The very last few moments of the Anarky storyline felt a bit glossed-over, regarding how the mind control was overcome and how people ended up where they did, but again, it was enough to be an understandable story and the artwork made everything pop.

Venditti and Tan have done an admirable job stepping into a title that had a massive creative departure, and they deserve to be commended for it, but hopefully we see the title truly enter a new chapter of storytelling with issue 41 rather than following a fairly predictable status quo.

If there is one thing lacking in this story it is a lack of testing Superman's hope. With all the talk about the limits of hope in this issue I would have expected to see his limit pushed. There are still a few more issues, so I'd say there's a good chance that's still on the way.

Geoff Johns did a nice job developing the characters, and bringing some humanity back to Superman, but when it came time to write a climax for the arc with this freshly humanized Superman it seems all that was written was "Superman go BOOM! Boom good! Boom end fight. Boom destroy costume. Batman shows up!"