Steel continues to use his new, but unwanted steel form to help the citizens of Metropolis. But Kala, the scientist from S.T.A.R. Labs who has been studying what Luthor has done to him brings extremely important news about Lex's new Metagene Therapy.Supernova infiltrates Wayne Manor, and the Batcave apparently searching for the gauntlet from Luthor's suit of powered armor. The various knuckles of the gauntlet are each mounted with a different kind of Kryptonite.The natives are restless at an outpost in the Vegan star system, as refugees beg, implore and demand that Pope Lobo of the Church of the Triple Fish God do something to ease the outpost's seismic issues. But when a plague of interstellar carrion eaters descends on the outpost, even Lobo is hard pressed to stay alive.