DC Comics Universe & Superman #23 Spoilers & Review: A New Magical Threat Emerges During Superman’s Mental & Mystical Colonoscopy?!

Spoilers

DC Comics Universe and Superman #23 Spoilers and Review follows.

A New Magical Threat Emerges During…

…Superman’s Mental Mystical Colonoscopy?!

The preceding Superman #23 Cover A was not the first cover solicited; the below one was and replaced by the above.

We open three weeks ago just as Event Leviathan was beginning and…

the DEO was targeted; at that same time and agent was dealing with her own problems…

…due to a mystical artifact that would bond her and make her a host for…

…Xanadoth!

Elsewhere, Superman is getting a mystical medical check-up from current Doctor Fate.

In the end, it turns out what has been impacting…

…Superman has been the mental traumas…

…from all the incidents…

…he and his family has endured.

The book ends with both issue’s plots…

…merging as Veronica Bissette and Xanadoth easily dispatch the Justice League Dark to…

…get to Doctor Fate! Xanadoth is THE Lord of Order and true owner of the Helm of Fate? What the what now?!

The Pulse:

His recent adventures and trials finally catch-up to Superman. This is a more introspective issue as we also meet new baddie Xanadoth who has been part of Doctor Fate and Lords of Order and Lords pf Chaos history from the beginning, but readers didn’t know. Awesome art. 8 out of 10.

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