finding his powers more and more erratic despite Superman doing his best to train him. In issue #2, Jon falls and hits his head, knocking himself out. Desperate to find answers, Clark and Lois bring him to the fortress of solitude to begin to search for a reason his powers seem to come and go.

   Upon walking inside, they find the Eradicator. In issue #2, the Eradicator absorbs Jon's blood, allowing him to enter the fortress because he now has Kryptonian DNA. It begins to assimilate more of the Kryptonian genome, putting a plan together to save Krypton. After fighting Superman, but then saving Jon and Lois from falling rock, the Eradicator proves that it really is there to help. Clark allows it to scan Jon in order to find a way to help him. Asked about why it's here, the Eradicator explains it was part of a secret protocol created by General Zod to draw out all the "lawbreakers" on his list, put them in stasis until their trials, and return them to Krypton. As they got back though, they saw the planet exploding with one lone rocket leaving. At that point, their only mission was to find that lone survivor. 

   The more his explanation drones on, he finally lets it slip that he has to "eradicate" half of Jon's DNA - the human half he got from Lois, in order to keep the Kryptonian bloodline pure. Obviously this is unacceptable to Clark, and as the Eradicator is gearing up to fry the human guts out of Jon, he obliterates Krypto in the process. Superman flips out and starts absolutely beating the crap out of the Eradicator. As this is literally the second animal which has been killed in this series' 3 issue run so far, it looks like Jon catches the big time redass, picks up Krypto's cape, and walks away infuriated. 

   Sadly we're left to wait for Issue #4 to see what happens.

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