Argh! I’m tired of misleading covers! When I see Ganthet about to go all Ryu on Cyborg-Superman on the cover, I want to see something like that inside! We get nothing on that and in the end; it hurts the character more then anything else.

Bedard does have a knack of wrapping things up quite a bit too easily. The situation in this arc went from hell to completely gone like it was never a problem. At first Bedard did a good job writing for Cyborg-Superman; giving him a completely different voice then other villains. In this issue, Cyborg-Superman is so generic and has no uniqueness about him/it. Then you have the stuff with Boddika; and while it’s nice to see the Alpha lanterns evolve as a whole; I don’t really care about her plight. I was focused on Rayner, Stewart, and the others fighting back; Stel getting saved; and Ganthet trying to better then his Guardian counterparts. All I got though was Boddika pretty much saving the day and everything else is just solved in the background.

I wanted to like this issue but it just didn’t feel true to me. The incidents were wrapped up way too nicely; some aspects of the plot were completely dropped; and we didn’t get anything promised on the cover. Yes covers lie to us a lot and it happens all the time. But when you promise ‘Ganthet vs Cyborg-Superman’ in bold letters for everyone to see…..You need to deliver.