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This is an updated version of a previous two part video Owen made on the Death & Return Of Superman storyline. I posted the original here just before my Chapter By Chapter review of the novelization The Death & Life Of Superman, so you can see my thoughts in that original post and throughout the review and tie-in articles.
The short version is it’s annoying that the TV show could have that much influence on the source material that it held back the marriage of Clark and Lois, which ended up being rushed to match the show’s doing the story. They were even forced to have the couple split up to hold on but then had to backpedal in one issue to get it all to happen and kind of weakened the whole experience.
This is an example of a comic death done right however. The death mattered in-universe, they explored how important Superman was to the DC universe, and we got +2 superheroes out of the deal when it was all done who are still appearing in comics today. It did do a few things wrong, like destroying Coast City in a non-Green Lantern comic (Coast City being Hal Jordan’s city in the comics), but overall it was a great story, something that so much of the “eventitis” driven stories they make now fail to do by placing epicness and deconstruction over good storytelling. I would hope they’d back off from that in the future but there’s no indication that in the trade-driven story structures they make now there’s a chance they’ll fix that mistake.
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