A hipster, broadly defined, is someone who pretends to like something in an effort to achieve the appearance of being ironic, and therefore more interesting to other hipsters, often scene girls with piercings that look like zits on their upper lips.
I wasn’t a huge fan of the Death of Superman myself. I won’t deny that it was very important, and I think that for all the crass commercialism that defined that whole era of comics, there was still something very resonant about a mythical hero (which, let’s face it, he is) being defeated in battle and coming back after a journey through the underworld at a time when he’s badly needed. That, I can get behind.
But there was so much other shit going on. It seemed like every flagship character had some kind of sprawling storyline that gobbled up everything else. Speculation was in full force, so there was a mania for big “event” issues that made all the surrounding issues feel like so much padding. And DC was still in the aftermath of the Crisis On Infinite Earths, and a lot of the less-desirable editorial decisions that were made in the aftermath were still in action. Not a great time for superhero comics. Television was the greener pasture.
I still have my Superboy DoS issues, and some Cyborg Superman’s. I just never liked the idea of introducing a villain for the sole purpose of being a stronger, more threatening version of the hero then killing and/or life changing them. Out of all of them (Doomsday, Venom, Carnage, etc.) I think Bane had the best work after his reason for creation was gone. Secret Six in particular breathed a new life into him.
You would be able to pretty much use any jamma game that supports the resolution of your monitor. The only problem would be your controls or the lack of buttons on fighting games if you wanted to use it for one. Wrestlefest you would need to buy a harness & hook it up to player 3 & 4, as i dont think Mystara share the same wiring.
I have all the issues as well, and a handful of the final DoS issues with the black bag and shwag, except for the one JLA issue (i think the second issue of the comic). I gotta pick it up at some time.
And yeah, Doomsday’s been a joke since then. He just randomly shows up, and gets hammered. Then he kinda had an IQ and could talk, then they just took that shit away, and then brought him back as a random mindless being that gets dropped down on things (like when he was unleashed on the Kryptonians, who proceeded to stomp him into goo).
Yeah, that’s the kind of gimmicky shit that stops being awesome once you stop playing with action figures.
Remember when there were never any villains on the shelves, but like 10 different varieties of Batman? You’d always end up making the alternate Batmen fight each other. I think that’s where the mania for the stronger evil doppelganger comes from.
superman would lose if Goku got to spend the opening 6 hours of the fight running, then giving a speech, then preparing to maybe fight, but no its right back to speeches, then more preptime.
Two characters who, at their strongest, have independently achieved nonsensical and incomprehensible world-destroying superpowers? The winner is the one who can fly from galaxy to galaxy and into the past under his own power.
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I realize that I’m breaking a sacred covenant by even talking about this. I am sorry.
If you were a real (super) man you would have somehow modified it and added 4 times the weight and then defeated it. As it is now you’re kind of a sissy.
