Superboy #18 ended with Lex Luthor and Dr. Psycho in about the last place you’d expect to find them. This issue, however, picks up with the origin of one of the more dangerous villains of the New 52.
Harvest has been an antagonist across all of DC’s teen superhero books. The leader of N.O.W.H.E.R.E., he’s prone to making super-powered teenagers fight to the death, and seems to get his power from advanced technology.
We’ll learn more about Superboy’s actual origin in this issue, but it’s told from Harvest’s perspective.
And, more important than that is where Harvest gets his power from. Let’s just say that the thirty-first century is very, very different in the New 52…