Ray: Mark Waid is doing an incredible job of adding new layers to Clark Kent’s journey from Superboy to Superman, as he’s finally resolved things with Captain Comet – but he might miss the elderly superhero’s tough-love guidance as he’s left to figure things out on his own. With Lana angry at him and Smallville hitting tough times, with one farmer after another being foreclosed on, it’s no wonder that Clark wants to spend more and more time as Superboy. But while he’s won many friends in Smallville, that doesn’t necessarily apply to Metropolis. He’s patrolling there, sees an old woman about to be hit by a bus – only to discover that she’s blind, has no idea what just happened to her, and is terrified. That’s enough to make the regular citizens of Metropolis turn on Clark and send him back to Smallville with new doubts about himself – just in time for the biggest test of his young career.

General Sam Lane, who was working with Comet, has been keeping tabs on Superboy – and has managed to trace all his activity back to Smallville. This is one of those things that probably should have happened a long time ago, as there’s no way that Clark would be able to keep his identity that secure while located in such a small town. The General rolls his tanks in, trying to intimidate the residents into giving Superboy up – but when Superboy lands, all the residents of the town show up to back him up. The General is forced into dialing things back, and he and Superboy wind up negotiating over terms at the local diner over a slice of pie. Lane isn’t being villainized here nearly as much as he sometimes is – he’s right that this the most powerful being they’ve ever discovered, and the two are able to form an uneasy partnership that’s likely to create a ton of dicey new ethical questions for Clark.

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