The Kingdom is a comic book miniseries published by DC Comics, written by Mark Waid. This is both a sequel and, in some ways, prequel to Kingdom Come, also by Mark Waid. Both books form an Elseworlds saga, and have nothing to do with the current DC Comics storylines. A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... A miniseries, in a serial storytelling medium, is a production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. ... The current DC Comics logo, adopted in May 2005. ... Mark Waid (born March 21, 1962 in Hueytown, Alabama) is an American comic book writer. ... A sequel is a work of fiction in literature, film, and other creative works that is produced after a completed work, and is set in the same universe but at a later time. ... A prequel is a work that portrays events which include the structure, conventions, and/or characters of a previously completed narrative, but occur at an earlier time. ... Promotional art for Kingdom Come. ... Elseworlds logo. ... The current DC Comics logo, adopted in May 2005. ...

Plot Summary

20 years after the events of Kingdom Come, a survivor of the Kansas disaster is granted power by the Quintessence (Shazam, Ganthet, Zeus, Izaya Highfather, and the Phantom Stranger), who dub him Gog. The power drives him mad, and he takes out his anger on Superman, killing him and carving his "S" shield on the ground. He then travels a day backward in time and kills him again...and again. For other uses, see Shazam (disambiguation) Shazam is a comic book character created by Bill Parker and C.C. Beck for Fawcett Comics. ... Ganthet is a fictional character from DC Comics who made his debut in the graphic novel Ganthets Tale. Ganthet is a Guardian, part of the Guardians of the Universe. ... // Overview The version of Zeus depicted by Marvel Comics is based, at least somewhat, from the classical character of Greek mythology worshiped as a god in ancient Greece. ... The Phantom Stranger is a fictional character of unspecified paranormal origins who battles mysterious and occult forces in various titles published by DC Comics, sometimes under their Vertigo imprint. ... Gog is a gay supervillain that repeatedly kills fag Superman through out a timeline in fucking DC comics. ... Superman, aka the Man of Steel, is a fictional character and superhero who first appeared in Action Comics #1 in 1938, and has for several decades been one of the most popular and well-known comic book icons. ...

As Gog travels closer to the modern DC universe, the Linear Men panic when they see that their ordered index of time is unravelling; Superman is dead in the 21st century, yet alive in the 853rd. When Rip Hunter tries to stop Gog from killing Superman on the day his and Wonder Woman's child is born, Gog manages to steal the infant, whom he plans to raise and name Magog, setting the paradox in motion. (In issue #2 this was revealed to be a red herring. The child did not grow up to become Magog, instead he became a Hypertime-travelling super-hero wearing a variation of his father's costume.) Rip Hunter was an ordinary man who used his Time-Sphere time-travel machine to delve into time. ... Wonder Woman is a DC Comics superheroine. ... Magog (Bible) was one of the seven sons of Japheth mentioned in the Book of Genesis. ... Robert Boyles self-flowing flask fills itself in this diagram, but perpetual motion machines cannot exist. ...

Rip Hunter recruits Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman from the Kingdom Come era to stop Gog in 1998. Four young heroes - Kid Flash, Offspring, Nightstar, and Ibn al Xu'ffasch - come together to try and stop Gog on their own. The DC Comics superhero Batman (originally and still sometimes referred to as The Batman or The Bat-Man) is a fictional character who first appeared in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Kid Flash (Iris West) is a superheroine in an alternate future of the DC Comics universe She was constantly annoyed by that her father, who had almost completely given up his life to patrol Keystone City non-stop, never made time for her, although he did make time for her... Nightstar is the daughter of Dick Grayson (Nightwing, Red Robin) and Starfire from the Kingdom Come and The Kingdom comic book miniseries by DC Comics. ... Ibn al Xuffasch is a character in the Batman comic book series who is the biological son of Batman and Talia al Ghul. ...

The Kingdom introduced a new element to the DC Universe: Hypertime. This appears to be a variation on the multiple earth/universe concept from prior DC canon, which was eliminated in 1985's Crisis on Infinite Earths. A fictional concept presented in the 1998 comic book series The Kingdom, hypertime is both a catch-all explanation for any continuity discrepancies in DC Universe stories, and a variation—in fact, a superset—of the Multiverse that existed before Crisis on Infinite Earths. ... In DC Comics, the Multiverse is a continuity construct in which multiple fictional versions of the universe exist in the same space, separated from each other by their vibrational resonances. ... This article is about the year. ... Cover to Crisis on Infinite Earths #1. ...

The Kingdom does not utilize the same visual style created by Alex Ross, which was used in the four issue Kingdom Come series, the storyline in The Kingdom is a direct continuation and extension of the original storyline fleshing out areas of the future that were not explored in the original four-part series. While Kingdom Come can easily exist as a stand-alone story, The Kingdom is not a complete storyline in and of itself and exists only as a continuation of the previous storyline. Rosss rendition of the Golden Age Batman and Robin. ...