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Except doing something stupid out of personal pettiness has been part of Luthor's character forever, so I'm not sure why you think it's bad writing to keep that part of his personality and relationship with Kon. Lex is perfectly aware of how to play with Kon's emotions and that as long as he had a hostage, he'd never risk it by going to his friends for help.

Also, Brainiac is using Luthor to plan a strike against New Krypton, so threatening them with any of those other hero families is pointless since the Kryptonians have never asked them for help or even tried play nice. And if I remember my super books correctly, Superman is well aware that Lex and Brainiac are working together so he isn't really revealing anything more than Lex's desire to stomp on the feelings of the son he thinks betrayed and failed him.

But I guess keeping track of other books' plotlines is just bad writing.