By page two, Supes has bid Batman adieu, and he's on his way to the Fortress of Solitude. Since he doesn't need to sleep, and he's got nothing better to do, he's going to go fiddle about in his mancave until morning. He doesn't get much fiddling done before he seems to fall into a trance and trips out. When he gets his bearings back, he finds himself surround by fore and brimstone with demons on the attack.
The poor guy gets to finally nap and -BAM- Hell-dream!
The demons don't seem to harm Superman, so he pushes them back. As soon as he does, a bunch of guys wearing wings show up and introduce themselves as Angels. You've got your typical "Gabriel", "Raphael", and "Michael." Because, really, what other names would them use, right?
The Angels give Superman some song and dance about how he'll totally get into Heaven, if he proves himself by going into the fires of hell and opening a locked gate. To add to the pot, the Angels promise Superman all his pals, Lois, Jimmy, and heck even Batman will all get to go to Heaven too. So, Supes heads into the hellfire.
In the fires, Supes sees his pals and realizes they're just illusions. He gets to the gate and can't open it so he tunnels underneath, and then the other shoe drops. Of the "Demons" tells Superman the truth. The "Demons" are space cops, and the "Angels" are wanted space fugitives. Superman helps the space cops, and takes care of Ralph and Mike, but Gabe makes a run for it to Earth with a bomb.
Because of COURSE, he's going to make a run for it to Earth AND have a bomb.
Superman travels through the trippy time-warp thing and arrives in time to stop Gabe, by using his body to stop the bomb from hitting Earth. Supes pops Gabe and turns him over to the space police and once again he's saved the day.
As the sun comes up at the Fortress, Superman still hasn't slept but he's good. He had this messed up waking dream and he smiles.
And what about the Sandman Superman, you ask? Sandy is a no show. What a way to screw with us readers... last issue has Superman finally confronting Sandy. We wait a whole month to see the aftermath, and what do we get? Superman having a messed up hell-dream that turns into a space cops and robbers thing that wasn't really a dream, but might have been in some weird way.
Welcome to: The Doomsayer!
Green Arrow is being he usual hippy self getting worked up over the environment. Black Canary is fed up. And Superman... well, Superman is going to tell them, and us the story of Mo-De.
Mo-De was a doctor on Krypton who predicted the destruction of Krypton 20 years before Jor-El (aka Bore-El.)
Mo-De lived in a city that had these weird singing flowers that calmed everyone. He, of course didn't listen to them and was a cracky dude who's all "The End is nigh!" He figures out that the flowers are brainwashing the populace, like some sort of drug, so he cuts down as many as he can. The people rebel, capture him and lock him in a warehouse full of these things. When he comes out, he's a Stepford Wife. Krypton still explodes. The moral of the story, if people had listened to the cracky doomsayer they would have had a 20 year head start to possibly prevent the destruction of Krypton and therefore rob the Universe of Superman!
Black Canary sees the light. Green Arrow's hippy anti-government anarchist ways ARE best.Yay.
Man, I hope Sandy shows up in the next issue. At least I got to see Batman in the first couple of pages. I'll focus on that.
Can't wait til next issue.
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