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ACTION COMICS #985

Written by Rob Williams, art and cover by Guillem March, variant cover by Mikel Janin.

"Eve of Destruction," part one! Superman finds himself side by side with Lex Luthor once more, but is his former foe truly committed to being a hero, or is it just a ruse to gain the Man of Steel's trust? As world events point to something dark on the horizon, the mysterious Mr. Oz makes his final move against the Man of Tomorrow.

32 pages, $2.99, in stores on August 9.

ACTION COMICS #986

Written by Rob Williams, art and cover by Guillem March, variant cover by Mikel Janin.

"Eve of Destruction," part two! The inhumanities of Earth put even Superman's trust to the test as he and Lex Luthor begin to see a pattern emerging that points to Mr. Oz and his agents. When Lex confronts Mr. Oz alone, one walks away changed forever.

32 pages, $2.99, in stores on August 23.

I suspect Lex grows hair.

Originally posted by -K-M-
If he truely read every medical text ever it's actually better

Superman can't read. He just looked at the pictures.

Originally posted by -K-M-
If he truely read every medical text ever it's actually better

In one Library? Also, I thought it was said 5 minutes has passed?

Originally posted by Phil
I still suspect that Oz is Alexander Luthor Jr.

Although I also kind of hope it's not Alex, mainly because Johns has already used him enough in his events, imo...

Originally posted by carver9
In one Library? Also, I thought it was said 5 minutes has passed?

No, the surgery had taken 5 minutes by the time the Dr. said that.

The book reading/text reading was a single moment. And it wasn't just a single library's worth. He said he read every medical text ever written, and that included digital texts too.

Originally posted by carver9
In one Library? Also, I thought it was said 5 minutes has passed?

Wasn't 5 minutes. Exact time? No clue. Less then 5 minutes basically instanteous. Indeed that's why I said IF. He stated "I just read EVERY medical text EVER published" and if true is far more impressive then supergirls feat

After Superman preformed the surgery, one of the doctors said: "This is incredible! 10 years of medical training in 5 minutes!" This seemed to be in reference to the amount of time it took for Superman to preform the surgery from start-to-finish, though... Not the time it took him to read all medical-related text on the planet.

Either way, the scene is pretty cool. It's not often that we get to see Superman use his f*cking thumb nail in a surgical application, lol. 👆

...But if we're talking memorization feats, this still trumps most:

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HAL JORDAN & THE GREEN LANTERN CORPS #26

Written by ROBERT VENDITTI • Art and cover RAFA SANDOVAL and JORDI TARRAGONA • Variant cover by TBD
“FALL OF THE GODS” part one! Ancient hunters awaken across the cosmos to end Highfather and the New Gods! Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps draw the line between gods, but that won’t stop the body count as the most powerful deities in the universe go to war.

HAL JORDAN & THE GREEN LANTERN CORPS #27

Written by ROBERT VENDITTI • Art and cover RAFA SANDOVAL and JORDI TARRAGONA • Variant cover by TBD
“FALL OF THE GODS” part two! Hal Jordan and Kyle Rayner face off against God Killers as they try to protect an injured Orion from certain death. As the battle turns against the Corps, will they have to sacrifice a New God to save an entire sector of space?
On sale AUGUST 23 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 • RATED T

That's a lot of words to tell me that Hal's about to own some Old Gods. 👆

These look decent, too:

JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #12

Written by STEVE ORLANDO • Art and cover by IVAN REIS • Variant cover by TBD
“CRISIS IN THE MICROVERSE” part one! It’s the story you’ve been waiting for! Ryan Choi leads the JLA on a rescue mission into the microverse to rescue his long-lost mentor, Ray Palmer, the original Atom, and unravel the mystery of his disappearance in DC UNIVERSE: REBIRTH #1!
On sale AUGUST 9 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T

JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #13

Written by STEVE ORLANDO • Art and cover by IVAN REIS • Variant cover by TBD
“CRISIS IN THE MICROVERSE” part two! Disaster strikes when the JLA’s shrink ship crashes on a strange world, where the team encounters a mysterious being who claims a connection to the missing Ray Palmer. But nobody’s going anywhere without the help of Shahn-Zi, a sentient planet with the power to find Palmer.
On sale AUGUST 30 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T

SUPERMAN #28

Written by PETER J. TOMASI, PATRICK GLEASON and KEITH CHAMPAGNE • Art by DOUG MAHNKE and JAIME MENDOZA • Cover by DOUG MAHNKE • Variant cover by JORGE JIMENEZ
“FEAR ITSELF” part one! The writing team of Tomasi and Gleason are joined by co-writer Keith Champagne in a story that returns to their Green Lantern roots and asks the question “What scares Superman?”
On sale AUGUST 2 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T

SUPERMAN #29

Written by PETER J. TOMASI, PATRICK GLEASON and KEITH CHAMPAGNE • Art by DOUG MAHNKE and JAIME MENDOZA • Cover by RYAN SOOK • Variant cover by JORGE JIMENEZ
“FEAR ITSELF” part two! This looks like a job for…Sinestro?! Thrust into the anti-matter universe of Qward, Superman’s only hope is the former greatest of the Green Lanterns!
On sale AUGUST 16 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T

Sinestro Man! 😱

Maybe Hal vs Orion and Sinestro vs Superman?

If both of them happen, we'll have a pretty good idea of where the GLs stand.

From what I remember, wasn't it Venditti that had Orion kind of roflstomp Hal not too long ago. Galan? I don't have the issues at hand to check the writer.

Tomasi has written Green Lanterns for much of his career, so I doubt he'll make Sinestro look bad.

Originally posted by Zack M

Sinestro Man! 😱

mhmm

Yeah, Orion owned Hal in Godhead. Impressive, actually. All the New Gods that were featured in the story pretty much owned all the various Lantern Corps.

Originally posted by Phil
Maybe Hal vs Orion and Sinestro vs Superman?

If both of them happen, we'll have a pretty good idea of where the GLs stand.

From what I remember, wasn't it Venditti that had Orion kind of roflstomp Hal not too long ago. Galan? I don't have the issues at hand to check the writer.

Tomasi has written Green Lanterns for much of his career, so I doubt he'll make Sinestro look bad.

That said, I imagine things will be portrayed in a much different light this time around -- especially with Tomasi taking the reigns. 👆

Originally posted by Galan007
Yep. The New Gods steamrolled through every spectrum of Lanterns as though they were weak fodder during Godhead... That arc *really* emphasized the superiority New Gods have over beings from the third dimension. Orion, for example, shattered Hal's constructs like cheap tissue paper.

That said, I imagine things will be portrayed in a much different light this time around -- especially with Tomasi taking the reigns. 👆

Hmmm, what is DC's Dark Multiverse?

What I’ll say about Metal is that there’s a lot of dark terminology — Dark Days, Dark Nights: Metal — but the reason is because the event really focuses on the Justice League’s discovery of a whole new branch of DC cosmology called “the Dark Multiverse.” It really came from a fascination that I have with the idea of dark matter, dark energy. My little one, who’s 5, loves Cosmos, the show, and I watch it with him all the time, but he thinks Neil deGrasse Tyson’s name is “Cosmo,” which is really funny. He’s always saying, “Look, Cosmo’s in his spaceship again, Dad!”

Scott Snyder Reveals Dark Nights: Metal Details and the Dark Multiverse

Originally posted by -K-M-

Originally posted by Galan007
Yep. The New Gods steamrolled through every spectrum of Lanterns as though they were weak fodder during Godhead... That arc *really* emphasized the superiority New Gods have over beings from the third dimension. Orion, for example, shattered Hal's constructs like cheap tissue paper.

That said, I imagine things will be portrayed in a much different light this time around -- especially with Tomasi taking the reigns. 👆

Did they explain why the new gods were so unusually OP in that story or was that just the new52 portrayal?

DC needs a consistent New Gods book, there's so much untapped story potential there.