Finished reading Superman: Under Fire, this concludes writer Scott Lobdell's run on the series as Superman deals with the return of two major parts of his past while also dealing with problems on the homefront back in Metropolis. The book opens up with Superman, Superboy and Supergirl in different parts of Krypton's history. With Superman meeting his own father just months before the planets destruction. The next story has Superman back in Metropolis as Clark is having a meal with Diana when Lois Lane's astral projection appears in front of them, leading to Clark to get his Superman costume on and take her back to the hospital were Lois' father is at her bedside along with her boyfriend Jonathan. Unknown to Superman the power hungry Parasite enters the hospital after being drawn to Lois' new powers. The next story begins with Lois Lane in the middle of a firefight when its discovered that she still has her psionic powers while Superman heads back to his apartment after investigating a doorway that has appeared above the Earth where he finds Jimmy Olson on his sofa. Superman then later meets with one of the men involved in the firefight against the police earlier only for Starfire to crash into the interrogation room of the police station. The rest of the book takes place during the events of Superman: Doomed as superman is faced with the return of the only villain to defeat him,Doomsday. Overall this was a decent book as it included two good Superman stories with him coming into conflict with Parasite and teaming up with Starfire. While the rest of the book feels like reading only a fraction of other larger stories of Krypton Returns and the Superman: Doomed story arcs. However the relationship between Superman and his farther Jor-El is great for the short time the two are together. While the team up between Superman and Starfire plays with the twos moral codes deal as Superman believes that there is always an alternative to killing while Starfire doesn't hold back on the people that she is trying to stop. 6/10.
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