Super Titles Round-Up (March 1994)
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Super Titles Round-Up (March 1994)
This month: Superboy gets knocked around, Supergirl gets disrespected, and Steel fights a dentist. Also, the JLA visits Metropolis! For two pages.
Superboy #2 (March 1994)
Superboy's a big punching bag in this issue. First, some Hawaiian mobsters shoot at him with sci-fi weapons for busting their smuggling operation and making fun of them.
Then, he's asked to protect a priceless spear supposedly belonging to a Hawaiian god called Lono, but a superpowered stripper called Knockout shows up and steals it, even though she thinks "old gods are really overrated." She also punches him a whole lot, and kisses him once… which is pretty creepy considering she's hundreds of years old (spoilers) and he's 16 (or like three months old if you wanna get technical).
Once Knockout has gotten her rocks off, she just gives the spear back to Superboy and goes away -- only for some crazy old guy in futuristic cowboy gear to materialize in front of him, sucker punch him, and re-steal the spear.
Despite everything, Superboy says he's liking Hawaii and will stick around for a while, just because his reporter crush Tana Moon lives here now (the super-statutory rapist probably helps, too).
Supergirl #2 (March 1994)
Supergirl FINALLY begins suspecting that her beloved Lex Luthor Jr. might not be the most honest guy ever after meeting a rich lady called Elizabeth Perske, who happens to be one of Lex Sr.'s ex-wives (the former Mrs. Luthors were first mentioned 8 years ago in Man of Steel #4, but it took this long for one to show up). Thanks to Perske's warnings, Supergirl decides to snoop on the LexCorp employees performing tests on her and finds out that they all think she's a pushover and a "bimbo" for doing whatever Lex says without questioning him.
Eventually, she decides to use her invisibility powers to spy on the scientist in charge of her tests and overhears him talking to poor Dr. Happersen (who's in pretty poor shape after being lasered by Bizarro in Superman #87) about something called "Operation Protomatter."
The issue ends with Supergirl confronting the scientist guy and violently demanding to know the truth behind these "tests" LexCorp has been running on her, right NOW. Meaning next issue.
Steel #2 (March 1994)
Steel's nephew Jemahl gets in trouble with his gang because they think he snitched on them to Steel, plus they're still upset about having their asses kicked by his uncle John Henry (you know, the one who looks just like Steel). Steel has to save the little punk from a robot-armed gangster who calls himself "Amalgam" -- not because he's two universes merged together, but because he's also a dentist. Seriously. Is this the only dentist supervillain?
Anyway, Amalgam mentions he's working for Steel's old bosses at Amertek during the fight, so John decides to bust their asses NOW. Meaning next issue.
Justice League America #86 (March 1994)
Superman has a brief cameo in this issue just to re-confirm to the League that he isn't re-joining the team now that he's back to life (not until they considerably upgrade the roster and creative team, anyway). But at least they get to hear him say "thanks" for helping out against Doomsday, so the trip to Metropolis wasn't totally wasted.
And… I was gonna do a blurb on the Superman: Under a Yellow Sun graphic novel that also came out on March ‘94, but after re-reading it I think it deserves its own post, so that's it for this round up! Bye.