1: Everyone?s glad to see Superman back in Action Comics!
2-3: There?s a nice organic re-cap for Superman and folks like me who haven?t had a chance to keep up with the Reign of Doomsday stuff that?s been going down. (See: Icons: Steel #1, Outsiders #37, JLA #55, Superman/Batman Annual #5 and Superboy #6.)
4-5: Every time you see an S-shield, take a drink!
6-7: Doomsday, baby! And not the watered down Doomsday of the past several years. Check out that epic Pete Woods art, too.
8-9: Picking up where we left off in the last issue, we find an all powerful Lex Luthor, and ? finally ? Lex vs. Superman!
10-13: Lex enlightens the newly arrived Superman on exactly why he?s now wielding the powers of a god. He then gets rather ticked when the Man of Steel decides to ignore him and tries to book it to the phantom zone.
14-15: It?s judgment day, and Luthor forces his version of This Is Your Life on Superman, starting with the day he first met Doomsday. The day he died.
16-17: Rags Morales does a superb job destroying Krypton for the hundredth time. And now the sacrifice of your foster son. Take that!
18-19: Bye bye, New Krypton and Pa Kent.
20-21: Gary Frank brings back the sadness from his and Jeoff Johns? Brainiac story.
22-24: Lex doesn?t take it too well when he discovers that Clark Kent from his childhood home of Smallville has followed him to Metropolis as the city?s greatest savior. He?s impotent to do anything about it, though, as the god he has merged with has awakened and is fighting back.
25-27: Meanwhile, Doomsday continues to wage war on Team Superman (consisting of Superboy, Supergirl, Steel, Eradicator and Cyborg Superman), somehow reproducing their various powers.
28-33: Luthor makes people happy. Lots of people. Yay! Seriously, even Batman?s smiling. There?s also another two panels of Neil Gaiman?s Death, too. And that makes us happy.
34-39: Cornell offers Luthor the choice between infinite power, not to mention infinite happiness for all, and attempting to destroy his greatest foe. In a classically Lex moment, Luthor chooses badly and goes after Superman for a few pages.
40: No fair! Cyborg Superman has discovered something; but guess what, you have to wait till the big double-page reveal at the end to know what it is.
41-43: Then, in a classically Superman moment, Clark tells him why he?ll always fail, before then kicking Lex?s steadily de-powering behind across the universe. Lex loses his powers and his [cough-convenient-cough] memory. There?s a quick two-panel scene of Joker kicked back in his cell, mysteriously aware of Luthor?s choice. Another Death cameo. Lex has obviously lost his marbles. Muttering to himself, he floats through space and into one of the numerous black spheres which are made up of energy from the black rings seen in last year?s Blackest Night storyline.
44: Fan favorite Robot Lois heads off through space on her own journey, while a sneaky little tidbit of the entity from the phantom zone does the same.
45-51: With Luthor taken care of, Superman flies off to find where he?s trapped Team Superman. This all ends in a two-page spread, revealing the next big Superman arc: Reign of the Doomsdays! Yeah, plural.
Awesome, yes? And that?s just the main course. You should check out the rest of the 96 pages. They feature tales from David Goyer (The Dark Knight), Richard Donner (Superman: The Movie), Damon Lindelof (Lost), and the creative team behind DC Universe Online.
Please, don?t take my word for it, though, hit your local comic shop and pick up the issue before it?s gone.
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