My Week In Comics 12-9-09

Two books this week, one better than the other, and both featuring family reunions of sorts.

Action Comics 884: Definitely the one I liked more. The most interesting plot featured Lois Lane's being accused of treason and getting tasered by government goons, leading to her being reunited with her father, General Sam Lane, leader of the anti-Kryptonian operation. Seeing as how Lois is, unbeknownst to her father, married to a Kryptonian, it's safe to say that the Lane family has more issues than the family in "Everybody's Fine."

Adventure Comics 5: In the conclusion of the "Blackest Night" tie-in, Superboy-Prime is trying to fight off the Black Lanterns and decides that if he can't survive, before he goes he'll punish those he deems responsible for his plight -- the good folks at DC Comics, of course. There's a happy ending that would be rather lame, but the last panel of the last page hints at this not being the true ending to Prime's "Blackest Night" problem. And in the "second feature," there's another family reunion, that of a girl, her uncle, and a Superboy (not to be confused with Superboy-Prime) partially cloned from his DNA. Again, issues abound, since the uncle in question isn't originally from Krypton.