justinsayne
Cody Rhodes is an excellant
Death of Super-Man
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Quick Summery
"The Death of Superman" is a 1992 comic book storyline that occurred in DC Comics's Superman titles. The completed multi-issue story arc was given the title The Death and Return of Superman.
In the story, Superman engages in battle with a seemingly unstoppable killing machine named Doomsday in the streets of Metropolis. At the fight's conclusion, both combatants die from their wounds in Superman (vol. 2) #75 in 1992.
The crossover depicted the world's reaction to Superman's death in "Funeral for a Friend," the emergence of four individuals believed to be the "new" Superman, and the eventual return of the original Superman in "Reign of the Supermen!"
The storyline, devised by editor Mike Carlin and the Superman writing team of Dan Jurgens, Roger Stern, Louise Simonson, Jerry Ordway, and Karl Kesel, met with enormous success: the Superman titles gained international exposure, reaching to the top of the comics sales charts and selling out overnight. The event was widely covered by national and international news media. The storyline was adapted into a 2007 animated film, Superman: Doomsday.
Plot Summery
Aftermath
The funeral that followed featured many of Superman's fellow heroes and friends, including most of the Justice League of America, and a mausoleum was built in Metropolis in honor of the Man of Steel. During this time, every hero in the DC Universe sported a black arm band featuring the S-Shield logo. Some time later, Project Cadmus stole Superman's body from his mausoleum. It was hypothesized that they were attempting to clone him. The body was recovered by Lois Lane and Supergirl.
The stories after the funeral often dealt with the emotions felt by the general public as well as specific characters entwined within Superman's world, including Lois Lane, Clark Kent's parents, and even a number of supervillains. Also, the (then) President of the United States, Bill Clinton and wife Hillary were included in a scene during the funeral. With Superman gone, crime rises up again and the costumed heroes of Metropolis rise to fill in as protectors. Supergirl, Gangbuster, Thorn, and even Team Luthor, a Lexcorp-sponsored team, all tried but were not sufficient. Meanwhile, Jonathan Kent took the death of his adoptive son the hardest and as a result suffered a heart attack. At this point, all Superman comic titles went on a three-month hiatus.
The story was also collected into trade paperback form. Rather than using the banner title Funeral for a Friend, the title used for the collection was World Without a Superman.
Bibliography
SUPERMAN: THE MAN OF STEEL #17-19
SUPERMAN #73-75
ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN #496 & 497
ACTION COMICS #683-684
and JUSTICE LEAGUE AMERICA #69
Justin's Thoughts
This was the event that really got me into reading Super-Man, before this happened all I really ever had known about Super-Man was what I had seen in movies, TV shows, & Cartoons, this event was the first thing I had ever read of him in the comic book world. I never owned the Death of Superman issue but my friend did, in fact he had two copies, one was the collectors edition that came in a bag, with the arm band an shit, and the other was just the regular issue that features the seemingly final battle of the Man of Steel, he also owned a copy of the trade paper back, which is how I read the storyline the first time, I then later picked up the Novel, and read it for a book report in school, this storyline captured my imagination from the beginning, it was the first time in entertainment that I had seen the hero fall. in 2007 when the animated movie of this event was released I picked it up and popped in, and just fell in love with this story all over again, one of my favorite things about that DVD was bonus disc they had included which contained a digital copy of Super-man #75, awesome storyline, and one in which we prolly would have never gotten if it weren't for the Lois & Clark TV show (which I tried to re-watch recently, it's terrible)
This is a new thing I'm gonna try out in hopes a getting a little more discussion in these threads, a few questions
-Is there anything you would change about this arc?
I can honestly say there really isn't anything here I would change, I loved everything they did, granted it's been about 15 yrs. since I read the entire Doomsday/Funeral for a Friend storyline
-Is this a storyline you would like to see adapted to a live action movie?, and could it work as a live action movie?
