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In the latest issue of Final Crisis, Superman’s role was reduced to sitting by the bedside of his critically injured wife, using his heat-vision to keep her heart beating.  A mysterious woman arrived and offered the means to cure Lois if Superman would go with her…

Superman Beyond 3D opens with the same scene (well, after a quick scene of Superman being beaten to a pulp by an unknown villain who refers to Superman’s “Cosmic Armor”, which he does not appear to be wearing).

The mystery woman turns out to be a Monitor of Nil, and she claims to be taking Superman on a mission to save all of existence.  Along with our Superman, she has recruited Ultraman (a bad version of Superman from Earth–3, where evil always triumphs over good), Overman (a German-speaking Superman from Earth-10, where the Nazis won WWII), Captain Marvel (the Fawcet Comics variety from Earth-5), and The Quantum Superman (Captain Allen Adam from Earth-4.  He’s a cross between Captain Atom from Charlton Comics and his pastiche in an alternate DC reality, Captain Manhattan).

While attempting to stop an out of control reality-spanning ship, they end up in Limbo, trapped in a world where they will soon forget everything and be forgotten.  There they find a book with an infinite number of pages, all occupying the same space - every book possible contained in one volume.

This is only a two-part series, and the first issue is just barely getting us set up for the action.  Other than the strange little ‘fast forward’ at the beginning, the big bad does not make an appearance in the book.  Though anytime you’ve got Ultraman and a Vampiric Monitor (that’s right) running around, you’re set for some solid conflic.  This is what the main Final Crisis has lacked so far.  A multiverse-spanning epic featuring the greatest heroes of their worlds.

Unlike Final Crisis proper, I’m eagerly awaiting the next issue of FC: SB 3D.

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