Six Months In
The Superman books are now six months into the post-Crisis era.
Clark Kent regains consciousness and, to his horror, Lois Lane has discovered the Superman costume hidden in his clothes. Luckily for Superman, it's not actually Lois. It turns out she and the other members of the exhibition have all been possessed by an ancient alien race that lived on earth before man. The rest of the surviving aliens are collectively contained inside a robotic host (also the mummy from last issue), waiting to acquire more human bodies to possess. Ultimately, the host short circuits because they all try to possess Superman at the same time.
Superman's fight with the robot is intercut as the story unfolds. It's trying to be modern and creative, but it doesn't really work here. In fact, if it weren't for the page numbers you would probably think the pages were just printed out of order. The aliens, called the H'VLER'NI, are never seen again.
Superman arrives home after just saving a Concord from crashing into Metropolis. Cat Grant unexpectedly barges into Clark's apartment, starts packing his clothes, and drags him with her for a weekend skiing vacation. Here we discover that Cat has a son who she hasn't seen in years by court order. Superman inexplicably goes to the father's home to try to reason with him, but he's suddenly attacked by another alien from that mysterious group hiding out on earth in the previous issue. Both Cat's son and his father are injured in the attack, but Cat is allowed to visit her son in the hospital in the end. Superman starts to have an identity crisis, questioning his motivation for interfering in Cat's personal life.
The Green Lantern Corps finds Superman unconscious in deep space. The Lanterns rescue the Man of Steel and take him back to their citadel. When he awakens, they learn the Thanagarian invasion from the previous issue is no longer a threat, but there's now a strange biological planet on a collision course with Earth. At the moment, the Corps is more concerned about saving some endangered alien worms who lost their homeworld in "the Great Crisis," but they spare a few Lanterns to help Superman save the Earth. The living planet happens to be mostly made of the color yellow, which at the time was still the Green Lanterns' one ridiculous weakness (made even sillier by the fact that they originally thought it was green because it was surrounded by a blue cloud). The mass actually turns out to be the remains of the being that Superman and the Phantom Stranger encountered a few issues earlier. The heroes move it out of the solar system and sterilize it, where it becomes a new home for the worms.
This series is starting to improve, by continuing from a cliffhanger and also referencing a previous story, it's starting to get a sense of continuity like the other books. The Green Lanterns acknowledge that Superman can't survive in space on his own, a new post-Crisis rule that the previous issue seemed to ignore. This is the first issue to acknowledge that a Crisis even occurred. There's still been no appearances by any of Superman's supporting cast. By now, all of DC's post-Crisis reboots have been launched. The new Justice League that emerged from Legends starts a new series, and Wally West finally takes over as the Flash. The Green Lantern Corps would only have their series for another year, and then it wouldn't be until 1990 that the series would return.
Superman #6
Superman's fight with the robot is intercut as the story unfolds. It's trying to be modern and creative, but it doesn't really work here. In fact, if it weren't for the page numbers you would probably think the pages were just printed out of order. The aliens, called the H'VLER'NI, are never seen again.
Adventures of Superman #429
Action Comics #589
This series is starting to improve, by continuing from a cliffhanger and also referencing a previous story, it's starting to get a sense of continuity like the other books. The Green Lanterns acknowledge that Superman can't survive in space on his own, a new post-Crisis rule that the previous issue seemed to ignore. This is the first issue to acknowledge that a Crisis even occurred. There's still been no appearances by any of Superman's supporting cast. By now, all of DC's post-Crisis reboots have been launched. The new Justice League that emerged from Legends starts a new series, and Wally West finally takes over as the Flash. The Green Lantern Corps would only have their series for another year, and then it wouldn't be until 1990 that the series would return.
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