Status Updates From Superman: The Power Within ...

Action Comics #658 -
Superman truly feels the fall out due to his actions in Qurac.

Lex leads fear and prejudice against the Quraci people, all so he can retrieve a special belt.

In the end, Davood's true character is revealed to the world...

And Lex manipulates the story so he comes away clean. Again.

Adventures of Superman #471 -
Davood and Soraya’s fam talk about what happened.

Later, Soraya phones Lex to tell him she has the Black Belt!
He reassures her that everything’s fine. Until he has possession of the belt...
Luckily, the siblings had a contingency plan!

Sadly, Lex uses their ethnicity as a ploy to convince the police to target them.

Then Lex is contacted by the leader of the flying suit guys!

Superman V2 #48 - Pg 72.
Was it silly of me to think this was actually going to be about Sinbad the pirate?

It's not really about an immigrant family just trying to get by either.

More like, a couple of kids happen upon a parcel they open. Which puts them right in the middle of trouble.

Oh and Luthor is determined to kill Superman before he dies!

I only just realised that the page number on the literal page in the collection is incorrect.

I am actually up to page 50.

The religious story was done so they moved on to a political one!

All about the reaction of a terror attack and how some radicals like to blame and persecute innocent people.

Superman reminds the juvenile’s that America is a ‘nation of immigrants!’ That he is an immigrant himself and his planet was destroyed by terrorists.

His parting words is that he ‘[doesn't] want to lose another world to hatred!’

Somehow, Superman escapes that alternate dimension and was just in time to save Galt from a bullet.

Then the mastermind is revealed to be… Darkseid!
Who gloats that this ‘Holy War’ was just an experiment.

Then before the Man of Steel could stop him, transports the Consortium to the ‘Scream Centers’ of Apokolips!

Frustrated, SM tells the cult to take back their own thoughts and control of their lives.

Clark learns the energy beam originates somewhere in space… and that the cult’s enemies have an army coming!

Mother Tierra leads the Elders into battle.

Determined to find the source of both sides' powers, Superman is blasted then teleported to the strange machine.

With the power source destroyed, the worshippers lose their abilities, though the Consortium goons still have a desire to ‘ace’ them.

The Consortium, made up of powerful businessmen, have pooled their resources to create revolutionary technology.
They are led by Hodge, who believes Superman is the Antichrist!

Clark wants to meet the Elders of the worshipping cult and Galt gladly takes him.

The Consortium follows them all the way through.

Clark meets these Elders and discovers they’re getting their powers from something in space…

I'd seen the Superman stories from Action Comics Weekly had been collected but for some reason, I wanted to read them the hard way….
Well, no more!

I’m also not going to bother with doing separate updates for each two-page story, because that just seems silly.