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June 1, 2014: Renowned Illusionist Drafts "Superman vs. Doomsday" Play
Posted by Neil Cole
World renowned illusionist Morgan Strebler, known as "The Man Who Bends Steel", has written an original stage production featuring the characters of Superman and Doomsday.
The original storyline focuses on an all-new intepretation of the Man of Steel's first encounter with the nearly invinciple creature which, in 1992, managed to kill Superman in the highly popular "The Death of Superman" comic book storyline.
In the following excerpt from the play, Superman journeys to the Fortress of Solitude and learns of the Doomsday's origins and just how powerful the creature truly is:
(Clark has been summoned to the fortress of solitude. He turns into Superman and flies there. When he arrives he notices that it has been completely destroyed. One word was written in blood on a piece of the standing fortress... ”DOOMSDAY!” Clark salvages what’s left of the crystals and attempts to contact Jor-El)
SUPERMAN: Jor-El are you there? I need you now more than ever. There is a threat facing earth called Doomsday. I need to know how to stop him.
(A few minutes pass)
JOR-EL: Hello my son. This beast the creature you refer to as Doomsday, is from the planet Krypton. About 250,000 years ago, Krypton was a hellish place, and he was known as “The Ultimate”. He was created by the alien scientist Bertron. Bertron sent the infant humanoid out in the blistering hellish temperatures to near instant death. This went on for decades, and the chemical make-up of his genes, had been adapting the entire time. It essentially made him hate all life forms. “The Ultimate” eventually became the “Ultimate” predator and killing machine. He thrives on solar energy, and eventually killed Bertron. He left Krypton on a ship, and that all I know. I will tell you this Kal-El; he will be your greatest challenge.
SUPERMAN: Does he have a weakness?
JOR-EL: There is a way to destroy Doomsday. He only has one weakness and it’s.......
SUPERMAN: (Yells) JOR-EL NOOOO!!!
(Suddenly the rest of the Fortress of Solitude collapses, FADES TO BLACK AND CRUMBLES, then sinks below the thick white pallet of snow. Kal-El is now truly a lone)
Read a complete overall synopsis of the "Superman vs. Doomsday" play here.
Strebler will be a special guest at the 36th Superman Celebration in Metropolis, IL performing multiple shows on the main stage during the four day festival.
