John Henry Irons stops by his old employer, Amertek, and demands to know how the weapons he designed for them ended up in the hands of street gangs. is an asshole who’s been manipulating her all along, Supergirl morphs into an edgier new look apparently inspired by her dead S&M “sisters” and promises she’s gonna hurt him (but not in a fun way). had anything to do with this experiment until she remembers that he ominously told her “I wish I had a hundred of you” (back in the Supergirl and Team Luthor one-shot) right before the “tests” started.įINALLY realizing that Lex Jr. Supergirl still refuses to believe that her beloved Lex Luthor Jr. Happersen, who was already in a wheelchair after his encounter with Bizarro and ends up buried in the rubble. Supergirl fights the clones and ends up destroying the entire lab with them inside – as well as “poor” Dr. The issue starts with a distraught Supergirl showing up at Lana Lang’s doorstep, saying something about how she “killed them all.” We flash back and find out that, after discovering that LexCorp’s scientists think she’s a dumb bimbo and lied about the tests they’ve been running on her, she impersonated one of them to infiltrate the main lab and saw the horrible truth: they’ve been growing mindless clones of her and, for some reason, dressing them up in S&M gear. Dubbilex (who had a psychic phone call with the Guardian about the Plague earlier in the issue) thinks they should take him back to Project Cadmus for examination, but Superboy’s friends propose a better treatment: a sandwich, some time in bed, and a VHS tape with the pilot episode of Superboy: The Animated Series, which we’ll see in the next issue. This issue also ties into the Clone Plague storyline going on in the main Super-books: Superboy is constantly coughing and collapses right after defeating Scavenger. Navy Pearl Harbor,” which immediately blows up on his face. Kaua moping on the beach when he randomly bumps into some sort of container that says “Property of U.S. Kaua) still isn’t happy, since he secretly wanted to use it to become a REAL Hawaiian superhero and he can’t do that now that the gem ended up at the bottom of a volcano. So Superboy finally retrieves the spear, but the historian who was giving him shit about losing it (Dr. He also brags repeatedly about his anti-lava talisman, which wasn’t such a great idea since Superboy simply snaps it off his neck and forces Scavenger to escape while swearing revenge. Scavenger manages to nab the gem and comes close to killing Superboy with it as he rants nonsensically about some mysterious “enemy” that’s out to get him with his “secret society” (sounds like a Q guy). When they run into each other there and start fighting over the mystical artifacts, Scavenger teleports them both inside an active volcano to give himself an advantage, since he happens to be wearing a handy talisman that makes him impervious to burning alive inside volcanoes. Now both the Kid and the old guy head to an archeological dig to look for a gem that supposedly gives the spear vast magical powers. Last issue, a cybernetically-enhanced old guy called Scavenger appeared out of nowhere and stole an ancient Hawaiian spear Superboy had been trying to protect (“trying” being the keyword there). This month: Superboy fights an elderly person! Supergirl fights herself! Steel fights, uhh, capitalism I guess!
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