Superman at the Earth End's review
Wow, I am shocked that no one reviewied this trainweck before here on Comicvine. So I do it.
Superman at the Earth's End is without the doubt one of the worst comicbooks from all time along with One More Day and the Crossing. It represents everything bad about the Nineties when superheroes are crazy, they all look gritty and have really big guns, and that is just the good part. What follows is a incoherent mess of a history filled with plot holes and broken morals that are throw without any consistency where Superman wakes in post-apocalyptic future where he must save the world (what's left of it) from twin clones of Hitler and retrieve Bruce Wayne's corpse. Just to name a few bad things about this comic:
- Superman looks like a mix between Santa Clause and Gimli from Lord Of The Rings.
- The dialogue is one of the most awkardly bad I heard in my life, pounting some jewels such "diseased version of hell" and pretentious statements that think they are really deep when in fact are really stupid.
- Apparently the scientist who cloned Hitler TWICE thought he was much better option than say Elvis Presley, John F. Kennedy and Albert Einstein.
- Apparently the Batcave is 30 miles long and Bruce used to collect very painfully private objects such as the gun that killed his parents. How he managed to put his hands on it is anyone's guess.
- Apparently since Hitler has been alive all time, WW2 never ended. And war didn't exist on Earth until he grew in power so I guess the Crusades and WW1 (which Hitler himself fought) can be writed out of history.
- Superman uses a ridiculous, impratical, big ass chain gun that appears on the cover but its impossible to tell apart and in the end he uses it to kill Hitler, rather than taking them to justice and awnser for their crimes.
- He appears to been dying and decides to imolate himself along with Batman's corpsey in his arms.
- But the real cherry on cake is that the kids following Superman around decide to throw their guns in the fires, saying that if not for guns he would still be alive. The comic preachs anti-message gun when they used guns to defeat the badguys. Way to destroy the credibility of your moral.
To its credit though, it could have been much better if didn't take itself so seriously and at least portrayed itself a parody and would sleep much better knowing that. I take solace that this comic was a isolated case as Elseworlds story and really didn't happened in a sense that affect the DC Mainstream Universe in any form. But I think many people want to forget that this "existed".
