Superman 175 - Doomsday Rex

It is a tie in again, this time with Superman.

America celebrates the end of the war (it is the newly completed Our Worlds at War crossover) with President Lex Luthor in the lead. Meanwhile, Joker easily penetrates a high-security department of the Pentagon

and unlocks former killer of Superman, the Kryptonian super-monster, Doomsday, who quickly put an end to the festivities. Superman can not resist him.

After a few pages of fight, Superman finishes lifeless. Fortunately, it is here Black Lightning who defibrillates the hero by his electrical power.

Meanwhile, appearing on behalf of the Justice League, Martian Manhunter tries to resist to Doomsday with limited success. However, he can worm in Doomsday's head and finds out that the former mindless and unfeeling monster now feels and knows the pain. The re-entrant Superman can now easily defeat the monster by this knowledge.

It is a little romance with Lois Lane; meanwhile, President Lex Luthor hands over the chained Doomsday to the Lord of Apokolips, Darkseid.

Jeph Loeb remembered with this story that Doomsday had originally killed Superman 100 issues ago. As you can see there is not much to do with the Joker: Last Laugh crossover. However, it is an easy and pleasant story with a lot of action. Biggest flaw is that Superman too easily defeats his former killer; in addition to this "now you know the pain" thing is only moderately convincing. The main merit is the narration running through the story, which is President Lex Luthor's speech about the ending of the war and reconstruction. Practically it is nothing to do with the story but is a very good speech; unfortunately, here (in Hungary), nobody can speak such a good speech neither the politicians can't do who are supposed the best orators. Ed McGuinness' draws are slightly childish, too simple, and bear witness of moderate and anatomical knowledge.

Actually they can be tolerated but unfortunately are too few for the pages sized fight pictures.

Service Notice: Jimmy Olsen also appears, I have labeled him too.

The original Hungarian blog post is here.