Well, this one wraps up the Insect Queen story-line. Which is good, because I thought this one was shaky. At best. Don't get me wrong, I love Kurt Busiek's writing. I just didn't care for this particular story-line. But, it appears to me, that the whole thing was a set-up for Lana to find another piece of the puzzle in putting Lexcorp back together again. Basically, this Insect Queen, and her colony, found their way to Earth. They've set up base on the moon in an already established Lexcorp base. From there she planned to grow her drones and establish her empire to take over the Earth, and then the universe. Her secret was this stuff she calls Ambrosia. It's the gel that they incubate in for long space travel, but it also allows them to change the genes of the races they conquer. But there's something about Earth that will allow her to make mass quantities of this Ambrosia. With the Ambrosia, dominion becomes that much easier. During this whole process, Superman has been under her thumb because she's released midges into his brain, and they're really clouding things up on him. But Lana, who's genes the Queen used to create her body, has broken free and found some other survivors of the original Lexcorp base. With her help, she finds her way around, and finally finds Superman. Of course she helps him break out, and he beats the Queen. We knew that was going to happen. But the main thing that comes out of it is, Luthor's moon base, which she's offering to the highest bidder as a research base. And the magna-drive shuttles that Luthor used to get back and forth to the moon. There's a great deal of interest, worldwide, in the magnetic shuttle engines. So it looks like, between these 2 things, and of course her remote cameras that followed Superman around the globe when he was fighting Arion, she's going to be able to get Lexcorp back on it's feet. Which may or may not be a good thing. But, it's good for Lana. Oh yeah, also some of the issues between Superman and Chris were resolved this issue when Superman took Chris off to have a little heart to heart with him. He had blown up their apartment, while Clark was off on the moon. He did it by accident. The red-sun watch that was supposed to dampen his powers, was actually causing him to build up energy. All in all, I thought it was a pretty good issue. I just didn't really like the whole Insect Queen part of it. I also thought that Jesus Merino did a fantastic job on the pencils this issue. My only problem is, next issue, Renato Guedes takes over on pencils. But, I'm not really a big fan of his. So I hope Kurt has some fantastic stories to make up for that. But that's just my opinion.
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