Issue fifty of Palmiotti and Gray's Jonah Hex run was reeeaaally heartbreaking.
Issue fifty of Palmiotti and Gray's Jonah Hex run was reeeaaally heartbreaking.
"Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect."
—Alan Moore
Yup. Given that the Death of Superman story was an over-hyped 6 issue action sequence with nothing even remotely resembling a plot, the consequences of it were REALLY well done. As you said, the funeral was very well handled. And not on topic for this "saddest moments" thread, but the Reign of the Supermen story that followed was a lot better than it deserved to be, given what it came from.
The actual Death of Supergirl in Crisis didn't have quite the same impact on me as her appearance in Alan Moore's Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow. Somehow that scene with Superman meeting the Legion with a young Kara and trying not to let on anything about her death drove home her being gone along with her whole era.
Superman visiting Batman & Robin in the Silver Age Last Days of Superman was the only other comic that really brought tears to my eyes.
The New 52
The death of Supergirl in Crisis
The death of Superboy in Legion of superheroes 38