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Summary: Superman's 2nd Battle Against Doomsday
Comment: This book is about Superman's quest to locate Doomsday after having recurrent nightmares. This book is not as good as the "Death of Superman" or the "Reign of the Supermen" but can help patch up the story of Doomsday.
Now this story occurs after Superman has already come back from the dead. Doomsday's origins are explained as well. Can Superman actually beat Doomsday, despite the fact that Doomsday evolves past what previously killed him? You can find out in this book.
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Summary: Really quite terrible
Comment: If you ever want to read some really lousy story-telling I recommend this series. The writing's not awful, just... not very good. An excellent example of What Not To Do for aspiring comic book authors. The art's decent, I guess, but many panels remind me of the backs of cereal boxes, or those old Fox Kids magazines. If you want a story with minimal plot and a lot of action then this series is for you. If amateurish characterization (and really lousy dialogue) makes you gag... pass.
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Summary: they did it for the money, what else?
Comment: If you want to see what's wrong with comics then Dan Jurgens' work is a good place to start, and if you want to know what's wrong with Jurgens' work this is a great place to start. Over the course of the last few years Jurgens' et al have managed to once again make Superman into the comic everyone reads and no one likes. How? Shameless manipulation of plot to sell comics, which is one of the things that's ruined comics. The other being some authors willingness to make comics "dark," which usually amounts to little more than creating violence porn. Jurgen's is guilty of this too, he made the Toyman darker (actually he Jurgens' Toyman is a Lifetime network psycho so I don't know how much dark that is and how much pathetic)making him a murderer rather than the goofy but enjoyable villain we knew, but at least he hasn't made Superman himself "dark." Supes doesn't kill and he doesn't brood too much.
Oh but wait he does both here. Traumatized by dying Superman decides to hunt down Doomsday's corpse to make sure he's definitely dead, and since Superman desecrating a body wouldn't really sell that many comics, Doomsday comes back to life. Superman sports the derided Supermullet here, so that kind of makes it entertaining, but not really. Much stuff is messed up and another motivationless force of badness is brought back to life. Terrible comic the art isn't even that great, and it is only the tip of the iceberg as far as the stuff Jurgens' had done to D.C.'s premier hero. Supes deserves better. Maybe Waid's new series will fix some of what he's broken.
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Summary: The Rematch that Every one knew would happen
Comment: This is a follow up to the death and rebirth of Superman. FOr those who read that tale the Creature Doomsday slayed the MAn of Steel in one of COmics greatest Battles. Later an impostor known as the Cyborg took Doomsdays corpse (it died at the same time) and strapped it to an asteroid and threw it into the depths of space. In this tale it starts of with Superman still ahving Nightmares about the creature. Dead set on setting his fears aside he travels into the depths of space in search of the creature. Meanwhile a cargo ship picks up teh asteroid that Doomsday was on. It reawakens and slaughters all on the ship. As it turns out the ship is on it's way towards Apokolips. From there Doomsday wreaks havoc. Meanwhile Superman with the help of the Linear Men, more specifically Waverider discover the secret ORigion of the monster. In the end Superman and Doomsday have a rematch that is not as great as the first time, but the climatic end makes the story well worth owning.
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Summary: Krypton Safety Net
Comment: When is someone going to write Superman so that it does not sound like the same writers that were writing for him in the 1930's? This book is full of the same cornball dialogue that has become a plague throughout Superman's career. Superman grew up human - why not make him sound like it? This book does allow us to see a more human side to Superman - one with fears and an eroding self-confidence. The problem is that this unique storyline is overshadowed by the grade school, dumb it down writing. The story also uses the old fail safe, when it doubt make it Kryptonian safety net. The greatest challenge in a story about Superman is finding something that can challenge him, Krypton is too easy and this reader is anxiously anticipating something else. Superman is the greatest superhero of all time, but his future is endanger with these tired run of the mill storylines.
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