The Death and Return of Superman Review!

[Wally's Comics]

If this has already been posted (my bad I didn't see it)

 

I just thought his is solid not only as a review of this 90's gimmick

but for all deaths that came after it...

 

NSFW!: Language

 

 

 

[dupont2005]

Yeah I love that video. Star studded too. This explains in a nutshell why I quit reading super hero comics forever.

[bug33fouf]

[Mephisto]

So Supermans death was basically the ending to Rocky 3?

[Maccai3]

Max Landis is the reviewer (John Landis' son) (wrote the Chronicle screenplay) and he's done a couple more, a Knightfall one and a Robin one, these two are much lower budget as in they didn't have one, but still cool

[B767293]

This explains in a nutshell why I quit reading super hero comics forever.

 

+100000

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(thumbs u (thumbs u

[comicwiz]

Who is this spaz? Nevermind Doomsday, Batman should have given this guy the sponge.

[Thawk]

As a huge fan of the Death of Superman story (it's really what pulled me into comics as a kid) there is a side of me which is very sad for the consequences it's had - killing doesn't mean anything in comics

[comicwiz]

Killing off a character and allowing them to return is totally onside with an artificially-spun superhero universe where characters don't age after being in print for over 70 years.

 

What is inexcusable is when I catch an obscure reference from television, music or movies that derives from original source material. Especially when no acknowledgment is made to the original creator.

 

And this isn't isolated to major works either. Watch a few hours of the retro channel cartoons and you'll pick-up tonnes of words and lingo that got repurposed for "fresh" modern day song lyric, television story or feature film.

 

It's not to say that the cartoons I'm referring aren't derivative themselves, but this continuous recycling of material and ideas eventually becomes tiring and borderline offensive when it attempts to gut the truth of its origin.

 

In this light, killing off an iconic character becomes tolerable, especially when faced with the kind of lifting and stealing that clearly sends the message that the person using (as well as the studios and producers backing it) lacks the creativity and imagination to come up with something original themselves.