Young Gods

Camelot Falls continues this month, which was a good thing because none of the other Superman books were on schedule.  Action Comics still suffers from chronic delays, and although it would return next month, it would be months before the "Last Son" story resumed, and even longer until it concluded.  Though Superman/Batman had just started a new story arc last month, it already skips another month.  For the first time in decades, there was only one Superman book released this month.

Superman #663

The Man of Steel returns to Metropolis to find it overrun with young New Gods from the planet New Genesis.  While these extremely powerful children mean well, they inadvertently do more harm than good, like mistaking people using an ATM for bank robbers.  The New God Light Ray had taken these children on a field trip in the solar system when some unknown force compelled the children to leave him and come to Earth.  Light Ray helps Superman round up the children to take them back to New Genesis, but before they go some of the children had uncovered baby Chemos that were unmistakably created at LexCorp.  A pair of children evade capture and remain on Earth.  Superman pays LexCorp CEO Lana Lang a visit, and she assures him that LexCorp is heading nowhere but towards bankruptcy.

After cleaning up some continuity regarding another Arion who was seen in Infinite Crisis, the real Arion of Atlantis visits Superman again to see if he's decided to listen to him and not intervene in humanity's problems.  Superman recounts the story of a child he has recently saved, and tells Arion that a mother would sacrifice herself to save her child, but couldn't be asked to sacrifice her child to save the world.  Disappointed, Arion blasts Superman with magic and is determined to control his mind if Superman won't obey voluntarily.

Also this month, DC's first crossover since Infinite Crisis began with Amazons Attack #1.  It would be the first Wonder Woman-centric crossover since War of the Gods, and while its tie-ins would be limited to the female characters, it would intersect with Supergirl's ongoing series.  At the same time, the new Justice League and Justice Society series had their first crossover, the Lightning Saga, which would reintroduce the pre-Crisis Legion of Superheroes.