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In 1992/1993, the Death of Superman had been the biggest event in the DC Comics lineup. Deaths in comics are almost never final but this is before the era of shocking events following by even more shocking reappearances so it was quite a big deal. 10 years later, Jurgens returned to the same story with a miniseries - a story set 10 stories after the original story.

In the intervening 10 years a lot had happened in the way comics were written and the pure human stories had become a lot more common. In that case, the story is about how Superman's death affected ordinary people. And in between this story shows up another - about what happened to ordinary people 10 years before that - Superman returned but the devastation that was caused by the fight with Doomsday and the disasters that followed had seen a lot of death and injured people; a lot of ruined lives and families.

Of course, that being Jurgens, we also need another story behind it - disgruntled idiot that wreck havoc in the same places where Doomsday had - all in order to show everyone how evil Superman is. Or something like that. The story does end on a high note - with a pretty standard existential question of "will the world be safer if Superman did not exist?" but then it is expected from this kind of work.

It could have a lot better story but I still liked it. It's a nice epilogue to the old story and I only wish it had concentrated more on normal people. But then I am not sure how much people would have liked it.

Now I want to reread the original story again... ( )