Awesome / Last Son of Krypton

• Superman spots twelve criminals who are flying hang gliders in a spread-out formation in order to use hi-tech weapons to rob nine banks almost simultaneously. He disables each of their crafts (while both yanking the pilots to safety and restraining them) in just the ten seconds it gives a police helicopter to count down a warning about how long the criminals have to surrender.
  • On the flip side, the whole heist was a diversion so Luthor could break into another vault and steal several scientific papers without being caught, and Superman has barely finished capturing the glider pilots when he learns the truth.
• Around the middle of the book is a montage that shows Superman casually performing feats of heroism around the world in one night while using his powers to effortlessly detect the most unexpected major problems on multiple continents and and then solve them perfectly. The scene really emphasizes how all-present and all-powerful he can be.
  • At one point, he detects how a school of sharks are about to accidentally sever a lifeline at an oceanic research center and reroutes them.
  • He gets rid of a hairline crack in the crust of a floating island by using the pressure of his hands to erase that crack.
  • When the rail of a train bridge collapses right as a train needs it, he uses his own body as a replacement and then single-handedly builds a replacement rail out of the raw materials lying around.
• When Superman appeals to Luthor for help, and Luthor holds out for a pardon, Superman is revealed to have anticipated this request and pulls out a signed Presidential pardon.
• Superman comes up with an escape plan that even Luthor praises, with both of them impersonating Mooks who tell genuine mooks that Superman has already escaped and they need a fast ship to pursue him right away.
• The final battle, where Superman and Towbee discuss how they are theoretically of equal power but Towbee boasts that a prophecy that has spent billions of years coming true favors him. Superman then beats Towbeee decisively in about four pages, including by using his cape like a whip and resisting hypnotic suggestions
  Superman: Your reasoning is as flawless as Sonnabend's prophecies, Towbee. But we shall see just how flawless that actually is.