Alright, so I have a huge problem with this issue but I want to talk about the good first, just for fairness sake. I like basically all the Conner Kent stuff, the fact he saves Superman and the fact that he’s back in Clark’s life, I started out reading Superboy and I’ve always enjoyed their family relationship as it’s developed so to have them finally together again as it should be is nice. I guess I also like that at the end of the day Superman can still inspire people to be somewhat good with Red Cloud, even though that’s not likely to stick.
Now onto the bad. Look someone needs to get Bendis an editor who can have him make sense of time and story. Because if I read this issue right, this is set before Superman #18 or before Superman revealed his identity to the public. That means that in other series we have seen an upset Luthor looking as though he’d retaliate, we’ve seen in the past few issues him upset gathering allies to attack Metropolis. And now we learn that he did this before the identity reveal so that means...Lex did this for no good reason. He just decided to team with Leviathan and attack metropolis just because. In fact, the issue sets this before Doom War and Hell Arisen. Now while that may make some sense time line wise for when this takes place, but I’m not sure if anyone else feels this way however I’m confused what the point of this was if it had nothing to do with the identity reveal. It just feels wrong and backwards that the big attack/retribution against Superman had nothing to do with Lex mad at Clark.
Personally, I’m not a fan of this issue except for the Superboy stuff and looking back besides some build up, conversations and fights I’m not sure how I feel about this whole arc if it had no big connection to what’s going on now. All that’s happened is an attack on the city, leviathan left a floating future city and talked down to the Justice League. All around very meh.