A review by pages_and_reels
Justice League of America: The Nail by Mark Farmer, Alan Davis

4.0

Thanks to Aveek for the recommendation.

Why does the JLA need Superman? More importantly, why does the world need Superman?

These are the questions that this Elseworlds story answers, where Jonathan and Martha Kent do not discover the rocket ship carrying Kal-El and the world grows without a Superman.

The story has some parallels to the X-Men comics, with the media spreading paranoia about the metahumans and the subsequent persecution of the latter by the Sentinel-like Liberators.