Lab Rats #4

John Byrne's Lab Rats reaches its fourth issue with a cover that stops you cold: a group of young characters stand amid rubble, one of them clutching Superman's iconic red-and-blue costume while a "Welcome to Metropolis — Home of Superman" sign lies shattered at their feet. The tagline "The Beginning of the End!" hangs over the scene, promising that the story arc titled "Tomorrow Was a Long Time Ago…" is heading somewhere genuinely unsettling. Byrne writes, draws, inks, and letters the whole affair himself, with colors by Noelle Giddings and Digital Chameleon giving the wreckage a vivid, uneasy weight.