From: Superman #712 (August 2011), plus Superman #714 (October 2011)
It's kind of nice that writer Kurt Busiek had the time to give Krypto one last solo adventure before the DC Universe got Flushpointed, even if it is a file story from years earlier because JMS couldn't make his "Grounded" deadlines. It actually occurs after Connor is "killed" by Superboy-Prime, and he's feeling lonesome and blue. But that doesn't mean he won't answer THE CALL when heroic deeds need to be done! What is that? The whiff of ionized alien ship engine thrust?
Or is he imagining it? Everywhere he goes, he's seeing Connor. Or smelling him, actually.
And eventually, he follows the smell-memory trail to the site of Superboy's death.
His howl is heard for miles around. Is there something in your eye? Is the same thing I have in mine? Busiek starts the story on the Kent farmhouse's front porch, but he ends it somewhere else.
Giving us a post-Crisis version of Krypto's Doghouse of Solitude. And yes, solitude is what it's all about.
BONUS FLASHBACK APPEARANCE: As "Grounded" (and the pre-Flushpoint Superman continuity) ends, Krypto gets one last commemorative panel:
Goodbye, post-Infinite Crisis Krypto, you were the pup we remembered from the Silver and Bronze Ages, and we're sorry to lose you.
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