#the death of superman

[kitschysandglass]

#clois #lois lane #clark kent #clark x lois #superman #dark multiverse #the death of superman #dc comics

[the-army-brat-and-the-nerd]

Every time earth-girl Lois Lane manhandled/ambushed the invincible Kryptonian, Clark Kent. Also extra points for their absolute sense of professionalism in the daily planet premises.

#clois #lois lane #clark kent #dc #smallville #superman and lois #lois and clark the new adventures of superman #dcau #superman : doomsday #the death of superman #the-army-brat-and-the-nerd #Gifs #Gifset

[kal8elle]

#superman #clark kent #kal el #lois lane #superman and lois #lois and clark #my adventures with superman #the death of superman #all star superman #superman the animated series #superman vs the elite

[longwuzhere]

Some cool Easter eggs I caught watching My Adventures with Superman that I want to show to people so they can be in on it with comic book readers

My episode 1 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My episode 2 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My episode 3 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My episode 4 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My episode 5 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My episode 6 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My episode 7 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here and here

My episode 8 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My episode 10 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

(SPOILERS if you haven't seen the show yet):

After what happened to Clark in the last episode we see that Lois, Jimmy, and the Newskid Legion are searching all over Metropolis for him and they name drop some location found in Metropolis.

As you can see from the map of Metropolis in the DC Heroes role playing manual, Park Ridge and Bakerline are one of the six boroughs of Metropolis. Park Ridge makes its first appearance in the Adventures of Superman #447 (1988) while Bakerline first appeared in Action Comics #599 (1988)

As the General is interrogating Clark we het a hologram flashback to his time with Waller in the army and Waller name drops the General's first name Sam. So we can conclude that the General is General Sam Lane (this is double confirmed in the next episode).

Sam Lane makes his first appearance in the silver age in Superman Girl Friend, Lois Lane #13 (1959). He's the typical farmer dad that Superman saves and meets. Nothing too special about it.

Now, GENERAL Sam Lane makes his first appearance in the Adventures of Superman #424 (1986)

Like her MAwS counterpart, Lois' relationship with her dad is VERY strained as you can tell by the panels here from the comic (W: Marv Wolfman, P: Jerry Ordway, I: Mike Machlan, C: Tony Ziuko, L: John Costanza). In the comics he wanted a son and Lois became that stand-in whenever he was around and that ruined their familial relationship. And much like his MAwS counterpart he deeply cares about his wife who we can assume he lost some time ago in the past. Also will we see a Lucy Lane in MAwS? Who knows.

Man of Steel, typical moniker for Superman, you're guaranteed to have that in any Superman media.

Slade actually loses his eye to match his comic book counterpart.

Later in the ep we see him with the eyepatch. Matches with his comic book counterpart as seen in this fantastic piece by Deathstroke co-creator, George Perez.

After the Superman Revenge Squad Task Force X escape thanks to Ivo absorbing more and more electrical energy he comes this giant kaiju sized monster rampaging across Metropolis with an axe to grind at Superman. The glowy bits on him remind me so much of Shin Godzilla. Oh and btw if you want to see the Justice League fight 2 very well known kaiju, preorder Justice League vs Godzilla vs Kong. Heres the trailer for it:

The first issue goes on sale in October 17th.

With the way Lois is worried about Clark here it gives off very Death of Superman vibes kinda like this page from Superman #75 (1992) by Dan Jurgens, Brett Breeding, Glenn Whitmore, and John Costanza.

Jimmy is usually labeled as Superman's best friend/pal so that's a given when a reference like that shows up

As the names scrolled up on Jimmy's IG-esque live stream we see some familiar names. The first is a reference Josie Campbell, the producer for the cartoon and the latter two are references to Superman support characters.

Pete Ross is Clark's childhood friend who first appeared in Superboy #86 (1960) by Robert Bernstein and George Papp.

In the comic Pete keeps scrutinizing Clark and he suspect that Pete might be on to his Superboy identity, but it turns out he just wanted Clark to play Superboy in the high school play. In like most Superman origins and media, Pete Ross is always Clark's best friend, but here in MAwS Jimmy takes up that role as friend of Clark but in this case its since they were in freshmen year of college.

Like Pete Ross, Lana Lang was also a childhood friend of Clark's ad also his love interest when they were teenagers.

Lana makes her first appearance in Superboy #10 (1950) by Bill Finger, John Sikela, and Ed Debrotka. In the comic Lana becomes a house guest for the Kents while her parents are away and she begins to suspect Clark and Superboy are the same person. Most Superman origins and other media usually have Lana and Clark be childhood sweethearts back in Kansas and she will occasionally show up in Clark's life again when they are adults.

After Clark punches through the Parasite body to get to Ivo we see the body just freeze there kinda like Shin Godzilla at the end of the movie. Btw go watch Shin Godzilla, Shin Ultraman, Shin Kamen Rider, fantastic trio of movies! Shin Ultraman is a better Superman movie than Man of Steel.

