Superman - Darker Side, Bk 1 Author:Kieron Dwyer, John Francis Moore, Hilary Barta An Elseworlds Tale. In Elseworlds, heroes are taken from their usual settings and put into strange times and places -- some that have existed or might have existed, and others that can't, couldn't or shouldn't exist. This is one of our stories... Superman is the galaxy's greatest hero because he was raised in Smallville by loving Earth parents. ... more »But what if he had been raised by the galaxy's greatest villain instead? In Superman, The Dark Side, a rocket bearing a child from Krypton lands on Apokolips, a hellish planet of dictatorship and despair. It is ruled by Darkseid, a despot in search of the Anti-Life Equation that will deprive all mankind of free will. He raises the boy to become a Super-Soldier in a war to enslave world after world. Who can stop him? The New Gods, the Forever People and Mister Miracle, strewn throughout Apokolips and its edenic rival, New Genesis. The Man of Steel goes on a journey from corruption to redemption.« less