To be honest, I had a difficult time choking through it at the age of 35. It’s just so dense, I’m not sure that my 13-year-old self would have really enjoyed or fully comprehended all that I read. It isn’t that it contains anything that’s solely meant for a mature audience. And I’m fairly certain I read it all the way through way back then. This book originally came out when I was 13 years old. Considering all the information Stern had to condense into one book, he did a pretty good job. Comic books are filled with back story and plot threads that can stretch back for years, even decades in some cases. They would have the information necessary to understand who Lex Luthor II was who Supergirl was: who the Eradicator, the Man of Steel, the Cyborg-Superman, and Superboy all were. If someone who had never picked up a Superman comic book in their lives decided to read this book, they would have all the information they could possibly need in order to understand how Superman could be beaten to death by the monster called Doomsday. What Roger Stern attempts to do with this novel is make the “Death of Superman” story accessible to any and all possible readers. The thing with comic books is that the stories are told to build upon years of history and storytelling. Well, this book is a pretty exhaustive novelization of that comic book storyline.Īnd when I say exhaustive, I mean exhaustive. We’re all aware that DC Comics killed Superman back in the early 90’s, right? In fact, it wasn’t that long ago that I wrote about the original comic book storyline.
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