Brightest Day: Action Comics-The Black Ring

After the conclusion of the New Krypton event, Lex became the lead character in Action Comics and will remain so until issue #900.[72] Written by Paul Cornell, the first story entitled "The Black Ring" explores Lex's more aggressive lust for power in the wake of his exposure to a power ring in the Blackest Night event. After being infused with the Orange Light of Avarice, Lex begins a universal quest to locate the energy of the Black Lantern Corps.[73]

During the midst of the Brightest Day event, Deathstroke and his new team of Titans are hired to assassinate Lex while he is visiting Midway City with Nava Mendelssohn, his new personal assistant and bodyguard. When the Titans ambush Lex's convoy and begin killing his hired mercenaries, Nava takes him into the sewers, where she is shot and apparently killed by Deathstroke. It is then revealed that Lex himself had paid the Titans to fake an attempt on his life, in hopes that it would draw out conspirators within LexCorp.[74] Nava's injuries soon heal, and she reveals herself to be a shapeshifter named Facade, who had murdered and impersonated the real Nava in order to get close enough to Lex to kill him. After a massive battle, Deathstroke and Osiris are able to defeat Facade, and then turn him over to Lex. In the end, LexCorp scientist are shown performing experiments on the captured Facade, while Lex assembles his staff and reveals that he knows that it was one of his employees who had hired the creature in the first place. Lex warns them not to try such a tactic again, as he will turn them into his next morbid experiment if they do.[75]