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Maybe this week we'll have some Superboy cameo in the Spring Breakout anthology or the Superman: House of Brainiac special, but so far nothing confirmed.

In any case, I'll put House of Brainiac here since we might see Conner or Jon on a page or maybe a photo or something.

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Superman: House of Brainiac Special

HOUSE OF BRAINIAC PART 2.5 An essential issue in the Action Comics/Superman crossover as Brainiac’s secret history with Lobo and Czarnia is revealed! How did Brainiac create a Bottled City of Czarnia?Who steps up to protect Metropolis after Brainiac’s army leaves it in ruins? Will Lois Lane confront Perry White about his own secrets as he runs for mayor of Metropolis? And how is Amanda Waller involved in all of this? All these questions are answered in this crucial issue that connects to DC’s Superman-Sized event! Meanwhile, Bibbo steps up! With the heroes gone and a city in need of some champions, our favorite bartender organizes the community to save their beloved home.

Joshua Williamson (Author), Mark Russell (Author), Jamal Campbell (Cover Art), Edwin Galmon (Penciller, Inker, Colorist), Fico Ossio (Penciller, Inker), Steve Pugh (Penciller, Inker), Jordie Bellaire (Colorist), Rex Lokus (Colorist)

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So, no new Superboy content this week. So we return to last week's Superman comic, Conner shows up for two whole pages! That's like one page per week.

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Superman #13

Joshua Williamson (Author), Rafa Sandoval (Cover Art, Penciller, Inker), Alejandro Sanchez (Cover Art, Colorist)

Original Superboy 1967 comic book ads with terrible good for nothing commentary! 😀

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Ok, Clark was the original Superboy. Slim pickings!!!!

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Superman #13

HOUSE OF BRAINIAC PART TWO! Superman and Lobo…team-up? Together, the Man of Steel and the Main Man race across the universe on a hunt for the Lobo Army and Brainiac. Can they get along long enough to get to them before Brainiac enacts the next stage of his dangerous plans to create a new House of Brainiac?!

Joshua Williamson (Author), Rafa Sandoval (Cover Art, Penciller, Inker), Alejandro Sanchez (Cover Art, Colorist)

I’m living in a $&@€*#$ dreamworld (sorry I don’t know if cussing is allowed).

Okay, so, the year was 202something. I was researching a noun (I don’t want to use repeating words, that’s the mark of a bad writer (I think)), and I stumbled upon an IMDB page for a Superboy TV show released in 1966. Based on the photos, I thought it was live-action. There were only two photos and minimal cast members. That should have been my first clue. So I go looking and I find a cartoon and I’m like “what?”. All I could find of the show was a CARTOON. A RUSSIAN (or another language idk) animated show. There was a whole playlist of a Superboy show in Russian and I went looking for it again just now but IT’S NOT THERE. But I swear on my mother’s grave it was there. My mother doesn’t have a grave but still. Maybe it was deleted? I’d say I hate the modern YouTube search engine, but I didn’t really pay attention to it. So I look again and I find this pilot from a different Superboy “show” (in quotes because it never made it past the pilot). And another one from the 80s, which obviously not what I’m looking for! What I think happened was the IMDB guy confused the animation for the pilot also from the sixties. Which. How do you make a mistake like that? Lazy, really. IMDB is a terrible website. I spent an entire afternoon looking for a show that didn’t exist and had one of my mini-breakdowns.

That’s pretty much it. Does anyone have the RUSSIAN (or another language) dub. It’s chill if you don’t. Have a lovely day!

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Action Comics #1064

HOUSE OF BRAINIAC PART ONE!BRAINIAC ATTACKS! Brainiac’s Lobo army invades Metropolis in an action-packed oversized issue! The Super family and all the heroes of Metropolis join the fight, but will they be enough to hold off Brainiac’s lethal and crazed soldiers?! Can Superman and Lex learn what Brainiac is searching for? He’s not bottling Metropolis, so what is he collecting instead?!

