I've never been a fan of Doomsday, or his role in the death of Big Blue. Big as the story might have been, and earnest as its writers might have been (watch Louise Simonson talk about it in Secret Origins - she was broken up by this), I've always found this story to be a bit too contrived for my tastes. Granted, it was the early 90s, and comics were very different back then, but to me Superman shouldn't die in a punch-up. That's beneath him. As is this creature.
That said, it's full of beautiful art, and of excellent commentary on the extraordinary measures countries will go to while they're at war, regardless of the cost once peace has been "won."
But it's also the middle of a crossover that I have no interest in following. I think tomorrow's comic is the last part that impinges upon Adventures, so hopefully the alien bad guys will be defeated, and Superman will come out on top.
"Once freed...it was...primal...brutal...now I understand how it could've done...what it did...to you..."
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