Supermanhasrescued countless peopleand fought battles just about everywhere over the path of his superhero vocation , from under the sea to the edges of outer infinite . But the preview forSuperman : Man of Tomorrow # 9shows that the Man of Steel ’s next risky venture will him someplace freshly - surreptitious .

The issue , titled “ What Lives within , ” brings Superman and Lois Lane to a cavern telephone the Garnet Mine , where mineworker dig for precious gemstones . Lois says she hide a story about the mine last year , so the miners already had her contact information . Since everyone on the satellite knowsLois has a lineal line of credit to Superman , when catastrophe expunge at the mine , the miners knew just who to call to get the Man of Steel ’s attention . But this was n’t just a round-eyed causa of some miners being trap underground . “These … things in the tunnel assault him and the other gem miners,”a miner named Toni tells Lois . “We think they took some of the work party ! ”

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When Superman arrives at the scene , he tries to use his X - Ray vision to see into the mine , only to chance on that the rock-and-roll are full of lead sulfide - the one substance Superman ca n’t see through . He tell Lois to stick outside , but Lois has never been one to shy away from peril -or a good story- so the two head word into the cavern to investigate . It does n’t take long for them to occur across the creatures that took the miners .

Not much has been revealed about these beast as of yet , but whatever they are , they ’re potent enough to at least bother Superman - which is no small effort - and there seems to be quite a few of them . Based on the artwork , the fauna appear to be made of some variety of rock , but can also melt and morph , as seen when they wrap themselves around Superman . The animate being do n’t mouth , but Superman says the noises they emit audio like cries of pain .

give that Superman can hear muffled , trouble auditory sensation do from the creatures , it seems likely that these monsters are , in fact , the miners covered in some sort of parasite , almost like thesymbiote from Marvel ’s Venom . This would also excuse how they can seemingly load and take on dissimilar shape . The dispute is that here , it seems the mineworker have no control over their bodies once the parasite conduct over . The inquiry now arises - what happen if one of these parasites get ahold ofSuperman ?

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