Superman Loves Wonder Woman #7

Lobdell just got through saying Superman can stand in the heart of a sun. Why then would a tiny nuclear explosion fuck him up so badly?

I suppose because Superman is powered by the light or heat or magic particles of a yellow sun, he can stand inside the heart of one. I think his cells would turn cancerous and he'd turn into a gigantic tumor. Or maybe his cells would burst from taking in so much energy. But Lobdell likes to say stupid things in an offhand way that make Superman seem super ridiculous. So I'm not going to believe anything that happens in a Lobdell comic book. This seems closer to the truth about Superman's power. He's nearly blasted into a skeleton from the explosion. Although Wonder Woman is pretty much just fine, having been wrapped in Superman's cape. What the fuck is Superman's cape made from? The wool of Super Lambs? How powerful would Kryptonian Lambs be if they invaded Earth?

Half of this issue is spent on Superman getting back to the Fortress of Solitude to heal and Wonder Woman getting back to her sister Hessia who was a healer on Paradise Island. I suppose while Wonder Woman heals, Superman gets better more quickly and heads over to Action Comics to help out Lana Lang with her underground civilization problem. He kicks The Tower's ass leaving The Tower to go fishing for Doomsday.

Down in the Mariana Trench, Doomsday has set up his own Fortress of Solitude. His is even more solitudier than Superman's. The Tower has sent a submarine to fetch Doomsday so they can use Doomsday against Superman. But how are they supposed to catch a creature which they're after because it's more powerful than Superman? You can't just bring that thing back to the lab!

Who thinks this is going to go well?

And then Doomsday sinks the submarine! The Tower acts like they're surprised when they lose radio contact with the submarine. Then they just ask stupid questions like "Do you require assistance?" Of course they do! The world is about to require assistance!

While Superman was off helping Lana Lang, Wonder Woman healed more quickly than I thought she would and goes off to become the God of War. So a lot has happened between the beginning of this issue and the near end when Clark and Diana meet back up in the skies over London.

Clark hints that maybe they should go fuck in her apartment but Diana doesn't quite catch his drift and winds up taking him to a dance club.

While Clark dances awkwardly and Diana does that thing where she closes her eyes and dances with her arms straight up over her head, Doomsday climbs out of the ocean to put a stop to it. Hurry, Doomsday! Hurry! I can't stand to see awkward dancing Clark for even one second more!

Superman Loves Wonder Woman #7 Rating: No change. Since the first half of this comic book was simply Superman and Wonder Woman heading to the hospital, I almost hated it. I still hate that exactly half the book was recovery time. And then the Doomsday stuff was whatever. Yeah, yeah. We've seen it. We know. Doomsday breaks everything. But the last bit of the book with Clark and Diana talking was nice even if it was only about four pages. More of that and this book is going to hit a home run every month. I think Charles Soule is writing too many comic books now because he really only wrote about four pages of comic in this twenty two page issue! Weirdly enough, those four pages far outshone all thirty issues of Scott Lobdell's Teen Titans!