I'm not sure what your point is here. ASS is a great book and story. Death of is not. But it hardly fails any 'point of superman' metric. It's just very basic, unfortunately.
You know there was a very good Superman Adventures comic written by Mark Millar of all people.
So there's a dramatically ironic situation, since obviously Batman can't show up, but either way they need to track Mad Hatter down. That's when Superman comes to Gotham to help. Unfortunately, his tactics don't really fit in.
So to keep the interrogations going, Superman's gotta act like Batman. Where Batman hangs dudes off roofs, Superman can fly
So they track him down to the police station and there's a big Mark Millar style widescreen setpiece involving Nightwing, Robin, Batgirl, the Batwing, etc and that eventually leads to Mad Hatter being chased down into the sewers. Superman has a solution that doesn't involve torture or physical violence!
Wow, Superman winning using intelligence, deductive reasoning, and his unyielding empathy for humans! That definitely stuck with me a lot more than Superman punching Doomsday a bunch of times before he died! Can't wait to see the R-rated version!