Joshua Williamson (Author), Rafa Sandoval (Cover Art, Penciller, Inker), Alejandro Sanchez (Cover Art, Colorist)

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Sinister Sons #3

As Sinson and Lor-Zod beat the ever-loving snot out of each other on the streets of the planet Xela, a mysterious specter from the past lurks just around the periphery. The Sinister Sons now literally find themselves trapped in the belly of a Space Whale with no means of escape. To their horror they discover they are not alone in the muck and goop! Enter SPACEMAN JOE!

Peter J. Tomasi (Author), Darko Lafuente (Cover Art, Penciller, Inker), Vasco Georgiev (Penciller, Inker), Tamra Bonvillain (Colorist)

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April 1st pranks about my death were vastly overestimated. It's Zod time, by the way.

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Kneel Before Zod #4

The aftermath of war! The brutal invasion of New Kandor has cost its supreme ruler everything he holds dear! But there will be a reckoning—and General Zod will not rest until he has enacted his bloody revenge! Let the universe tremble as Casey and McDaid deliver the newest chapter of DC’s darkest cosmic odyssey.

Joe Casey (Author), Jason Shawn Alexander (Cover Art), Dan McDaid (Penciller, Inker), David Baron (Colorist)

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Have you read Superman? Last week some panels there was young Clark, so technically Clark Superboy in plainclothes.

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Superman #12

Superman is the brains while Lex is the brawn, as they team up to battle the Lex Luthor Revenge Squad for the fate of Metropolis. Lex has sworn to Superman that he is a changed man, but to what lengths will he go to stop his enemies?! And what danger from deep space rapidly makes its way toward Earth?

Joshua Williamson (Author), Jamal Campbell (Cover Art), David Baldeon (Penciller, Inker), Rex Lokus (Colorist)

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You know the drill, Superman comic so wait your LCS open up to go there and buy it. Will any Superboy show up? Who knows. Do you dig the jacket?

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Superman #12

Superman is the brains while Lex is the brawn, as they team up to battle the Lex Luthor Revenge Squad for the fate of Metropolis. Lex has sworn to Superman that he is a changed man, but to what lengths will he go to stop his enemies?! And what danger from deep space rapidly makes its way toward Earth?

Joshua Williamson (Author), Jamal Campbell (Cover Art), David Baldeon (Penciller, Inker), Rex Lokus (Colorist)

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We keep with our House of Zod-focused streak, but we also have AC with the end of a story arc.

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Action Comics #1063

The startling finale of “I, Bizarro” sees the Man of Steel making his most shocking team-up ever as part of the mind-blowing final battle against the ultimate Bizarro.

Jason Aaron (Author), John Timms (Cover Art, Penciller, Inker), Rex Lokus (Colorist)

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Sinister Sons #2

Sinson is on a mission to prove he’s worthy of the mantle of Sinestro, but what happens when Lor-Zod throws a spanner in the works? It’s Sinson vs. Lor-Zod as the boys forge a path of destruction across the galaxy!

Peter J. Tomasi (Author), Brad Walker (Cover Art), Andrew Hennessy (Cover Art), Brad Anderson (Cover Art), Darko Lafuente (Penciller, Inker), Vasco Georgiev (Penciller, Inker), Tamra Bonvillain (Colorist)

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We return to our honorary Superboy schedule time.

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Kneel Before Zod #3

Palace intrigue infects the House of Zod as war comes to New Kandor! What kind of chaos is wrought when alien invaders unleash their secret failsafe weapon? Who will survive? Who will die? You can’t afford to miss this major turning point in the cataclysmic cosmic saga of Zod!

Joe Casey (Author), Jason Shawn Alexander (Cover Art), Dan McDaid (Penciller, Inker), David Baron (Colorist)

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The only Super book this week is Power Girl, which is, ostensibly, not a Superboy book and in fact a double Supergirl feature.

So, have you read the latest Superman comic?

