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Calvin Ellis, the fan-favorite President Superman, stepped into Justice League Infinity’s corner of the DC Multiverse and joined the comic’s DCAU.
WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Justice League Infinity #3, on sale now from DC Comics.
Calvin Ellis, the hero also known as President Superman, has been popping up around the DC Multiverse a lot recently. He’s been a major part of the Infinite Frontier event series, with him and other heroes across the multiversal facing the threat of Darkseid. He’ll also be starring in another book as the multiverse’s own Justice League, Justice Incarnate, gets its own series. And now, there’s an entirely new version of Calvin Ellis and he comes from the beloved DC Animated Universe.
Calvin Ellis was created by Grant Morrison and Doug Manke for the epic Final Crisis crossover event in 2008. Since then, he’s become a big part of the DC Multiverse. First, with the multiversal event Multiversity and then again with other similar universe-bending stories. With the character being a relatively new one then, there haven’t been many opportunities for different versions of him to pop up in other media. Justice League Infinity #3 by J.M. DeMatteis, James Tucker, Ethen Beavers, Nick Filardi, and Tom Napolitano dares to imagine what the character would be like in the animated series Justice League Unlimited, as this new comic follows on from the events of the hit show.
This latest issue opens with Calvin Ellis flying through the skies of his own world. As he meets up with his fellow heroes, it’s clear that some things about Calvin Ellis’s DCAU home are quite different compared to his home in the regular DC Universe. Some of these details are noted by the issue’s narrator, Lois Lane, who provides more context.
In the DCAU, President Superman lives on Earth-D rather than Earth-23. This Calvin Ellis also works with a team of superheroes, although not multiversal in nature. Each of these heroes corresponds to a member of the well-known Justice League cartoon roster. However, this team isn’t called the Justice League, but rather the Justice Alliance (a name Lois admits she likes better.) Other notable differences are that the members of this team are totally different from Ellis’s Earth-23 League, with John Stweart and Nubia being swapped out for new heroes José Hernandez and Unatti, whom Superman is apparently married to on this Earth.
Previous issues of Justice League Infinity have seen the existential quest of the android Amazo causing unwanted chaos around the multiverse of the DCAU. The first issue ended with Superman replaced by Overman, his Nazi counterpart from a parallel world. The last issue explored what the DCAU’s Superman did when he landed on Overman’s twisted world. Battling a Nazi-controlled Brainiac and meeting good versions of his deadliest villains – the Freedom Fighters, led Superman to lend this world his aid. Though at first, it seems Superman may be alone in this quest, that isn’t the case for long.
Calvin Ellis suffered a similar fate to the DCAU Superman, having been sucked into a tear in reality caused by Amazo. He finds himself on Overman’s world too, in the Freedom Fighters base, and a fight breaks out between the two confused forces. Though it looks like the DCAU Superman and President Superman are about to duke it out, both stop before they throw a single punch.
Each Superman recognizes the good in the other without a single word being said. As they talk, the DCAU Superman notes that it’s like they’re two halves of the one soul. With this, Calvin Ellis has already left quite a mark on the DCAU, with the animated Man of Steel trusting him completely.
The inclusion and introduction of Calvin Ellis in this world-hopping tale mirrors his role in the regular DCU. With both the original comic and DCAU counterparts being introduced as unlikely travelers of the multiverse. If his original history is anything to go by, it’s likely this is not the end of the multiversal adventures of the Superman of Earth-D.
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