Doomsday!

4:38 pm EST March 5th, 2007 | News | 8 Comments

‘Death of Superman’ Animated Film Coming In September.

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8 Responses to “Doomsday!”

  1. Thad says:
    March 5, 2007 at 5:12 pm

    But when he comes back from the dead, will he have a mullet?

  2. Randy Brown says:
    March 5, 2007 at 6:08 pm

    One of the biggest hype-ups and cop-outs in comics history. Only the Spider-Man Clone Saga was a bigger ripoff, IMHO.

    If you want to read a great mainstream DC comics epic, you have at least three choices, all featuring Batman:

    Knightfall/Knightquest/Knight’s End (Bruce Wayne is weakened and taken out of action, and a less worthy person becomes Batman)

    Cataclysm/No Man’s Land
    (Gotham City devastated by earthquake and quarantined from the rest of the country, but a number of die-hards – good and bad – remain)

    Hush (New villain that makes the Joker look like Rodney Dangerfield)

    All are available as trade paperbacks. I’d love to see HBO do a live-action miniseries on the earthquake saga!

  3. Nimrod Gently says:
    March 5, 2007 at 6:09 pm

    Depends how far into the story they go. My favourite bit is the Funeral for a Friend section, kind of the point of the whole storyline really.

  4. Oliver Willis says:
    March 5, 2007 at 6:13 pm

    Was the Knigtfall thing the whole bit where Azrael takes over for Bruce Wayne? If so that was horrible. There are elements of Doomsday I didn’t like (if anyone should be Superman’s killer it should be Lex Luthor, not some random guy like Doomsday), but it was till kind of cool.

  5. Randy Brown says:
    March 5, 2007 at 6:20 pm

    So true, NG. But once you get into “Reign of the Supermen” you’re sunk, unless they plan to revise that part (Steel – the black pseudo-Superman – has already flopped in both books and the movies).

  6. Randy Brown says:
    March 5, 2007 at 6:27 pm

    OW, that was the top half of the second part of the trilogy: Knightquest: The Crusade. A LOT of fans didn’t like that because AzBats was made to do things Wayne wouldn’t do, such as kill an opponent. (Remember the lurid cover that shows Azrael/Batman beating the Jeebus out of somebody with a baseball bat?) The point, I think, was that after Wayne recovered, he had to do battle with an unhinged superhero to recover the mantle of the Bat.

  7. Nimrod Gently says:
    March 5, 2007 at 6:45 pm

    Knightfall’s good, but I skipped over most of Knightquest in the end to the inevitable end.

    I don’t envy anyone trying to adapt, or even comprehend, the plotline of Reign of the Supermen. John Henry Irons rules, though. He needs to be included.

  8. Thad says:
    March 7, 2007 at 2:54 pm

    YMMV. I’m struggling to think of a mainstream 1990′s superhero epic that was good, whereas I can think of quite a number that make me cringe (Clone Saga, Parallax, Legacy Virus, Onslaught/Heroes Reborn, …).

    Not to say there wasn’t some legitimately good indy and creator-owned stuff. Madman, Astro City, Transmet, off the top of my head.

    …Thunderbolts. The first 12 issues of Thunderbolts were good. So there’s a mainstream ’90′s arc I liked.

    And of course animated Batman was gold.

    And given that Bruce Timm’s overseeing all these direct-to-video projects, I expect they’ll be great stuff too, whether or not I like the source material. (But I really am looking forward to New Frontier. And hoping they eventually get back to DCAU stuff — like the Near-Apocalypse of 2009.)