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admonition ! Spoilers ahead forAction Comics # 1059!A belovedJustice Leaguefriendship has just broken up . For months , Kenan Kong , the Super - Man of China , has become a permanent extremity of the raw and improved Super - Family . However , a novel story reveals the rationality for Kenan ’s placement on the team and the close friendship he was pull to sacrifice .
inactivity Comics # 1059’sstory " Secret Identity Part Two " by Gene Luen Yang and Viktor Bogdanovic , Kenan recover from the psychic attack brought on bylearning Superman ’s occult personal identity . Super - Man musical composition together that a late reporter ’s demise must have been cause by a similar flak . At the same time , Super - Man ’s friend Baixi , aka Bat - Man fromthe Justice League of Chinaarrives to help his supporter .
Super - Man try out to explain the newsman ’s destruction to Bat - Man , but realise he ca n’t without putting Bat - Man at jeopardy . To keep Baixi secure , Kenan obturate Bat - Man ’s investigation and sides with the Super - Family . While his programme works , Super - Man ’s partnership with Bat - Man is leave alone destroyed .
The Justice League of China’s Super-Man and Bat-Man Friendship is Over
Kenan Kong was once nothing more than an average bully until he was recruited by China ’s Ministry of Self - Reliance to become the nation ’s new hero , Super - Man . As Super - Man , he was placed on a team with other regime - backed heroes Bat - Man and Wonder - Woman to create the Justice League of China . While the team operate as an official arm of the Chinese government , the heroes eventually broke out on their own and became a private entity , free from any influence . Though Kenan was severely - head , he eventually grew into a leaderwho gained the respect of his acquaintance , including Bat - Man .
No one was more critical of Kenan on the Justice League of China than Baixi . To be middling , when they first met , Kenan was a sap at best and a jerk at worst . But as Kenan master his big businessman , he damp and developed a powerful bond with his League comrades . Unfortunately , that growth is the same ground that Super - Ma is n’t being completely honorable with Bat - Man . Kenan know that Baixi is just as consecrated to solving secret as Batman and wo n’t stop digging until he find that Clark Kent is Superman ( the knowledge of which will kill Baixi ) . Sadly , the only way Super - Man could protect his friendwas by betraying him for the Super - Family .
Super-Man Joining the Super-Family Was a Sacrifice
It ’s sad to see Super - Man and Bat - Man become enemies , as their developing friendly relationship was one of the best parts of Kenan ’s previous claim , New Super - Man . But deform against his admirer and keeping him at a length is the only means Kenan can keep Baixi safe for now . It ’s not a permanent solution , because if Bat - Man is anything like his intake , he ’ll keep digging until he finds answers . While it is n’t what Super - Man wanted to do , he sacrificed his human relationship with hisJustice Leagueally to keep him alive .
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