This is a storyline I would love to see adapted to a movie, though there would have to be some changes in order for it to work, I think using the animated movie as a rough outline they could pull it off, they would have to extend the beginning portion of the movie, instead of rushing straight into the fight with Doomsday, that is something I would use the first 45-60 mins to build up to, then from there go on with the life w/o Superman, and the creation of the replacement Super-Man, then have Super-Man return and head into the big climax of the movie from there
-Right now Doomsday has made his big return to the Super-Man universe, in the Reign of Doomsday arc that has started with Steel #1 adn is set to come to a conclusion in Action Comics #900, do you plan on reading this, if not now then when it's released as a trade paperback?
I thought about picking this up for no other reason than I love Doomsday, the dude is nothing more than a big nasty unstoppable beast, but I decided to pick of the War of Green Lanterns arc that's going on right now instead, however I fully plan on picking up the Reign of Doomsday as soon as it's released as a trade paperback
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Quick Summery
"The Death of Superman" is a 1992 comic book storyline that occurred in DC Comics's Superman titles. The completed multi-issue story arc was given the title The Death and Return of Superman.
In the story, Superman engages in battle with a seemingly unstoppable killing machine named Doomsday in the streets of Metropolis. At the fight's conclusion, both combatants die from their wounds in Superman (vol. 2) #75 in 1992.
The crossover depicted the world's reaction to Superman's death in "Funeral for a Friend," the emergence of four individuals believed to be the "new" Superman, and the eventual return of the original Superman in "Reign of the Supermen!"
The storyline, devised by editor Mike Carlin and the Superman writing team of Dan Jurgens, Roger Stern, Louise Simonson, Jerry Ordway, and Karl Kesel, met with enormous success: the Superman titles gained international exposure, reaching to the top of the comics sales charts and selling out overnight. The event was widely covered by national and international news media. The storyline was adapted into a 2007 animated film, Superman: Doomsday.
Plot Summery
On the last page of several comics prior to Superman: The Man of Steel #18, a gloved fist is shown punching a steel wall, accompanied by the caption: "Doomsday is coming!" In that issue, Superman fights the Underworlders while a hulking figure in a green suit rampages through a pastoral field. This marks the first of seven issues in the "Death of Superman" story proper, which would continue through all four of the Superman books at that time, and one issue of Justice League America, before culminating in Superman (vol. 2) #75.
The Justice League (Guy Gardner, Blue Beetle, Booster Gold, Maxima, Fire, Ice, and Bloodwynd) responds to a call from a smashed big-rig outside of Bucyrus, Ohio, and follows the trail of destruction which leads them to a confrontation with the mysterious creature. It systematically takes the team apart, finishing by punching Booster Gold into the stratosphere. Booster Gold is caught in mid-air by Superman, and declares "It's like Doomsday is here", thus providing the monster with a name.
The Man of Steel arrives on the scene, having cut short a television interview with Cat Grant in Justice League America #69. He and the able-bodied League members follow the threat to the home of a single mother and her two children, where their battle with "Doomsday" destroys the house. The League attacks Doomsday with all their energy-projection powers; the only discernible effect is that much of his bodysuit is blasted or burned off. Doomsday again defeats the League, causes the house to explode into flames, and then leaps away. Superman follows, after saving the small family. Superman throws Doomsday into the bottom of a lake. After Doomsday escapes from the salty lake bed, he and Superman tear up a city street. Maxima then reenters the fray. Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen are sent to cover the battle for television, while Lex Luthor II dissuades Supergirl from joining the fight. The fight continues at a gas station, where Maxima rips a light post from the ground; the sparks from the wiring ignite the leaking gasoline and the station is destroyed in a huge explosion. Guardian arrives after Doomsday leaves, finding Superman and Maxima, and offers his aid.
Superman then follows Doomsday's trail of destruction, waiting for an opportunity to attack. With the monster's rampage drawing closer, Lex Jr. convinces Supergirl that she's needed in Metropolis while Superman is fighting elsewhere. While demolishing an appliance store, Doomsday sees a TV commercial for a wrestling show being held in Metropolis, and after seeing a road sign for Metropolis, heads in that direction. Superman engages him and throws him in the opposite direction, where he lands on the mountain housing Project Cadmus. They brawl throughout Habitat, a living forest connected to Cadmus, bringing most of it down. When the superhero Guardian arrives, Doomsday knocks him down and leaps toward Metropolis.
