Source: Adventures of Superman #500 (1993)
Type: The real deal
One of the interesting bits about Superman's death proper (ok, maybe the ONLY interesting bit) was a sequence that featured his soul migrating to... the after-life? Back to his body? Reincarnating in someone else's? We didn't know, and that made any of the four new Supermen a potential home for Superman's soul. But that's not really the interesting bit. No, we've seen a lot of near death experiences/hallucinations in comics and in other media. They tend to be either abstract or symbolic or a walk down memory lane, perhaps a struggle between angels and demons who want to snatch the character's soul away. And there is some of that here.
But the cool thing is that Pa Kent has just had a heart attack and Superman can't help but heroically save his father's soul as well.
The big question was, did Clark make it through too? Because his Pa certainly woke up.
ALSO! This is probably the only comic book story in which Pa Kent hits Jor-El's ghost with an ectoplasmic battle shovel.
And that's exactly the kind of thing I read comics FOR!
Type: The real deal
One of the interesting bits about Superman's death proper (ok, maybe the ONLY interesting bit) was a sequence that featured his soul migrating to... the after-life? Back to his body? Reincarnating in someone else's? We didn't know, and that made any of the four new Supermen a potential home for Superman's soul. But that's not really the interesting bit. No, we've seen a lot of near death experiences/hallucinations in comics and in other media. They tend to be either abstract or symbolic or a walk down memory lane, perhaps a struggle between angels and demons who want to snatch the character's soul away. And there is some of that here.But the cool thing is that Pa Kent has just had a heart attack and Superman can't help but heroically save his father's soul as well.
The big question was, did Clark make it through too? Because his Pa certainly woke up.ALSO! This is probably the only comic book story in which Pa Kent hits Jor-El's ghost with an ectoplasmic battle shovel.
And that's exactly the kind of thing I read comics FOR!
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