Superman:The Doomsday Wars

Author: Dan Jurgens
Year Published: 1999
Publisher: DC Comics
ISBN#: 1563895625
Pages: 142
Subject: Superheroes, Superman
Genre: Action, Graphic Novel
Media Type: Book, Graphic Novels
Reader's Annotation:

In Superman: The Doomsday War (1998), Doomsday's mind is under the influence of Brainiac and Superman fights two of his most powerful enemies, in order to rescue Lana Lang's newborn child.

Plot Summary:

This book has interwoven plots, including the birth of Pete Ross and Lana Lang Ross' premature child, an early lesson in responsibility for young Clark and the return of Brainiac. Superman is transporting the infant Ross child to a critical care hospital when Doomsday attackes him. The now eloquent monster gloats over the downed hero.Following the time altering events of Zero Hour, a previously unknown henchman of Brainiac's transported to the end of time and snatched Doomsday away after Superman and Waverider left. Plans to make Doomsday's body a receptacle for Brainiac's mind (his body having been damaged in the first issue) are interrupted when the monster awakens. With insufficient time to destroy Doomsday's mind as originally intended, Brainiac is forced to take control and override him. Needing to create a new body without Doomsday's controlling but simplistic mind,

Brainiac/Doomsday decides to use the Ross infant as host for Doomsday tissue and Brainiac's mind. In the end, Superman thwarted Brainiac's plot by driving him out of Doomsday's body via the use of a telepathy-blocking 'psi-blocker'. He then lured Doomsday to the moon, where he placed Doomsday in a kind of stasis with four Justice League teleporters; perpetually transporting between those four booths, Doomsday would never be more than 25% integrated, and thus unable to 'think' of a plan to escape.

Reading Level: 5

Interest Level: 9+
Author Website:http://www.lambiek.net/artists/j/jurgens_dan.htm