@bh6shouldhavehadsilversamurai: I didnt like it either, for the most part is good but Diana's design was inconsistent through the issue having some problems with lips, eyes, hair and body proportions; and what is she doing with her right hand?!
I didn't mind the art, but I read that comic. I didn't really find anything noteworthy in it, it was pretty slow and not a lot happened.
Last time they killed Superman they sold a hell of a lot more comics....... I mean a hell of a lot more comics.
They sold a hell of a lot more, had crazy ass lines around the block, and it was all over the news. This blah clownish version? Except for a few salty fans on the internet--crickets.
Dude, there's numerous factors as to "why".
For one, they're replacing him right off the bat with another Superman from a parallel universe. There's no vacuum like before.
Another reason is that "comic book deaths" have long lost their luster. Nobody bats an eye as someone dying. In fact, it's more surprising when someone doesn't return from the dead at some point. In layman's terms, no one cares when someone dies anymore. Superman started that trend, he was the first. And that was over twenty years ago.
Then there's the fact that this death was far less publicized than the last time. Remember, Superman's first death was intended to be permanent because his popularity was so spent and evaporated, DC didn't even know what to do with him anymore. So they decided to get rid of him with a bang, which ironically is what saved him from a literary death.
@righteous300: No it wasn't. It was said Pre-52 Superman wasn't who he thinks he is, and that New-52 Superman wasn't who he thought he was. Literally nothing more than that incredibly vague description
That optimism and shared experience talking, Love it!
"I'm waiting."
"Waiting for what?"
"For your Superman to come back."
And with that, my hope is cautiously restoring... So PreSupes is basically holding down the fort until NewSupes returns? If this is true, I'm officially back on board. Probably still won't read the comics for a while, but I now have something to be optimistic about
I don't Superman's become Ultraman in that he needs Kryptonite to power up. I think the Kryptonite's merely mutated his biology to alter his power set. If there's anything H'El has proven, it's that Kryptonians are a swiss army knife of abilities depending on the kind of radiation they absorb.
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