Superman (Volume 4) #42 is an issue of the series Superman (Volume 4) with a cover date of May, 2018. It was published on March 7, 2018.
Synopsis for "Bizarroverse, Part 1: Father of Boyzarro"
Bizarro has been trying to make a life for his family and himself in the parallel world of Htrae. Bizarro's family situation, however, is anything but ideal; his wife Loiz picks a fight with him, while his son Boyzarro runs away. Suddenly, Superboy and Kathy Branden teleport to Htrae, having constructed a teleporter with technology left on Kathy's ship. Curious, Boyzarro attempts to touch Superboy but the portal becomes unstable and throws Superboy and Kathy back to their world. Superboy had come to visit Kathy, as he was getting a bit bored with the dull life in Metropolis, but now he has to return home or his parents will be worried.
Meanwhile, at Metropolis, Superman and Lois arrive at the Kent apartment at the same time and find that Superboy has not done his chores yet. A few seconds later, Superboy arrives and takes out the trash. He was supposed to cook dinner tonight but he got distracted with his adventure with Kathy, so he orders Chinese food instead. While the Kents enjoy dinner, Clark and Lois ask Jon about his day, correctly deducing that he went to Hamilton. Embarassed, Jon refuses to talk about Kathy, so he cleans up the table and goes to bed; leaving Clark and Lois to enjoy some time for themselves.
Some time later, Jon watches the rain fall across Metropolis and listen to his parents have fun in the living room. He tries to sleep, but suddenly, Boyzarro crashes through the window and ambushes him.
Appearing in "Bizarroverse, Part 1: Father of Boyzarro"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Bizarro (Earth 29) (Flashback and main story)
- Boyzarro (Earth 29) (First appearance)
- Kathy Branden
- Loiz (Earth 29) (First appearance)
Antagonists:
- Hawkzarro (Earth 29) (First appearance; unnamed)
- Hawkzarro's hawk (Earth 29) (First appearance; unnamed) (Apparent Death)
Other Characters:
- Bizarro-Krypto (Earth 29) (Cover only)
- Bizarro-Streaky (Earth 29) (Cover only)
- Silver the Cat (Earth 29) (First appearance) (Apparent Death)
- Angels (Mentioned only)
- Bizarro-Jonathan Kent (Earth 29) (Mentioned only)
- Bizarro-Martha Kent (Earth 29) (Mentioned only)
- Candice (Mentioned only)
- Cobb Branden (Mentioned only)
- Robin (Damian Wayne) (Mentioned only)
Locations:
- Multiverse (Behind the scenes)
- Earth 0
- United States of America
- New York
- Hamilton County
- Cobb Family Dairy Farm
- Metropolis
- Daily Planet (Cameo)
- Kents' Apartment
- LexCorp Tower (Cameo)
- Hamilton County
- Kansas
- Smallville (Mentioned only)
- New York
- China (Mentioned only)
- Costa Rica (Mentioned only)
- United States of America
- Earth 29/"Bizarro World" (Flashback and main story)
- Earth 0
Items:
Vehicles:
- Kroogarian War Pod
Concepts:
- Quantum Rift
Trivia
- Boyzarro almost murdering the hawk and Silver the Cat with his ice vision mirrors Jon Kent killing Goldie the Cat and an hawk with his Heat Vision in Superman (Volume 4) #1.
- One of Bizarro's flashbacks is a homage to the cover of Action Comics #1.
- The variant cover is a mirror version of Superman (Volume 4) #1 following the story's theme of Bizarro.
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