Superman#27(2025)

Lois is working late into the night over at the Daily Planet. One of her co-workers, Erica, observes that even though Lois is now Editor-in-Chief, she still has the heart of a reporter. Suddenly, Lois gets visited by Jimmy, who was recently discharged from the hospital but still has bandages on his hands. Siobhan is angry that Jimmy got injured in the line of duty and still blames Superwoman for it, but Lois replies that the only one who should be blamed is Lois herself, for she pushed Jimmy into getting pictures from a dangerous area. Erica then informs the Daily Planet team of a breakout in Stryker's Island. Superman is still trying to infect the Red Kryptonite infection and that has put him in the crosshairs of Marilyn Moonlight, who believes the Man of Steel to be a threat to Metropolis and his people. Superman convinces Marilyn to follow him into another cellblock, where they both find that Pharm and Graft have escaped and Lex must have been behind this. At Supercorp, Mercy monitors Superman's Red-K levels until she is visited by Lex, who claims to have regained all his memories. He has come to offer her a choice: stay in Metropolis and get control over Supercorp and come with him and leave Metropolis behind. As they race to find Lex, Marilyn wonders if Lex was behind the curse that keeps her bound to Metropolis and Superman believes they will find answers once they find him. Their quest is put on hold, for Metropolis is attacked by a giant robot piloted by Pharm and Graft as a revenge plot against Lex. The robot is adorned with Superman's symbol and that clues Superman in on the fact that the robot is constructed with the same nanotechnology that Lex used to create the symbol above the Supercorp building. Suddenly, Lex contacts Superman on a frequency only Superman can hear. Lex admits that he released Pharm and Graft from prison in exchange for a cure for Superman but he knew they didn't have a cure. Luckily, Lex himself does. That's why he triggered the Red-K in Superman's system and sent Marilyn after him. Lex planned all of this because Superman had inspired him to become a better person. The original Lex may have wanted to gain Superman's trust as a ploy to control him, but the new Lex genuinely wants to atone for his mistakes. Even so, Lex can't escape the person he used to be and that's why he must leave Metropolis for a while. Following Lex's instructions, Superman throws the Supercorp symbol into the giant robot. With Pharm and Graft defeated, Superman tells Marilyn to shoot him and she complies. As Lex had theorized, Marilyn's lunar powers purge the Red-K from Superman's system but Superman remains angry at Lex and travels to Supercorp to find him, but Lex has already left. Only Mercy has chosen to stay and she claims not to know where Lex is because wherever he has gone, she can't follow. Even so, she remains committed to Lex's original mission: to help Superman in any way he can. Clark returns to the Daily Planet and finds Lois standing under to the iconic globe. He invites her a flight and she admits that a part of her wanted to go out and help him but she is happy that she is just Lois now. She will miss being Superwoman and asks Clark if he is really okay with Lois not having powers now and Clark replies that he has loved her since the day they first met and she didn't have powers back then. They find out that Supercorp has been rebranded into Lexcorp and Mercy is the boss now. Lex has gone completely off the radar, but if he ever shows up again, Clark will take him down. In the far future, the Omega Legion brings Booster Gold to meet their other prisoner, the Time Trapper. The servants of Darkseid know of Booster Gold's importance and the Time Trapper escapes into the timestream in an attempt to find the World Forger, but the Omega Legion do not follow him, for they have other priorities in mind. The time has come to meet Superman.