Alan Grant

#2

Following the annihilation of the Justice League Watchtower, the DC heroes regroup to hunt down the elusive alien Brainiac, while Lex Luthor emerges as an unlikely hero to the citizens of Metropolis after aiding the safe return of the Daily Planet hostages. Playing both sides against the middle, Lex introduces "The Luthor Legion," a new class of heroes made of Daily Planet staff who acquired powers while held captive by Brainiac. But between Lois Lane's shocking secret, the reveal of his true identity, and the tragic loss of someone close to him, Superman is losing control. And it will take everyone from Wonder Woman to Batman to the Green Lantern to fend of the Man of Steel's wrath.

#3

From the book:Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow lovable. At friendly meetings, and when the wine was to his taste, something eminently human beaconed from his eye; something indeed which never found its way into his talk, but which spoke not only in these silent symbols of the after-dinner face, but more often and loudly in the acts of his life. He was austere with himself; drank gin when he was alone, to mortify a taste for vintages; and though he enjoyed the theater, had not crossed the doors of one for twenty years. But he had an approved tolerance for others; sometimes wondering, almost with envy, at the high pressure of spirits involved in their misdeeds; and in any extremity inclined to help rather than to reprove. "I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way." In this character, it was frequently his fortune to be the last reputable acquaintance and the last good influence in the lives of downgoing men. And to such as these, so long as they came about his chambers, he never marked a shade of change in his demeanour.