Actually, what it does is show us how much of a douche Morgan Edge can be. Clark Kent gets sent on assignment to the South Seas to cover a volcano erupting. That's a brilliant maneuver there, Morry. Send one of your so called best reporters to an island in the middle of nowhere to report on a volcano... doing what volcanoes normally do. This is "News?"
Anyway, the island this newsworthy volcano is on happens to be owned by a wealthy mover and shaker. I believe the term Tycoon is used. Jerk would have been a better term, as Superman discovers.
The volcano's about to blow, and the island's natives do as they tend to do in a situation like this. They run. They run for their lives. What does rich jerk do? He shoots at them.
Superman steps in and saves the day of course. He stops the volcano and JR Ewing from both killing innocent folks with molten lava and bullets.
Sounds cut and dry doesn't it? Superman saves the day, hooray! BUT... and it's a big BUT... Superman actually has trouble saving the day. The invincible Superman we've been used to reading about is no where to be found. His powers are still weakening just when he needs them most, and they're not coming back.
Meanwhile the Sandman Superman we met in the last issue... he's being his creepy self lurking in of all places, INSIDE THE VOLCANO! He's getting better at looking like Superman too. Hmmm...
Also in this issue is another boring Jor-El story, "Prison in the Sky."
In a nutshell: Some Kryptonian crook gets elected to the Science Council and wants to kill prisoners. Jor-El wants to put them to sleep and shoot them off into orbit. The crook tries to sabotage Jor-El's plan and ends up getting exposed. Jor-El ends up putting him to sleep and launching him off planet. Jor-El also manages to put me to sleep too.
Superman must have gotten his excitement gene from his mother's side.
Let's pretend we didn't have to trudge through this World of Crap-Ton story, and think back on the Sandman Superman and his always being around when Superman's powers crap out.
That's better. Can't wait til next issue.
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