The Last Temptation of Father Leone

For Tomorrow has been dragging on for more than half a year now, and I'm just as ready for it to be over as I was when it first came out.  The only thing I really find interesting is analyzing the inconsistency of Wonder Woman's costumes from issue to issue and even from cover to interior.

Superman #210

Father Leone has a nightmare where Superman offers to cure his cancer if he will step off a skyscraper.  This allusion to the temptation of Christ takes an even darker turn when Superman turns into Equus and violently cuts through his torso, waking the priest from his sleep.  He goes for a walk alone in the city at night, where he's confronted by Mr. Orr, and we get this issue's obligatory flashback, apparently to some time right after the last issue.  Wonder Woman meets the witch who summoned the elemental giants and calls her one of her many names, Halcyon.  Mr. Orr enters the room and tells Wonder Woman that Superman has the device that caused the Vanishing.  

Back in the present in Gotham City, the Joker throws a woman off a building and Superman flies in and saves her before Batman can.  An angry Bruce and Kal El have a very hostile conversation about their masks and motivations.  Superman flies back to Metropolis and pays another visit to Father Leone, and they have an awkward conversation where Superman tells him he wouldn't even try to cure cancer.  Superman asks Father Leone if he believes he can fly, but rather than making the priest jump off a building he takes him to the Fortress of Solitude.  At the Batcave, Batman realizes Superman has figured out the Vanishing and he alerts Wonder Woman, who is already outside the Fortress dressed for battle.  

Not only is there no scene like the one on this cover, Superman and Wonder Woman are never even in the same scene together in the story.  Though she wears the Jim Lee-designed skirt on the interior pages, if you look closely Wonder Woman is apparently wearing Lee's pteruges version again on this cover.  The last time we saw this costume, it also only appeared on the cover of Superman #208 and not in the interior.

This is by far one of the most inhuman depictions of the Man of Steel, it's trying to make him seem more alien but it just makes him unlikable.  The constant jumping back and forth in time makes the story difficult to follow, and there's too much reading between the lines for details that won't even be revealed until a later issue.

Adventure of Superman #633

Lois is back home at their apartment recovering from being shot, where her mother and sister Lucy are there to help.  This is the last and only time we ever see Lucy's son Samuel since he was born.

Ruin transforms the Allston twins, who he had previously held hostage and then kidnapped from the hospital, into a pair of new Parasites and supplies them with victims to feed on.  This is the second attempt in recent years to turn a classic Superman villain into a male and female pair of twins, after the Myxy twins from Adventures of Superman #617-618.  

Lt. Leocadio interrogates Xlim to try to find out where Ruin has taken the twins.  Superman realizes that Ruin has been anticipating his powers at every turn, and searches the city for place hidden from his view.  He bursts into Ruin's hideout, but arrives only to find the words "too late" written on the glass of the cell.  Lois answers the door at her apartment, but the unexpected visitors are Alex and Alexa Allston, and they're hungry.

Action Comics #820

On Halloween night, the Silver Banshee chooses Jack Ryder's perfectionist secretary to be her new human host because of her obsessive desire for order in the universe.  Jack Ryder meets the wife of his cameraman who was killed by supervillains who attacked S.T.A.R. Labs more out of guilt than consolation.  While the Silver Banshee causes a disturbance in Metropolis, Jack Ryder changes into the Creeper to try to stop her, but she creates a haunting illusion of him watching his cameraman die again.  Superman arrives to stop the fight, but he only appears on 7 pages in this book.  

In the epilogue, the now-intelligent Doomsday arrives in Metropolis and experiences the sensation of performing a good deed when he rescues a cat from a tree.  Unfortunately, his curiosity into this new sensation causes him to kill the cat and its owner just to see how he feels.