This issue weaves a tale for Halloween along with that of a boy and his dog. The main story has some interesting elements that just makes the story of a dog's devotion that all the more touching.
We meet Xa-Du, a doctor who is sentenced to the Phantom Zone on Krypton. Jor-El himself is the one to banish him and Xa-Du vows to get out. There is an interesting tidbit that Jor-El fought the Multitude himself. (the same force that is supposedly coming for Earth as mentioned in the last issue)
The time that Xa-Du was banished to the Phantom Zone was Halloween on Earth and doors between worlds apparently open during this time. As well as the cycle of twenty years for Xa-Du's parole hearing had coincided when Krypton had blown up.
Superman is in his new Fortress of Solitude and he has the Phantom Zone projector among many artifacts he had gotten from Kandor. He does not know what it is or used for. He discovers a crack on the portal and sees paw prints. Xa-Du, who has crossed over, sends him into the Phantom Zone while he plots world domination on the outside.
Inside Superman ecounters many criminals that had been sentenced to the prison and he encounters the Phantom Stranger and Krypto's ghostly forms. He is given a clue how he could battle Xa-Du. He does the "impossible" and reaches out and grabs the suit off Xa-Du, using all his will.
Until he frees himself. And Krypto.
I'll just let these next pages speak for themselves. That includes the backup. Words can't seem to quantify this kind of love.
This gets a 5 out of 5 stars from me because for the very first time in the new 52, I choked up a little. This is Krypto's issue and he should never be parted from Kal-El again.
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