Chapter by Chapter features me reading one chapter of the selected book at the time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as read-along book club.

This first section of the book has 10 chapters. Thus far two of them have been devoted to setup and I think the same is true of the third. There isn’t as much in this section of the story to tell so Roger Stern has that extra space to catch up the readers to the post-Crisis DCU before it’s time for Doomsday to show up. And we’ve had a tease of him in the first chapter. What will happen in this one?

As I write this I only know that chapter 3 opens on Lois and presumably Clark going to meet her. I’m guessing this sets up where their relationship is at this point. Clark has told Lois he’s Superman and the two are engaged. For causal fans this is new. While they saw them together in Superman II (until it was undone with that stupid kiss) they’ve never really been shown to be a couple by this point outside of the comics. At best we saw an attraction between Lois and Superman while she wasn’t very interested in Clark. That didn’t change until Lois & Clark debuted. So let’s see how Stern introduces the readers to this change in their romance.

Chapter 3: Doomsday part 3

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