Adventures of Superman # 426 - From the Dregs

Spoiler Alert

Below the Apocalypse fire pits Graggin fishes slag out of the fire and in disbelief hooks an unconscious Superman. Graggin doesn't know Superman but he thinks he can get something good for a man who survived the fire pits. So he straps him to his rig and takes off toward town. As he trucks through town people have a hard time believing that he was actually pulled from the pits, but the roomer spreads anyway. The news spreads all the way to Mangal and Amazing Grace. As the crowd gathers Graggin tries to show how Superman survived the fire but putting his hand over a torch. As he does this Superman wakes up screaming “My Hand! My Hand!” The crowd in their disbelief decide that they are going to throw both on them into the fire pits to see if what Graggin says is true and to just see them burn. As the crowd grows in it's blood lust Amazing Grace pushes her way toward Superman and Graggin. She scolds the crowd and refers to Superman as a savior. The crowed is unsure about all this until Amazing Grace tells them that she saw Graggin pull Superman from the flames. This is a lie and both Amazing Grace and Graggin Know it. She completely turns the crowd around and they cheer their savior and curse Darkseid.

Darkseid watches the whole thing from his monitor and sends his Para-Demons to kill everyone they can it this uprising. Superman puts a quick stop to the Para-Demons and completely wipes the floor with them. At the end of the battle Amazing Graze holds up Superman's fist like a boxing champ as the crowd cheers.

On New Genesis Highfather goes to the source to find out that terror is coming and he fears for the safety of all. He shares this with Lightray and Orion.

Back on Apocalypse Amazing Graze meets with Rono, Anglar and the rest of her men. They are all in a more joyful mood after Superman showed up. She walks into a back room were Superman is bathing she somehow is able to convince Superman to give up his uniform to rule Apocalypse. It is never clear how she is able to do this. The resistance spreads they sell pieces of his uniform and people even deface statues of Superman on Apocalypse. Superman leads people into battle and they have many victories. At the end of one of their major victories Superman and Amazing Grace gathers them into a corridor to be slaughtered in an ambush by Para-Demons. As Superman's warriors are being killed and burned alive Superman turns to a very joyous and approving Darkseid.

Legends

This book is part eighteen of the Legends cross-over and is a major cliff hanger to read the book on it's own would not make any sense.