Superboy Vol 4 84



Smells Like Rage


 * "Let me guess...another ex? You get around for a science chick."
 * --Soldier, to Serling

Summary
Volume: 4 Issue: 84 Month: March Year: 2001

Credits
Head Writer: Joe Kelly Cover Artists: Pencilers: Pascual Ferry Inkers: Keith Champagne Colourists: Jason Wright Editors: Mike McAvennie

Synopsis
Cast of Characters:
 * Superboy (Kon-El)
 * Guardian
 * Serling Roquette
 * Amanda Waller
 * Harvey Bullock
 * Lobo
 * Scizmore

Locations:
 * Project Cadmus
 * Los Angeles
 * Gotham City

Items:
 * None.

First Appearances: No first appearances Final Appearances: No final appearances

Synopsis:Superboy undergoes some more rigorous training under the watchful eye of Guardian. The Kid fights hard but Guardian thinks that he lacks discipline and warns him that there are some mistakes that can't be undone. Later, Amanda Waller, the newly appointed Secretary of Meta-human affairs in President Luthor's Cabinet, enters the Project to size it up. She has a certain job she wants Superboy to do in Los Angeles. However, Waller insists that Serling Roquette so with the Kid to hold him in check. There is static between Serling and Superboy ever since their relationship didn't work out.

On the other side of the continent, in Gotham City, Dt. Harvey Bullock comes onto the scene of a grisly murder in a public restroom. The victim has become petrified. In L.A., SB and Serling arrive at the quarantine area--a gang war was about to erupt when suddenly all the players just stopped. They seem oblivious to the fact that the life is being sucked out of them one by one. Kon charges right into the zone and finds a huge multi-armed and totally alien creature in a (warehouse?). The creature pounds Superboy into the pavement while saying things no one would expect an alien to say--in fact, some of what he says is what Superboy was thinking earlier that day. The alien tosses Superboy into an antique store and when the Kid wakes up he's in some bizarre alien nightclub with a hot alien chick on his lap. Lobo is there and doesn't act pleased to see Superboy. The alien, named Scizmore, is there (or at least his head is). Serling radios Superboy and tells him that it feeds off of rage so he has to calm it down. SB grabs Lobo's bike and starts playing some easy listening; then uses the bike to rocket the alien into space. Once there, SB thinks "happy thoughts," namely about the alien chick, and the Scizmore shrinks down to about human size. He explains that it was Lobo's burning rage that set him off, but he's okay now.

Lobo recalls his bike and Superboy takes off after it. The bike disappears into the antique store, which is just that when Superboy gets there--an antique store. Outside, the gangs pick up where they left off and get ready to shoot it out. Superboy is enraged by this and in one boiling moment his power is discharged and destroys every gun in Los Angeles.

Trivia

 * Despite Superboy working with Waller and the Suicide Squad, here Superboy and Waller act like they are meeting for the first time.

Recommended Readings

 * Adventures of Superman
 * Superboy and the Ravers
 * Teen Titans (Volume 3)
 * Young Justice

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