Books : The Death of Superman

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- The most powerful hero of them all meets his match
This is without a doubt one of the best graphic novels of all time. This is the equivelent of the Dark Phoenix saga from the Marvel Universe, which is by many considered one of the best of them all.

This will keep you hooked from beggining to end. With the start of the Doomsday Creature escaping, to the brutal defeate of the JLA, to the ultimate confrontation between the two resulting in a double kill.

It's very hard to describe the story as it's just one of those that you have to read to believe. I can't push that point across any further. You must read this one if any out there.

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- Death of Superman Review by Ryan F.
This was a great book. Arguably Dan Jurgens best work, and the most epic comic story of all time. It was a well written story that will probably be known by generations of comic readers to come. Alot of twist and turns that will still leave you in disbelief of the ending despite the title.

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- A mediocre build-up with & ending with historical worth
This collection collects all the issues of the `Death of Superman' story-line, which crossed through multiple Superman titles, in order. To speak in the laws of psychics: find out what happens when an unstoppable force clashes with an unmovable one.

It's about: While Superman is getting on with his, for him, normal-day-life (rescuing dames, stopping people from taking over the world etc.) something big is escaping it's prison deep down in the earth. It starts to move and on it's flight it literally leaves a trail of death & destruction. In no-time every super-powered being around goes after it but nobody is able to even slow 'it', quickly nicknamed `Doomsday', down ... wherever it's headed at. And Doomsday DOES have a destination. Superman naturally decides to go after the impressive character.

Overall a mediocre story with the eventual results of the story-line as the biggest pull-factor to get it. Luckily the flow of events reads fluently which saves it from becoming boring, but not a heck of a lot happens. The bigger part of the book is filled with brawl-scenes. Up-points are the non-cliche ending and the fact that although the drawings are done by several artists that it's nowhere a problem. The art itself is nothing special but the several styles blend without any problems. For people who're interested in the presented story-line it's a good book because it's hard to get all the issues to read it complete and in chronological order. Even for people who normally don't read much Superman books it's a nice pastime because of the `historical importance' of the story. But objectively seen, quality-wise it isn't far more than average.

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- vary good and emotional
This is a vary good comic book to read because you have mixed emotions and the fighting is unbeleivable .It started off makeing you wonder how and who made doomsday.The ending finished beautifly and for me it almost made me cry to think this could be the last time we read about superman.(But that remains to be read).

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- A landmark in the Superman saga
Okay, I'll admit it, Superman is not one of my favorite superheroes, considering that he is afraid to kill almost any supervillain he comes in contact with, no matter how powerful or evil they are. But this graphic novel actually started me reading the Superman series. And in this graphic novel, Superman gets brutal and actually kills a supervillain! But in the process he also gets killed. Yes, the Man of Steel was once thought to be invincible. That was, until Doomsday arrived!! This mysterious creature engages in a bloody, brutal battle that ends up leading to the death of the Man of Steel. A death that Superman is willing to die in order to defend his adopted and earthly city of Metropolis. This graphic novel is a must-have in the Superman saga and ends up changing the saga forever! I'm planning now on reading the two other graphic novels that follow this one in "The Death of Superman Trilogy": "A World Without Superman" and "The Return of Superman".

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