If you loved how Kingdom Come juggles Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, and the unruly new metahuman generation, you’ll savor the way Astro City: Life in the Big City spotlights heroes like Samaritan, Winged Victory, and The Confessor from different angles. That same mosaic feel—where a street encounter, a newsroom column, or a rooftop patrol refracts the entire superhero society—echoes the thrill of watching Clark’s return from exile ripple through every corner of the caped world.

As Norman McCay and the Spectre guide you through the Revelation-tinged future of Kingdom Come, Marvels follows photojournalist Phil Sheldon through decades of seismic Marvel moments—Galactus blotting out the sky, the Human Torch blazing a new age, the shattering loss around Gwen Stacy. The same awe you felt at Alex Ross’s painted panoramas of the Kansas catastrophe, the Gulag, and the UN climax is here, rendered in luminous spreads that make you feel history bearing down on ordinary lives.

If the ethical crucible of Kingdom Come—from the Gulag’s explosion to Captain Marvel’s agonizing decision—stuck with you, Watchmen sharpens that blade. Ozymandias’s world-saving gambit, Rorschach’s uncompromising verdict, and Dr. Manhattan’s chilling detachment mirror the same collisions you saw between Superman’s returned idealism and Batman’s realpolitik. It’s dense with symbols and clocks ticking toward judgment, just as Kingdom Come frames its showdown in apocalyptic imagery.

The scriptural cadence of Norman McCay’s narration and the Spectre’s pilgrimage through a ravaged future are echoed in A Canticle for Leibowitz. Across centuries, monks safeguard fragments of knowledge after nuclear devastation, wrestling with faith, hubris, and mercy—much like the debates that flare after the Kansas annihilation in Kingdom Come. If the communion of prophecy and consequence moved you, this novel’s litany of memory and moral reckoning will, too.

If Kingdom Come’s central question—what right and responsibility does Superman have to impose order on a broken world?—hooked you, Superman: Peace on Earth offers a crystalline companion. Clark attempts something simple yet impossible: ending world hunger. As in his uneasy return and clashes with Magog’s generation, his mission meets human fear, politics, and unintended consequences. The result is a poignant meditation on power, conscience, and where hope fits between them.