Livewire attacks STAR Labs, only to find they have problems of their own to deal with as their Phantom Zone mapping experiments have gone awry as a result of the planet's shift into the Zone itself. Superman arrives and asks Livewire to help. Meanwhile, Rogul Zarr meets up with Jax-Ur, Jax-Ur sends his allies to defeat Rogul but he easily deals with all of them. He and Jax-Ur then become quite chummy and agree to combine forces. Back at Earth's sector of space, Adam Strange arrives to find nothing but a lone space satellite. He comments on how this isn't funny. Back in the Zone, Superman learns the Zone's atmosphere combined with the Earth's own is slowly poisoning everyone. After preventing a looting in the city, Clark senses danger and finds Rogul and Jax-Ur's army about to attack
Again, I love how Bendis involves as many heroes as he can to show the full range global consequence of the Earth being trapped in the Zone. Flash is disoriented in the hospital, Bruce is passed out at the toilet, Aquaman even wonders what is in place of the Earth now that it's been dislocated, which leads to the amusing Adam Strange cameo.
The Bendis speak was slightly less annoying this time, and I do like Clark's inner monologues here about never ceasing to want for others.