Purchased this when I was a kid. I meant to get the others but only ended up getting this one. Anyway, this story is well done, i think, and shows the kind of vacuum that occurs once a mighty legend has been taken down. my favorite moment is with Lex Luther, who, after finding out Superman is dead, crashes a chair on Doomsday (the dude responsible for beating Superman) and yelling "he was MINE!".

As much as I disliked the subject matter, this is one of the greatest Superman books ever written.

Following the events in The Death of Superman, Dan Jurgens brings us an excellent volume filled with stories that reflects on a world without a Superman.This is an essential volume that collects a bunch of issues that show readers how much impact the loss of Superman can have on humanity. From individuals who have lost their source of hope to grave robbers who have evil intentions. I honestly enjoyed how every issue explored different angles on this event, and even focused on Lois Lane's immense...

Nice compilation. Loved the art as well as the plot.

Again, I really enjoyed this. I just found the lack of use of imagination hard. The story was packed full of emotion, and I loved the story. Looking forward to the last entry in the saga.

Part of my comic book reread project. Continued from The Death of Superman.2.5 stars rounded up to three.This is just a stepping stone from The Death of Superman to The Return of Superman for me, and I read it for the sake of completeness because the other two installments are kick-ass! It's not bad by any means, but it's slow. There's the aftermath of the death, the funeral, the aftermath of that, and lots and lots of crying. That takes care of the first half of this nine issue installment. The...

Reprints The Adventures of Superman #498-500, Action Comics (1) #685-686, Superman: The Man of Steel #20-21, and Superman (2) #76-77 (January 1993-June 1993). Superman is dead, struck down by Doomsday in battle. The world is reeling as it’s great hero has fallen, but that doesn’t mean that the need for Superman ends. While Lois tries to find a way to cope with losing Clark and Superman, Lex Luthor finds his ultimate enemy now gone. Supergirl and others investigate the strange occurrences involvi...

Actively painful and embarrassing to read. This is why comics in the late 1970s and early 1980s sucked. What's scary is that this lame piece of garbage was written in 1993. Was I ever juvenile enough not to cringe at page after page of "plain, everyday Americans" proclaiming (in what I can only imagine is the authors' idea of workingman's patois) that "Sooperman was a real Amurrikin"? Lame, boring, bad. Reminded me of a bad Latin American soap opera. I'd call it "World Without An Excuse". Feel f...

If anything, this was more interesting than the Death of Superman. It is far less action-packed, but a lot more nuanced. There are some pretty well-written episodes of grief from people who knew Superman well, and some heartening moments of people learning from his example. There is also a mystery story woven in, and I can see how this led up to the Reign of the Supermen storyline, though I can't recall all of the details of that any longer. These books showed a variety of reactions to Superman'...

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How hard is living in a world when you have lost someone THE EMPTINESS OF LOSING SOMEONE Everybody has lost someone at some point in their lives. And when that someone was really close to their hearts, the void left behind in this realm is a heavy burden to carry on. And even worse if it happened when you thought that it would be just another day.Superman is dead. The Earth's Greatest Hero fell while defending Metropolis and its people from the raging stampede provoked by the monster known

SPOILER: Superman is dead in this one.

This is where the Death of Superman saga starts to get interesting. World Without a Superman is a nice step back from the multiissue slugfest that was the battle with Doomsday. It is slower, less action-packed, and far more emotional. The main threads in this series follow Lois and the Kents grieving, The Cadmus Project scheming to steal Superman's body for shady research, Lex Luthor coming to terms with his new status quo (and also scheming), other heroes including Supergirl, the Guardian, and

A mixed bag. Up until the end of the funeral is very emotional and well written, except for the cheesy and stupid scene where Bibbosky spends an entire page praying to god for the salvation of Superman. It's also good to see Guy Gardner reveling himself as the fundamentally good hearted guy he is, which is what made me appreciate him as an underdog more than the REALLY egocentrical and genocide-inclined John Stewart (see Cosmic Odissey on that). After the funeral the steam is pretty much lost, w...

Collecting The Adventures of Superman #498–500, Action Comics #685–686, Superman: The Man of Steel #20–21 and Superman #76–77 as well as stories 1 and 4 from Superman: The Legacy of Superman #1, this volume picks up where The Death of Superman left off.Now, in my review of that preceding volume, I expressed a certain disappointment about the content – in particular the fact that the whole thing is just a long drawn-out fight without any proper narrative depth to it. World Without a Superman,...

Probably closer to 3.75 stars - The last 25% is weird and appears to be included as filler. I also think either Jonathan Kent either dies or he lives, and Lex Luthor should be the happiest son of a bitch in six counties.

It was interesting to see how the people of the world (mostly Metropolis) would adjust to Superman not being around anymore. But it got really repetitive really fast. Most of the book was somebody saying something along the lines of "Geez, it sure sucks that Superman's gone now. And Clark Kent is missing, too. Miss Lane must be devastated." That gets a little old. And then there are parts that seem unnecessary, like the scene with the Prankster in prison. That didn't do anything for the story at...

How does the world cope with the loss of its greatest hero? Read here to find out! From cults arising to worship him to vigilantes taking up his fight, the people of Metropolis deal with the fallout of Superman's death, but that's not the real story. This is a story of personal loss as told through the eyes of those who cared about the 'man' behind the 'super', as we find Lois Lane in a grief-spurred depression and Clark's parents in a daze over the secret loss of their presumed missing son Clar...

Great story arc! A strong story that captured my imagination

Dan Jurgens's sequel to Death of Superman meditates upon what happens to the DC Universe when one of its most iconic heroes is no longer alive to save the day. Deeply embedded within aspects of the 4th World, it was refreshing to encounter characters like the Guardian and the NewsBoy Legion outside of Jack Kirby's comics, and Jurgens's investigation into how the media would react to such a situation is intriguing, but overall I find that the final impression this volume leaves on me is not as in...