Doomsday is driven below ground, where he ruptures gas and electrical mains, leveling Newtown, a large section of Metropolis. Supergirl goes to Superman's aid, but a single punch from Doomsday knocks her to the ground, her form destabilized. Professor Emil Hamilton and Bibbo Bibbowski, Superman's allies fire a laser cannon at Doomsday, but it does not harm him. The local police open fire on Doomsday, but again, he is not harmed. Superman returns to the fight.
Superman and Doomsday lay into each other with everything they have. They strike each other with so much force that the shockwaves from their punches shatter windows. At the struggle's culminating moment, each fighter lands a massive blow upon his opponent. The two titans collapse and moments later, in the arms of a frantic Lois Lane, Superman succumbs to his wounds and seemingly dies. Jimmy, Ice, and Bloodwynd are also present at the end.
The climactic event happened in Superman (vol. 2) #75. The issue only contains 22 panels, and every page was a single panel, which was a structure building on the previous issues - Adventures of Superman #497 was done entirely with four-panel pages, Action Comics #684 with three, and Superman: The Man of Steel #19 with two. The entire story was immediately collected into a trade paperback and titled The Death of Superman.
The Justice League (Guy Gardner, Blue Beetle, Booster Gold, Maxima, Fire, Ice, and Bloodwynd) responds to a call from a smashed big-rig outside of Bucyrus, Ohio, and follows the trail of destruction which leads them to a confrontation with the mysterious creature. It systematically takes the team apart, finishing by punching Booster Gold into the stratosphere. Booster Gold is caught in mid-air by Superman, and declares "It's like Doomsday is here", thus providing the monster with a name.
The Man of Steel arrives on the scene, having cut short a television interview with Cat Grant in Justice League America #69. He and the able-bodied League members follow the threat to the home of a single mother and her two children, where their battle with "Doomsday" destroys the house. The League attacks Doomsday with all their energy-projection powers; the only discernible effect is that much of his bodysuit is blasted or burned off. Doomsday again defeats the League, causes the house to explode into flames, and then leaps away. Superman follows, after saving the small family. Superman throws Doomsday into the bottom of a lake. After Doomsday escapes from the salty lake bed, he and Superman tear up a city street. Maxima then reenters the fray. Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen are sent to cover the battle for television, while Lex Luthor II dissuades Supergirl from joining the fight. The fight continues at a gas station, where Maxima rips a light post from the ground; the sparks from the wiring ignite the leaking gasoline and the station is destroyed in a huge explosion. Guardian arrives after Doomsday leaves, finding Superman and Maxima, and offers his aid.
Superman then follows Doomsday's trail of destruction, waiting for an opportunity to attack. With the monster's rampage drawing closer, Lex Jr. convinces Supergirl that she's needed in Metropolis while Superman is fighting elsewhere. While demolishing an appliance store, Doomsday sees a TV commercial for a wrestling show being held in Metropolis, and after seeing a road sign for Metropolis, heads in that direction. Superman engages him and throws him in the opposite direction, where he lands on the mountain housing Project Cadmus. They brawl throughout Habitat, a living forest connected to Cadmus, bringing most of it down. When the superhero Guardian arrives, Doomsday knocks him down and leaps toward Metropolis.
Doomsday is driven below ground, where he ruptures gas and electrical mains, leveling Newtown, a large section of Metropolis. Supergirl goes to Superman's aid, but a single punch from Doomsday knocks her to the ground, her form destabilized. Professor Emil Hamilton and Bibbo Bibbowski, Superman's allies fire a laser cannon at Doomsday, but it does not harm him. The local police open fire on Doomsday, but again, he is not harmed. Superman returns to the fight.
Superman and Doomsday lay into each other with everything they have. They strike each other with so much force that the shockwaves from their punches shatter windows. At the struggle's culminating moment, each fighter lands a massive blow upon his opponent. The two titans collapse and moments later, in the arms of a frantic Lois Lane, Superman succumbs to his wounds and seemingly dies. Jimmy, Ice, and Bloodwynd are also present at the end.
