Look ... Up in the Sky
By Lois Lane
Photos by Jimmy Olsen, Karl Kerschl and Renata Guedes
Additional Reporting by Greg Rucka, Nunzio DeFilippis, Christina Weir and Jami Bernard
Graphic Design by Richard & Tanya Horie
Copy Design: Rob Leigh
Editors: Eddie Berganza and Jeanine Schaefer
Editor in Chief: Perry White
Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster
This month's cover by ... Karl Kerschl, color by Dave McCaig. It's a fairly standard pose of Superman that can be used in just about any situation. He's boldly flying toward the camera, with a nice mix of determination and optimism on his face, in front of a bright, cheerful background. Unfortunately, this cover does nothing to tell us what might be happening inside this issue.
As you may have picked up from the credits, this issue is presented as a Daily Planet report written by Lois Lane. She chronicles Superman's efforts to clean up Blüdhaven after Chemo was dropped on it from an airplane, killing more than 100,000 people. The first thing Superman did was stop by the outskirts of the city to comfort Nightwing. Then he entered the city with a few heroes who could withstand the radiation — the Metal Men and the two Green Lanterns who are not up in space helping Donna Troy.
Superman notices the radioactivity is coming from Chemo, who was scattered around the city in gobs of green sludge and is gradually bringing himself back together. Superman decides to hasten this process by attacking the villain, believing he'll want all of himself together to fight the Man of Steel at full strength. The gambit works, and Superman is eventually able to pull Chemo up into space, which causes the toxicity of Blüdhaven to return to safe levels. And the issue ends with more heroes entering the city to help with the cleanup, including Robin, Beast Boy and Kid Flash.
The timing of all these various events in Infinite Crisis is tenuous at best. This issue itself couldn't decide if the Chemo attack happened on a Friday or a Wednesday. In any case, in order for this to not be a continuity error, we have to assume that the Teen Titans had enough time after the Brother Blood fight to gather together, watch the report of the OMACs attacking the Amazons, and fly up to Blüdhaven to help with the cleanup for at least a little bit before being summoned by Superboy's distress call. And it isn't unreasonable to assume all these events were spread out over a week. This kind of pacing is apparent in the crossovers, but in the main series, everything is happening boom-boom-boom.
Since I have the physical copy, we get to check out the ads:
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AppleJacks Adventures with CinnaMon and Apple. A comic showing CinnaMon and Apple racing to a bowl of AppleJacks. CinnaMon wins because, you know, AppleJacks don't taste like apple.
Pssst ... the Pizza & Play Party? It's on. Don't tell anyone else. Just meet us back here next month. Teen Titans on PlayStation 2, Xbox and Game Cube.
Enter the world of Warriors where Warrior cat clans rule the wild. A series of six books.
New triple threat. Three great flavors in every bite! Bubble Tape.
1 part kid, 10 parts hero. Ben 10. A two-page comic of Ben using his alien powers to rush to the comic shop before it closes. Remarkably, Ben 10 is still going strong in 2018, on its third or fourth incarnation now.
Release the dragon! Dragon Booster for Nintendo DS.
Don't miss the first issue of the brand-new magazine for kids! Mad Kids.
Skyland. The rebellion begins on Nicktoons.
Rule the school! Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Duel Academy on Game Boy Advance.
M&M's Minis. Experience the cybercomic at mms.com.
Next time, we'll explore another crossover that adds more detail to the big Superboy fight with Teen Titans #32.
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