On the front page of today's Daily Planet

[pulitzerwinner]

REPLICANT HEROES PLAGUE U.S. CITIES
by Lois Lane
     A cosmic villain known as Brainiac engineered dozens of biomechanical copies of some of Earth's finest heroes in a conspiracy to cause chaos and destruction in multiple sites across the country

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[metromarvel]

Clark Kent sighs, rubbing the bridge of his nose and hating himself for not having figured this out sooner. "I don't like that." Clark murmurs, "'Crimes against Superman'. Makes me sound like a king or something." If he were honest, he wouldn't use 'cosmic' for Brainiac either, but disagreeing with Lois on word choice is a quick way to an argument-she always finds out, somehow.

[jla_alcatraz]

"Heh heh..." Hellhound in his current underpass hideaway, laughs at the story. All that chaos, and nobody except Green Arrow tried to stop his escape. Seeing a homeless man approaching, he throws some detritus at him. And then covers himself in the newspapers and carboard boxes he had collected.

It wasn't easy being a runaway convict, and you often had to start at the bottom again. He wouldn't be at the bottom for long.

[_bird_of_flame_]

The Daily Planet, huh?

Bette looks down at the paper, frowning. This whole thing is just weird. Just weird.