Zod and Superman are really going at it in this one. Yet, more impressive than their all-out brawl is their all-out inane discussion. That’s right all, they stole the idea from us! Seriously, this discussion they have, it is the greatest assault my mental capacity has faced since Physics with Dr. Baja Jasmenajad. But, for you gentle reader, I will once more attempt to do the numbers:

1. Superman knew that his father had built an alternate dimension as a prison in which dwelt the super bad guys of Krypton.

2. Superman developed the spherey thing so as to remake this prison dimension into a paradise.

3. Superman made androids of his mother and father and sent them into the dimension to be leaders there?

4. Superman had time to do all this while he was saving the world from countless dangers.

5. Superman sent the spherey thing into the newly formed dimension even though it was the only way to get into the newly formed dimension.

6. Zod (a baddie from extra yon), while in his newly remodeled prison-dimension, looks at the spherey thing long enough to get all bearded, and then through the ancient art of sitting he figures out how to send the spherey thing back to the dimension in which it was made.

7. The rebels in a non-descript, warring Middle Eastern nation, find the spherey thing and use it, and people in Metropolis vanish in The Vanishing? This one may be very wrong, but if I remember correctly it was something like that.

8. Superman takes the spherey thing back, then after fighting with his amigos he uses it to travel to the dimension he redecorated.

9. Equis kills Supe’s automaton father, which no doubt took Clark a long time to build, so Clark gets angry and fights with Zod, while Equis growls a lot.

10. In the midst of the fight, Zod and Superman give Near Mint Minus a royal nod by carrying on in a very inane manner for the rest of the comic. Then Superman sends the spherey thingy back to earth, which apparently defeats Zod who is now going to pout because Clark took his shiny ball away.

11. The totally evil mercenary dude, who used the dogs to petrify Halcyon and force her into handing him a knife after he handed it to her, remember him? (If not see previous reviews of this title.) Well, he is getting paid for all of his various misdeeds which all amount to nothing because his payers are scrapping the program he was working for, while at the same time they are apparently remodling Superman's friend the priest into a super-soldier with the sacred knife thing implanted in his forearm? What?

12. Next issue is the conclusion. The conclusion of what, utter madness? I sure hope it is like the size of The Stand because otherwise it will be a ridiculous summation of all that has, or maybe hasn’t gone on in these recent books. If any of you attend MIT and want to do the math on these books, I will buy you the TPB, then you can read it and tell us all exactly what the hell has happened here.

13. But it may all just be a dream in the mind of the priest.

14. Yes, the art is good.

-Peblee