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Rating:  -
I've seen Superman get the living heck beat out of him countless times, but he never seemed to die. Apparently it was different this time. I didn't really see it depicted in the art or writing as different, I just sat there at the end of the story, thinking...."That was it? He's dead now? Did I skip a page? Did I miss something? Did he have a kryptonite tooth?"
So, an unexplained made out of thin air bad guy whom nobody has ever heard of before takes out Superman with brute strength. Might have sounded good on the brainstorm chart - sort of mysterious, add another character to the DC universe with a serious back story, but it isn't executed very well mostly because of the poor writing. Also, when we meet Doomsday he is just another Hulk-like character, except he comes with petruding bones coming out of his body...real inventive.
I see it as the simplest plot that could have been written for comics (he came, he saw, he kicked butt), done with simple writing for mass market (simpleton?) people. Nothing complicated here.
I can understand this can be fun read for some people, but please save the 5 star ratings for the classy intelligent stories like The Sandman, The Dark Knight Returns and the Watchmen.
I don't want to pick on the whole death of Superman series, because I thought it got much more interesting after this arc.
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I liked The Death of Superman.i liked it because superman dies and the pictures.there is a monster named doomsday who escapes his confines and begins to wreak havoc across the country.he kills alot of people and the JLA(justice league of america)and superman is the only one who can stop him from destroying everything and getting to metroplis.it has great fighting scenes.they both fight until they cant fight anymore
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The death of superman was one of the biggest comic book marketing events of the past 30 years. Unfortunately, it ends up being somewhat anticlimactic. The monster Domesday has no back story and no character development - he just randomly appears and starts killing. He takes out the JLA, but it's mostly the less famous characters - the blue beetle, Maxima, etc. In the final battle between him and superman, when we all know what eventually going to happen (because, you know, it's kind of the title of the book), they barely even show us anything - just a few pages of punches with some description of the "long drawn out battle", and then they both die. Whoop de doo. Superman's death doesn't get nearly the amount of ink it should, and the events that cause his death have remarkably little tension or plot to them - just a couple of fight scenes. Honestly it's far from the blockbuster event it could have been, and really serves as nothing more than a cheap prologue to "world without a superman" and "The return of superman", both of which are far better than this.
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"Doom!"
A controversial best-seller when it appeared in 1992, the ultimate sacrifice by the Man of Steel to save the world from an evil war machine, Doomsday, instantly became an iconic chapter in the history of DC Comics.
Developed by editor Mike Carlin, with the writing by a number of A-listers - including Dan Jurgens, Roger Stern and Louise Simonson - the emotional roller-coaster is tremendous and the final battle scene tears at the emotions, with Lois Lane, Jimmy Olson, Ice and Bloodwynd witnessing the final moments.
The trade paperback is the first of three volumes that collect all the material chronicling the death and return of Superman. The story line redefined the landscape for superheroes and will continue to have incredible importance into the future for editors/writers and fans.
Rating:  -
There are comics that make have revolutionary writing and make you think (this is not it) and then there are really exciting, thrilling, non-stop action comics (this is it!) so if you enjoy the latter you will enjoy this book. There are some people who complain about the politics that concern the making of this book and to that, who cares, it's just a fictious story. True, it is controversial to kill of the Man of Steel but the actual fight between Superman and Doomsday literally spans several issues so Superman's death did not result from a small battle. Contrary to what people say, I think the writers are wise not to give Doomsday any history or have him talk. Doing any of these two things will result in your opponent getting the upperhand. It is very exciting and emotional at the end and the artwork is pretty decent especially in the last or two issues.
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