While drinking Johnnie Walker mixed with water, Max Landis talks about Superman and how he influenced the world of comic book superheroes until his fading popularity in the 1990s. DC Comics executives concluded that for Superman to be relevant again, he had to die. Landis describes the birth of Doomsday (comics) and the events that set up his battles with Superman until the deaths of both combatants. DC Comics shipped three million copies of ''Superman vol. 2'' #75 worldwide, nearly all of which sold out within the first day of release.