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Rating:  -
I would have hoped they would have put more thought into how to kill the greatest superhero ever but they didnt. Its pretty much 168 pages of Superman punching Doomsday. No plot twists nothing clever no surprises. Superman meets a monster as tough as him and they punch each other a lot.
Rating:  -
This lengthy comic is generally a ferocious battle between a super villain called Doomsday and first the JLA and then Superman. Doomsday seems unstoppable, when he first appears the JLA minus Superman do battle against the rampaging monster to no avail. They are seriously defeated, some injured to near the point of death. Doomsday is not a monster with an agenda; the mind of the creature cannot be probed beyond the point of having the simple goal to destroy everything it encounters. A television journalist is interviewing Superman when he is informed of the defeat of the JLA and he immediately flies off to enter the battle, and what a battle it is.
The mindless monster has a goal of traveling to Metropolis and no force seems capable of stopping it. They thrash each other with blows so powerful they damage nearby buildings yet Doomsday seems invulnerable to even the mighty blows of the great Superman. Things come to a climax when Doomsday knocks Superman down and begins to descend on Lois Lane. Finding reserves of power and energy that he never knew he had, Superman delivers the most powerful blow of his career while receiving the most vicious punch he has ever received in return. Both blows prove fatal and Superman dies while being cradled in the arms of his beloved Lois Lane as his blood flows down her arms and her tears flow down her checks and onto his battered face.
This comic was a watershed event in the history of the comics, an icon of the superhero genre dies in defense of the world and those he loves. Very well done and packed with action, this is a comic book that all fans of the superhero segment of the comic book literature should read.
Rating:  -
How this became the best selling graphic novel of all time is obvious. The killing of a main character in a comic universe has since gone on to be a played out trick that no longer drives sales. Even on the pages the selling and marketing continues as D.C. shamelessly promotes other books in the fragmented Superman Universe. They have since consolidated and rebooted yet again, D.C. continues to misfire with the Superman character. They ditched Alan Moore right at his peak and replaced him with John Byrne as he was waning in both skill and rational thought.
D.C. constantly allows Superman's origins to be rebooted, retold, and resold via TV, film and endless comics. The Death of Superman plays out like nothing more than a long drawn out "Hulk vs. Superman" without the Hulk license. There is little to no character development or backstory. Lex II, Supergirl and a host of other missteps are presented, but not explored in any depth other than "Check out some other monthly for the story"
Superman and Doomsday punch each other to death. That's all that happens. That is not a spoiler, as the title of the GN says it all. Superman dies. How does he die? Punching too hard. If that sounds great to you, buy this book now. However if you enjoy plot, character development and subtlety, avoid this at all costs. Even as a completest, I feel like I wasted $11 here. The cover tells you all you need to know.
Rating:  -
This book is in the comic series. I wouldn't recommend reading this one without having read at least a few of the others. There are notations in the comic that will refer you to which episode they are talking about when a character mentions something that has happened in the past. There are organizations and people in the story that will leave you confused as to who they are and their role. The story also ends leaving it open for the next in the series. Despite all this it is a Superman story and I thoroughly enjoyed it (as did my kids).
Rating: -
After all these years I just picked this up again on a whim while at Borders. The girlfriend couldnt understand why at thirty I would do it, but then she read it and was sobbing by the end!
This is one of those works that you get more out of when youre older so you can really wrap your mind around it's core values: honor, love, hate, sacrifice. This one will stay with me forever until I can share it with my first child.
The last few pages are forever engrained into my mind as the narration reads through the closing moments of who Superman was to everyone, with the last line in particular "This is the day,--where a Superman died."
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