At the end of the ep Amanda Waller takes over Task Force X and name drops Checkmate. The organization first appeared in Action Comics #598 (1988) (cover by John Byrne) where Checkmate is a branch of Task Force X that was founded by Amanda Waller as a government intelligence agency. Like with most spy organization in the DC universe, they are shady AF. In their debut they legit kill a high ranking official from a different country in the name of "American safety".

Thank you for getting this far down in the post. Be sure to check out the other posts to see what other easter eggs and references were in the previous episodes:

My episode 1 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My episode 2 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My episode 3 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My episode 4 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My episode 5 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My episode 6 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My episode 7 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here and here

My episode 8 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My episode 10 easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

#My Adventures with Superman #Clark Kent #Lois Lane #Jimmy Olsen #MAwS #Metropolis #Park Ridge #Bakerline #Newskid Legion #Amanda Waller #Sam Lane #General Sam Lane #Task Force X #Parasite #Anthony Ivo #Shin Godzilla #Slade Wilson #Deathstroke #Justice League vs Godzilla vs Kong #The Death of Superman #Pete Ross #Lana Lang #DC #DC Universe #DC comics #Action Comics #Adult Swim #Cartoon #Youtube

[nitewrighter]

Me: Man, Clark should have had a beard during the Death/Return of Superman arc. It would have made sense for the grown-out hair, too. Clawing his way back to Metropolis in a falling-apart robot... tumbling out, powerless. God, mullet and beard combo is so hot.

My Brain: Jesus of Nazareth.

Me: SHUT UP.

#superman #dc #the death of superman #reign of the supermen #return of superman

[romancemedia]

Not Even Death Could Keep Them Apart

#Young Justice #Tangled #Hercules #The Death of Superman #Reign of the Supermen #Justice League Dark Apokolips War #Beauty and the Beast #Moments #Miss Martian x Superboy #Superman x Lois #Rapunzel x Eugene #Hercules x Meg #Damian x Raven #Belle x The Beast

[solidsmax]

The Death of Superman ↳ Wonder Woman

#dcedit #dcauedit #dcmultiverse #wonderwomanedit #usersource #cinematv #dailyanimatedgifs #animationsdaily #cinemapix #dcladies #the death of superman #wonder woman #diana of themyscira #doomsday #flashing gif #blood tw

[evilhorse]

For my body and soul there have been few darker moments…

(Action Comics Presents: Doomsday Special #1)

#Action Comics Presents: Doomsday Special #action comics #Superman #clark kent #kal el #doomsday #flashback #the death of superman #fight #iconic #dan watters #eddy barrows #dc comics #comics #2020s comics

[arts-by-omar]

SCP 682 vs Doomsday

#fan art #artwork #drawing pen #colorpencil #doomsday dc #dc #dc universe #scp foundation #scp 682 #hardtokill #hard to destroy reptile #versus #crossover battles #death battle #the death of superman #superman doomsday

[doomed-jester]

#shitpost #meme #memes #dc #dc comics #superman #death of superman #the death of superman #doomsday #comic book movies #comic #comics #letterboxd #review

[abuddyforeveryseason]

This is my post for October 29th. Assemble it to find out what it's about! (spoiler: It's Buddy).

I'm still reading Astro Boy. It's a puzzling manga (wow, talk about a thin premise to relate the rant to the Buddy of the day). I'm already at the last few books in the collection, and like I said yesterday, those are the "bad" ones - except they're not bad at all. The Blue Knight chapter (and its sequel chapters) were pretty interesting. But, in the introduction, Tezuka mentioned that back when he was publishing them, the manga's popularity plummeted. Because he was pushed by editors to make Astro Boy an "edgy" hero like the ones from Gekiga of the time. So back in the sixties, that was Astro Boy jumping the shark. Like when Superman died in the nineties, or when Spiderman made that deal with the devil, or Wonder Woman lost her powers and started wearing white tights.

But as someone who wasn't around back then (and, you know, not Japanese), looking back, it's an interesting story. It's a bit like the Astro Boy version of the Death of Superman, it's clear Tezuka wrote the best story he could given the constraints he was under. So even if it's listed under the "worst" Astro Boy stories, it turned out pretty good.

Of course, it's just fine and dandy for me to say so since I have the priviledge of hindsight. All the stuff that matters so much to fans of the time, the stuf that gets them saying their fandom is RUINED FOREVER just looks like an interesting chapter in the character's history.

It kind of makes me wonder, if all the stuff I hate nowadays will be looked back with fondness by future generations.