The climactic event happened in Superman (vol. 2) #75. The issue only contains 22 panels, and every page was a single panel, which was a structure building on the previous issues - Adventures of Superman #497 was done entirely with four-panel pages, Action Comics #684 with three, and Superman: The Man of Steel #19 with two. The entire story was immediately collected into a trade paperback and titled The Death of Superman.
Aftermath
The funeral that followed featured many of Superman's fellow heroes and friends, including most of the Justice League of America, and a mausoleum was built in Metropolis in honor of the Man of Steel. During this time, every hero in the DC Universe sported a black arm band featuring the S-Shield logo. Some time later, Project Cadmus stole Superman's body from his mausoleum. It was hypothesized that they were attempting to clone him. The body was recovered by Lois Lane and Supergirl.
The stories after the funeral often dealt with the emotions felt by the general public as well as specific characters entwined within Superman's world, including Lois Lane, Clark Kent's parents, and even a number of supervillains. Also, the (then) President of the United States, Bill Clinton and wife Hillary were included in a scene during the funeral. With Superman gone, crime rises up again and the costumed heroes of Metropolis rise to fill in as protectors. Supergirl, Gangbuster, Thorn, and even Team Luthor, a Lexcorp-sponsored team, all tried but were not sufficient. Meanwhile, Jonathan Kent took the death of his adoptive son the hardest and as a result suffered a heart attack. At this point, all Superman comic titles went on a three-month hiatus.
The story was also collected into trade paperback form. Rather than using the banner title Funeral for a Friend, the title used for the collection was World Without a Superman.
Bibliography
SUPERMAN: THE MAN OF STEEL #17-19
SUPERMAN #73-75
ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN #496 & 497
ACTION COMICS #683-684
and JUSTICE LEAGUE AMERICA #69
Justin's Thoughts
This was the event that really got me into reading Super-Man, before this happened all I really ever had known about Super-Man was what I had seen in movies, TV shows, & Cartoons, this event was the first thing I had ever read of him in the comic book world. I never owned the Death of Superman issue but my friend did, in fact he had two copies, one was the collectors edition that came in a bag, with the arm band an shit, and the other was just the regular issue that features the seemingly final battle of the Man of Steel, he also owned a copy of the trade paper back, which is how I read the storyline the first time, I then later picked up the Novel, and read it for a book report in school, this storyline captured my imagination from the beginning, it was the first time in entertainment that I had seen the hero fall. in 2007 when the animated movie of this event was released I picked it up and popped in, and just fell in love with this story all over again, one of my favorite things about that DVD was bonus disc they had included which contained a digital copy of Super-man #75, awesome storyline, and one in which we prolly would have never gotten if it weren't for the Lois & Clark TV show (which I tried to re-watch recently, it's terrible)
This is a new thing I'm gonna try out in hopes a getting a little more discussion in these threads, a few questions
-Is there anything you would change about this arc?
I can honestly say there really isn't anything here I would change, I loved everything they did, granted it's been about 15 yrs. since I read the entire Doomsday/Funeral for a Friend storyline
-Is this a storyline you would like to see adapted to a live action movie?, and could it work as a live action movie?
This is a storyline I would love to see adapted to a movie, though there would have to be some changes in order for it to work, I think using the animated movie as a rough outline they could pull it off, they would have to extend the beginning portion of the movie, instead of rushing straight into the fight with Doomsday, that is something I would use the first 45-60 mins to build up to, then from there go on with the life w/o Superman, and the creation of the replacement Super-Man, then have Super-Man return and head into the big climax of the movie from there
-Right now Doomsday has made his big return to the Super-Man universe, in the Reign of Doomsday arc that has started with Steel #1 adn is set to come to a conclusion in Action Comics #900, do you plan on reading this, if not now then when it's released as a trade paperback?
I thought about picking this up for no other reason than I love Doomsday, the dude is nothing more than a big nasty unstoppable beast, but I decided to pick of the War of Green Lanterns arc that's going on right now instead, however I fully plan on picking up the Reign of Doomsday as soon as it's released as a trade paperback
