Superman: In the Name of Gog Book

I was on such a roll: One great book after another... and then I hit this one. I didn't love the volume that preceded it, but I hoped that the next one would tie up the loose ends and bring some explanation to the... less favorable moments. Instead, I got a rapidly aging Superman with little to no explanation as to why that was happening (You can't just say kryptonite! We need more explanation than that!); Lois and Lana being catty with each other and with Clark rather than being the developed, interesting characters that they are (I mean, come on--there's no way Lois would think that Clark was doing anything unseemly just because she found lady's underwear; this is Clark Kent we're talking about. She married the guy, but it seems like she hardly knows him at all); and a time travel plot that was just confusing and even, by the end, utterly pointless. And that happened because Superman did something that Superman would never even do--tell a child he was going to find his parents even though he knew they were dead! That is not how Superman would have handled that situation at all. In fact, there were many moments he wasn't written much like Superman in both this volume and the previous one--a bit cockier than he should be. I wouldn't nitpick over that, except the rest of this volume WAY didn't work. That said... it wasn't exactly one-star bad. It was just... meh, and... this writer doesn't really get Superman or time travel stories. (Or, at least, he didn't with this story arc.) I did at least like the Superboy parts, and the Martian Manhunter appearance was pretty cool. Plus Superman staying true to his integrity while being time-tortured was pretty solid. But... that's about it. Honestly, I was kind of bummed; the first volume had some promise, even if it wasn't perfect. But this one... just didn't work.