SuperHeroBooks - The Death of Superman
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Manufacturer: DC Comics
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9781563890970
ISBN: 1563890976
Label: DC Comics
Manufacturer: DC Comics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 168
Publication Date: 1993-04-14
Publisher: DC Comics
Release Date: 1993-04-14
Studio: DC Comics
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Summary: You need the other books
Comment: 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).
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Summary: Still a fav!!
Comment: 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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Summary: 5 stars? ugh!
Comment: 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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Summary: the death of superman
Comment: 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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Summary: anticlimactic
Comment: 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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Editorial Reviews:
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The bestselling edition that tells the staggering story of Superman's demise has been one of DC's best sellers since its release in January, 1992. THE DEATH OF SUPERMAN, the opening volume of the saga of Superman's death and rebirth, introduced the unstoppable death dealer known as Doomsday. Graphic novel format.
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