Dan Watters & Eddy Barrows On Doomsday Special #1

[Kuwagaton]

Or moreso how no one else has that story, haha

I think you can leave out the Superfamily on the simple basis that they would never actually have a death battle with Superman. And I think that even includes other Kryptonians like Zod, because it's a pretty bad risk to take. Doomsday will always be unique because he's engineered for death, *actually* brought it, and can't be defeated the same way twice so even killing him is a bad strategy if not an immoral one.

Sounds like he's gonna get significantly worse by association. Granted I haven't seen any of this Lazarus stuff

[Vordan]

Hopefully this leads to Watters on an ongoing.

They need to give Jon back to him. Maybe Watters can salvage the character.

I don't know why, but the whole King Doomsday made me think about Venom and the whole King in Black. I never read the book, but it made think about it. Anyways, I'm all eh on this. Creative teams have been throwing around Doomsday gimmicks for years now and nothing really ever stuck, at least this sounds interesting.

Also, with the whole Doomsday is the only force strong enough to kill Superman, does that mean Clark is stronger than Jon or are they equals?

Per PKJ, Clark is the strongest Kryptonian again thanks to the events on Warworld.

[Quinlan58]

Eh, the one time Watters wrote Jon, he just used an All-Star-esque "benevolent overworked God-man" take for Jon. Not really seeing why him writing Jon again would be exciting, if that's his take. Just Clark-lite again, after all. Yara was way better in that story. Then again, for all I know characterization was heavily editorially mandated and Watters' personal take would have been way different. Wouldn't surprise me at all if it were the case.

As for this Doomsday story, sounds awesome to me, definitely digging Kara and JHI being involved in it, curious about what this means for the upcoming "Superman event". Imagine if Doomsday possesses one of the aspects of Olgrun (if that was his name). I assume that would put him at least on current Clark's level (probably way beyond).

[exile001]

I love Doomsday. I love Dan Watters.

I cannot wait for this!

[Mantis-Ray]

Eh, the one time Watters wrote Jon, he just used an All-Star-esque "benevolent overpowered God-man" take for Jon. Not really seeing why him writing Jon again would be exciting, if that's his take. Just Clark-lite again, after all. Yara was way better in that story. Then again, for all I know characterization was heavily editorially mandated and Watters' personal take would have been way different. Wouldn't surprise me at all if it were the case.

As for this Doomsday story, sounds awesome to me, definitely digging Kara and JHI being involved in it, curious about what this means for the upcoming "Superman event". Imagine if Doomsday possesses one of the aspects of Olgrun (if that was his name). I assume that would put him at least on current Clark's level (probably way beyond).

Where did Watters write Jon and Yara?

[Quinlan58]

Where did Watters write Jon and Yara?

FS Superman/Wonder Woman. Neat book, all in all, just one that made me far more excited for its WW than for its Superman.

[DABellWrites]

Eh, the one time Watters wrote Jon, he just used an All-Star-esque "benevolent overworked God-man" take for Jon. Not really seeing why him writing Jon again would be exciting, if that's his take. Just Clark-lite again, after all. Yara was way better in that story. Then again, for all I know characterization was heavily editorially mandated and Watters' personal take would have been way different. Wouldn't surprise me at all if it were the case.

As for this Doomsday story, sounds awesome to me, definitely digging Kara and JHI being involved in it, curious about what this means for the upcoming "Superman event". Imagine if Doomsday possesses one of the aspects of Olgrun (if that was his name). I assume that would put him at least on current Clark's level (probably way beyond).

I thought Watters was pulling from the Samaritan for Jon, he's (the Samaritan) the only character I could think of who was doing the whole I'm overworked and time-keeping thing.

[Vordan]

I thought Watters was pulling from the Samaritan for Jon, he's (the Samaritan) the only character I could think of who was doing the whole I'm overworked and time-keeping thing.

Not sure if it was explicitly a reference (though I certainly won’t say no to drawing on Astro City) and more about playing up Jon as human in comparison to his father.

[Vordan]

[Stanlos]

Oh wow! How rare to see his eye lashes fully rendered!!!!

[Vordan]

The Doomhounds show up with Brainiac in today’s Annual:



Wouldn’t be the first time Brainiac manipulates Doomsday, I’m excited at the idea of an event involving both of them. Doomsday by himself is a bore but paired with Brainiac it could be fun.

[Frontier]

The Doomhounds show up with Brainiac in today’s Annual:



Wouldn’t be the first time Brainiac manipulates Doomsday, I’m excited at the idea of an event involving both of them. Doomsday by himself is a bore but paired with Brainiac it could be fun.

I feel like Doomsday's been connected to each of the Big Three at some point.

[SuperX]

The Doomhounds show up with Brainiac in today’s Annual:



Wouldn’t be the first time Brainiac manipulates Doomsday, I’m excited at the idea of an event involving both of them. Doomsday by himself is a bore but paired with Brainiac it could be fun.

Doomhounds,is that a real name?

[Vordan]

I feel like Doomsday's been connected to each of the Big Three at some point.

You’re right. The Krypton show made him a Zod/El creation, the comics had Brainiac take control of his body, Zod became Doomsday in the DCEU, Lex created him in the DCEU and in S&L, etc. Makes sense because he works better as a tool for a mastermind villain, on his own all he can do is kill Superman.

[exile001]

The Doomhounds show up with Brainiac in today’s Annual:

Oh dear. Really not a fan of anything on that page.