My only problem with ending Superman is that, given the current state of American trademark and copyright laws, it would be decades (if ever) before he entered the public domain. I'm fine with the official canon coming to an end, but I'd still want him to enjoy the same pop-culture longevity as Dracula or Sherlock Holmes.
And the Adventure Continues isn't an ending. It's very pointedly a non-ending. It exists to avoid having to end the story.
An And the Adventure Continues ending really isn't any better than just not ending the story.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Meh. Superman is enough of a Fountain of Expies that I don't see that being much of a differences.
If DC released their claim to Superman, he would just default to Shuster and Siegel's estates. He wouldn't go to the public domain.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I think of Superman as a mix of the DCAU and the way Mark Waid wrote him in Superman: Birthright. The DCAU version was strong, but lived in a world of cardboard. He was a leader, but he struggled with the responsibility his power brought. Mark Waid succeeded in doing an origin story and giving us a young, rookie Superman without turning him into the kind of hip, young twenty-something that Morrison's writing now.
Honorable mention to what Richard Donner had with the first movie.
The very best, like no one ever was. Check out my Spider-Man fanfic here! [1]I'm surprised that Whatever Happen To The Man Of Tomorrow hasn't come up as an end to Superman yet. As much as I love Morrison, Moore story is head-cannon to me.
Oh you mean "Let's make a bunch of Silver Age stuff grim n' gritty for two issues before making a resounding non-ending, the series?" I love Moore to Death but that story was to him what Encore was to Eminem.
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Well the plot does center around him checking the old vault on Kandor. Until the trail goes cold and he uses some really innovative science to get more info. (As an EE Major I can tell you that his plan would work, given all the crazy sci-fi leaps it would take to do it wasnt that much, but it would still work.) But you can see why this is my favorite Krypton. Protip, this writer also created the Krypton script still used to this day, and the Flag and Calender have shown up in All Star Superman and the New 52. But seriously, it's Roots on Krypton. It writes itself.
edited 8th Nov '12 5:39:02 PM by HyperAlbion
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