DC’s new Absolute Universe has been reimagining the publisher’s most iconic heroes and villains with dark new twists and origins, sometimes making them more powerful than ever, as one rogue proves by delivering a crushing defeat to Superman . And if not for the intervention of another character, this Man of Steel-defeating villain would have joined Doomsday in his “I Killed Superman” club.

Jason Aaron, Rafa Sandoval, and Ulises Arreola’s Absolute Superman #8 sees Kal-El return to Smallville, Kansas to visit an ailing Martha Kent. However, what was meant to be a quiet home visit quickly turns into dire straits when Lazarus Agent Lois Lane and the Omega Men’s Jimmy Olsen track the Man of Steel to the small town, unwittingly leading Brainiac’s Peacekeepers and the rest of the Lazar

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