I forgot to mention yesterday that we didn't actually skip an issue, jumping from #590 to #592. There was a four part crossover called "Infestation," penned by Marv Wolfman, that I didn't track down as I was grabbing up all of Casey's Superman. I may go back to it, though, as I've recently read some of Wolfman's old Action Comics, and they're really good. And thinking back to Crisis, his work with Superman in that title is also pretty great.
Regardless, we're jumping into another crossover, though I won't be reading too much of this one. "Our Worlds At War" may have seemed an appropriate storyline in the early 2000s (remember, this is pre-9/11), but these days I wonder why we have to have so many stories about interstellar war. I think it reveals a really deep-seated fear that anyone, or anything, that we eventually encounter out in space will be so much like ourselves that we'll inevitably go to war with them. Isn't that depressing?
The crossover delves much more deeply into the issue faced a couple of days ago by the Man of Steel, that of President Luthor. It must irk Superman so much to have to be on the side of his greatest rival, but it also speaks to the idea of the common threat uniting all of humanity. My great fear is that it's only in the face of a world-ending event that we can actually come together as a single people, finally. Though, given the state of climate change, perhaps even such an event isn't enough to bring us together.
Humans really do suck sometimes.
"I vill reduce your alien flesh to protoplasmic slime!"
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