 Today on the show we're going to be taking a look at the death of Superman. Hey guys welcome back to Comic-ConTV where all geek culture collides if you're new to the channel don't forget to hit that subscribe button so you don't miss out on future videos. All right guys as I said today we're taking a look at the death of Superman. I figured it would be the perfect time to go over this classic read since of course later this year DC is coming out with the death of Superman animated movie. This isn't Superman doomsday this is actually the death of Superman. However it's going to differ from the its comic book counterpart in that it's going to have Green Lantern, Aquaman, Wonder Woman, Cyborg, Batman, Flash, and a few others that were in fact actually I believe Martian Manhunter is going to be in it as well even though he's not listed here. He will be in it as far as I know. All right and in this movie as you guys recall in the death of Superman a few characters who played key roles in it were Blue Beetle, Booster Gold who actually named doomsday, Guy Gardner who had a yellow power ring at the time, Fire and Ice as well as Bloodwind. Now the thing about Bloodwind in this issue in this comic series is he was actually Martian Manhunter. Something happened and made Martian Manhunter believe that he was actually Bloodwind for time. Bloodwind was trapped inside of a crystal I believe or something like that. Very cool character he doesn't get a lot enough love. This series actually introduced me to Bloodwind. There he is right there. Very cool character he has a lot of the same powers as Superman plus he's a necromancer. He gets his powers from voodoo gems and crystals and stuff like that. Very cool character they really need to bring him back into the DC universe along with so many others from back in the day and I mean just look at this artwork. You don't really see artwork like this anymore. You just see it like right there. That artwork is amazing. You don't see much artwork like that anymore. It's just and here's where Booster Gold actually gave the monster his name. Trouble isn't the word Superman. I'm telling you right now it's like Doomsday is here. So they really should have incorporated. I really wish they would have used this version of the Justice League in the new movie. I can understand why they didn't. They're trying to build their animated universe and they're keeping with the new 52 designs. So they're kind of emerging the pre new 52 universe with the new 52 character people who will be playing characters in the movie. Nathan Nathan Fillion will reprise his role as Green Lantern Matt Lantern Lanter will be Aquaman Rosario Dawson will be Wonder Woman Rainn Wilson is Lex Luthor Jerry O'Connell is Superman Rebecca Romain as Lois Lane In fact I believe as it was mentioned in the previews Jerry O'Connell and Rebecca Romain are actually married in real life so that'd be Shamara Mora Cyborg who has played Cyborg in all of the new 52 animated movies Jason O'Mara as Batman Christopher Gorham as Flash Patrick Fabian as Hank Henshaw which is going to be really cool Rocky Carroll as Silas Stone the fact that we're getting Hank Henshaw and this is going to be a two-part movie two-part movie that it's going to be the death of Superman in one film and then in the next film it's going to be the reign of the Superman they really could have almost made it a trilogy a three-part movie because the reign of the Superman is such an iconic miniseries that they could have had it led into so many other things they could have had it lead into Emerald Twilight because as we all know in reign of the Superman Hank Henshaw blew up Coast City which directly led caused how Jordan would go insane and become parallax mongol the first mongol you could have used that to introduce mongol into this animated universe could have even led into Batman Nightfall because that Batman Nightfall did take place I believe almost right after Emerald Twilight maybe not right after but shortly after Emerald Twilight because it was still Bruce Wayne and Tim Drake in the funeral for a friend storyline and the morning after but I really hope and I was talking to John about this as well they need to have as long as they make the movie end like this we will be okay with it that right there is an iconic scene and what's even more iconic than that are these pages here that that needs to be the end of the movie like I said you don't get artwork like this anymore I have had this trade since since it came since it was released I believe this was actually released in 93 the story itself was 92 uh yeah cop cover copyright in 1993 uh originally published in single magazine form a Superman man of steel 17 18 19 Superman 73 74 75 adventures of Superman 496 497 action comics 683 684 and Justice League America 69 copyright 1992 1993 dc comics all rights reserved this is my original the original one my mom bought this for me I think from Valentine's Day well in 93 somewhere around there as you can see it's not in that great a condition I used it to trace a lot as a kid um I actually after I got this I took it with me to school and I was reading it in class and my teacher took it away from me it called it disgusting my mom went down to school got the comic back from her and then years