Gerber finds his way to a conclusion—an unexpected one, actually. It’s nice how limited series used to be able to build over their run. His excellent pacing has something to do with it. Gerber gets in a lot of story, especially considering he focuses on multiple characters throughout. Unfortunately, Lex is no longer amusing this…

Al heads to Apokolips—after Lex proposes to breed him with some of his female staff—and meets up with a preteen Fury. They form a musical duo. Gerber comes up with some outlandish ideas, but he curbs them in the reality of DC continuity, which just makes the read all the better. I still haven’t really…

Superman shows up this issue and Bright draws him so poorly I want to take back everything complimentary I said about his art on the first issue. Bright can’t draw Superman’s face–he gets the proportions of the head wrong–and he also can’t draw him flying. It’s a disastrous opening for the issue. Thank goodness there’s…

I knew the concept—regular guy gets a Bizarro made of him—but Gerber still does manage to get some surprises out of it. When the issue opens, Al (the Bizarro) is slowly losing his faculties as he turns into a regular Bizarro. It makes him immediately sympathetic, something Gerber keeps up because the character talks to…