Dominus

The big bad from the last few months is finally revealed, but little is actually revealed about Dominus.  In fact, we don't even get a clear idea of how his reality-altering powers work.  His motivation seems to a Luciferian aspiration to divinity, but while we see what he's willing to do to get to that level of power, it's not really explained what he wants to do with it.  The Daily Planet staff gets some bad news that will change their status quo for the next year, and another cast member gets some news that will change her life.

Superman #138

In 2999, the descendants of the original JLA form a new Justice League Alliance.  Kismet finally gets the Man of Steel to see through the four false realities he's been trapped in, and he comes to his senses in present-day Metropolis.  Kismet takes Superman to her stellar realm outside of reality and explains that she believes the villain Dominus wasn't trying to control him, but that his true target may have been her all along.  Though we're not given any origin or explanation for his reality-altering powers, Dominus apparently sees Kismet as his only remaining obstacle to godhood.  Dominus finds them and effortlessly tosses Superman back to Earth so he can take Kismet's powers, but she successfully repels him, encloses herself in a bubble, and flees.

Sometimes readers complain that Superman is too powerful, and writers respond by simply creating a more powerful villain with little or no explanation.  Dominus feels like a villain whose powers were imagined purely for the needs of the story, rather than a story created around his powers.

Adventures of Superman #561

Clark Kent wakes up from a Silver Age dream in modern day Metropolis and gets ready to go to work.  He sees an accident about to happen at the Hypersector constructions site and Superman races to save the workers, only to be interrupted by Waverider of the Linear Men.  Superman tells Waverider about Dominus and Waverider offers to help Superman find Kismet.  They find a girl who looks like the one who Superman saw in the other realities, but it turns out it may be a real girl that Kismet simply patterned herself after.  Superman flies away and "Waverider" reveals to us that he was really Dominus in disguise all along.

At the Daily Planet, publisher Franklin Stern announces he's putting the newspaper on the market due to the decline in sales with the rising popularity of the internet.

Action Comics #748

Superman visits Pa Kent on the farm in Smallville, but it turns out it's really Dominus trying to use him to locate Kismet, who Jonathan also encountered after his heart attack when Superman died.

Lex Luthor pays a personal visit to Jerome Odetts, the last homeowner still standing in the planned Hypersector zone to try to buy him out.  A Jerome Odets appeared back in Action Comics #531 as the printer's assistant at the Daily Planet during the pre-Crisis era, but there seems to be no relation to this version.  Mr. Odetts refuses Luthor's offer, wondering what Lexcorp's involvement with Hypersector could be.  Inside the house, we see something more intriguing than the lot of land, Kismet hovers in a bubble in some sort of stasis inside the house!  On her way to find the farmhouse for her story on Hypersector, Lois Lane bumps into Lex Luthor, who offers her an opportunity in a new enterprise of his in case the Daily Planet doesn't survive.  Lois declines, but Luthor has a scheme to get her anyway.

The real Waverider pays a visit to the Man of Steel and they discover that an imposter had worked with Superman earlier.  The Linear Men take turns working with Superman, but as their search for Kismet goes on reality starts to change around them.  They all turn out to have been Dominus in disguise, and eventually the real Linear Men enter the scene to find a delusional Superman.

Superman: The Man of Steel #83 

After so much deception, Superman doesn't know who to trust anymore.  While Lois interviews Mr. Odetts, they discover a bomb in the cellar of the farmhouse.  Rushing to the house, Superman tosses the bomb into space, only to have Dominus appear and reality shift after he throws it.  Superman realizes that instead of the bomb, he tossed a child into the air.  The Linear Men stop time for Lois Lane and the old man so Superman can save the child.  Superman realizes if Waverider is really Dominus, he could let the bomb detonate and kill Lois, but if he stops the bomb he risks letting the child die.  Superman selflessly flies to save the child first, and luckily the real Waverider keeps the bomb from exploding.

Superman pays Lex Luthor a visit to find out if Lex planted the bomb, but Luthor takes a chunk of Kryptonite out of his desk and shoves it in Superman's face, then reveals that he's really Dominus.  Suddenly, an army of Linear Men from each from a separate moment in time attack Dominus all at once.

Lois publishes her story on the last farmhouse in Metropolis and Odetts contemplates if he should let her know Kismet is inside his house.

Elsewhere, Lois' sister Lucy gets the results from a pregnancy test and makes an appointment at a women's clinic.