Villains United

There aren't any official Infinite Crisis tie-ins this month, but the countdown to the Crisis is still felt in the Superman books, with connections to the OMAC Project and Villains United.

Superman #218

Superman is doubting himself after losing the trust of the villagers near his new jungle Fortress of Solitude last issue.  To make his mood even worse, a show on TV depicts a hypothetical scenario where the Man of Steel turns on mankind.  

Meanwhile, an ex-con struggling to adapt to life outside of prison discovers he's living next door to a former super villain.  He steals his neighbor's black rock and assumes his identity as the villain Blackrock.  Though Superman defeats this new villain with his heat vision and throws the black rock into the sun, his methods terrify the people who had scene a similar scene depicted on that TV show.  An unseen figure at Checkmate watches the fight remotely, making this an unofficial OMAC Project tie-in.

Though the original Blackrock is shown in a flashback, he had never before appeared in post-Crisis continuity.  This was a sample of the looser continuity we would start to see in the era after Infinite Crisis.

Action Comics #828

Superman fights Dr. Polaris' new split personality, Repulse, but with total control over the electromagnetic spectrum now she's even able to blind the Man of Steel.  Jimmy Olsen climbs to the top of the bridge where they're fighting with a wooden baseball bat and knocks out Dr. Polaris.  Superman helps Dr. Polaris remember the abusive aunt whose personality Repulse as based on, and together they reduce her to an empty suit of armor.  After the fight, Black Adam and Zoom come to take Dr. Polaris with them to join the super villains Lex Luthor is assembling in Villains United.  Black Adam warns Superman that a confrontation is coming between the heroes and villains.

At a press conference for the opening of a new youth shelter, Lois Lane exposes the politician who has been embezzling money from his own charity.

Adventures of Superman #641

Former Vice President Pete Ross is taken to Stryker's Island after pleading not guilty at his arraignment.  Detective Leocadio enters his cell alone to interrogate him and give him a beat down.  Clark Kent shows up to visit his old friend and interrupts her.  In private, Pete tells Clark that he knows he's Superman, and that convinces Clark that he's really innocent.  

Elsewhere in the prison, Ruin's confiscated costume causes a power outage, and the new Parasite twins escape.  Clark Kent changes into Superman to stop them, but their fight is interrupted by an OMAC and one of the twins is killed.  Pete Ross is discovered to have disappeared during the chaos.

Though an OMAC is even featured on the cover, this doesn't have an official OMAC Project tie-in logo.