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Superman #11

The Lex Luthor revenge squad attacks! Superman is back from his blast to the past but finds that Mr. Graft and Dr. Pharm have gathered some of Lex Luthor’s greatest enemies with a mission to wipe out Lex and everything he loves from Metropolis. Superman will fight to save Lex’s life but when he learns the truth about Lex’s past…will he want to?

Joshua Williamson (Author), Jamal Campbell (Cover Art), David Baldeon (Penciller, Inker), Rex Lokus (Colorist)

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So, last week we had a strange time problem, didn't we. We were several weeks into the future, so far into the future it wasn't even 2024 anymore, but 1344 years in the future, overshooting even the Legion.

But we are back to the present, and in the present we have a new issue of Superman.

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Superman #11

The Lex Luthor revenge squad attacks! Superman is back from his blast to the past but finds that Mr. Graft and Dr. Pharm have gathered some of Lex Luthor’s greatest enemies with a mission to wipe out Lex and everything he loves from Metropolis. Superman will fight to save Lex’s life but when he learns the truth about Lex’s past…will he want to?

Joshua Williamson (Author), Jamal Campbell (Cover Art), David Baldeon (Penciller, Inker), Rex Lokus (Colorist)

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Now you'll find out why I added Lor-Zod last week. :)

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Sinister Sons #1

They’re bad to the bone, ready to brawl, and the sons of two of the deadliest villains in the galaxy: they’re the Sinister Sons and the DC Universe will never be the same! When the son of General Zod was cast off of his adopted homeworld of New Kandor, Lor-Zod runs afoul of a kid on a mission: Sinson is out to prove he’s got what it takes to live up to the family name of Sinestro! But all is not as it seems, and the sons’ journeys will take them into the heart of darkness in this sensational first issue! Superstar Super Sons scribe Peter J. Tomasi returns to the world of DC youth once again-joined by fan-favorite artist David Lafuente-to craft one of the most dynamic debuts of a duo in DCU history!

Peter J. Tomasi (Author), Brad Anderson (Cover Art), Andrew Hennessy (Cover Art), Brad Walker (Cover Art), Darko Lafuente (Penciller, Inker), Tamra Bonvillain (Colorist)

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Action Comics #1062

The shocking second chapter of the Worst Bizarro Story Ever! Jason Aaron’s first time writing Superman sees the Man of Steel trapped in a world gone mad, a Metropolis transformed into the City of Bizarro! While Superman struggles to save the lives of people who despise him, he’s also battling the most powerful Bizarro of all…the one inside his own mind!

Jason Aaron (Author), John Timms (Cover Art, Penciller, Inker), Rex Lokus (Colorist)

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So, we don't have any traditional new Superboy anything this week.

However, we do have Kneel Before Zod, which may feature Lor-Zod who in its original interpretation in Last Son was called Super-Boy for a few dialogues, not taking the identity but as a descriptive of a boy with powers (my memory is rusty right now, was it during the time Superboy was contested so they killed Conner and made Superboy Prime a Superman Prime?)

So, yea.

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Kneel Before Zod #2

The cosmic tragedy of the House of Zod continues, as New Kandor’s first nuclear family truly goes nuclear! With his newly christened homeworld a prime target for alien invasion, General Zod is forced to mine the darkest depths of his own soul in order to defend it. It’s madness and mayhem on a galactic scale brought to you by the star-crossed team of Casey and McDaid!

Joe Casey (Author), Jason Shawn Alexander (Cover Art), Dan McDaid (Penciller, Inker), David Baron (Colorist)

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Are you read for a new Trinity special?

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Trinity Special #1

Featuring DC’s brightest new star, Trinity! Discover Lizzie’s earliest adventures as she takes the world of heroes by storm! Reprinting the character’s first appearance alongside hilarious tales of the little Amazon and her Super Son babysitters, this special will be an instant classic for fans old and new. Plus, a brand-new story from the all-star creative team behind Wonder Woman that will tease the future of Diana’s daughter!

