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Yes, if you make Jon the Superman/boy who dies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Birthright is my favorite Superman origin by a country mile (however the heck that differs from a regular mile). My only request would be if you could somehow fold my other favorite origin, Man and Superman, into it too - maybe as a side adventure that happened during the events of Birthright somehow. That'd be perfect.
I’m pissed at DC for wasting the “Year One” title on Frank Miller’s terrible take when it would be so much better suited to Wolfman’s origin. Wolfman’s story is the one that most closely mirrors how Miller told Batman’s origin in Batman: Year One. Both start with the hero arriving in their designated city, both struggle with how to go about using their training/gifts, both of their first attempts at being a hero are a dismal failure that almost costs them their lives, and in the end both are clearly on their way to becoming the “iconic” version even though they’re aren’t 100% there just yet.
I’ve reconsidered what I said earlier, Man and Superman is probably the origin that actually could most easily slot in as canon, since Birthright had some minor contradictions with the mainline like Clark being vegetarian.
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I no longer view "Year One" to be a title of importance in and of itself - it only ever produced good stories in the Batman corner of the DCU. Superman's best origins aren't Miller's story. Wonder Woman's isn't Year One (it's just kind of there, the best Wondie origin is The Legend of Wonder Woman; it is light years better). I think the only great Year One stories have been Batman and Batgirl (haven't read Robin's yet).
If it's a good death with his story having a good run with start,middle and an end.Then yes,i would welcome it.It would be far than the rest of the superhero shlock that refuses to end or die.Giving death in comics a meaning is kinda ironic,when in the real world it gives life futility as a meaning.
"People’s Dreams... Have No Ends"
I disagree. Death doesn't give life meaning, we just try and believe that because we're stuck in a world full of death. I can tell you that it wasn't anyone's death that gave them meaning to their loved ones.
As for Jon, sure whatever just as long as he gets gone...
The problem is I’ve met a few people who have been suckered in by the title because it’s an immediately understandable way of conveying “this is an origin story”, so a few have thought it was the origin story for Superman similar to Batman. Needless to say they were utterly baffled by what they read. If you’re going to use a title with that much weight to it, weight only added because the Year Ones for Flash, Wonder Woman, and Batman are canon, it shouldn’t be on an indulgent project for a past his prime Frank Miller. But I digress.
I’m sure that was DC’s logic as well. “What’s one more origin, let the old man do his take if he wants to”. Maybe they were even hopeful that stepping away from Batman would shake him out of his doldrums. If so they were disappointed.
Eh an origin story by its very nature is going to hit the same basic beats. Especially when it comes to Supes & Bats.
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