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HyperAlbion Taking Back our 40 acres Since: Sep, 2012
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#76: Nov 8th 2012 at 5:36:27 PM

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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#77: Nov 14th 2012 at 5:12:08 PM

You know, given the argument came up, I could live is Superman ended forever and we had no more. In fact, I know the perfect way to do it!

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RavenWilder Since: Apr, 2009
#78: Nov 14th 2012 at 10:08:44 PM

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.

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#79: Nov 14th 2012 at 10:53:55 PM

Just how would you end Superman anyway?

Theres sex and death and human grime in monochrome for one thin dime and at least the trains all run on time but they dont go anywhere.
KingZeal Since: Oct, 2009
#81: Nov 15th 2012 at 3:46:02 AM

That's kind of a non-answer.

What plot threads would you definitively resolve?

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#82: Nov 15th 2012 at 9:00:39 AM

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.

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Nightwire Since: Feb, 2010
#83: Nov 15th 2012 at 9:02:12 AM

I think All-Star Superman is already a great "last" Superman story.

KingZeal Since: Oct, 2009
#84: Nov 15th 2012 at 9:03:17 AM

Doesn't mean that it's cornered the market on it.

RavenWilder Since: Apr, 2009
#85: Nov 15th 2012 at 10:24:05 AM

When I say I'd like to end Superman, I mean I'd like to cancel the comic book series Superman then release the character (as well as related characters like Lois Lane and Lex Luthor) into the public domain for anyone to use.

KingZeal Since: Oct, 2009
#86: Nov 15th 2012 at 10:26:03 AM

Meh. Superman is enough of a Fountain of Expies that I don't see that being much of a differences.

HyperAlbion Taking Back our 40 acres Since: Sep, 2012
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#87: Nov 15th 2012 at 6:03:23 PM

I've already Ben in this conversation over at 4chan so trust me when I say that doing that would be apocalyptic (and suicidal from an economic standpoint) the least of the issues being him existing as a cornerstone of the DCU.

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#88: Nov 15th 2012 at 6:45:02 PM

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.

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#89: Nov 15th 2012 at 7:57:39 PM

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.

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Robbery Since: Jul, 2012
#90: Nov 15th 2012 at 8:35:35 PM

Pretty much anyone CAN use Superman in any story, however they want. They just can't make money off of him.

Distortion00 Since: Nov, 2011
#91: Nov 16th 2012 at 11:57:27 AM

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.

HyperAlbion Taking Back our 40 acres Since: Sep, 2012
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#92: Nov 16th 2012 at 4:02:56 PM

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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