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I recently saw the latest straight-to-DVD movies from DC and Marvel (Superman Doomsday and Doctor Strange, respectively), and here’s what I think:

Superman Doomsday - It’s a gazillion times better than Superman Returns. Seriously. The Superman-Doomsday fight scene was awesome (Doomsday powerbombing Superman brought tears to my eyes). Doomsday is genuinely scary. He wasn’t entirely focused on Superman during the fight. He tried to kill everything that was moving every time he got the chance. And what makes him more menacing is he doesn’t speak. He’s just an unstoppable killing machine. Love it.

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Enjoy your reign while you may, Superman. For as surely as night follows day, there comes a time when even gods must die. - Lex Luthor

The first comic book geek I’ve ever met was my P.E. teacher when I was in 5th grade. He talked about Superman all the time, but I wasn’t really interested in comics back then. Okay, I was. I was into Archie comics when I was in grade school. Betty and Veronica were teh hot! Anyway, this P.E. teacher dude finally got my attention when, in front of the class, he took out his trade paperback of The Death of Superman saga. He let some of us read a few pages of his precious TPB, and thus, the seeds of my comic book geekery were planted.

A decade and a half later, the seeds have grown into an oak of a comic book geek. And this oak is geeking out on the thing that practically gave it its life: The Death of Superman in animated form. Here’s the trailer for the Superman Doomsday straight-to-DVD animated feature:

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