How did superman come back to life?
Posted: Sep 6, 2005 6:29 PM Reply Superman had pretty much depleted his extensive solar reserves in the fight against Doomsday (which also involved Doomsday pounding on him pretty damn badly). At the end of it, Supes went into a coma (and then some). If he’d been left out on a rooftop with sunshine beating down on him, maybe he would’ve recuperated — but stupid humans that we are, we sealed him into a coffin and sealed the coffin up in a crypt and otherwise cut him off from the stuff that powers his abilities. So, instead, he eventually died; his soul left the weakening comatose body and everything. As it happens, though, Jonathan Kent was having an out-of-body experience right about then as well, and convinced his adopted son not to go into the light, and so the soul went back in, and — — well, that would’ve been useless *too*, in the long run; if his body had been left there much longer, it would’ve gradually gotten worse and that would’ve been it. But that’s when the robot from K