I hate to keep repeating myself, but this is another book that keeps exceeding my expectation. Kurt Busiek is currently writing this. And we all know how brilliant he is. Carlas Pacheco is on pencils. Another relatively new talent, that I swear gets better with every issue. There is some beautiful stuff in this book. Anyways, picking up from last issue, Arion has come into the future, obviously from the past, to warn Superman, that he's doing some stuff that's putting the world in danger. This issue, Arion gives Superman, and some of his colleagues, a vision of the future. A future that is being set in motion by Superman's current course of action. This particular issue puts me in mind of some of those old 70's issues. You know, the ones where they would do the stories in Superman's future. Where he lost his powers, gained extra powers, lived forever, whatever else. I used to love those stories. Well this is like those, except they're not imaginary or just a "what if?" story. This one is actual visions, and a possibility of what's in store for our characters. The problem is, we don't know specifically what it is that Superman is doing or not doing. Arion is being kinda' vague right now. All we do know is that is seems to be centered around a guy named Khyber. He seems to look alien. Almost like a cousin of Apokolips from the Marvelous competitors. Anyways, I guess he's in the world now, but everything he's been doing has been from "behind the curtain", so our heroes weren't aware of his involvement, or that he even existed. It's Superman and this Khyber's future battle, that sends the earth into a Nuclear Winter. This is turning out to be a pretty cool storyline. And we got the introduction of a new bad guy, Khyber. Apparently he's the baddest of the bad guys. And oh yeah, I had to borrow another cover from www.milehighcomics.com . Great guys. Check 'em out.
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