Countdown #3

With just three issues left before Final Crisis, Countdown #3 arrives with a cover by Adam Kubert that crackles with raw urgency — a Superman-suited figure is caught in a punishing web of red energy beams, straining under the assault against a star-field backdrop. The tension practically leaps off the page, as debris scatters and the figure's clenched fist suggests defiance even in the midst of being overwhelmed. Writers Paul Dini, Keith Giffen, and Sean McKeever, with interior art by Freddie E. Williams II, keep this weekly DC event racing toward its conclusion with the story titled "Owned.