later when I had my tattoo studio I had my comics at the studio and my former business partner at the time after after I left before I could get all my stuff together he confiscated all my comics and gave them to his brother-in-law which kind of pissed me off but I managed to get it back I had to do some trading for it but this is still the same the same one I got way back in 93 the writers of the story include Dan Jurgen's Jerry Ordway Louis Louise Simonson and Roger Stern Pencilers John Bogdavine John Bogdanov Tom Grumit Jackson guys Dan Jurgen's Inker's Brett Breeding Rick Burchett Doug Hazlewood Dennis Jank Dennis Roder Dennis Roder and so on uh Dan Jurgen's is interesting to know because he had plans for a certain character in this comic all the way back in 93 didn't he was a minor character through the funeral for a friend in the morning after um played a kind of a mediocre size role I won't say he was a small character but he was you know he he was he had an important role um just not a big one uh and there he is right there Mitch Anderson he was the kid who uh doomsday destroyed his house he was the one who thought Guy Gardner was a lot cooler than Superman he thought Superman was a total dweeb and eventually after Superman gave his life to stop doomsday to save his family Mitch came around and became a big fan of Superman and kind of took on almost Bruce Wayne's role in the Batman v Superman movie uh at the end you know where you know Bruce said he failed him and all that that was pretty much how Mitch was represented throughout the funeral for a friend and the morning after storylines and what's important about Mitch is not just his role in the death of Superman but eventually in 1998 around there he made another appearance in Superman number 140 and 141 as the superhero outburst uh if you don't know or is no is 171 I believe I'm sorry I got incredible Hulk 140 and 141 mixed up with Supreme of course for those of you who don't know incredible Hulk 140 was the first cameo appearance of Wolverine and 141 was the first full-on appearance of Wolverine but anyway if you don't know much about outburst and the Superman of America we have a video on the channel it's one of our earlier videos so go ahead and check that out but at this time this was a very important comic um it can't the original death of Superman which is this one right here first printings came in a black bag and then the one directly after I can't remember which one came in a white bag it's the one where Superman is in the afterlife pretty much fighting for a soul his and Pa kids souls but this was such an iconic work they Superman and Lois were engaged they weren't married yet and in the series Lois and Clark the new adventures Superman because of this uh they had to push back Lois and Clark's wedding because they didn't want Lois and Clark to get married on the show before they got married in the comic and it just so happened that at the time this came out nothing else happened in the world so this was all over the news all over the radio covered on every single station it was just it was amazing and the news when it was revealed reign of Superman was coming reign of the Superman I'm sorry when the reign of the Superman was coming the news was actually the first to break the story that there were going to be four new Superman they didn't know at the time if they were going to take over for Superman permanently or or what but I remember the story I I remember what I was doing I was sitting in my grandparents living room watching the news with them when the story broke that there was going to be four new Superman and my my child mind was just blown uh so for those of you who don't know the four new Superman became Hank Henshaw the cyborg Superman who most people thought was Superman reborn uh only made into a cyborg uh there was the man of steel John Henry Irons who embodied the spirit of Superman there was the eradicator which actually thought he was Superman for a time uh and even Guy Gardner got along with that Superman and then there was the metropolis kid super boy but don't call him super boy he's Superman uh the younger version of Superman the clone of Lex Luthor and Superman uh that we eventually later found out Connor Kent although he's not in comics anymore I kind of wish they hoped they'd bring him back at some point but all four of those characters got their start right here because of the death of Superman uh and it's revealed in Superman hunter pray doomsday's origins um but yeah I really wish in this new movie well first let's go back to the beginning these panels here which lead into the death of Superman they weren't a part of any one comic uh during this time in Superman and Justice League and action comics and Adventures Superman and all that each one of those stories would end with a panel of a green fist punching metal just this part here this went on for months doomsday is coming was the tagline went on for months and months the buildup was amazing Dan Jurgens is is a master of buildup uh we don't really get much of his art and writing anymore like we used to we still get some but not not nearly as epic and amazing as this was and eventually each panel the glove begins to tear and then you see a bare hand and crack doomsday breaks