Tom King (Author), Tomeu Morey (Cover Art, Colorist), Daniel Sampere (Cover Art, Penciller, Inker)

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So, no one told me Wonder Woman had Jon. It's a backup story, so don't buy it thinking it's a full crossover. :)

But now we can discuss it this week!

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BACKUP Wonder Woman #5

If the U.S. government can’t stop her, then who can?! As Sargent Steel retreats to gather deadlier forces, the Wonder Girls call on Diana, begging her to lay down her lasso. Will she see the truth before it’s too late? Plus, Trinity invites the sons of Batman and Superman to Themyscira for a contest they’ll never forget!

Tom King (Author), Tomeu Morey (Cover Art, Colorist), Daniel Sampere (Cover Art, Penciller, Inker), Belén Ortega (Penciller, Inker), Alejandro Sanchez (Colorist)

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So, I managed to read some of my backlog, specifically, Action Comics.

Now I can think of Superman and a few other titles! You can do it too!

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Superman #10

HOWDY, PARDNERS! Welcome to the Wild West of Metropolis, where the Man of Tomorrow meets the Man from Yesterday! Clark Kent is on a rootin’-tootin’ rodeo adventure alongside the ghostly Marilyn Moonlight as they get to the bottom of why she haunts the night! Get your posse and join us for a hoedown like you’ve never seen before. Yee-haw!

Joshua Williamson (Author), Jamal Campbell (Cover Art), Bruno Redondo (Penciller, Inker), Caio Filipe (Inker), Adriano Lucas (Colorist)

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So, how are you keeping up with your reading? I've been nearly a month late now and I'm starting to worry, will try to catch up this weekend!

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Action Comics #1061

THE WIZARD, BIZARRO! Jason Aaron writes Superman for the very first time, teaming up with all-star artist John Timms to present a startling new vision of the Man of Steel’s strangest foe. When Superman’s doppelgänger discovers a dark secret about himself, it unleashes the most dangerous version of Bizarro the world has ever seen.

Jason Aaron (Author), John Timms (Cover Art, Penciller, Inker), Rex Lokus (Colorist)

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It's a new year!

And yes, I was hoping the Zod book would have some Superboy action but no, so we re-read Action Comics.

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Action Comics Annual (2023)

Norah Stone’s true form has been revealed, her gateway between worlds is opened, and the invasion of Earth has begun! As the Multiverse’s two most powerful families clash above Metropolis, which legacy will Otho-Ra choose? Will the followers of Blue Earth defend their treacherous leader, or their own home? It has all led to this! Three years of Action Comics storylines culminate in this pivotal, dramatic double-sized issue!

Phillip K. Johnson (Author), Matt Herms (Cover Art, Colorist), Rafa Sandoval (Cover Art), Max Raynor (Penciller, Inker)

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Oh my. The last week, the final days, of this year. How was it to you? I hope you had a great year and, if not, that next year is much better!

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Action Comics Annual (2023)

Norah Stone’s true form has been revealed, her gateway between worlds is opened, and the invasion of Earth has begun! As the Multiverse’s two most powerful families clash above Metropolis, which legacy will Otho-Ra choose? Will the followers of Blue Earth defend their treacherous leader, or their own home? It has all led to this! Three years of Action Comics storylines culminate in this pivotal, dramatic double-sized issue!

Phillip K. Johnson (Author), Matt Herms (Cover Art, Colorist), Rafa Sandoval (Cover Art), Max Raynor (Penciller, Inker)

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Penultimate week of the year. Are you ready for 2024? I hope we get more content than we got this year, but I also hope you all who read this have a great 2024.

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Superman #9

SUPER-ARMOR! Superman’s battle with the Chained has left him wounded in unexpected ways, but the Lex Luthor Revenge Squad is still forming! To save Metropolis, Superman has no choice but to put on a special armor built by Lex! Featuring artwork from Eisner-Award winning Nightwing artist Bruno Redondo!

