Well, this issue wraps up our Kryptonite story-line. You remember, where Superman wants to gather up every piece of Kryptonite on the planet and get rid of it so that no one can ever threaten him with it. Kind of a grandiose plan. But, essentially, he and Batman succeed. Until they find out the the only remaining cache belongs to LexCorp. Which doesn't put them in the sights of Lex Luthor, but rather Lana Lang, who is running the company right now. Now the problem they run in to is that LexCorp has the Kryptonite split into a 1000 cache's around the globe. Should Superman attempt to extract any of them, they will all explode sending a fine dust of Kryptonite over the entire planet. Long story short, they push her, she pushes the button and the new home of all the Kryptonians on the planet is the JLA watchtower. However, unexpectedly, Toyman, Hiro, comes to the rescue with his nanobots which can extract micro-organisms from the air. All he asks for in return is a date with Power-girl. But, he also gets an official JLA membership. But Clark can't completely take away humanities right to protect itself. So he give a rather sizable chunk to Bruce for safe-keeping. "Kryptonite is what makes me most human. And to be human means to have vulnerabilities. To know there's always . . always an end. If I don't allow for this . . some possibility . . for death . . it's only a mask. Playing at humanity." However, we see at he end that Batman actualy has quite a reserve of Kryptonite himself. I'm sure a lot more than Superman would ever suspect him of. This was a fantastic story-line by Michael Green and Mike Johnson. I thought they did a great job with this story-arc. And, as you all know, I'm a huge fan of Shane Davis'. I think the guy has incredible talent, and really . . he's just starting out. He's relatively new to the industry. He has an incredible future ahead of him. This is easily one of the top 10 books out right now.
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