through and our first image of doomsday was this and we don't see him again after that until this scene right here and this is the scene that depicts what doomsday is about there he is standing in the middle of the wilderness one hand tied behind his back out stretches his hand for a little canary to land in it and he just crushes it and he laughs um and during the uh super nintendo video game the death and return of superman this was a big part of it uh i forget what these things were called uh they weren't really many humans they i think they were underworlders or something like that uh each level you had to fight underworlders until eventually you get to doomsday and then after doomsday you eventually fight uh hank henshaw and the other superman and all that and that was my favorite game to play even though i could barely get past the first couple levels is so damn hard but here we have the justice league at this time uh this was justice league international okay you have you have guy gardener you have fire and blue beetle you have booster gold you have ice bloodwind um you have maxima uh for those of you who don't know who maxima is she she's a very unusual character sometimes she's a hero when she's trying to win over superman to be her king other times she's a villain when she's obsessed with superman and once revenge against him uh it just depends on what the writer wants to do with her she's pretty much an alien version of wonder woman um and she doesn't take no for an answer also included in this story i believe alan scott was in the movie as well or not in the movie in the comic as well uh and he was listed as brain lantern at this time i believe i could be wrong but i believe alan scott does appear at some point see like splash pages like that you don't get artwork like that anymore it's just it's iconic is what it is iconic okay maybe i'm maybe i was wrong maybe uh alan scott uh there's the guardian uh no it's not jimmy olson like in supergirl it's a clone of the original guardian maybe alan scott was in a different issue that's right he was in one of the reign of the superman comics that's where i'm getting mixed up and this version of lex luther was actually a clone of lex luther a younger a younger clone of lex luther with his mind with lex luther's mind and he portrayed himself as the original lex luther's son uh this supergirl was not carazor l or carazor l i mean it was actually an alien shapeshifter right there this panel back in the day this panel really really confused me because i wasn't aware that this wasn't uh the real supergirl it was a alien shapeshifter and this bibo made appearances before this but none of them were so as big and during the reign of the superman storyline he actually dressed kind of like superman only in uh blue sweatpants with red shorts over the top and a uh superman t-shirt that kind of showed his gut uh but this really made bibo famous i really hope they showed this scene right here in the new movie uh that's also a pretty iconic scene this scene here here very nice just i really wish we got more old school dan jergen's artwork like this still i mean it's just i can't get over it that is superman i mean yeah you got other artists who do a good job with superman and all that but no one quite did superman like dan jergens it's an amazing story amazing artwork led into so many other amazing stories changed the changed comics forever uh after this death was never the same in comics superheroes would always come back uh the only ones who never did were you know uncle ben um sue dibney characters like that that changed the course of a character's history uh but other superheroes and villains after this they would always come back it may have taken a while but they always came back i really hope dc does this animated movie perfectly or as close to perfect as you can given the cast of characters they're using and the art style they're using i really wish they would have gone with the dan jergen style uh that would have been epic but i can understand why they didn't um so anyway and something else the new death of superman movie is going to be nothing like superman doomsday uh with superman doomsday that was really the introduction of the dc animated universe they tried to keep the superman animated series art styles a little bit for the most part um and keep it within the super uh the dc animated universe like batman the animated series superman in the animated series just as like just as like unlimited and they tried to contain it within that universe and they had a small budget so they couldn't really do an all out death of superman death and return of superman storyline so they merged a lot of the characters they merged a raticator henshaw and superboy into the superman clone uh the battle with doomsday was is okay it wasn't as epic as i would have liked let's hope they do a better job with this movie so anyway guys there you have it the death of superman trade paperback hope you guys enjoy this video i hope you guys enjoy the movie yet when it comes out uh later this year i'm shannon for com again tv the only place on youtube where all geek culture collides don't forget to hit that subscribe button hit the like leave a comment down below and we'll see you again real soon take care