'The Death and Return of Superman' Explained Succinctly in Max Landis Video

I met Max two or three years ago at a New Years Eve party. At the time, I had no idea who his father was. That being said, the kid was a self-righteous idiot. At least he's consistent.

Man, these comments are straight up hilarious

wow max landis is really annoying.

This vid makes me want to read the series again. cause i ENJOYED IT THE FIRST TIME. and second time. and third time. its pretty goddamn well done thank you very much.

and anyone laughing about nerds losing their ****? we are losing it because **** like this - with its inaccurate data and its completely wacked out theories about the medium and the character - **** like this gives us all a bad name, and hurts comics as a whole. it gives bad info about comics, it doesn't highlight much good, and if this thing goes viral a ton of non-comics readers are going to take it as gospel because its kinda funny and some famous people are in it.

i'm trying not to be hyperbolic here - but seriously. superman is boring because he has boring powers? really? and then you spend most of the video complaining about how the story sullies superman's image? what point are they trying to express?

i said it on G+ and i'll say it again: they have no cohesive point, they are wildly misconstruing the motivations and the facts surrounding what happened for a laugh, and they make their best points at the end after all the damage is done.

actually, you know the real reason nerds are pissed? this video has an air of laughing AT us and not laughing WITH us. and that pisses me off more than anything else.

i feel these folks have no concept of the story from 20 years ago. they f up the story and did no justice to what was to a lot of people a pivotal time in comics history.

I laughed really really really hard.

Overall...meh. Kinda looking forward to Chronicle a little less now.

Elijah Wood running around in sped up film and bad costumes spoofing the Hank Henshaw story: Funny.

Annoying too hip for the room snark-monger trotting out the tired old "Superman is boring" line? Obnoxious as it is eye-rolling.

I actually thought the video was pretty funny in parts. The only things I didn't agree with (and no, I'm not going to obsess over his continuity/detail mistakes):

1) A guy who was SIX at the time these comics came out telling me how people reacted? DUDE. I was there. I don't know who this mysterious fan rage was supposed to come from, but it wasn't any comics fans I ever met. Check Peter David's 'But I Digress' column at the time, which specifically mentions how the only people who didn't lose their **** and didn't think Superman was actually dead WERE THE ACTUAL COMICS FANS.

2) Citing 'Death's' ridiculous sales numbers and then indicating this caused the sales to diminish after Superman came back is demonstrably wrong. All comics sales have been dropping for decades. Superman itself has remained in the top selling comics as the industry has gone down the hole. Superman was the best selling title of 1992...and then 2004. In the years prior to Superman's death, he was selling under 100K some months. Years after 'Death' he was still selling in the top 10 and one of the few titles that could keep up with the X-titles in terms of sales.

3) Claiming 'Death of Superman' destroyed death in comics is like forgetting that before we had Jar Jar Binks, we had the Ewoks. Hell, the most controversial and much more contentious resurrection of Jean Grey had already happened about seven years prior. THAT might have destroyed it. Oh, and Gwen Stacey's return as a clone back in the 1970s? I mean, seriously, characters came back from the dead all the time long before Superman did it.

Don't get me wrong: I think this video makes some funny points (even if it specifically pretends that it doesn't know details of the story and goes out of it's way to make it seem like a bad story, when it wasn't). What I find annoying is someone who was barely old enough to read attempting to speak with authority about how it all went down.

I think watching nerds who are way, way to uptight absolutely lose their **** over a silly video is the most entertaining part of all.