“This one gets a little rough because readers will know what’s happening almost immediately, but it takes Superman the entire volume to put it all together. We’re entering the era of decompressed storytelling: What if we took something that would be one, maybe two issues in the past, and make it a 5-issue arc! That’s half a year of comics!
The ending was good, though, and almost made up for the whole affair. ALMOST.
Also, I think I can see why I wasn’t so into DC comics back in the day. Trades like this were not all that well thought out. There’s a Lobo story in here that, while fun, has nothing to do with the Eradicator storyline and doesn’t really need to be in here. There’s a very jarring transition between issue one and two, and my suspicion is there’s some other crossover event or something that happened between the two (not sure, but it’s got that vibe).
But, hey, Lobo! I love Lobo unabashedly. I know he’s supposed to be kind of a joke, a reaction to the “extreme” era of characters, but I don’t care. An indestructible alien who is kind of a biker asshole? Very fun. “