There's other interesting stuff worth mentioning from the Astro Boy collection. In one of the books, Tezuka's introduction freely admits one of the stories was drawn by Shotaro Ishinomori. It's not secret that Tezuka didn't draw all of his manga. And being used to western comics, I really dislike the idea of other artists not being credited in a story. But Tezuka's 'admission', if you can even call it that (it was more like telling a story about how amazing an artist Ishinomori was), didn't feel like him being an egotist who finally comes clean, but rather being an overworked artist praising another overworked artist in the system they happened to be in. Though maybe I'm being too lenient. I can't tell.

The Ishinomori-drawn story, Electro, also featured the character Skunk Sakai. I was surprised to find out his design was based on none other than Orson Welles, the american director. Very interesting stuff.

#ab4es #drawing #puzzle #puzzles #why is it called puzzles? #that's the puzzle #Astro Boy #Osamu Tezuka #Blue Knight #Superman #The Death of Superman #Spider Man #Wonder Woman #Shotaro Ishinomori #Electro #Orson Welles #Skunk Sakai

[machetelanding]

#superman #the death of superman #funeral for a friend #superheroes #comic books #dc comics #dc universe #comic book covers #vintage #1990s

[kal8elle]

#superman #clark kent #kal el #lois lane #superman and lois #lois and clark #my adventures with superman #superman the movie #superman 78 #the death of superman

[ploppythespaceship]

Honestly, it kinda bugs me that Superman & Lois didn’t fully commit to the death of Superman arc, instead just teasing it for their big season three finale. Because I have never seen another Superman adaptation that is so perfectly poised to do a proper death of Superman storyline.

First, I think the plot just works better with an older, most established Superman, like on S&L. Clark’s been doing this for over twenty years. The world wouldn’t be mourning the loss of a hero they’ve just started to know – it’s the hero that’s been there for them for decades, who’s become such a fixture of their lives that having him gone is unfathomable. That’s got some really powerful storytelling potential.

Second, the focus of the story is on how people pick up the pieces and attempt to live up to his legacy after he’s gone – which this show is perfectly set up to do. In the original comic arc, four characters arose after Superman’s death as various efforts to take his place – Steel, Superboy, the Eradicator, and Cyborg Superman. Comparing those four to what we’ve got on S&L…

Steel/John Henry Irons is already a main character, already a close friend and ally of Clark’s. It makes perfect sense for him to step up and take point after he’s gone.

Superboy/Conner isn’t on the show, but Jordan could easily fill a similar role. Considering how his arc has been about him coming into his own as a hero but still having a lot to learn, seeing him continue his journey without Clark’s guidance could be really interesting. And you can’t forget about Jonathan, either – he could find his own way to help fill in alongside his brother.

The Eradicator isn’t really on S&L… but Tal-Rho was loosely based on him – at the very least borrowing the name. Regardless of how similar the two characters are meant to be, seeing Tal also step up to fill in for his brother as a continuation of his redemption arc would be so, so, so interesting.

That leaves Cyborg Superman, the only character who doesn’t have a direct parallel on the show already. But it would be easy enough to include him, or to take the basic idea and spin it into a completely different direction – which is how S&L has been handling a lot of its lore. This could also be a good excuse to cast Tyler Hoechlin in a separate role, letting him keep star billing while Clark is gone.

All of that would make for a really interesting season of television, and for some Superman storytelling that just hasn’t been done in live-action before. And it’s technically possible they could still do it, considering Doomsday/Bizarro hasn’t quite been defeated. But I really doubt it.

First, they already did a fake death for Clark during the fight – they’re not going to pretend to kill him, cut for a long hiatus, then actually kill him after the break. That would just feel silly. Second, the DCEU did a death of Superman plot fairly recently, so it’s likely they wouldn't want to attempt their own version so soon (even if it has the potential to be very different and much better). And third, this plot I’ve just pitched relies heavily on having a decently sized cast outside of just the Kent family. Considering they’ve already announced that the show’s budget and cast is being slashed… there’s no way they could commit to something this big now. And it just makes me sad.

(And if they do have the guts to go for it anyway, I will absolutely eat these words.)

#personal #superman and lois #superman #the death of superman

[buniyaad]

i do love how unapologetically raggedy the superman-adjacent stories were post-crisis, like you already had the death of superman, but then you had the aftermath that was arguably much more important than that man dying. he had long hair, he went on trial, coming back to life just made his life 10x harder, his engagement was in shambles, his clone’s being groomed, john henry irons was the most beautiful man alive, he chopped his wig when he got married but his long hair was a treat for everyone. oh, and hal went crazy. 90’s superman was LEGIT. shit was a operatic clown show and amazing 😂😂

#superman #dc comics #kon el #john henry irons #the death of superman #real talk

[romancemedia]

Young Justice and DCAMU Couple Counterparts

#Young Justice #Young Justice Outsiders #Young Justice Phantoms #DC #Teen Titans The Judas Contract #Son of Batman #Justice League Throne of Atlantis #The Death of Superman #Moments #Bruce x Talia #Aquaman x Mera #Arthur x Mera #Superman x Lois #Clark x Lois #Comparison