Joshua Williamson (Author), Jamal Campbell (Cover Art), Bruno Redondo (Penciller, Inker), Adriano Lucas (Colorist)

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Week 50. Wow, so only two weeks left after this one. But this is not the end for this year superboy's content, we still have a AC annual coming. But lets focus on the present.

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Action Comics #1060

A mistake from Superman’s past has returned, and Metropolis hangs in the balance! As the super-family is betrayed from within and stripped of their powers one by one, Superman sets out on a suicide mission into the Multiverse alongside the unlikeliest of allies: Constantine, the demon Etrigan, and-making his return to Action Comics-Bloodwynd! Plus: During “Beast World” in Metropolis, Dreamer has a run-in with life-changing consequences, and Zod’s son begins to suspect New Kandor isn’t as peaceful as it seems in the prelude to Kneel Before Zod #1!

Phillip K. Johnson (Author), Nicole Maines (Author), Steve Orlando (Author), Joe Casey (Author), Steve Beach (Cover Art), Natali Sanders (Cover Art), Eddy Barrows (Penciller), Fico Ossio (Penciller, Inker), Dan McDaid (Penciller, Inker), Eber Ferreira (Inker), Jonas Trindade (Inker), Joe Prado (Inker), John Kalisz (Colorist), Matt Herms (Colorist), Luis Guerrero (Colorist), Chris Sotomayor (Colorist)

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I completely missed the Titans event tie in!

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Yes it needs all the colons

Titans: Beast World: Tour: Metropolis #1

As the ramifications of the Titans’ battle with Starro reverberate across the globe, Metropolis is hit with an unexpected surge of electricity from…is that-? No. It can’t be. Livewire? BUT SHE’S A-A-okay you’re going to have to read this one to believe it. Meanwhile, Supergirl and Dreamer take on the terror of the Flamebird, Power Girl is no longer, and amid the chaos a threat continues to grow on the horizon. All signs point to a major new shift in the world of Superman in Beast World Tour: Metropolis!

Nicole Maines (Author), Steve Orlando (Author), Zipporah Smith (Author), Joshua Williamson (Author), Mikel Janin (Cover Art), Fico Ossio (Penciller, Inker), Anthony Marques (Penciller, Inker), Edwin Galmon (Penciller, Inker, Colorist), Luis Guerrero (Colorist)

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So we enter the final month of 2023. And no new content. Well, at least I'm going to just keep open the discussion on last week comics.

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Action Comics #1059

As the forces of Norah Stone’s Blue Earth take control of Metropolis, Superman dusts off his Warworld weapons and armors up alongside Steel to take their city back! Can even the House of El defeat this potent new threat? Meanwhile, the shocking true identities of Norah Stone’s mysterious family are revealed, building to a battle royale for the ages! A pivotal issue not to be missed! PLUS: The conclusion to Gene Luen Yang and Viktor Bogdanovic’s “New Super-Man of Metropolis”, and Dan Parent (Kevin Keller) explores the world of Jon Kent like never before!

Phillip K. Johnson (Author), Gene Luen Yang (Author), Dan Parent (Author), Steve Beach (Cover Art), Eddy Barrows (Penciller), Viktor Bogdanovic (Penciller, Inker), Marguerite Sauvage (Penciller, Inker, Colorist), Eber Ferreira (Inker), Mike Spicer (Colorist), Matt Herms (Colorist)

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Wonder Woman #3 (803)

The Lasso of Lies’ true power is revealed as the Sovereign continues his campaign against Wonder Woman! Could one unsuspecting soldier be the key to defeating our hero? Find out as Diana uses her own lasso in search of the truth about the Amazon massacre. Plus, the return of Trinity! Wonder Woman’s daughter makes her backup story debut in the first of many awe-inspiring adventures from the future.

Tom King (Author), Tomeu Morey (Cover Art, Colorist), Daniel Sampere (Cover Art, Penciller, Inker), Belén Ortega (Penciller, Inker), Alejandro Sanchez (Colorist)