This issue we learn all about Hank Henshaw. The Cyborg Superman. It's written by Alan Burnett. With artwork by Patrick Blaine. I haven't seen his work before, but I really like his style. If he's new to the medium, he certainly shows a lot of promise. Of course we also have a brilliant Ethan Van Sciver cover. Anyways, this issue we get the whole origin story. For those of you who weren't quite aware of it. Hanks origin actually is pretty close to the FF origin. Of course it didn't end up the same. I guess you could say it was the FF origin gone bad. We also learn why he hates Superman so much. Of course that was fueled a little bit when he was with Mongul for a little while there. Now he's like Sinestro's interface for the ManHunters. You know. Those robots that were the Guardians original Corps. Well now they work for Hank, and therefore Sinestro. We also learn that Sinestro and Hank are planning on attacking the JLA Satellite. It's to be their first salvo on their attack of Earth. Superman has to swoop in to get Hank off of the satellite. He's about to hack in to all of their programming, which would essentially disable it. But Hanks fine with facing Superman. Because, what he really wants, what he yearns for, is the sweet release of death. Hanks tired of being who and what he is. He just wants to die and be done with it. So since he's fighting Superman now, he's hoping the he'll be the one to grant his wish. And of course this issue leads directly in to Green Lantern #24. Which is where the attack by the Sinestro Corps, on Earth, will take place. They always say "It's always darkest before the dawn." Well . . right now . . it's looking pretty dark. This whole Sinestro Corps thing is a fantastic story-line. I really can't wait to see how it all washes out.
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