Reign of the Supermen
- kinetic
- extreme
- redemptive
Neutral, breathless, extreme sci-fi / animation, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →In the wake of The Death of Superman, the world is still mourning the loss of the Man of Steel following his fatal battle with the monster Doomsday. However, no sooner as his body been laid to rest than do four new bearers of the Superman shield come forward to take on the mantle. The Last Son of Krypton, Superboy, Steel, and the Cyborg Superman all attempt to fill the vacuum left by the world's greatest champion. Meanwhile, Superman's death has also signaled to the universe that Earth is vulnerable. Can these new Supermen and the rest of the heroes prove them wrong?
Our read · Reign of the Supermen (2019) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive sci-fi · animation · action entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of Reign of the Supermen
What watching it is actually like.
“You follow DC animation and want multiple Supermen after a world-shaking loss.”
Skip it tonight — You have not seen Death of Superman or dislike dense comic continuity.
The reading.
Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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