billd91
Not your screen monkey (he/him)
Apart from what "The Death of Superman" meant from the creative, financial, and collectible angles, it also represented the loss of any real consequence to the stories. Death was no longer death and the industry was willing to profit off such "events" in what could be called unfair ways, by the buying public.
That may be a case in which the buzz reached well outside the fandom community - but we had already been burned on that before when Jean Grey came back from the dead and we found that her suicide at the climax of the Dark Phoenix saga was just a phoenix-force body with her mind imprinted on it. Besides, villains were escaping certain death time and time again - so lack of consequences wasn't exactly new. It's just that the Jean Grey return was a case in which an extremely powerful story, one of the apexes of story telling in serial comic form, was undermined. It just never got the hype that the Superman story got.