Superman where is thy sting

But there's nothing original here, nothing fun. Nothing Superman. You want someone confronting their own mortality? Or go to Batman. Don't futz around through sixty four pages of a COMIC medium with philosophy, a heady, literature medium. Superman does some Superman-y things in this book. No doubt about that. But they're forced, and they've all been so done that we don't need to see them again. An alien armada? Delivering a baby? As for Death Or why does he even need to see how he will end?

Assuming he won't age, which he will, wouldn't he already assume that this was his lonely path to the end of the universe? It's not like at thirty, thirty five, or whatever Superman's official age is, that he wouldn't have confronted that. And if Death wanted Superman because he was immortal, he would have attacked earlier.

Death is eternal. Clark was immortal at seventeen, theoretically. What was Death doing, taking a coffee break? Just boring and tiring and hard to plod through.

Lots of words, no striking visuals. Lots of gothic crap, like DeMatteis seems to use a lot, but nothing really Superman. Art - 2: This is not a Superman book. This is something out of Ghost Rider, or Batman, or Wolverine even, maybe.

It's dark. It's brooding. Lois is not Lois. Lois is some ditzy dish in this book. She doesn't even look human. The premise: an incarnation of Death is annoyed that one person has survived the destruction of Krypton, so Death hopes to shuffle Superman off the mortal coil to join his Kryptonian peers. Instead of some grandiose scheme involving kryptonite, a big thorny guy with muscles or, hey, even a supernaturally inspired heart attack, Death seems bent on guilting Superman into dying.

Or maybe Death's trying to bore him to death; it's hard to tell. Fortunately, Death appears to have a conscience, and Superman is very persuasive. Cancel Insert. Go to Link Unlink Change. Cancel Create Link. Disable this feature for this session. Rows: Columns:.

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