The Super-Signal Debuts In Superman: Earth One Vol. 3

In DC’s Earth One Universe, Batman isn’t the only one who has a signal in the sky.

It appears that Superman will be aping The Dark Knight’s style in the upcoming volume of Superman: Earth One. In the Earth One series, DC’s characters are reimagined in new, modernized worlds outside of the main DC Universe. And apparently, no idea is off the table in these out-of-continuity stories.

Such is the case in a new look at the Superman graphic novel, written by J. Michael Straczynski and illustrated Ardian Syaff. In the preview, Lois Lane takes a page out of the Gotham City Police Department’s playbook and contacts Superman with the, er, Super-Signal. And not because it worked so well for Gotham, but because its the best way “to get someone’s attention who spends most of his time in the clouds.” This version of Lois must not know about Superman’s super-hearing, microscopic vision, and catalog of other enhanced abilities. But hey, this works too.

Check out the full six-page preview in the gallery below, which Entertainment Weekly ran earlier this week. Superman: Earth One Vol. 3 hits comic shops and bookstores next Wednesday, February 4th.

Does that mean that Batman in Batman: Earth One Vol. 2 will get a distress watch from Jim Gordon?